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Ll j, the la&ranoe reporter,
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(; T. WATERMAN, LaGtrango, Georgia.
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THE PREMIUM PAPER OF GEORGIA.
‘‘K'LTON tlio Gold Modal at tho Hlato Fair In 1 H7:i;
4 *' f tho only promtum ovor olTorod for tlio boat
tod and boat printml wuokly In Georgia. Roe-
fjilRotl aa a loadoramonw tlm provincial proaaof
’1 11 »* L Htato. La run circulation In Troup, Mori-
thor Harris and Hoard oountloa, and a general
illation jn tho Htato. Huh no auporlor
FIVE HOURS UNDER WATER.
cl
SINGING AT EIGHTY FEET BELOW THE
SURFACE OF THE HE A.
r.il'Vom tho Philadelphia Uncord, AugiiHt 5.)
! . tljGorstcr and Kollog, and Carey and
cJaamppftnini, and Brignoll and a host
others have time and again onrap-
Injred their critical audiences with dis-
hilnjiays of tiicir vocal powers, and the
VJjgiir lasses and budding swains who
• Bsjive secretly and openly wished that
njShioy could sing as sweetly may bo
■silled legion. But down in the south-
Jtfn portion of this city, near tho Dela-
*J\jare River, there lives an unassuming
aerman who lias sung to audiences
‘>1 tjiat no tenor or prima donna who
-iver appeared on the stage of the
* academy of Music or any other opera-
S house would over daro to appear bc-
5 ire. Ills name is Herman Woltors,
J tmi it was by the merest accident that
| is vocal powers were discovered. No
| rrit ieisins of his vocal talents have
j jVer appeared in public print, and
even if one of the most uncompli
mentary character were spread broad
cast throughout tho land the audience
|hich he sings to would not care n tig;
J ftiey would never know that tlio criti-
| Asm appeared, for they do not inhab
it the earth nor the air. Mr. Walters
hakes no pretentions to being a vo
calist, but away down, eighty feet be
jbw the water, surrounded with the s "'f, 1 , 4 , „ ,. ,.
* ------ - 1 “But these reflections are of s
NEWSPAPER LAW DECISIONS.
1. Any per
VOL. XXXV.
LAG RANGE, GEORGIA, THURSDAY EVENING, AUGUST 28, 1879.
NO. :!5.
from Urn pMHt-onicn—whether dirnctod 1 n III
name or nnmhor'n, or wlimhor Rohan subscribed
nr not—la responsible fur tlio payment.
'1. If a puraon ordora hla paper discontinued
lie nniHt pay all arrearages, or tho publlabor
may continue to hoik! It until payment la maile,
ami enlloct tho wholo amount whotbor tho papor
Ih taken from ihe office or not.
.'). The courts have dccldod that refusing to
tako newapapera nr periodicals from tho pnat-
ofHee, or removing and leaving them uncalled
for Ih prlnia fade evidence of Intentional fraud.
MR. DAVIS AT NEW ORLEANS.
1IE DECLINES MAKING A STATEMENT ABOUT
THE DORSEY WILL AND THE MIS
SISSIPPI 8ENAT0R8HIP,
(From tlio Now Orleans Plcayuno.)
Mr. Jefferson Davis, accompanied by
Mrs. Davis, wus registered at the St.
Charles Hotel, on yesterduy. During
tho forenoon lie was engaged in attend
ing to some business mutters, and it j lin( j (imro, wherever its level led it
not until the afternoon that a rep-
re-
NOETH AND SOUTH ROAD.
l’esentatlvn of tills paper was aide tu
have an interview with him. Mr. Davis
was found in the rotunda in conversa
tion with a friend.
“Mr. Davis,” remarked tlio reporter,
“the Picayune desires an interview
with you.”
“An interview with mo? That is
something I never allow, and you
ought to know it by tins time,” was
the reply, while a kindly smile ap
peared on the speaker’s face.
“I have used the wrong word per
haps. What wo wish is to direct your
attention to certain allegations in re
gard to the will of Mrs. Dorsey, made
by the Northern and Western press,
and to get a statement from you as to
tlieir truth or falsity,” explained tho
reporter.
“I must certainly decline to say any
thing whatever about my private af
fairs,” was Mr. Davis’very decided un-
HYDEAULIC GOLD MINING IN A DAUGHTER'S KINDNESS
GEORGIA. I WARDED. |
—■—• A GLANCE AT WHAT IH OOINU ON.
doing seven or eight miles up tho In tho north of Europe Is a moun-
Yahoola River, a dam was built Uainous country called Sweden. Its (From thoooiuuibua Times.)
where tho stream rushes through a winters are long, snowy and cold. Its | Tho North und South Railroad Com-
picturcsquo gorge, whonco a ditch six summers arc short, but very lovely and j puny arc busily engaged in repairing
feet wide and six feet deep was led sweet-aired, especially in the valloys ; overhauling the road between hero
along the side hill, in and out of all ! between tho high mountains. Tho in-
the curves, sometimes through a short habitants of that country arc noted for
tunno), then across an aqueduct, horo | their industry, virtue and content
ment.
a grade of four and a half feet to the j One morning, a long time ago, a ccr-
mile, twenty mill's down to the mines, j tain King of Sweden, called Gustuvus
BURDETTE’S MUSHERY.
THE LATEST MEDIUM.
i LOOKING- FOR HER LOST CHILD.
and Hamilton. They run a regular
daily dirt train, hauling in dirt wher
ever needed, putting in new trestle
j timbers, replacing old cross-ties with
new ones, and adding repairs where
I the road is not in as good- order as it
This is the main big ditch. It has two tho Third, was riding through a vll- | should bo. They scorn determined to
or three large branches, and there are
other lesser ditches throughout the re
gion, supplying separate isolated
mines, but none have so elevated a
head or carry so great a volume of wa
ter as this, and it is the best type of
them all. When lirst constructed,
there were many Humes and trestles
luge in one of the beautiful valleys not
far from Stockholm, the capital city.
As lie passed along he saw a young
girl lining a pitcher with water that
gushed from the cool rocks which
overshadowed the roadside. Ho
stopped at tho fountain and asked the
girl for a drink. Site knew not the
fenny tribe, he sings his merry round
■lays as cheerily as a shepherd watch -
Is ids llocks on the mountain side.
Incased in air-tight armor that weighs
fever 200 pounds, the diver, having first
Inade a rope secure to the side of the
jfessel or the dock, which cver.it may
Ijhe, lowers himself by sliding down
j|hG rope to tho bed of Hie water which
IJic is t*» explore. The sensation in
Ifcoing down, says Mr. Woltors, is very
fiieculiar, causing a heavy roaring
pound in the head. Not more than
\i 'll in a hundred are able to endure j
She strain on the drum of tho ear, and j
If that organ is deranged in any way]
b\ reason of physical ailments tin*
-impression of tin* atmosphere is
fikelv to burst, the ear-drum. Tin*
• niring sonn I is continue 1 during Ids
play under i he water.
“How far can you see when you are
under water.-'” inquired the reporter.
“Beyond twelve or fifteen feet deep,
!a diver can sec nothing. At twenty-
live feet deep it is as dark as a dun
geon. No, sir; if you were to put a
twonty-dollar gold piece close to my
nose I could not see it. We work al
together by tho sense of feeling,
crawling along on our knees. I can’t
tell you how i; is; it seems to be a
special gift, for I .M inot see. When the
connecting bridge was built, on the
Pennsylvania Railroad, there were
live divers at work there. We ha 1 to
go down and take a survey of the bot
tom of tiie river where the piers were
to be built. There wore two coffer
dams constructed and let down to us,
covering a circumference of three hun
dred and fifty feet. Then we had to
spike plank to the dam in such places
us it did not fit to the river bed so as
to make it tight as possible; then it
had to be caulked and li’ Ily cemen
ted with concrete come ,t. We were
two years in all doing that job, and
every stroke of it, us well as Inking
it up after the piers were built, was
done by feeling. Edison, how
ever lias invented an electric light
to be attached to the head of the ar
mor which, it is said, will reflect some
three or four feet under water.
“Yes, sir, a diver takes his life in his
hand every time lie goes below,” con
tinued Mr. Woltors in response to a
suggestion of the danger attending his
submarine operations. “I have had
several narrow escapes, the most
miraculous one perhaps a little over a
year ago, while I was working on
Penrose Ferry bridge. I was working
near the pier, and a few feet away
from it wore tho stumps of piles that
had been driven there, and subse
quently broken off. A steamer hav
ing in a tow a number of canal boats
came along, passing near where I was
working, and created a current which
caused the pier to swing in, and
caught my armor between the pier
and the broken piling and snapped
the air tube in two. I remained
wedged in there for fully fifteen min
utes, and managed to live on the air
that was in the armor. At last the
pier receded and I was pulled up.
When I got my armor off I fainted.
Another time a large quantity of mud
fell on me, but I managed to dig my
way out and escaped without injury,
The most dangerous work is in going
into vessels that have been sunk, espe
cially in unloading cargoes, the dan
ger being that something may fall on
tho air tube and shut off the air. The
last job I did was iu rescuing tho two
bodies that were drowned at Ship
John’s lighthouse, off Sea Breeze. I
had to feel my way clown into the cab
in and grope around until I found one
body; then come up with that and go
through the same process again. You
see, a man to be a diver must be a
good carpenter and mason, in order
to know how to lay foundations for
piers and to do carpenter work under
water.
“There is this peculiarity about
working under water, and that is, no
matter how rough the water is above,
it is always smooth below. The great
trouble wo experience is from rapid
currents. A day’s work for a diver is
reconed at five hours, and ho used to
get $50 per day, but the prices have
come down with everything else; but
I have my own terms, and if I can’t
get them I can sit still,” observed tho
diver; and he added, “Any time you
want to go down with me, let me
know, and we’ll take a trip together.”
grave
a nature it was thought you might
care to answer them. Have you read
the stories alluded to?”
“I have read some, but it would take
up my entire time to read them all.”
And Mr. Davis laughed us if amused
at the idea.
“Then am I to understand that you
positively decline Vo make any state
ment?”
“You are. Now put yourself in my
place and see if you would, under t lie
same circumstances, do what you ask
me to do.”
“There’s one topic about which you
will probably feel no delicacy in speak
ing, and that is your autobiography.
It is generally believed that it is now
in the hands of the Applotous, and will
bo soon published.”
“That statement,” said Mr. Davis,
“has been made by tlio Herald, but
Major Walthall wrote them a denial of
it, which they didn’t have tho courtesy
to publish.”
vork is not completed?”
Ii it was, as so many pco-
along its line. Some of the trestles I stranger, but gracefully stepped ror- J n-ccompliBliecl. Very near the entire
were over a hundred feet high, of groat ward and lifted the pitcher to his lips line is graded from Hamilton to tin.*
length, and a constant expense to keep j as lie sat upon his horse. She was ev- 1 t°P °f the mountain. A few hundred
in repair. At one spot an attempt was klently very poor, but her kindness, so yards will cover the distance to be
made to cross tllc bod of tho Yahoola tenderly expressed upon her counten-
where tho height of tlio trestle would ance, together with her artless polite-
bo 250 feet, and its length nearly half a j ness, at once attracted the King's at-
milo. By a lavish expenditure of mon- ; tention and touched his heart. Judg-
ey the structure was carried ton height ing by her appearance that she was a
of 150 feet, when it was found that the child of poverty, lie told her that if she
lower timbers had already rotted out. j would go to the city he would find her
The sc.hcme was therefore abandoned, j a pleasant home. t
and the vast erection demolished, on- “Ah 1 good sir,” answered tho girl,
tailing a loss of almost $200,000. En- | “Providence placed me here, and I am
not anxious to change my position in
life. I am content; and if I were not
content, it would be impossible for mo
to accept your kind offer.”
“Indeed! why not?” said the King
?ineors say that,with all the appliances
and force which could be brought to j
bear there, it would be impossible to
build a high trestle as fast as it would
decay at the foundations.
In place of this, iron pipes were sub- j in surprise,
stituted, and an inverted siphon made. | “Because my mother is poor and
Tiie descent from the top of the hill sickly,” she replied.
‘Gerald.’—You grieve that your pas
sions are so strong, do you? All right,
mix in a little of your morals, which
are weak enough to thin them down.
'Little Buttercup’ writes: ‘How can
I mend a crystal goblet that has got a
hole punched through its side?’ You
can’t repair it permanently, but if you
stick your thumb in the hole when you
aro using the goblet it will answer l’or
all practical purposes.
‘Mary Ann’ says she is 'a weary,’ and
complains that ‘woman’s work goes on
forever.’ So it does, and. wo are glad
of it. But that doesn’t affect you.
Bless your soul, you don’t go on forev
er; you don’t have all the work to do,
not oven while you live. Man’s work
goes on forever, too, we hope, but that
doesn’t fret us a particle. We are not
going to stay here and do it all. Bless
you, no we are not going to do our own
any longer than we have to. Brace
up, Mary Ann, and don’t you fret
graded, and most of this is compara- 1 n,)0ut the work that ‘goes on forever.’
tively light work. Hands are at work You’re not going on with your work
all along from the tup of Mountain j more than forty or fifty years longer,
creek, a distance of about four miles, j ^ ur y ^ nn » a,1( * ^ on t Y° u forget it.
HOME MARVELOUS THINGS WITNESSED BY .
CLEVELAND REPORTER.
CHILD SEVENTY YEARS OLD,
MOTHER OVER ONE HUNDRED.
have the entire road ready for the fall
and winter travel. The road is already
in line running order and they desire
to keep it so.
A Times reporter went up the road
to see the works on the mountain a day
or two ugo, and was surprised to find
tho amount of work whcii bus been
(From tlio Olovolund Herald, August 7.) I (From tho St. Louis Dispatch.)
1 On Wednesday afternoon a Herald; Picking her way through the wagons
reporter—skeptical as the generality j and vehicles that crowded Chestnut
of the world on tlio subject of spirit 1 nnd Main streets about 10 o’clock this
manifestations—called at No. 51 Rock- morning, an old, wrinkled-faced wo-
well street, and sent in his card to man, neatly dressed in a light calico
Medium C. E. Watkins, a young man dress and white apron, entered tlio
; who started Ills mediumistie opera- I Chestnut Street Polico Station, andap-
tions in Cleveland a few years ago, ' proaching the office railing, asked of
and lias since boon absent in the East Sergeant Watkins, with a true Ken-
most of tho time. On the reporter tuckyaccent:
stating tiie object of his visit I “Have you seen my lost child, Cup-
Mr. Watkins said that he courted in- tain?”
vestigation, and readily assented to The evident fact that the woman was
granting a private seance. The rooms ! at least forty years beyond tho usual
in which the sittingtook place differed age of the mothers of “lost children”
in no respect from un ordinary parlor, somewhat puzzled Sergeant Watkins,
In the middle of the apartment stood who, however, overcame his astonish-
“Tlicn the
“I only wii
pie write to
noving. It
me f<
it is an-
impossible to tell when
it will be finished. The loss of my ) a-
persnnd my ill-health have seriously
retarded its progress.”
“You spoke of tho loss of your pa
pers, to wlnit do you refer?”
“I mean the destruction of docu
ments and P l '. i ,Vi l LijJ ■^1)9r.j->Alni’iug and
at the close of the war.”
In the preparation of his work Mr.
Davis was understood to state that lie
hud no Secretary, but rather an assis
tant, in the person of Major Walthall,
who lives about a mile und a half from
Beauvoir. Mr. Davis writes out the
manuscript, to which notes and refer
ences are appended, which Major Wal
thall looks up and collates. In the
language of Mr. Davis, “Major Wal
thall having been a newspaper man is
well qualified to discharge that impor
tant task.”
The reporter referred to the fact that
one of the Mississippi Scnatorships
would soon be vacant, and asked the
point blank question :
“Mr. Davis are you a candidate for
the position?”
The question seemed to annoy the
gentleman interrogated, who very
courteously demanded:
“By what right do you undertake to
catechise me?”
The answer was that the question of
is at an angle of forty-five degrees, and
is 215 feet in length; the pipes then
cross the bed of tiie stream upon wood
en supports a distance of 1(57 feet, and
ascend the opposite bank 209 feet. The
pipes are made of heavy boiler j dating,
arid arc thirty-six inches in inside di
ameter. Through them tiie water
rushes with a pressure of nearly 100
pounds to the square inch at the bot
tom, and that is sufficient to overcome
t he friction and lift the column of wa
ter on the other side to within six feet
(and perhaps nearer) of the level of the
starting point. It was found not long
ago that some men had been accus
tomed for a long time to shoot through
these pipes sticks of cord-wood, cutting
them on the mountain opposite their
homo. Finally they got to running
whole logs through ; but one was too
and it will not bo a great while before j
the entire line will connect, thus giv
ing a distance of about seven consecu- 1
tive miles of grading. Tho contractors
are eager to take an estimate of the
work by the first of October, and are
taking a great many hands into the
works. Messrs. Lee and Mahaffy arc
expected to arrive at the works to-day
with a large force which will be ready
to go to breaking dirt in an hour after
their arrival.
We learn that the officials are now
in correspondence in reference to iron
and ties, and will send forward an or
der at once. It is presumed the con
tract for furnishing iron will be given
a small oval mahogany table, and on
this were placed four double slates, a
piece of slate-pencil and some writing
paper. Mr. Watkins, after walking
up and down several times, said that
In 4 would leave tiie room, and desired
the reporter during his absence to
write the full names of tho spirit
. . friends or relatives with whom he
is the quickest way to make ice-cream j wl8Ued to converse, together with any
questions he wished to ask them,
‘Mrs. Blodsoo wants to know 'which
without a freezer?’ Buy it in one of
those little pasteboard boxes they sell
at the ice cream factories.
‘Gentle Annie is in a desponding
mood this week. Siie begins her sad
] laint by asking: ‘Will they forget us
when we are gone?’ You may bet your
sweet life, Gentle Annie, they will.
They will forget us so completely they
won’t ever be positive where we have
me.
and they will forward the iron as fast
as it is ready. The road is now in the
hands of business men, who transact
business as It should be done, and who
will make no unneccessary delay.
It is the intention of tho company to
iron the road to Piedmont, a station
beyond tho mountain and five anil a
half miles beyond Hamilton, and make
the Scnatorship had been very thor- j
long, and got stuck, which led to the
detection of the labor-saving fraud. At
other points subterranean wooden
tubes of equal calibre, similarly ar
ranged, conduct the stream across the
valleys. One of these tubes is 1500
feet, in length.
ifhTiiig got: t his tremendous “head”
of water at their disposal by the com
pletion of the ditch, stamp-mills were
built far below in tho valleys, at points
suitable to the best diggings, and they
were ready to begin operations upon
the new system. The cutting having
been operated at the brow of tho hill,a
reservoir is constructed, in which the
water from the ditch is allowed to ac
cumulate to the amount -of thousands
of gallons, whence a side ditch, con
trolled by tlood-gates, leads to the up
per edge of the cutting. From the
mine downward a channel is arranged,
as precipitous as'possible, leading di
rectly to the stamp-mill, where a room
is open to its entrance. If now a tor
rent should suddenly be poured into
the cutting, away up there on the edge
of the mountain, which seems almost
to overhang von, it is evident that all
the loose material would be swept out
and sent headlong downward to the
bottom of the hill. What a natural
freshet would accomplish by accident
is precisely what the miners do by
“And you remain at home to take
care of her?”
“1 am her only help and compan
ion,” said the girl, looking upon tin*
ground. “I am happy in my lot, und
am thankful that I can take care of
and comfort the one so dear to me. No
offer, however tempting, could induce
mo to leave my mother.”
“Where is your mother?” inquired
the king, becoming more and more in
terested in t lie noble girl.
“In yon little hut by the side of the
road,” said she, pointing toward the
humble dwelling. It was a low,
thatched building, covered with moss
and vines, very neat and clean, but so
old and weather-worn that it afforded
but poor shelter in timo of cold and
storms.
Gustuvus alighted from his horse, I thus affording a great convenience to
and followed the girl into the hut to the people and a fine rovemie to the
see her mother. He found her sick j company.
and suffering, lying upon a bed of The view from tho Pine Mountain
straw—a pale, thin woman, sinking i will induce travel over this line. From
under her infirmities, and looking for- one mile beyond Hamilton where the
ward to the grave as a bed of rest. The;: road begins to make its aerial flight, for
King was almost overcome at tlio piti-M a distance of live miles, the
able sight, and said, wliilc tears came j not surpassed anywhere in the State,
into his eyes—ah, yes, and those tears j Viewed from either side it is grand,
were more beautifully radiant and glo- ! Valleys, hills and plains stretch out as
rious than the brightest rays that ever ; far as tiie eye can reach. One can look
glanced from his crown of diamonds— , out upon t he pine and oak mountains,
“I feel sorry, mother, to find you so j dotted over by waving pines and state-
destitute atid afflicted.” ! ly oaks, while the sun’s rays glisten
“Yes, yes, my dear sir,” said the wo- upon the ledges of rock which
‘Marguerite’ asks if ‘a woman should
marry a man whom she respects and
esteems, but does not love, for his
money?’ Oh, no, Marguerite, n-no,
the Rome Iron Co., of Chattanooga, : not exactly that. You should not mar
ry him for his money, unless you can’t
absolutely get it any other way. But
if you do really ‘respect’ the man, you
might love his money, and then you
would have all the ingredients for a
happy match, anyhow. Wo wouldn’t
advise you to marry a man for his
money alone; nor, on the other hand,
Marguerite, would we advise you to
a temporary depot until the track is j marry a man merely for tho sake of
completed to tlio place formerly called ! his poverty; there is neither merit or
Chipley, and at some point In that { novelty in that-. But you should mar-
neighborhood a permanent depot will ; ry him, even though he is rich as Croe-
be established. Piedmont is sufficient- i stis, because, by tho way, Marguerite,
ly convenient to receivcthe cotton from j you didn’t say that this rich man had
that entire section above the mountain, ! usked you or wanted you to marry
j each on a separate piece of paper.
! Having done that ho was to roll each
one up tightly into a small pellet and
lay them together on the table. He
did as directed, putting down the
name of a cousin who died during the
■ civil war und four questions. The re
porter first tried the door and then
hold his hand carefully ovor the paper
while writing. He finally called in
Medium Watkins, tho little tightly
rolled pellets of paper lying mean
while in the center of the table. The
; usual contortion of the facial muscles
I ensued. After a short silence the me-
I dium pointed to one of the paper pel-
I lets and desired tlio reporter to take it
in his left hand. He field it tightly
in his closed fist and Mr. Watkins
I put his hand lightly on the skeptic’s
for a few seconds. Watkins’ features
worked wildly, but this was suceoded
hy a calm, and the reporter then
heard the name of his cousin given in
lull us that which was written on the
paper. On unrolling the pellet the
medium was proved to be correct.
ment sufficiently to ask:
“What is your daughter’s name?”
“Becky Raney,” answered the wo
man.
“And her age?”
“Seventy years,” again she promptly
answered.
“What is your name?”
“Jane Raney.”
“How old are you?”
“One hundred and seventeen.
“And you are looking for your lost
child, who is seventy years old?”
“Yes, captain ; you see Becky will go
on sprees. Last Friday my gal went
to the dispensary to get some medi
cine, and never come home since. She
will go on sprees.”
Sergeant Watkins informed Jane
that the officers had brought in no
young one of that name and age. Af
ter finishing her business with the ser
geant, the reporter approached her,
and the followingconversation ensued:
“How old did you say you were?”
“One hundred and seventeen.”
“And your lost daughter Becky?”
“Seventy.”
“Why, you do not look so old—you
have all your teeth yet.”
“Yes, I’ve got a good many of ’em,
but thar all rotten but two. I’m sure
I’m one hundred and seventeen years
old. I was born in Kentucky in—let
me see; I forget the year—in 17G2. I
can tell you all about Washington’s
war, and I can tell you all abo .fc the
irthquake at New Madrid, for I was
him? How is that, by the way?
‘Baby Mine’ says ‘she is just crying
her eyes out, because she is not pretty
and she feels lonely and nobody loves
her, and she longs for some sympa
thy like healing balm into her lonely
life—’‘Baby Mine,’hush it right up;
enery is | not another line of it; not a whisper, placed in the double slate, whicli lay
You scare us to death and we haven't | flat on the table, and the medium put
The .same process was repeated with there. I was married when I was sev-
three out of the four questions and entccii, and I’ve got three husbands
appropriate answers were returned to ! buried in Alton. When I came to St.
each. The fourth question was un- Louis, a long while ago, there ivere no
swerod by slate writing. The usual steamboats, and thar were only log
inspection of a double slate and wash- 1 cabins here. I’m pretty pool. now. I
ing with a wet sponge was gone i would have starved to-day if (t wasn’t
through with, after which Mr. Wat- for an old lady that lives near me on
kins bit off a small portion of the Second and Cedar. She gave me five
pencil and handed it to the reporter
| to examine. This small fragment was
ouglily discussed, and was one in which
tho public felt the deepest interest,and
any declaration by Mr. Davis would bo
eagerly received.
Ho remarked that lie didn’t see what
interest the public could have in him
j or his actions.
| “My chief reason for asking is to get
something definite, as it . has been
stated that you had authorized the
statement that you were not a candi
date.”
“That is news to me. Where did you
see it?”
“In one of the Mississippi papers,
and I believe it was very generally
copied throughout tlio State.”
“Indeed!” enclaimcd Mr. Davis;
“why I have never authorized any one
to speak for mo.”
“Then a false impression has gone
abroad, and I should like to correct it.
Are you a candidate for the Senator-
ship?”
“I am not. I have been elected to
the United Spates Senate three times
and appointed once, and I have never
yet been a candidate for the position.”
“You mean then that you aro not a
candidate, but at the same timo you
cannot control the Legislature if it
chooses to el”—
“I’d hardly go so far as that.,” inter
rupted Mr. Davis. “Moreover, when I
wish to make a declaration of my posi
tion I shall do it myself and directly
to the people interested, and you can
rest assured it will be put in such plain
language there will bo no misunder
standing its meaning.”
A Luxury.
Tlio Unique Perfumes imulo by Dr.
Prico are indeed a luxury; their fra
grance as sweet and exhilarating as a
walk in a garden of flowers at evening
close. Dr. Price’s odors aro truly as
sweet and natural as flowers freshly
gathered. Try his Floral Riches; it is
a cologne water of delightful fragrance.
“ BLACK-DHAUGHT " cures dyspep
sia, indigestion and heartburn.
Amusements of a Leadville Gentleman.
On Monday evening at ono of tlio
theaters a gentleman amused himself
by pulling the chairs from under tlio
people who sat before him. His vic
tims may not have appreciated the
joke, but the audience did, and their
roars ol' laughter encouraged the man
to persevere. He next blow out all tiie
lights ho could roach, and no man said
him nay. Then, finding a largo stove
in ids way, he kicked it down. This
was considered quite a lilt. Finally,
drawing a revolver, he Bred into the
crowd, sending a ball through tho
thigh of a spectator. Turning on his
heel after this, he walked out unmo
lested into the street, und was soon
lost in the crowd.—Chicago Tribune.
Take » BLACK-DRAUGHT" and you
will never be bilious.
titleo. They dig away all day at the
loose soil and easily disintegrated
rock, break up the larger fragments
into small pieces, and strew every
tiling, good, bad, and indifferent, in a
careless pile on tiie floor of tlio cut.
Thun at sundown thoy gather up their
tools, climb out of tlio diggings, and
open the gates of the reservoir. A tor
rent sweeps through tho mine, cleans
out every loose rock and fragment of
dust, and hurls it down into the mill,
where a rack catches all tlio coarse
material and lets tlio water drain
through into tlio much-tortureil Ya
hoola. Tho wholo product of tlio
day’s excavation lias been deposited
on tiie floor of tlio mill, half a mile
away, ready to he shovelled under the
stamps, which chew on it all night,and
it has not cost a penny for transporta
tion.—Ernest Ingcrsoll, in Harper's
Magazine for September.
THE LEGISLATURE.
(From tho Gwinnett Herald.)
It would have been much better if
the* Legislature luid stuck to the let
ter of the Constitution and not consid
ered a single local bill that luid not
not been introduced as required by
that instrument, but there were too
many axes to grind, and the occupa-
of at least two-thirds of tho body
would have been gone. Much valua
ble time is wasted in long winded dis
cussions that profit nobody. We sat
in the gallery and watched members
make high sounding speeches and not
a dozen members paying any attention,
while the clerks chatted quietly and
the speaker held long conversations
with friends. This oosts tho people
about two hundred dollars an hour.
Over forty days of the adjourned ses
sion has run, and yet there is no limit
to debate and the introduction of bills.
That member who introduces and
works through a resolution cutting off
debate to live minutes and shuts the
door on tho introduction of any future
bills, will bo a public benefactor.
Functional disorganization of the
liver is a most powerful and common
cause of melancholy. Dr. Bull’s Bal
timore Pills invariably give tone to the
liver and promote its healthful action.
A m
dollar’
in died of liver complaint! One
worth of “BLACK-DRAUGHT”
would have saved his lite.
man, in a feeble voice, “but I am glad
that God has given me an affectionate
daughter. She is always trying to re
lieve me, and is my constant comforter.
May (tod in His love remember and
bless her—my dear child!” and her
voice was choked back by sobs, and
her face covered with tears.
The good King wept with the poor
widow.
What a sight! How the angels of
heaven hovered over that lonely hut-
breatli in
hearts—1
on every hand. To say that it is grand
and sublime are but tame words for it.
And these rocks are useful as well as I nient, tell us how t
ornamental. When the road penc- | crimps that will last
trates this place, the finest building
rock in tho world can be obtained at a
small cost and very little trouble. Co
lumbus will be benelitted by this enter
prise, and her enterprising citizens, in
a hundred ways of which she has never
had an idea. It is destined to be a
source of wealth to the owners and a
joy unspeakable into three j great benefit to the country at large,
suffering woman’s, the j Let the good work go on.
a word of smpathy for you. We are i
married man, with a boy old enough, 1
or at least smart enough, to go to col- j
lege; we are the busy head of a pleas- j
ant, happy household, and wo are not ;
going to be decoyed off into any sym
pathetic streaks not by all the lonely !
women in America. Dry it up; and
the next time you write to this depart-
make water
11 night and
sympathizing king’s, and the loving
daughter’s. The monarch never re
ceived such a blessing on bis throne in
the palace, as there in the lone hut by
tho wayside.
He handed the daughter a purse of
gold, and directed her to a better
house, where she and her mother
might be comfortable, saying as he de
parted :
WHAT MAKES B0W-LEG3.
(From tho Populur Selcnco Monthly.)
[ Bow-less and knock-laiees are among
. the commonest deformities of humnn-
| ity, and a Manchester (England) phy-
j sician, Dr. Compton, attributes the
! first-mentioned distortion to a habit
some youngsters delight in, of rubbing
Goon, my young friend, in your the sole of ono foot against that of the
way of dutiful love and care, and you ! other; some will go to sloep with tiie
shall lank for nothing while 1 have the soles together. They appear of enjoy
means to help you. I am the king.
Farewell!”
Gustuvus ever remembered the poor
family, and made provision to have a
sum of money regularly sent to tho
woman for her support; and at the
mother’s death hopresented tho daugh
ter with a handsome fortune.
Young readers, remember tiie com
mand, “Honor thy father and thy
mother.”—Leslie’s CkattWfbox.
A STRANGE PHENOMENON.
We lire informed that a gentleman
residing in Wakulla county, by tlio
name of Cox, who is cultivating n
small farm, upon arising one morning
hist week was surprised to line! that
during tlio night his residence had
changed from a region whore water
could not be seen und was situated on
tlio border of a lake. When lie retir
ed on tiie evening before his house
was far away from any pond, lake or
river, but upon going out next morn
ing liis surprise can be imagined
when, instead of his garden, an im-
monso sink, fifty or sixty yards square
tilled with water running up within
eighteen or twenty feet of his resi-
denee.mct his gaze. During tiie night
this transformation occurred, leaving
not even a vestigo of tlio tallest pine
trees whicli were standing in tlieir full
majesty only twelve hours before.
These sinks, however aro not infre
quent in that country. It has only
been a short timo since that.a sink oc
curred near Lavender’s Mill, more re
markable than tho ono alluded to
above, in that it oecurrod upon the
very tip top of a hill—one of the high
est points of land in that country.
Will not some one explain these oc
currences?—Tallahassee Floridian.
Is it any Wonder.
In view of tiie immense amount of
adulterated baking powders used by
the musses of people in food, is it any
wonder that t here are diseased gums,de
cayed tectli and disordered digestion?
To escape these evils, use Dr. Price’s
Cream Baking Powder, the only kind
§sm»ftg,ai
the contact only when the feet are
naked; they don’t attempt to make it
when they are socked or slippered. So
the remedy is obvious; keep the baby’s'
soles covered. Knock-knees the doc
tor ascribes to a different childish hab
it, that of sleeping on tiie side, with one
knee tucked under tlio hollow behind
tho oilier. He lias found that where
one leg has been bowed inward more
than tho other, the patient lias always
slept ou ono side, and tiie uppermost
member lias been the most deformed.
Here tiie preventive is pud tlio inside
of tho knees, so as to keep them apart,
and lot the limbs grow freely their own
way. All of which is commended to
mothers who desire tlio physical up
rightness of their progeny.
A Yankee’s Freak.
A Belfast man, though strong and
able-bodied, has elected to spend the
remainder of his days in a chair. He
is a ship carpenter by trade, and when
a reduction of wages took place lie re
fused to work longer. So he seated
himself in n rocking-chair by the win
dow in his sitting-room, and there he
sits, only rising to go to his meals or
to go to bed. The rockers of his chair
have worn grooves in the floor, and on
the window-sill aro imprints of the lin
gers of one bund, with which ho drums
idly us lie rocks to and fro. There are
only the man and wifo in family, and
they are supposed to have laid iipsome-
thingon which they now live.— JFor-
cester.Spy.
Mistakes of the Printer.
Some of the Chicago papers are be
moaning the fact that tiie typographi
cal error still exists. Ono of them re
cently wanted to say, “Holyof holies,”
when the type made “Baby of babies,”
whicli was slightly ridiculous. Another
said “Prairie-chicken citizens of Mem
phis,” instead of “Panic-stricken citi
zens.” The same paper explained that
instead of saying, “Mr. Brown’s gieat
pug nose,” it meant to say “ Mr.
Brown’s great purpose,” us the con
text would show. Mr. Greeley once
wrote an article onWm. H. Seward and
won’t straighten out in ono afternoon,
’Lonely,’ nre you? Then why don’t
you go to the sociable, where you will
meet so many other lonely people that
you will feel happy?’ Great guns,
and a new circus billed on tiie fence
every week.—Burlington Hawkege.
Lis hands lightly on the slate, request
ing his companion to do the same.
A sound of writing was heard, and
"'lien the double slate was opened
there was a communication filling one
side of tiie slate, signed with ono of
tlio names previously given by the
reporter in full. The reporter noticed
that the slate pencil, which was jug
ged when placed between tiie slate
covers, was worn smooth after tlio
slate was opened. There were some
further similar experiments, and the
seance was declarer’ concluded.
cents this morning and I bought bread
witli it. I only had coffee and sugai
myself. I guess Becky has gone on a
spree. She works out and makes $3 a
month.”
WATTEESON ON THE BIG SCAN
DAL.
(Block Island letter to Courier Journal.)
For my part I don’t believe it. I be
lieve her to lie a vain, and to have al
ways been adaring, imprudent woman,
not a wanton, and I must say that the
provocation she has hud from her hus
band, und the course which Mr. G’ouk-
ling 1ms pursued, together with the
wretched plight in which I know her
now to lie, iill me with a sympathy I
never expected to led for her. She is
tiie daughter of one of the greatest
RED CHECKS VS. GREASY CARDS
i tho Gainesville Eagle.)
A Long* Ride on Horseback.
Rev. Abraham Wyukoff, pastor of the
Canal Street Presbyterian Church, of men tllis country ever produced, a wo-
New Orleans, has just complcd a jour- m un in distress, abused and brow-beat-
noy on horseback from that city to | on by her husband, betrayed and do-
Flemington, N. ,T. He left on tho 1st sorted by her lover, and that Is enough
.... ... , „ ... .. , , of June, and has traveled steadily for } lor me.
Tho Atlanta Constitution of a few ; ten weeks. He made thirty-five miles i Mr. Colliding, with characteristic
days since gives a grandiloquent uc- j eac i, j ay oxcel ,t on Sundays, when he ; avoidance of contamination to his gen-
count of how the able and efficient res t e( p The only day in which he va- tleiminhood, has fled the field. Hode-
policoof “the greatest city in Goor- ried from this distance was last the day olines to appear in his own person. Ho
gia swooped down upon u low den of . ot hi s journey, when, in order to reach i lil,st invents a most absurd statement
greasy negroes who were drinking | jqg destination before sundown, lie j t0 tl 10 press. He next prepares, not
for himself, but for Mrs. Sprague, to
stale beer and playing seven up with i covered forty-five miles. He came by
greasy cards, and yanked them into i the way of Savannah, and is in excel-
he official hopper through which | lent Ueulth _ His horse is a good ani-
low-flung grist must pass to the .pis- | ma l, aud seems none tho worse for
lice mill. The occasion was such a
grand one that a special reporter was
detailed to accompany tho affair in all
tiie grandiloquent gorgeousness which
so important a matter deserved. The
whole scene is given in that magnifi
cent vernacular for which the average
Atlanta reporter is so conspicuous.
Ah, Justice! Oh, Law!—what far
ces are perpetrated in thy name! A
few blocks away from where theso
poor black nickel flippers were play
ing a small live cent ante, the bright
glare of tlio cut glass chandeliers of
tho “Big Bonanza,” tlio “Alhambra”
and “Girl of the Period” full athwart
tlio granite pavement. Inside, in
stead of nickels, dollars by tlio hun
dred were staked on tiie “green but
the efficient polico and the ustuto re
porter pass these by. In there, gen
tlemen (?) with diamond stud buttons,
heavy chains and clothes of the latest
style staked red cheeks and drank
equally rod brandy from out glass
decanters, and the atmosphere was fra
grant with tho aroma of the finest
Havanas. In tho den, tho miserable
inmates, in lieu of red cheeks, put
down on tlio greasy table rusty nick
els; instead of old Otard imbibed stale
beer, instead of a fragrant atmosphere
of “clear Havana filling,” the air
reeked with tho deleterious effluvia
effervescing from filthy cob pipes.
The efficient police know nothing of
the Bonanza, Alhambra or Girl of tho
Period, while the brass star shines
upon their lappels, but with charac
teristic shrewdness and bravery swoop
down upon the poor African and in
carcerate him, and defer their visits to
tho “tonoy” places until they are off
duty.
the jaunt, although the weather was
very warm, most of tho time. A pas
sion for riding and ;i desire to improve
his health led him to travel the way
he did.
Well Known.
As it is known that Dr. Price’s .Spe
cial Flavoring Extracts arc not made
up from chemical poisons, but natural
flavors, delicate and grateful to the
most cultivated palate, they aro grow
ing rapidly in popular favor. It is on
ly necessary to try these flavors to be
convinced that they are fine and pure.
A trial package of “BLACK-DRAUGHT”
free of charge at
Why She Married Ag-ain.
A happy-looking married couple
wore pointed out, and I was told that
tiie lady had been married once be
fore. When her husband died he left
a will giving liis widow $30,000 a year
as long as she remained a widwv. aud
all of his fartuuo if she married again,
for he maliciously added : “I want an
other man to know
made me, and he may
solution in my money
was not long in finding another hus
band, and out of spite to her former
spouse makes the present husband su
premely happy, and I he wealth of the
deceased is an immense factor to that
end. Women are contrary creatures,
und men don’t understand them.—Sar
atoga Letter.
How Memphis is Isolated.
(From tho Hultlmi.ro Sun.)
Dr. R. W. Mitchell, tile intrepid yel
low fever physician of Memphis, de
scribes the city ns wholly cut oil from
the world. There nre no trains run
ning into or out of the town, and no
body leaves the place without the - au
thorities knowing it. No steamboats
land there at all. The supplies ure all
brought down on barges, which are
dropped by tho steamboats a couple of
miles abovo tho city and allowed to
float down. When they arrive at the
city men in skiffs or tugs secure them
and bring them to tlio landing. If
there is any fever carried abroad.it is
done by some daring peddler,who runs
his wagon of supplies into the town on
a venture, sells out, and then clears
out.
The best reform in domestic life is
without doubt the introduction of Dr.
Bull’s Baby Syrup. Where it is known
no more laudanum is given to the ba
bies.
Stop using Calomel and try “ BLACK-
DRAUGHT ” for liver diseases.
sign an inconsistent, illogioul state
ment to the public. In the first per
son singular lie has never a word to ut
ter. He does not say, “I let my char
acter go—do what you will with it—but
the woman is innocent.” He does not
have even (lie self-possession or tho
courage to make a diversion upon
Sprague and to say to him, “Sir, you
are a scoundrel who have attacked
your own wife through me, and I will
bold you responsible.” He does noth
ing of the sort. His greatness restrains
him. He flies back to Utica, to the
wife lie has deserted, to the daughter
lie tried to humiliate, and, cowering
behind theso good women, he asks tho
country to believe him guiltless, while
am sure 1 don’t want to be harpooned
—if ever I heard of anything like it in
all my perusal of wicked history from
Claudius down to Henry Ward Beech
er. I cun find nothing at all akin to it
anywhere, not oven in “plantation
manners.”
Why, do you know that I am credi
bly informed that Mr. Conkjing was
assured by tlio New York papers that
if he would authorize a denial of tho
whole thing, on liis honor as a man
and a Senator, thoy would not only
suppress tiie details, but unite in un
indorsement, and, if needed, a defense,
and that lifr. Colliding refused. Gocl
of the universe! where are the Bibles,
where aro tlio stacks of Bibles, so higli
that tiie meanest wretch would not
mount them, as upon an altar, and
light the pile with liis own hands, and
amid the flumes oeneath, sweur to the
honor of the woman who had trusted
him, mid who stood compromised by
his act, until liis senses left him?
North Carolina’s Bonds.
The Stale Treasurer of North Caro
lina has already succeeded in retiring,
under a recent act of the Legislature
of that State, $4,000,000of the old debt,
which is now represented by $1,120,-
000 in the new honds. This leaves
about $8,000,non of the debt still out
standing. All classes of old bonds
prqyldod for under the Set are being
brought in, mid there seems to be no
disposition to withhold any particnli
issue in hopes of a more satisfacl