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LETTER FROM LONDON.
London, 8. W. t Aug. 10, ’70.
id Waterman: In company with
IjJ, I visited tho House of l’liriln-
Wi Monday night last,and heard
ilsentbled wisdom of Albion on
nous Irish University bill, which
> for discussion. Said bill being
pan Catholic origin, having for
pet tlie founding and endowment
otostant England of a Roman
i(L in University in Ireland. Many
j 'J.things have oeon said for and
f Ft the measure, and many lively
j, . have been witnessed in prosy old
, Spliens since its introduction into
^ j J 5 'ment some throe months since,
a \ ^s occasion, however, the speeches
"hi At come up to my expectations,
■u Cany good things were spoken.
'•Ntr 1 e * cm011t "'°re comparatively
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VOL. XXX V.
LAGRANGE, GEORGIA, THURSDAY EVENING, SEPTEMBER 18,1879.
no. 38.
id collect the whole amount whether tho papt
1h taken from the office or not.
It. Tho cotirtH have decided that refusing to
take newspapers or periodicals from the post-
THE HORRORS OF SIBERIAN EX
ILE.
not indulging in their usual un-
jJVl cdoi iuenee, flippant threats, or
j. Tt’bial wittieisins. I therefore left
m 1:30 a,
iuli
not at all enthused
[Iritisli oratory or eloquence. I
C J jlovvever, greatly interested in the
| ~j \ Ladings of the House. They were
<*i funeriean, and unlike our legisla-
odies at home, reminding me of
Sid Held*’ school boy days, when
■ era occasions sides were chosen
Ranged on opposite sides of the
confronting and attempting to
bud each other with their jeers
J[ gjimpudcnt smartness. Hero the
^jjjtive political parties arc ranged
li; her side of the hall, facing each
ministers and party leaders in
who talk back at each other
[their respective places; members
ule sitting with their hats on,and
rising to speak the hat is re*
j!d and held in tiic right hand and
1 about more or less as tlicspeak-
uclined to gesticulate. 1 was not
jably impressed with this style of
tor, in my humble judg-
*!, our legislative bodies present a
I
|ffioru rcspccuiii and digniiieu ap
ace, sitting witn uncovered iieaus
ipeakiug \viiaout iiat in naud.
> our re
j’!, memoers ol .
fifty. Tney serv
j, ty nan of earn:
Irh' not money,
I
inn liouur. ii
Id our legislators ami law milkers
I ffi a similar system, spciiuiug iiu.il
Jjjjiu' ia tVusningcon or Atlanta,pay-
Wflivir own expenses and working
1 and nightly for tho good of tliuir
try. Alas! suoii unselfish patriot-
s not for young America, and tho
or country may congratulate her-
n this peculiar feature in her
Iff of government.
See by the home papers, that our
'••stature is again in session. As I
rstood it, tile new-constitution
iiioil for biennial sessions. Jiy what
poeus trick was this change ef-
d? Can it be possible that this
lial and most important clause, was
allied as to bo susceptible of two
ore legal interpretations? And if
so, what is to prevent the other
es of our boasted new Magna
lu from being similarly twisted
listortocl? Surely this is a matter
tnl importance to our people, and
ipe to see tho attention of the press,
,'oters and tax payors of tho ooun-
Jireoted to it. In my judgment
jouutry is “too much legislature!.!.”
thing is over done, and tne cry of
mchment and reform is a misuo-
so long as the present practice of
drawn out extra sessions is toler-
. The true essenco of legislative
lomy lies not alone in cutting down
regulating salaries, but in reduc-
aetual legislative expenses, and
luosteffeotual manner of doing this
i coniine ourselves literally to the
of tho now constitution, which pro-
s for biennial sessions. Of course,
isos of emergency, extra sessions
d be called, but in no other ease
tld they be tolerated. Asa rule, it
upolltie and unwise to bind or
ipor our legislators with pledges
remises. They should bo einphut-
iy free agents, men oi' wisdom and
giitv, upon whose .sound judgment
r eonslituents could safely roly,
in t his matter of extra or adjourned
ions, I think we could safely say to
u, “Don’t do it.” I think the Leg-
ture made a serious mistake in
swing over the dog bill. It is a
stion of vital importance to all our
pie, as on its proper solution de-
ds the development and building
of a vast industry but second in
lortanee to our great staple. Stock
ing to be prosperous and remuner-
; must bo encouraged and protect-
hy legislative enactment. The prin-
le of freo trade, when applied to
thless free-booting curs, is a curse
lie country that tolerates it. Apply
only proper remedy—puss this law
1 then this great,-industry, so well
ipted to our soil and climate, would
n bo doveloped, adding untold
iltli and prosperity to our people
our State. I will add in tills eon-
tion that a dog law lias been in
ee in England for many generations,
nging i i an annual revenueof near-
one million dollars. Tho tax is
eu shillings (about $1.75) per head,
e exemptions are, dogs on stock
ms, dogs leading blind persons and
ppies under tho ago of six months,
think our legislators should pass a
nilar law, and by so doing, carryout
it glorious principle of “tho greatest
od to the greatest number” of our
ople. 1 shall D. V. leave for home
ly in September; and hope to find
my friends in good health, prosper-
9 und happy, Very respectfully,
W. H. H.
(Karl Blind In tho Contemporary Review.)
Of tlie treatment of political exiles
In Siberia, I have before men thrilling
description from tlie pen of Mr. Robert
Lomlto, a German writer, who lias vis
ited (lie various penal establishments
of Russia with an official legitimation.
IIo had been to Tobolsk, after which
lie had to make a long, dreary journal
(?) in a wrotohed car, until a high
mountain rose before him. In its torn
and craggy llanlt the mountain showed
a colossal opening similar to the mouth
of a burnt-out crater. Eetid vapors,
which almost took away ills breath,
ascended from it.
Pressing ids handkerchief upon ids
lips, Lotnke entered tlie opening of the
rock, where lie found a large watch-
house, with a picket of Cossacks. Hav
ing shown his papers, lie was conduct
ed by a guide through a long, very
dark and narrow corridor, which, judg
ing from its sloping descent, led down
into some unknown depth. In spiteof
Ids good fur, the visitor felt extremely
cold. After a walk'ol! some ten min
utes through tlie dense obscurity, tlie
ground becoming more and more soft,
a vaguo shimmer of light became ob
servable. “We are in the mine I” said
the guide, pointing with a slgnilleant
gosturo to tho high iron cross-bars
which closed the cavern before them.
The massive bars were covered with
a thick rust. A watchman appeared,
who unlocked the heavy iron gate.
Entering a room of considerable extent,
but which was scarcely a man’s height,
and which was dimly lit by an oil
lump, tho visitor asked: “Where are
we?” “In tlie sleeping room of tlie
condemned! Formerly it was a pro
ductive gallery of tlie mine; now it
serves us a shelter.”
The visitor shuddered. This subter
ranean sepulchre, lii by neither sun
nor moon, was called a sleeping room.
Alcove-liko cells wore hewn into the
rock; here, on a couch of damp, halt-
rotten straw, covered with asackeloth,
tlie unfortunate sufferers were to re
pose from tlie day’s work. Over each
cell a cramp iron whs llxod, wherewith
to lock up the prisoners like ferocious
dogs. No door, no window anywhere.
Conducted through unothcr passage,
where a few lanterns were placed, and
whose end was also barred by an iron
gale, Mr. Lcinko came to a largo vault,
partly lit. Tibs was the mine. A deaf
ening noise of pickaxes und 1mmmors. 1
There lie saw some hundreds of I
wrotohed figures, with shaggy beards,
sickly faces, reddened eyelids; clad in
tatters, some of them barefoot, others !
in sandals, fettered with heavy foot-
chains. No song, no whistling. Now
and then they shyly looked at tlie vis- |
istor and his companion. Tho water
dripped from I ho stones; the tatters of
the convicts were thoroughly wet. One
of them, a tall man of suffering mien,
labored hard with gasping breath, but
tlie strokes of li is pickaxe were not
heavy and firm enough to loosen the
rock.
“Why arc you here?” Mr. Lomlto
asked.
The convict, looked confused, with an
air almost of consternation, and silent
ly continued his work.
“It is forbidden to the prisoners,”
said tlie inspector, “to speak of the
cause of their banishment!”
Entombed alive; forbidden to say
why!
“But who is the convict?” Mr. Lendce
asked tlie. guide, with low voice.
“It is No. 111!” tho guide replied, la
conically.
“This I see,” answered (ho visitor;
“but wlmt are the man’s antecedents?
To what family does he belong ?”
“He is a Count,” replied the guide;
“a well known conspirator. More, I
regret to say, I cannot tell you about
No. 111.”
The visitor l’elt ns if lie were stilled
in the grave-like atmosphere—as if his
chest were pressed in by a demoniacal
night mare. Ho hastily asked his
guido to return with him to tlie upper
world. Meeting there tho commander
of the military establishment he was
obligingly asked by that officer:
“Well, what impression did our pen
al establishment, make upon you?”
Mr. Lemke stiffly bowing in silence,
tlie officer seemed to take this as a
kind of satisfied assent, and went on:
“Very industrious people, tho men
below, are they not?”
“Rut with what feelings,” Mr. Lemke
answered, “must these unfortunates
look forward to a day of rest after tlie
week’s toil!”
“Rest!” said tho officer; “convicts
must always labor. There is no rest
for them. They are condemned to
perpetual forced labor; and lie who
once enters the mine never leaves it!”
“But this is barbarous!”
Tlie officer shrugged lbs shoulders,
and said: “The exiled work daily for
twelve hours; on Sundays too. They
must never pause. But, no; I am mis
taken. Twice a year, though, rest is
permitted to them—at Easter time and
on tho birthday of His Majesty tho
Emperor.”
KISSING THE BABY.
(Leadvlllo Letter.)
I saw but very few oases of intoxica
tion in the streets, though the three
hundred saloons in the city held out
their best inducements. I was sur
prised at this as one of tho notablo
effects of the great altitude of the
place (10,300 feet above tlie level of the
sea) is that all fermented liquors in
toxicate more quickly than at lower
elevations. Tho boiling point, owing
to the decrease of atmospheric pres
sure, is much lower than at Chicago,
and the alcohol is sooner vaporized,
and taken into the circulation much
quicker.
Tho boiling point of water hero is
about 100 degrees instead of 212 de
grees, the effect of which in boiling
beans, eggs, potatoes, etc., is that it
requires a longer while to cook them
in an open vessel, and it is necessary
to keep the pot well covered or the
water will vaporize and escape before
being raised to the requisite degree
for thorough cooking. At this eleva
tion much air is required to fill and
satisfy the lungs, and breathing must
be quicker in order to properly oxy
genize t he blood. It is said, too, that
after one lias been here for some time
tlie coloring matter of tlie blood be
comes darker, being changed from
the paoxide to the sesquioxide of iron.
With a person suffering under any
difficulty or disease of the heart, the
effect of any long-continued exertion is
to cause a dangerous degree of palpi
tation, and even with persons entirely
well the pulse runs extremely high.
There arc other and notable facts
connected with this altitude. There
are few birds seen here—perhaps for
the reason that flying is difficult in
tho light air. The common house-fly,
tho summer pest of our Eastern
house-keepers, is unknown here.
There are some of tlie out-door blue
bottle variety, but they seem languid
and tired. It is said, also, that cats
cannot live here. This is probably
owing to their delicate organization
being unable to resist the rigor of the
night air. So the ‘'voices of the
night.” are not heard in this locality,
and bootjacks are reserved for their
natural uses.
Another result of the lightness of
tlie air is that, having so little den
sity, it is easily heated by artificial
means. Our nights are uniformly
cold—so cold that it is uncomfortable
to sit without a fire; but a few pine
chips or small sticks will warm an
apartment very quickly. At the same
time the sun’s rays clo not seem to
have the heatifig power that they do
in lower elevations. This seems to
confirm tho theory that there is no
substantial caloric in the rays of the
sun, but that heat is the result of
chemical action, generated by the di
rect rays with tiic elements of the
atmosphere the directness of the rays
and the density of the atmosphere.
While standing high upon these
mountains, even at a distance from
any snow-drifts and where the air is
still, the summer sun lias only the
power to make the air refreshing and
pleasant, while you, on tho plains, are
sweltering under a torrid heat. In
t he shade of a rock or two it is always
c >ol enough.
The effect of the altitude is tlie same
as that experienced jy balloonists,
who in ascending from the surface of
the hottest day, soon find it necessary
to don their overcoats and warmest
clothing. In tlie night, here, n good
supply of blankets is always necessa
ry; and nearly every morning frosts
are found, and sometimes thick scales
of ice are formed. The crests of some
of the mountains and many of tiic
deep ravines upon their sides are still
full of masses of snow so compact that
one can walk over them without sink
ing. A day or two ago, in visiting a
mine close to the summit of Mount
Bross, I was compelled to cross a field
of snow, hanging over tho edge which
must have been a mile in length and
probably in places twenty-five feet in
depth.
A MISSOURI CANDIDATE’S DISAPPOINTING
EXPERIENCE.
LOOKS AND
IN WATER
WAIT.
High Commendation.
Gentlemen This is to certify 1 that I
i,ve examined, analyzed and tested
>ur Dr. Price’s Special Flavoring Ex
acts, and find tho same strong, fine,
ade of good material, uud weij put.
> in bottles of full measure. Your
uit coloring is freo from any dolete-
ous substance. Therefore, I gladly
mimend the above named products
yours for family use. Respectfully,
Prof. M. Delafontaine.
A man died of liver complaint l One
lollar’s worth of “ BLACK-DRAUGHT”
Wait, husband, before you wonder
audibly why your wifo don’t get on
with tlie household affairs, as your
mother did; she is doing her best and
no woman can endure that best to be
slighted. Remember tho long weary
nights she set up with tlie little babe
that died; renjomber tho loye and care
she bestowed upon you when you had
that long spell of sickness. Do you
think she is.uiade of .cast irpn ? Wait
—wait in silence and forbearance, and
the light will come back to her eyes—
the old light of the old days.
Wait, wife before you speak re
proachfully to your husband when he
comes home late, weary, and out of
sorts. He worked hard for you all day
—perhaps far into tlie night; ho lias
wrestled hand in hand with care and
selfishness, and greed, and ull the de
mons th(it, follow in the train of money
making. Let homo be another atmos-
phero entirely. Lot him l’eel that
there is one place in tho world where
■MWiui'AMliW
(St. Louis Tlmcs-Journal.)
While Col. Allen was discussing na
tional finances on the hotel plan, Col.
Tom Crittenden quietly slid down off
tlie platform and ciiculated among the
crowd. He wore a delicate white duck
suit, bluo necktie and patent-leather
pumps, and was the cynosure of all
female eyes on the premises. Colonel
Tom, with an eye to business, began
ogling tlie babies.
‘‘Oil, you sweet little darling,” said
Col. Tom, addressing a fuzzy, pop-eyed
brat that lolled lazily in its mother’s
arms under one of tho trees; “how
old is it, ma’am?”
“Four months, sir,” said the fond
mother.
“A little girl, eh?” said Colonel Tom.
“No, a boy,” replied tlie mother.
“Ah, yes, now that I come to look at
it more closely, I detect the strong
manly features of a boy,” the Colonel
hastened to say. “Please, may I kiss
the little cherub?”
Colonel Tom shut his eyes and ex
ploded an osculatory sound on the
fuzzy face and the child put up u big
lip and threatened to cry.
“Ho is such a beautiful child,” mur
mured Col. Tom, “such eyes, such a
head, such an expanse of forehead,
such a mouth, such a wealth of com
plexion, such a sweet, tranquil ex
pression?”
“Lame, you don’t really think so,
do you?” simpered the flattered
mother.
“I never saw a sweeter little cherub,”
said Col. Tom, “I believe I’ll have to
kiss him again.”
Having goue through a second oscul
atory martyrdom, Col. Tom assumed
a seraphic look—a look calculated to
strike taffy to the most hardened fem
inine heart, and got right down to bus
iness.
“I’m a candidate for Governor,’’said
he, “and nothing would give megreat-
er joy than to feel assured that I had
the support of the father of tho sweet
babe. Come, let me hold tlie little
darling in my arms. I do think lie is
just the sweetest little angel I ever
saw!”
The flattered mother gave up the
l'uzzy baby with profuse apologies
about its not being well dressed, etc.,
hoped it wouldn’t trouble tho gentle
man, etc., glad to know he admired it
so much, etc.
The fuzzy baby writhed and squirmed
and grew red in the face, and wrinkled
itself all up and belched a trifle, and
then lay calm, and composed on Col.
Toni’s strong right arm.
“The little precious!” cried Colonel
Tom. “You’ll tell his father how much
I thought of his little cherub, won’t
you, ma’am? And you’ll toll him I’m a
candidate for Governor, eh, ma’am.”
Tho poor woman’s face dropped, and
big, salt tears came into her eyes.
“Oh, sir,” she said, “you don’t know
what you ask—my poor husband died
of the jaunders two months ago.”
There was a far off look in Col. Tom
Crittenden’s gokled-glinted eyes as he
gently but firmly dumped that fuzzy
baby on the bereaved woman’s lap and
walked straight back to the platform
and replaced himself on a bench.
Not alone was sorrow confined to
Colonel Tom Crittenden’s upheaving
bosom. There were silent traces of
suffering upon his right coat sleeve.
(From tho Columbus Tiinos.)
There are but few practicable appli
ances to the necessities of modern civ
ilization that the people of tlie South,
us a whole, ami those in this particu
lar section especially know less about
than: they do about tlie system of
“looks and dams” by tho proper con
struction of which boats and even
ships cun lie floated over asconts and
descents with their full cargoes in
perfect safety. The only requirement
is a sufficiency of water below and
above tlie slioals or rapids to float the
vessels tliut can be raised or lowered
by those locks. Many of our readers
think that our idea of milking nav
igable the river between Colum
bus and West Point impracticable be
cause of tlio rocks and shoals that
intervene in tho bed of tho river be
tween tlie two points. But they are
mistaken in tills, unless those who
live abovo West Point are mistaken
in their opinions as to tlie sufficiency
of water above that point to serve tlie
tho purpose of navigation. Tho full
volume of water ut West Point can be
made available, and we believe before
many years it will be made available
for transporting merchandise and pro
duce from tliis city to tlie extreme
point in upper Georgia, accessible by
watercrafts. It will only require the
construction of a few dams and locks
to secure the free use of the river
above as it requires tlie removal of ob
structions to make it always naviga
ble below. The dams and locks at
Mussell Shoals on tlie Tennessee river
cost more to tlie United States than
A SUCCESSFUL MAN ON MORALS.
(O. B., lu Rural World.)
Boys, listen to me. I am'not sixty
THE LOTTERY ASS.
(IT
Puck.)
years old, and have made $50,000 by
my own exertions. I have a full' Eng
lish education und uni tolerably well
informed; but had I only known what
I was capable of doing when I was
fourteen years of age, I this day could
have had more education, been better
informed, with a higher standard of
morals— better and wiser man in ev
ery respect, with double tlie property.
Tlie troulde wus, I lost half of my val
uable time between fourteen und thir
ty, because I thought there was noth
ing in mo and it wus not wortli while
to try.
I am persuaded that the same feel
ing keeps many a man at tlie bottom
round of tho ladder all ids life; where
as, if he would take hold wit ha steady,
firm hand, and go slow, but sure, tlie
result would astonish him in thirty
years. Try it, boys; use rigid econo
my of time and means; acquire all the
useful knowledge you can: keep your
morals as pure as possible; be strictly
temperate; have faith in God ; always
tell tlie truth. Your reward will be
certain, both in time and eternity. Re
member that one ounce of persever-
enee, seusoned with truth, is worth a
pound of brains without truth. Tho
average man places too high an esti
mate on brains and money.
Boys, what I have said is our Arrain-
iun doctrine, and is full of truth. Now,
let us hear the Calvinist’s side. The
sins of the parents are visited upon tlie
children to the third and fourth gener
ation. If your mother was a wise
woman, full of virtue and truth; your
has ever been, or probably evoi ill be | father a model of firmness, temperance
spent on Georgia rivers even after the j ani j truth ; and your grand parents on
1 - * “■ 1 1 ■ both sides of noble stock—there is n
SHE DIED BUT SAVED HER BABE.
{From tlio Littlo ltock Democrat.)
A sad and fatal accident occurred at
Eureka Springs, Carroll county, on
Friday, resulting in the death of Mrs.
Virginia Clarke, a most estimable and
accomplished lady, and wife of Pro
fessor Clarke, a prominent educator
and well known citizen of Borryville.
Professor Clarke, with his family and
a number of students, had been camp
ing out at tho springs, and the day of
the accident was tlie one set for break
ing camp and returning home. Tlie
party had seated themselves at the
dinner table, when, without tho slight
est warning, a towering, half-burnt
treo was discovered to be falling. A
cry of alarm and tho tree was upon
them. All escaped except the lady
who had the infant in her anus, wus
unable to move as quickly ns tho oth
ers. With a mother’s forethought and
elevation, she held her baby at arm’s
longth, and its life was spared, the
body of the tree fulling upon her. It
was removed as quickly as possible,
and the sufferer removed ton neighbor
ing house. The injuries were internal,
and she lived only an hour. To tho
last she was conscious, conversing
with her heart-broken husband, and
expressing a great regrot at being
called upon to leave him and her chil
dren. “I am growing blind,” were
her last words.
Still Victorious.
• Many years have passed since • Dr.
Price’s Cream Baking Powder was
first offered to the public; and its su
periority over all Baking Powdors
for making wholesome, light, sweet
bread and biscuits has been establish
ed. Still victorious, standing to-day
in tho estimation of thousands as the
only safe and reliable powder.
Stop using Calomel and try “ BLACK-
DRAUGHT ” for liver diseases.
For sale by T. S. Bradfleld.
Butter should never come in contact
with the bare hand. When in bulk
necessary locks are constructed be
tween here and West Point, And yet
after all that cost, it Inis been a just
and proper and cheap work for the
Government.
Ml such works are proper for tho
Government, and arc cheap at any
price, if effectual, for when once com
pleted they are a perpetual blessing to
tho people and an everlasting source
of reveuue to tho country. All streams
should be made navigable if possible,
and no narrow idea of tho cost of the
work should delay it. Two questions
i only should bo asked. First, Is it nec
essary to afford needed facilities of
transportation to citizens along their
margins, and is there water enough to
float tho transports? Mr. Lincoln used
to say that t he United States had gun
boats that, could run wherever there
was a damp spot. Now we sav let the \
United States Government do as much j
for the triumphs of peace as it did for
tho triumphs of war. It thou adapted
the boats to tlio streams; let it now
adapt tlie streams to the boats. Wu
want our river opened, and feeling that
it can bo opened successfully, and be
lieving that the Hon. Henry Persons
can get the necessary appropriations
from Congress, we urge our people to
keep the enterprise before the author
ities until the tiling is done. Half the
cost of building a railroad to West
Point would give us a perpetual, free
water way.
It is unpleasant for a man who lias
a regard for his own compatriots to be !
obliged to write down any considerable i
portion of them as asses; but that does ■
seem to be forced upon the observers j
of the daily newspapers, he who
notices the very great prosperity of the
lotteries which are periodically !
“drawn” in certain Southern and
Western States.
The extremely gorgeous offices and
the more than gorgeously attired [
clerks, cashiers and flunkies generally:
together with the very expensive col
umns of advertising in all tlie great j
journals, are proof that the genus ass :
among us is greater than one would
believe from studying the physiogno
mies of the passers by in any of our !
thoroughfares.
Some years ago one of our esteemed
contemps. used to publish, under the i
caption of “Tho fool fishers,” certain
experiences of parties who purchased
boxes of saw-dust, cheap, fancying
they were purchasing counterfeit mon- ■
ey. But even then, ourcontemp. could I
only fish up about two “fools” a month. ;
Whereas, the lotteries catch them in ;
shoals. Mackerel fishing is nothing !
to tlie way they do it. A half column j
of canoodling figures, the names of
several half-dead-and-alive generals, i
tho promise to “ draw” on a certain |
date, whether or no, and tlie donkeys |
rush in with their dollars.
But who draw tho prizes? Any dear i
donkey will tell you. It is advertised in 1
the great dailies, along-side of all tlie j
nasty patent medicines. Ministers
without churches and unknown to any
classes or diocese; printers of some
unknown country journal; and “Mrs. J
Josh Billings has put it in the way of
the editor of tlio White Mountain
Echo to print a few component parts
of his new book, “Old Probabilities;
Perhaps Bain. Perhaps .Not.” Its
leading motto is: “Truth is sed to be
stranger than fiekshun—it is to most
pliolks.” The selections are these:
I don’t take any foolish chances.
If I wuz called upon to mourn over a
dead mule, I should stand in front of
him und do my weeping.
There is no man so poor but what
he can afford to keep one dog, and I
have seen them so poor that they
could afford to keep three.
I say 2 thirds ov tiic rich people in
this world, make'the most ov your
money, for it makes tlie most of you.
Happy thought.
I never argy agin a success; when I
see a rattlesuaix’s head slickin’ out of
the hole, I bear off to tlie left and
say to miself that hole belongs to that
snaix.
; Mack, a poor widow, of 5,552 Chambers
tolling whut you may accomplish. But j street, Boston,” (which number existed
if your mother was a weak woman. I n °t) gav
lacking in virtue; your father a de-
baucher and vagabond; your grand pa
rents base people—the chances are
gainst you. Blood will tell. Blit the
their certificates that tli
drew $30,000, $15,000, $10,000, us the
case may be. But did you, reader,
draw, or personally know anybody who
ever did draw a big prize? If so, you
redeeming point is this: Almost any of arc ® nc amou & a million; and if so,
us have enough good blood in our i (**-guin) please investigate, and uscer-
veins, if properly trained, to bring us j ^ the fortunate prize winner is
to the front so we can make our mark; ! n °t a sister or n cousin or an aunt of
and there arc but few of us who have j the people who run the lottery,
not enough bad blood in our make-up j 41 tiiia.ncia.i operation, tlie whole
to sink us to the lowest depths of in- ! system shows its fraudulent; there is
famy, if indulged in. So, at last, we not margin enough above the prizes j
have our destiny greatly in our own ' promised, if fairly paid to meet the 1
I thank the Lord that there is one
thing.in this world that money can’t
buy, und that iz the wag of a dog’s
tail. Yure uncle.
I hav seen men so fond of argument
that they would dispute with the guido
board at the forks ov a country road
about the distance to the next town.
Whut fools.
There are but fu sights in this life
more sublime and puthetfek than to
see a poor but virtuous young man
struggling with a mustach. It iz thus.
I notiss one thing: the man who
rides on the cars every day is satisfied
with one seat; but lie who rides once a
year wants four. That’s so.
Flattery is like cologne water, to be
smelled of not swallowed.
The man whom you kuntgit to write
poetry or tell the truth until you git
him drunk uint worth the investment.
EAbout the hardest thing a feller lain
do is to spark two girls at the sumo
time und preserve a good average.
Try it.
Don’t dispize your poor relashuns.
They may be taken suddenly ritch sum
day, and then it will be awkward to
explain things to. them—undoubtedly
hands.
“I’LL NO TRU3T YE.”
THE “GOOD” NORTH.
A DANGEROUS RACE.
TWO LADIES IN A PHAETON PURSUED BY
LOCOMOTIVE FOR HALF A MILE.
(From the Philadelphia Times.)
Two Indies in a phaeton were cross
ing tlio track ol’ the New York branch
ot tlie Pennsylvania Railroad yester
day on tlie Lamb Tavern road when
a heavy laden freight train, proceed
ing north ward at a high rate of speed,
came almost upon them. Miss Helen
Leed of Tioga,who was driving,endeav
ored to hasten the horse over tlie track
when the animal turned and rushed
up the track just in advance of the
moving train an i upon tlie samo line
of iail. Miss Leod’s companion, Mrs.
Richard Harper of Trenton, sprang
from the phaeton, alighting on the
south-bound track, from which she
had only time to escape ns a fast ex
press train rushed by going south.
Meanwhile the lady in tlio phaeton
strove to turn tlie frightened animal
from tlio track, and urged it to great
er speed to escape tlie fast approach
ing freight train, tho engineer of
which reversed his engine and sharp
ly whistled for brakes. The next
crossing east of the Lamp Tavern
road is a partly graded street, just
west of Germantown Railroad junc
tion, and a littlo less than half a mile
from Lamb Tavern roach Miss Leed,
ilndiiigshe could not turn tho horse
from the road urged tho animal to
ward tlie crossing for escape. She
reached it just in time, and with a des
perate pull at the reins turned tlie
horse’s head down tho steep hill so
quickly, indeed, that lie fell into the
ditch at tlie roadside, bringing the
phaeton and its fair occupant on top
of him. Some gardeners near by
rushed up and gave assistance, and
tho conductor having stopped tlio
train, came rushing back, thinking
that the engine had struck tlie car
riage, so close were they together,
when Miss Leed succeeded in getting
out of the way. Her injuries are pain
ful but not serious. As soon as sho
was lifted from the wreck of her car
riage she laughed merrily, and said
she always knew Eido, tlie horse,
could beat a freight train, and imme
diately fainted. Mrs. Harper was ta
ken up in a senseless condition mid
earriod to an adjoining house, where
she presently recovered. During the
oxcitiiig ratio the engine was at no time
further away from the phaeton than
twenty-five feet. Had Miss Leed lost
her presence of mind, or had the train
men failed in checking the speed of
tho train, tlie escape of the ladies had
been impossible.
(From tlio Courlor-Journal.)
The following theorems have been
continually advanced by our Northern
Republican fellow-citizens:
First.—No people outside tlie thug
and slum class ever destroy or try to
destroy each other, or threaten to de
stroy each other in tho Northern or
Western States.
Second.—If a man in these States
where tlio “higher civilization” pre
vails owns a revolver he keeps it looked
up in his bureau drawer to be used only
against midnight intruders upon the
quiet of his household.
Third.—Political assassination is un
known in the cult tired North and West.
Fourth.—Northern men always wait
upon the luw to redress their griev
ances.
Fifth.—If a Northern man is smitten
upon tho right cheek, lie turns tlio
left to his assailant to be likewise smit
ten.
Sixth.—Everybody is law-abiding in
tho cultured North and West.
Seventh.—Tlie shot-gun is unknown
there.
Eighth.—Tlie revolver’s crack is nev
er heard.
Ninth.—In the North everybody is
good.
Tenth.—In tho South everybody is
very bad.
That is about tlie shape our Repub
lican fellow-citizens put their senti
ments in tlieso days, but while they are
proclaiming their own righteousness
and tlie righteousness of their section.
We observe—
First.—That a distinguished ex-Sen-
ator of Republican politics chases a
distinguished Senator of Republican
politics out of Rhode Island with a
murderous, buckshot-loaded shot-gun,
threatening to kill if tho distinguished
Senator ventures to make a stand.
Second.—A prominent Republican
editor in San Francisco, during the
heat of a political campaign, assassi
nates a Republican candidate for of
fice by shooting him in the back and
breast. It is a political assassination.
We are strongly impressed with the
belief that our Northern Republican
fellow-citizens have some work to do
at home in tho way of suppressing
crime, political and othorwise. We
are engaged in the noble work of put
ting down the tendency to violence in
the South, but really tlieso continual
assassinations and lynchings and em
bezzlements in Northern States aro
very discouraging. Nevertheless, in
the South we will go ahead and secure
the law its.duo majesty, and make the
South a refuge for the law-abiding peo
ple of tlie orime-ridden North. Lifo is
becoming very insecure there. Even
tlio Philadelphia Press declares that
“everywhere we hear of murders, as
sassinatious, street fights and daring
burglaries. Where tho administration
Two centuries ago the Highlanders
of Scotland were very simple folks,
honest and trustful to their friends and
neighbors. To ask a note from a debt
or would have been an insult, equiva
lent to saying, “I doubt your honor.”
The method of transacting money mat
ters was as follows;
Tlie parties stepped into the air,
fixed their eyes on the heavens, and
eiich repeated his obligation with no
mortal witness. A mark was then
arved upon some rock or tree near by
:s a remembrance of the compact.
Such a tiling us a breach of contract
was rarely met with, so highly did tlio
people regard their honor.
When tlie march of improvement
brought tlie now mode of doing busi-
iness, they were often pained by tlieso
innovations. An anecdote is handed
down of a farmer who had been to tlie
Lowlands and learned worldly wisdom.
On returning to his native parish ho
had need of a sura of money, and made
bold to ask it of a gentleman of means
named Stewart; this was kindly grant
ed, and Mr. Stewart counted out the
gold. This done, tlie farmer wrote a
receipt and offered it to Mr. Stewart.
“What is this, man?” asked Mr.
Stewart, eyeing the slip of paper.
“It is a receipt, sir, binding me to
givo ye back yer gold at tlie right
time,” replied Sandy.
“Binding ye? Well, my man, if ye
eanna trust yersel, I’m sure I’ll no
trust ye. Yo eanna have my gold.”
And gathering it up he put it back
into his desk and turned the key on it.
“But, sir, I might die,” replied tlie
canny Scotchman, bringing up an ar
gument in favor of his new wisdom,
“and perhaps my sons may refuse it
yo; but the bit of paper will compel
them.”
“Compel them to sustain a dead fa
ther’s honor I” cried thoCelt. “They’ll
ueed compelling to do right, if this is
tlie road yo’re leading them. Ye can
gang elsewhere for money, but ye’ll
find mine in the parish that’ll put more
faith in a hit o’ paper than in a neigh
bor's word of honor, and his fear o’
God.”
Atrial package of “BLACK-DRAUGHT”
of justice is the most lax, there the
most crime prevails.” That is a sad
confession, made in an unguarded mo
ment by our most self-righteous con
temporary.
tremendous expenses of rent, salaries,
advertising and agencies. Any school
boy, who can do his sums in arithme
tic, could tell his daddy so; and tlie
home would he happier und better pro
vided for, if lie could persuade the “old
man” of tho fact.
But still the donkeys rush on to dump
their dollars into tlie lottery maw; tlie
home and the honest industries of the
country suffer; rich thieves become
richer, and poor workers poorer; and
when, once in a while, a man who has
been investing his monthly dollar for
ten years, happens to draw a ten dollar
prize, he rejoices—all his friends re
joice—tlie honesty of the lottery man
is proved!
And many more donkeys invest many
more dollars.
WIFE AND MOTHER.
Next to a klear konshience for solid
oumfort cuius an easy hoot. Try both.
Take “ BLACK-DRAUGHT” and you
will never be bilious.
For sale by T. S. Bradfleld.
NEW
COTTON
Tlie Aberdeen (Miss.) Examiner says:
Several times during the past four
years we have taken occasion to call
attention to the new process of cotton
planting so successfully pursued by
Mr. J. J. Crump, of this county. Tlio
result of this process was 1,300 pounds
of ginned cotton to the acre in 1877;
1,000 pounds in 1878, and this season
the prospects aro good for tho heaviest
yield it has had. For the benefit of
our readers and exchanges wo will
again give Mr. Crump’s formula.
Ho prepares his land in December
by digging holes threo feet from each
other, each eighteen inches deep; tho
holes he fills with manure to within
four inches of the top, and the remain
der of the way with the top soil. At
tho usual season he plants with a view
of having three stalks to the hill, and
piles the elay from the bottoms of tlio
lilts as deep over the tops as tho sup
ply will admit of, with a view to keep
ing down the grass, and then cultivates
with hand and hoe, never allowing a
plow to bo used. Tho preparation is
made in December in order to subduo
the fiery qualities of tho fertilizer, and
the holes when prepared will make at
least three crops without changing
their contents—tho second crop gen
erally being the best, and the first and
last about the same. This plan has
gotten beyond the sphere of experi
ment, and there is no longer necesssi-
ty for a man to scrape over a dozen
acres when he can make more cotion
-i-.. rt ..i«-i..„.u„— i-~ >' -
Women are perpetually exhorted to
make home comfortable. The wife
must greet her husband with a kiss,
for a cross word might scud him to a
billiard-room for entertainment and
relaxation. Of course baby has been
troublesome—babies always are; hut
then women have nothing else to do so
why should she complain if she does
have to hold him in her arms all day?
The mother must speak gently to chil
dren, no matter how aggravating they
may bo; and one’s own children are
sometimes a trifle annoying. And so
on. But what of men’s part in this
home-making? Oh! their duty in the
home is to “raise a breeze” in it. They
aro too pre-occupied, too impatient
mid thoughtless, and—it must be said
of some of them—too selfish to do their
fair share of that pre-eminently mil
lennial work, the creating of a happy
homo. The small duties of life are not
in their line.
They will fight for their homes, and
make slaves of themselves in their
business to maintain them, but, like
tlie proverbial man who would die for
a woman, but would never bring up a
scuttle of-coal, they can’t tell what
their children are studying at school,
who their mates aro, whut they are
learning of good or evil, nor scarcely
anything else that a father ought to
know concerning his offspring. It is
so sad a fact as to spoil the satire when
it is said that many a father finds Sun
days and holidays too few to enable
him to become acquainted with his
boys. A father cun contribute in many
ways to a happy homo lifo, for it takes
little to make children happy. Five
minutes’ romp with them renders
them happy for an hour. AVe scarcely
need say that a man should set tho ex
ample for tiic family in patience,cheer
fulness, courtesy, foibenrunce, and nil
the amiable moods and graces that are
the soul of home happiness. Tlio sort
of men who display ull their politeness
iu the street or at their business places,
and save the storms and sulks, and
sourness, and all the evil brood of
fiendish disposition that they charac
terize by tho convenient euphemism of
“moods”—well, they don’t deserve
home, wife, or children.
Ono of Charley De Young’s Experi
ences.
(From tlio New York Sun.)
Still another affray was at tlie mar
riage of Miss Friedlunder. It was iu
1808. Her father, Isaac Friedlunder,
had the control of all tho wheat ship
ments from San Francisco, an immense
monopoly. He was a very wealthy and
prominent citizen, and tlie wedding
was a swell affair. De Youuguttended
in his capacity of reporter without an
invitation, and Friedlunder caught him
making a list of the wedding presonts.
He asked De Y’oung to stop, but Char
ley didn’t seem to want to, and so
Friedlunder, who was a perfect giant,
six feet six inches in height, kicked him
out of the house, and kicked him very
calamitously, too,I believe. Aslonguf-
ter as Friedlunder lived, the Chronicle
attacked him bitterly. You know the
character of the Chronicle—given to
attacking people's private characters,
and prying into their private affairs.
But I must say this for Do Young, ho
is no coward. He is not afraid of any
thing or any man alive.
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This superb bowel corrective also
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stomach, and thousands who have for
years sought relief iu vain from Dys
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Costiveness, Heartburn, Palpitation of
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The Revolution in Naval Warfare.
(From tho Now York Tribune.)
AA'liat with big guns on little ships,
and submarine torpedoes exploded by
electricity, and the heaviest artillery
of tlie world’s armaments leveled from
invulnerable floating batteries, naval
warfare is fast bocomiug so scientific
as to be mere muchine work. Already
Trafalgar seems ns far in the wake as
Salamis, and the seamanship of Nel
son and Paul Jones is as old fashioned
as that of Theniistocles. Genial Cap
tain Marryatt with his midshipmen and
naval officers, his frigates and stern
chases, his broadsides and long toms,
his privateersmen, and pirates, and
prize-money, and marriages in the last
chapter, is in ono sense too old and in
another too young for the nurseries of
to-day. A few moro big bores and a
little more electricity, and a modern
war-ship will be as complex a machine
as the contrivance to whioh the elder
Mr. Easy devoted tho lucid intervals
of his later years.
Dr. Price’s Floral Riches.
This delightful Cologne water is re
ceiving much attention not only from
the ladles and gentlemen of refinement
and tusto, but from professional men
generally. It is so gratefully refresh
ing to tho Invalid, its odor is so ex
quisitely delicate und yet so rich and
persistent.
SHERIFF’S SALES.
GEORGIA, TROUP COUNTY.
Hola before tlio court house door, In
cash, on tho llrst Tuesday In October uext, tho
following Uoscribod property, to-wit:
Seventy-live acres of luhd, being a part of 118
acres of lot of land-number 30, iu the third dis
trict of said county, and boumled north by Flat
a 11. fa. Issued from tho Justtce Court of the 6'.)7th
District of said county, in favor of James 8. Wal-
Ponny S. Brower. FI. fa. now owned pnd
controlled l>y E. F. Walker, penny 8. Brewer,
tenant iu possession,notlllod In terms or the law.
Levy mndo and returned to ino by constable.
Property pointed out by Jumes 8. Walker.
W. G. B. MARTIN, Sheriff.
A CARD.
T O my friends and former patron# ot La-
Grunge, Troup and adjacent counties, it was
my pleasure to spend twenty years In your
midst, during which lime you bestowed u|*>u me
a liberal patronage, which was duly appreciated,
and for which I endeavored to give you a fair
and full roturn. You deemed me not unworthy of
your patronage when I was tho recipient of
health and prosperity. I am now ohalnod down
by relentless afflio Ion and destitute of the means
of support. I come now not to aslt you to givo to
me, but to solicit you to buy au article of me
which every family needs and which is worth
double what 1 ask for it. Go, each one Sf you.
tG T)r. d 1 . R ltPnfiHnlrl'a mill ITAI a bnltla Tito....i.
to Dr. T. 8. Brad Held's and get a bottle of PropU-
itta Magic Compound, take it home, give it a fair
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