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VOL. XVII.
COLUMBUS, GEORGIA, SUNDAY, APRIL 11, 1875.
TUB DBEAM'WORLD,
BY JOIN JAMBS MATT.
Dear, boautlfu', far land!
When nil these fo.it sore, sighing pilgrim
Leaving their burden and the restless wo
Of the fierce desert sand I
Thither all travel: there
Wander, tired kings, in glad content, uncrowned;
The slave, with all his bonds inbound,
Breathes Us unguarded air.
Thither go home at night
A1I hopeless axllei In this foreign mart
Finding the old ways re-opem d in each heart
Into forgotten light.
?iE
Therethnlost child is found:
;entloschool-boy, vanished from onr sight,
poor gay ball and fly your eager kite
In that o 1 *
t onchunted ground i
There, firm as in far yoars,
Are fallen heart temples, dear remembered homes;
Through vanished doors each face familiar comes
Smiling—we wake with tears I
now fkr, yet near, it eeems I
This dusty world strnck underfoot away
Ctroling lost euni, and sweet with happier day,
The holler sphere of dreams I
[Translated from the Fronch.]
THE DESERT OF ICE;
A JOURNEY TO THE NORTH POLE.
BY JULES VERNE.
CHAPTER XI.
FOOTPRINTS THAT CAUSE UNEASINESS.
Doting tbs night of April 26 to April
27 th. wasther changed. The tharmom-
tar. (all perceptibly and the tenants of
Doctor's-Honse became aware of the fact
by the cold which orept under their bed
oovering.
Alternant, who wot watching the stove
that night, waB careful not to let the fire
go ont, and he wee obliged to feed it with
00.I r.peetedly so ee to keep np the tem-
peratare in the house to fifty degrees
above aero.
This cold announced the end of tbe
storm and the Doctor rejoiced at it. The
tuasl employments would be resumed,
namely: hnntiDg, excursions, and recon-
nolsence of the neighboring oountry.
This wonld pat an end to this idle end
lonely way of living, during which tbe
beet dispositions develop sourness.
Tbe next morning, imrly, the Doctor
left bis bed and made a path for himself
across the oongealed snow whiob was
piled as high as tbe elevation on which
■tood (he light-house.
The wind bad veered round and was
now blowing from the north. The atmos
phere was clear, and the long white
reaches of snow offered a firm and assur
ed footing.
Soon all five of the companions had
left Doctor's-IIeuse. Their first cere ryaH
to disengage the houHe of tbe iey masses
which encumbered it. So covered was
the plateau with enow that it was impossi
ble to discover the vestiges of a dwelling.
Tbe enow.covoring tbe inequalities of the
rooks, bad reduced the plateau to a level,
and it lay at least fifteen feet in depth
everywhere.
Tbe first thing to bo done was to shov
el the snow away; then to give a more
arohiteotnral shape to the house, to touch
np its obstractod lines, end restore its
equilibrium. Nothing was easier to be
done, and after the removal of a few icy
heape, a few oats with tbe ice-knife
brought back tbe walla to their normal
thickness.
At the end of two boors of continued
work tbe surface of the granite beoame
visible, and acoess was obtained to tbe
provisions and ammunition.
Bat aa in so uncertain a climate tbe
same condition of affaire might again
prevail from one day to another, a new
supply of food was collected and oarried
to tbe kitchen.
Tbe need of fresh most was felt by ell,
irritated as tboir stomachs were by the
salty food they had been eating so long.
Tbe hunters, therefore, were called on to
go in seereh of game so as to enable
them to change their beating diet, and
they made their preparations to set ont.
Still, the end of April did not bring
with it tbe Polar spring. The hour of na
ture’s renewal of herself had not come
jet. At least six weeks must elapse be 1
fere that should occur. The rays of the
sun, still too weak, could not penetrate
those fields of snow and eanse the feeble
specimens of the Polar vegetation to
spring from tbe eoil.
There woe reason to fear also, that ani
mals—birds os wall as qnadrnpadn—
woalA prove rate. Still, a hare, a few
brace of ptarmigans (a bird of the gronse
family), end even a young fox were
brought down end figured on the table at
Doctor's-Honse; and tho hunters resolved
to bunt with inveterate zeal everything
that ehonld come within gunshot.
Tho Doctor, Altamont and Bell deter
mined to explore the country. To judge
by bis habits Altamont must have been an
indefatigable; and skilful bnnter, and
wonderful ebot, although somewhat boast'
ful of his peformsnces in that line. He
therefore farmed one of the party, as
also Doke, who wee invaluable in his way.
The three edventnrons companions as.
sanded by the easterly cone and pushed
their way across tbe immense white
plains. Bat they did not have to go for;
for nnmerons footprints of animals were
teen within less than two miles of the
fort; thence these animals seemad to
have desoanded as far as the coast of Vic-
tori. Bay, and by following this route
they appeared to enfold Fort Providence
In their eonoentrio circles.
After having followed these footprints
with ourioeity the hunters looked at each
othar. ,
“Well I” exclaimed the Doctor. “This
ctettiT dear to me.”
“Too dear,” replied Beil. “These are
the tracks of bean.”
“Excellent gome,” remarked Altamont,
“but which in this earn seems to me to be
objectionable on aeeonnt of a oerteia
quality.”
f “What quality?" asked tbe Doctor.
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“There it too much of it,” returned the
American.
“What do yon mean ?” aaked Bell.
“I mean that here are footprints of five
different bears; and five bears are almost
too many for five men!”
Are you certain of what you state?”
“Look and deoide for yourselves. Here
a footprint which does not resemble
this other one* The olaws of this one
are spread wider apart than the claws of
the other. Here is the step of a smaller
bear. Compare them all and you fill find
within a narrow circle the prints of five
animals.”
“There is no donbt of it,” said Bell,
after a careful examination.
‘Thenj” said the Doctor, “we muRt not
iudulge in aDy useless exhibition of conr-
age, bat, on the contrary, we must main*
tain|a close watoh. These animals at the
elose of a rigorous winter are in a famish
ed condition, and, therefore, they may be-
como extremely dangerous. Now as there
can bo no donbt as to their number—”
“Or even of their purpose," interrupt
ed the American.
“Do you think,” said the Doctor, “that
they have discovered our presence on this
coast ?”
“Undoubtedly, unless we have crossed
tho track of migratory bears. But if
that be the case why do these footprints
extend in a circular direction instead of
being lost to sight in the distance. Lis
ten. These bears have come from tho
southwest, have stopped here, and hero
thoy began their reconnaissance of tho
field.”
Yon are right,” observed the Doctor;
“and it is equally certain that they came
here only last night.”
“And other nights as well,” replied Al
tamont; “but tbe snow has hidden thoir
footprints.”
‘No,” said tbe Doctor, it is more likely
that they have awaited tbe end of (he
storm. Urged by hunger they came to
the coast of tho bay with the intention of
surprising a few Beals, and then was it
that they scented us.”
“That is it precisely,” answered Alta
mont. “Now, it would be easy to find
out whether they will return to-night.”
“How ?” asked Bell.
“By obliterating these tracks along a
portion of tbeir path. Should wo fiud
fresh tracks to-morrow, it will be very
evident Fort Providenoe is the destina
tion of theso animals.”
*A good idea,” said the Doctor. “By
this means we shall know, at all events,
what to expect.”
The three hunters set to work, and 1 y
scratching the snow they soon caused tho
footprints to disappear over a space of
about six hundred feet in length.
It is vory strange,” said Bell, “that
those animals should have been able to
smell us at such a distance. We have
burnt no greasy substance which might
have attracted them.”
‘Oh!” said the Doctor, “bears are
gifted with a keen vision and with a very
acute sense of smell. They are, besides,
very intelligent—not to say tbe most in
telligent of all animals—and they have
scented in this neighborhood something
to which thoy Aro not accustomed.
“Then, again,” said Bell, “who can say
but that, during tho storm, they may
have come to the platean?”
“Then,” replied the American, “why
would they have stopped last night at thin
diatancejfrom the platean itself?”
“Yes; there is no answering that,” ob
served the Doetor, “and we are foroed to
believe that by degrees they will narrow
the circle of their investigations around
Fort Providence.”
We shall see,” replied Altamont.
Now,” continued the Doctor, “let us
resume our mareb, and let ns keep a
bright look-out.”
The hunters watched attentively. There
was reason to fear that a bear might be
ambushed behind some hillook of ioo.
Often, even, they mistook the gigantic
oakes for animals, which they resembled
in hae and shape. But in the end, much
to their satisfaction, these alarms always
proved illusory.
They at last reached the ooast adjacent
to the cone, and from that point their
gRze wandered vainly from Gape Wash
ington as far as Johnson Island.
They saw notbiug. All was white,
motionless. Not a sound was hoard, not
the crunching of any footstep in the
snow.
They entered the house of ice. #
Hatter&s and Johnson were informed of
the situation of affairs, and it was resolv
ed that a most careful watch should be
maintained.
Night came; but nothing disturbed its
splendid quiet, nothing was heard which
might give token of coming danger.
At dawn tho next day Hatteras and his
companions, well armed, went to examine
the snow. They found tracks exactly
similar to those of the day before, but
nearer to the fort. Tho enemy was pre
paring his plans, evidently, for the seigo
of Fort Providence.
“They have begun their second paral
lel,” said the Doctor.
They have even made An advauce,”
returned Altamont. “See these steps
which tend towards tbe platean; thoy be
long to a powerful animal.”
“Yes, these bears are approaching us
by degrees. There is no donbt but that
their intontion is to attack ns,” said John
son.
“Thoio u no denying that fact," re
turned the Doctor. “We must endeavor
not to show ourselves. We are not nu
merous enough to combat them with suc
cess.”
“But where can these acoursed bears
be?” exclaimed Bell.
“Behind some ice cake or other from
which they are watching us. Let us not
expose ourselves imprudently.
“And how about the hunt?" asked Alta
mont.
“Let us postpone that for a few days,"
replied the Doctor. “Let us again rub
out the nearest tracks, and to-morrow
we shall see if they have been venewed
Iu that way wo may bo kept informed of
the movements of our enemies.”
The Doctor's advice was followed and
they returned to garrison themselves in
tho fort. Tho presenoe of these torrible
animals prevented everything like an ex
cursion.
They attentively watched the surround
ings of Victoria Bay. The lighthouse
was removed. There was no absolute use
for it, and it might attract the attention
of the bears. The Ian torn and the eloo-
trio wires were brought into the house;
and thou eaoh one in his turn went on
Watch on tho highest part of the plateau.
This was a new sort of lonely weariness
to undergo; but liow to do otherwise? In
so unequal a strife they eould not risk
their safely, and the life of each one of
them was too precious to put it in peril
imprudently. Should the bears see noth
ing, perhaps thoy oould be feretod out;
and if they could be seen singly during
excursions, thoy might bo attacked with
better chance of success.
This inaction, bowovor, was relieved by
a new soared of interest; thore was some
thing to look out for, and noue of them
regretted that ho was obliged to be some
what on the alert.
The day of the 28th of April passed
away without any sign of the presence of
tho enemies.
On the morning of tbe noxt day they
went out to examine the tracks with a
lively feeling of curiosity which was fol
lowed after they they had reached the
ground by exclamations of surprise.
“Goodl” cried Altamont, “the boars
have become disheartened 1 They lacked
perse verence. Tired of waiting, they
hive taken their departure 1 Good luck
to them 1 And now to the hunt 1”
Iu fact there was not a single footprint
to be seen, and as far as the vision
qould reach the snow lay intact and un
broken.
“Who can toll whether this bo so or
not ?’’ observed the Doctor, in respousc
to Altamont. “Iu order to make assur
ance doubly sure, my friends, I advise
that we watch another day at leaRt. It
is certain that the enemy did not return
last night—at least not on this side."
“Let us make the circle of the plateau,"
said Altamont, “and we shall know better
about the fflots of the case. ”
“Willingly,” said the Doctor.
But although they carefully wont over
the space within a radius of two mileR
from tho fort, they saw not the faintest
sign to show that tho anmiHls had been
thore.
“Well, are we going to hunt?" asked
the impatient American.
“Let hr wait until to-morrow,” return
ed tho Dootor.
“Until to-inorow, then,” said Altamont,
who found it hard to re-sign himself to tbo
delay.
They returned to the fort; but, ns on
the night before, each one was obliged for
one hour to resume his post of observa
tion.
When Altamont’s turn camo he wont
to relieve Bell at tho summit of the
cone.
As soon as Altamont had gone ont, Ilat-
teras called his companions around him.
Tho Dootor left his note-book and John
son his stories.
It might have Boomed that Hatteras
was about to speak of the dangers of the
situation; but he was not thinking of
thorn even.
“My friends,” ho said, “lot ns take ad
vantage of this American’s* scheme to
speak of our affuirs. There are matters
to be discussed which cannot concern
him, and in which I do not wish him to
interfere.”
The Captain’s companions looked at
dfccli other, not understanding tho drift of
his remark.
“I want to come to some conclusion
with you regarding our future course,
he said.
“Well, well,” said the Dootor; “lot ns
speak nhput theso things since we are
alone.”
“In one month,” resumed Hat; eras,
in six weeks at tho farthest, tho period
for long excursions will have come. Have
yon thought of what undertakings we
should enter on during tbe summer?”
“And you, Cuptain?" asked Johnson.
; “I can truly say,” replied tho Captain,
“that not an hour of my life passes away
without a thought being given to this
subjeot. My idea is ever present to me.
Not one of you, I apprehend, has the in*
tontion of retracing your steps ?"
This insinuating speech received no
immediate answer from the others.
As for me,” continued Iiotteras, “I
shall go as far as the North Pole even
though I shall have to go alone. We are
three hundred and sixty miles from it at
tho farthest. Never have men gono so
closely to this covetod goal, end I will not
lose such an opportunity without having
attempted everything—even the impossi
ble. What aro your purposes iu this
matter ?”
“Yours,” exclaimed the Doctor with
warmth.
‘And wbnt aro yours, Johnson?”
“I think as the Doctor does,” replied
tbe boatswain.
“What say yon, Bell ?" said Hatteras.
“Captain,” replied the carpenter, “we
have no families awaiting tm in England,
it is true; but there is our country—our
eonntry that we long to see! Do you
novor think of returning to it?”
“We can return just as well after the
discovery of the Pole," said the Captain.
'Better even. Tho difficulties will not
have increased in the meantime: for in
ascending northward wo leave the coldest
portion of the globe behind us. We have
food and fuel to last us for a long time
yet. Nothing, therefore, can check us in
the attempt, and we should be doing our
selves injustice not to go on to the end.”
“Well,” replied Boll, “we are all of
your opinion, Captain.”
“Good,” exclaimed Hatteras. “I have
never doubted you. We shall succeed,
my friends, |and to England shall be all
the glory of success."
“But there is an American among us,”
said Johnson.
Hatteras eould not restrain an angry ges
ture at this remark.
“I know it,” he said, speaking in a se
rious tone.
* “We cannot abandon him here,” ob-
served the Dootor.
“No, we cannot,” meobanioally replied
Hatteras.
“And he surely will go along with ns!"
“Yes 1 he will go! But who will com
mand?"
“You, Captain.”
“And if yoaobey me will this Ameri
can refuse to obey ?"
“I do not think so,” replied Johnson.
“But in ease he should refuse to submit
to your orders?’
“Then it wll be a matter for him and
me to settle.”
The three Englishmen were silent as
they looked at Hatteras. The Dootor re
sumed the conversation.
“Will we travel ?” he said.
“We will follow the coast as far as
practicable," returned Hatteras.
“But if, as probable, we should reach
an open sea?”
“Well, we will cross it."
* ‘How? We have no boat. ”
Hatteras, evidently embarassed, made
no reply.
“We might build a launch with the do
bris of the Porpoise,” suggested Bell.
“Never 1” cried Hatteras angrily.
“Never I” said Johnson.
The Dootor shook his head; he under
stood the Captain’s repugnance.
“Never 1” repeated Hatteras. “A
launch made from the wood of an Ameri
can ship would be American!”
“But, Captain,” urged Johnson.
The Doetor motioued to the old boat
swain not to insist at this time.
This question must be reserved for a
more opportune moment. While tho
Dootor nnderstood the Captain’s preju
dice ia the matter he did not share it.,
and ho resolved in his own mind to in
duce his friend to withdraw from so ab
solute a decision.
He therefore spoke of other things—
of tho possibility of ascending the coast
directly as far as the north, and of that
unknown spot on the globe which is called
the North Pole.
To sum up, he changed the dangerous
subjects of discourse into harmless themes
up to tbe moment when the conversation
was suddonly put an end to by tho en
trance of Altamont.
The latter had nothing new to impart
to thorn.
Thus passed the day, and the night was
unattended with any troublo. The bears
evidently had disappeared.
[to be continued.]
PRESSING*.
—A man may buy gold too dear.
—Kistori began ns a commedienne.
—The speller who deliberates is lost.
—Etnmc.rson will lecture again this
HOiiBOU.
—An honest man’s word is as good as
his bond.
—An hour in tha morning Is worth two
in the afternoon.
Coal was first used in Pennsylvania in
1770.
—The Harvard Sophomores are to play
tho Yale Sopohmoros a football match at
New Huvan soon.
—The criminal proseoution of the Tieh
borne claimant cost the British Govern
rnont sixty thousand pounds.
—An entire family in Harrison, Ohio,
has boon made iusane by a stroke of
lightning which hit their house.
—In Minnesota, reoently, it is said, 800
locust eggs were found in a single peck
of earth.
—Prince Bluoher, son of the celebrated
field marshal, died on March 8 at Bad-
nan. He was seventy-eight years of age.
—Russia having exhausted her forests,
is looking to the coal beds of Western
China for fuel, coal being the greatest
want of that immense country.
—A grave digger in {rreston, England,
was engulfed and smothered to death
while excavating a tomb, thus literally
digging his own grave.
—A railway is being constructed across
the Abruzzi to connect ths Mediterranean
and Adriatio. Tbe portion from Pescara
to Huluiona is already finished.
—Gold has been discovered in paying
quantities at tbe Notch in tho White
Mountains, in what is known as the
Frankenstein cliff.”
-Harvard wants to get np a spelling-
match between fifty or sixty students and
as many girls from the Cambridge High
School.
—Pufry, tho whimsical clergyman of
Worcester, will charge an admission fee
at his church hereattor. Adults ten cents
—children half prico.
—Tho oyster beds along the Shrewsbu
ry River, near Long Branch, have been
seriously damaged by tbe cold weather of
the past winter.
—A Chicago deputy sheriff was refused
free admission to a Chicago theatre. By
way of revengo be empanneled the man
ger on a petit jury.
—Count Lifuon&de was among those
who perished in the flames at the Port-
au-Prince fire. It was too tight a squeeze
for him to escape.
—A Troy bigamist ran out of a back
door while his two wives were ifighting
over tho question as to whiob should have
him, and has not since been seen.
—Duels between the students have been
prohibited by the authorities of Jena
University, in consequence of two stu
dents having been killed in that way just
before Christines.
—An Albany boarding bonse mistress
has discouraged the practice of changing
among boarders by throwing vitriol oil on
one who proposed to leave her establish
ment.
—Hopes and anohora aro often lost.
—The wife is tho key of the house.
—Lies have long legs but weak backs.
—Few aro fools always, all sometimes.
—A leading Pittsburg belle went down
on “fundamental.”
—Authors meat to be read—Bacon and
Lamb.
As twice eleven is twenty-two, how
can twice ten be twenty too?
In trying to fight down his sorrows a
man should always strike one of his .own
sighs.
—“Hauteur” and “castauet”, spoiled
Bloomington, 111., down lately, exoept
Mrs. Shackleford.
“Is that your child?” asked a police
man of a youug girl. “No, it belongs to
some mother woman," was tho reply.
Happily, the spring oan by no possi
bility be postponed on aeoount of tho
inolemoncy of tho weather, and wo may
) happy yet.
—The restaurant waiter who brought a
guest pork oh ops by mistake for a beef
steak, is supposed to have been mentally
beef-hogged.
—It has been discovered after much
labor and research that the mummies of
Egypt are all that is left of some of tho
“limt families."
—“The Lord never meant for ns to
bilo over with religion this cold weather,”
said a Duluth deacon ns ho dismissed
church and went home to hug tho stove.
—Amos Clark, of Tennessee, upon his
death-bed expressed a wish thut twelve
fiddlers should stand around his grave
and play “Old Dog Tray.” The widow
Clark saw it done.
—In tbe town of San Antonio, Texas,
wood has been so scarce this winter that a
aiugle f tee dm an has paid fifteou dollars to
have the bird-shot picked out of his legs
by the dootor.
—A man who boards with a high-tem
pered landlady, who does not keep a very
good table, says “it is passion week in
the parlor, and lent in the kitchen all
year round.”
—Tbo Chicago Journal says that Hhar-
on has two daughters, and that he will
give each oue a million dollars ns a bridal
present. Pleasant news, that, for a mar
ried man.
—“G« away! Leavo mo with my doad!
Let me fling myself on his ooflin and die
there!” That was iu Nebraska six mouths
ago, and now the widow has won another
trusting soul, and number one’s portrait is
iu the attic, face to the wall.
—\f o can point you out n Michigan
woman who rofusod to go to a festival he w
cause she wanted to darn her husband’s
socks. A similar case was heard of in
New York State some fifty years ago, but
was not well authenticated,
—A lettor carrier in Montreal stole Hix
dollars from a letter, and usod tho money
to insure himself in one of those compa
nies that guarantee the honosty of their
policy-holders iu responsible positions.
—Here is an instance of Scotch thrift.
A man sent to jail for larcony was per
mitted to write to his wife, and this is
what ho wrote: “Daar Wife—If they keep
me in jail, make them keep you in tho
poor home.”
—A Promising Pupil according to
Punch : Mistress — “How does your
brother get on in New York, Parker ?"
Lady's Maid—“Very welt indeed, ma’am,
thank you. He’s been there tlireo months
and he's already beginning to speak the
language beautiful.”
—Here is Helen Cr.tker, of Sank coun
ty, who sues tho Chicago and Northwest
ern Railroad Company for damages be
cause oue of their conductors “smacked"
her lips while ridiug on a train. The
case is now on trial in tho Supreme
Court, whero it was taken on appeal from
tbe Sauk county court.
—A young lady hurriedly entered
oountry post-office tho other morning and
breathlessly asked for the letter she had
dropped into the box half an hour before.
Tho lottor was written to her dear friend
Julia, describing the latest sociable, and
she had for once forgotton to write
baste” iu the corner of the envelope.
Judge Perrin of Falmouth, Kentucky,
performed a marriage corem my for Clay
AsUtou and his sweetheart. A week later
the husband railed again. “Ob, I see,’
said the Judgo, “you have come aftor tbe
certificate.” “Ob, you don’t see,” was
tho reply; “I haven't como after tho cer
tificate. What I want is a divorce.”
—A Pleasant Prospect: Traveler in Ire-
land—“Hi—pull up, man. Don’t you see
the mare running uw..y?” Paddy: “Honld
tight, yer ’ouor. For yer lifo don’t touch
the reins—sure they’re as rotten as pears.
I’ll turn her head into tho river at tho
bridge below Lore. Bure that'll stop hor,
tho blagyard.”
—Mrs. Lucy Hooper tells tho following
story from Paris : “Christian, who lately
played Jupiter iu ‘Orphoo,’ was talking
one day with a stupid fellow who was
boring him to extinction with a long dis
course upon natural bintory. ‘Even
tors are p'lH^ossed of reohou,’ wonnd up
the bore. ‘Yes,’ gaspod the exhausted
actor, ‘I am sure of that; they know how
to shut their mouths.’ ”
Resttiera Slates.
The Southern States ombrnos an area
of nearly 1,000,000 square miles, or mors
than 600,000,000 acres, with a population
of about 15,000,000. The natural capa
bilities of this section surpass those of
any other lend beneath the ran, while
their prodnotlve results are of vital Im
portance to the oommorce of the World,
the annual oottou produet reaching 4,000,-
000 bales and bringing a revenue of
nearly $300,000,000; while the rioh agri
cultural products, timber end navel stores
contribute in no small measure to the
general wealth. To these sonrees of rev
enue may be eddad the mineral re
sources of the country, now being de
veloped. The suooess and economy with
which this work is being oarried forward
will be conceded, when it is known that
pig iron is actually being made in Ten
nessee, at less than $15 per ton.
But the development of this section is
hardly begun. It is said that the State of
Mississippi alone, if her soil wsrs proper
ly and entirely tilled, wonld bring forth
an amount of ootton equal to the present
eutire annual product.
And sorely the aggregate mining inter
est of tha whole seotion oould find ample
scope in about any ono of the rioh mine
ral States we oould name.
If to-day this seotion, still bearing the
soars of war, is able to contribute ao
hoavy a {share to the prosperity of tho
nation and of the world, it is not possible
to measure ^ the magnitude of her pro
ducts a few years henoe, when the hand
of man shall bring her resources to the
light. The Southern States are destined
to be the seat of a great population, of
vast industries and of untold wealth.
Lawyers.
UOMKL C. LEVY, II.
Attsraejr and Counsellor nt Low.
OommlMtonsr of Doe.la N. Y. And other Suite*.
UOnoret liver.U Hum. ili.uniuue Oo.
Sp.ol.1 AU.nUon rW«r to cotlvcUon,.
SAMUEL B. HATCHER.
Attorn., at Law.
one. over Wlttieh k Klns.1'
—Konger aaooeeded in obtaining pho
tographic proof, of tha ann and moon no
Iokr than nine feet two luehenin diame
ter. He ueed a concave mirror instead of
the ordinary object glam.
—A. an illustration of tha epeed at
which the eleotrio current travels, ■ men-
Hago aent from the observatory of Har
vard College direct to San Franoiaoo and
back by way of Canada,over thirteen rail'
ways, occupied only two-thirda of • aae-
ond.
Del Groeo recotnmenda, in oaaaa of
cauterisation—after plying nitrate of sil
ver in the nanal manner—the paaaege of
n email cylinder or pencil of poliBhed
zino several time, over the enrface al
ready whitened by the oanstio. Tho
parte immediately blacken, and tbe oan-
terizing notion beoomea deeper.
—The objection whioh many peroona
nrge ngainet neing tincture of iodine on
the skin in, that the stain la ineradicable,
except after considerable time. “If •
few drop, of oarbolio acid ba added to tha
tinoture. ” saye a medical correspondent,
“it will not stain; moreover, the tinotnre
itself ia more effleaoious."
A beautiful end easily produced ex
hibition of crystal formation may beaean
under the miorosoope, as follows: Upon •
slip of glass place a drop of liquid chlo
ride of gold, or nitrato of silver, with e
particle of zino in the gold end ooppet in
tbe silver. A growth of exqnisite gold
or ailver ferns will apring np under the
observer's delighted eye.
—Profeasor Dove boa published an ar
ticle on cool MayB after e mild January,
in whioh he confirms tbe popular imprsa-
aion that a mild winter is followed by a
cool spring. The rale ia not general,
however, for he finds that e mild Jannary
ia followed by a mild Hay in the interior
of continents, by a cool May in tbe north
and east coasts, and by a milder Hay thSD
usual on tbe Atlantio coast, in Europe.
—Australia seems to be even more fa
tal to ciplorers than Africa. It has bean
ascertained that Hama, who, with two
otbera, went to the rescue of CUaaan, e
supposed survivor of the Leichardt ex
ploring expedition, has perished from
lack of water only fifty, miles from tbe
Wilson river. Another of the party U
supposed to be dead, but tha third ano-
ceeded in reaching the river.
—Uravtoralla selwynii appears to ba
tha first fossil star-fish found in Australia.
These star-fl.bes, like many other Aus
tralian fossils, are almost identical with
British types. There is no more remerk-
able fact in the history and distribution
—A oolored man in Han Antonio, Tox.
as, (whore wood is scaroe), asked a broth-
er freedman lately if he had mfived. “No,
I'se still in de old plane,” wee tbe answer,
“lint 1 war told d»t yon war gwine to git
ont ob de neighborhood," continued the
first. “Wail, I did makd*np my mind to,
bat you see de family next door, and de
family on de oorncr, and de family 'cross
de street, have all left dero wood piles
oat doors/and I doesn’t deairo to ohange, ”
Britain aud Anatralia, antipodal to each
other; universality might almost be ap
plied through Homotaxis to tbe geograph
ical distribution of tbo several formations
which comprise tbe periods even strati-
gouera, and with many representative
and sumo even identical spooies between
tho two countries.
suggested by A. Jukscb, of Bohemia, af-
two dogrees Fahrenhoit. A glai
12 to 1C inches long, in psssed through
a good fitting cork, so as to dip nearly
then ready to be graduated.
to be Fahrenheit’s. It is next piaoad in
warm water, aay 182 degrsM, and this
point marked. The apaos between Umm
points ia divided into 100 equal parts,and
this division oarried down to the Fahren
heit aero, and upward to tha tuba*.
A* A. DOZIER,
Attorney sad Counsellor nt Iaw,
Practices In State and Federal Courts in Goorgia
and Alabama.
Office 1JB Broad 11., Columbus, Os. jnfl
Rare n. Blardvosd. Ldbis r. Uarkaud.
MLAMDrORD A GARRARD,
Attorneys and Connaellsrs nt Law.
Offloe No. «7 Broad street, over Wlttieh k Kin-
sek'e Jewelry Store.
WHI ^practloe in the State and Federal Courts.
I*. T. DOWNING,
Attorney nnd Solicitor.
fi. 8. Com'r and Register In Bankruptcy. Office
novtOI over Brooks' Bruy Btore, tJoiiimbus, la.
R. J. ROB EM,
Attorney nnd Oonnnollor nt Law ,
dsorsia Horae Iueurauce Company building, s «>
octi lyj oud etory.
Grocers.
DAN*I* R. R1ZK,
Dealer in family Uroceriee. ou Bryan street, be
tween Oglethorpe A Jechsou streets.
A#* No charge for dmyage. d.ic7
J. U. HAMILTON,
Wknlcunle nnd Met* 11 Grocer,
Juaotlonof franklin, Warren k Oglethorpe Kte.
No charge for drayaae. 'ho|*14
Watchmakers.
Oa H. LKUU1M,
Watchmaker,
ltd Broad street, Ooluinhus, Qa.
Watches and Clocks repaired m the best man
ner and warranted. jull
Tin and Coppersmiths.
Wl. FEE,
Worker In Tin, Mheot Iron, tuppor.
Orders from abroad promptly attended to.
ta7 No. 174. Ilroad Sir.fl
Dentists.
W. F. 7'iUMlblt,
Dentist,
Opposite Strapper's building, Randolph St.
Special attention given to tho inttertiou of Arti
ficial Teeth, as welft* to Operative iieuiistry.
feb'J'J daw
COLVNBUM DENTAL ROOMS,
W.T. Pool, Prop’r,
Georgia Homs Uulldtng, Uoluwtm- Georgia.
Tailors.
O. A. KUtUNJC,
Merchant Tailor nnd Gutter.
A full stock of 1' rencli and English llroiidclottiN
liu .iinjures aud Vestings,
aprlfl No. 1J4 Ilroad Street
HJCNKV BELLMAN.
Gutting, Cleaning aud Repairing
Done In the best st> io.
epr'44) tJorner Crawford nml Front Sts.
Dress-Making.
■IU H. A. HOl.LINUHWUKTII,
Dress-Making, Cutting and Ittiug. Terms cheap
Residence andshop ia Brownsville.
novlfi
Plano Tuning, Ac.
K. W. BLAU,
Repairer aud Tuner of i’iauoes, Organs mud
Accordeous. Sign 1'uiuting also done.
Older* may be be left at J. W. Pease A Nm-puui'.
Book Store. N«t>0
Cun and Locksmiths.
PHILIP EIPLEM,
Gun and Lockswith, Crawford street, next to
Jobnoon's oornor, Columbus, On. Ju«
WILLIAM BOttOBEtt,
Gun aad Locksmith aud dealer in Guuning Mo
^ ^ terlals. East of fltrupper'a Confectionary
Fresh Meats.
J. W. PATRICK,
Stalls No. M Rod IS, Market Houoo.
Fresh Masts of every klud nnd best .joality,
Jail always on baud.
J. T. COOK,
rresb Keats of All Hludn,
sepd t*tails Nos. 16 and 17.
Barber Shops.
ALEX A SAM,
Jat Bassess, It. Claim .Strut.
■D. TERRY, Barber,
Crawford fit., under Rankin Route, Columbus, Ga.
dec IS
Builders and Architects.
J. U. CUALMEUb,
Usbn Carpeater aad Builder.
Jobbing done at short notice.
Plane and epocificatioas furnished for nil style*
of buildiufs
Broad Street, next to G. W. Urn’vn’t*,
la* tlnlmphiis. Ga.
Livery and Sale Stables.
ROBERT THOMPSON,
Livery, Bale end Cxehsnge Msbles
OoLBTnosrs, North or Randolph firs.,
ectSO Columbus. G»
Painters.
WM. SNOW, JK.» * GO.,
House end Sign Painters,
Old Oglethorpe corner, (just north of postoffice
Columbus, Georgia.
Will contract for House and 8ign Painting h»
reasonable prices, and guarantee satisfuctioii.
Refer to Win. Himw. Hr. I :iprfi
Tobacco, Cigars, Ac.
MAIER DORN.
If yoo want to enjoy a good smoke, go ti lilt
Cigar Manufactory,
Between Georgia Home and Muscogee He me.
Cotton Factories.
COLUMBUS MANUVAOTUUINn CO.,
Mnunfacturore of
Sheetings, Shirtings, end Sewing Hurt
Knitting Thread.
Cards Wool and Grinds Wheat and Corn*
Offloe In rear of Wlttieh k Kiuscl’s, Randolph st
Ja18 R- II. OIIILTOV. President.
MUSCOGEE MANUFACTURING CO.
Manulhetmren of
8HBBTIMG0, SHIRTINGS,
TARN, ROPK, Be.
OOLUMOU8, GA.
0. f. SWIFT, President.
W. A. SWIFT, Secretary k Troasurnr. octal ly
Doctors.
Boots and Shoes, tasttar ami VMMita
and oamlUll
(live
by mall
Hides.
rMraTsarjRfts
N. H-PlMterara' Hair always jphMi.
OPELIKA DIRECTORY.
Doctors.
DR. JAS. T. WABMOOK,
Surgeon ud Fh|sWM«
Office st Slaughter's Drug ftors, ]
Hotels.
HINES D0ZIXB,
Attorney at Law,
HAHILTM, SA.
W ILL practice la th. Ch.ttrta.sha. Cum
or .>JY whore .lie. All Mad WmttaSifwW,
Pj-AVINtt EXTENSIVELY BJCFUB-
nlshed my offloe with naw material, I am
better preparad than to da ovary da
icrlptlon of work dMlnd by
Merchants,’
Corporations,
Societies,
Railroads,
«r SI
And the Public Generalise
adaim mua
B > to Opelika, b> ran to Mop at th.
once, oppo.lt. bmiffr DqpM.
LAWYRRS.
i *w»x.” amrl* tt
JOB priwtiKB.
GILBERT'S
PRINTING OFFICE
BOOK BINDERY.
An examination of Prtoea u4 Sloth Is Mflfc-
«d, guaranteeing Good and Reliable Work
manship, with Promptness.
Georgia and Alabama Lai
Of every description on hand, •
short notice.
Railroad Raoaipt Books
For the different Roods, of various slici, al
ways on hand, and alio mods to order el abort
notice.
In sot, tho establishment Is <
facilities ample to do every description of work*
from a Visiting Card to a % Poster, and ffftm o
liecelpt Book to » Boy si Lodger, Of n Inigo
Ltuarto Volume.
IN THE DEPARTMENT Of
BOOK BINDING,
Many addition! hav. hem auAa dialog tha
paatMaeon, and It la now vary !nmpiata, aa*
work In that Una aaaact ba surpass* ftrtafch
and durability.
Having an irnmani. quantity aa* inn aa
■ortmeot at Type, tun Pnascs raa by Maam
Power, and on. or tbo moat .xt.aiivl Itmhr of
Paper, Bill end Bettor Head!, tJarda, Taga, ha,
ever brought to Oolumbur, no datay ma llaur,
or •ittl. faction rail to ba *lvm,-h«Ul IB Prim
and Quality of Work.
Remember tha plaoa,
(Oppoilto Naw Poatomm BalMiag)
Handolph Htreet,
My Oountry Frimdr and Patraas
remember tha abovs, and toad that!
wOftam
offiamta
(Mumble
MILLINERY.
1875. NEW MILLINERY. 1875.
MRS. LEE
Milllnary aa* Fancy
Ladlos% nines mm
hath—TifUnme* aa*CabiamH*|
Fine French and Amarlean tm
FLOWERS, HOMIEST,
OI.OVER,[CORSET*. HAIR
BRAIDS mod JEWBUBT.
ALSO,
A large .took of TBIMMINO aad BASH
ltl HUON—every shade and quality: as* many
bo sold at the ykby lowrst CASH
OR AND OPENING OF
Pattern
Hats and Bonnets,
FRIDAY and MATUBDAY. A|lU MR
aad 1Mb
ap7tf
MILLINERY.
aa. a». b. uw.
Ofles eerier Brood sod lUodolpb streets, Burros'
betiding.
Bestdsoes or VRSjflli, three doors below fit. Clair.
i*
AyvURMHI.
umrrmr print
•: ’ '
ITS DEPARTMENTS, ~
part of UATS, BONNETS,
FLOWERS, LACES, GLOVES,
Real and Imitation Heir,
usually kept In a FIRS
EKY ESTABLISHMENT,
competition,
<leo20 tf end Midis
Ban Away,
S ~1 the realdeflCe of.
km. Al*
ISVILLl
eery stout built, *