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YOL. XVII.
COLUMBUS, GEORGIA, SUNDAY, JUNE 20, 1875.
LESSONS TAUGHT BY LITTLE
THINGS,
Bfoiuse tlieir work indifferent neotns,
Though it is useful ton;
Yet uotwidow was «vor struck
That made the anvil ring,
A penny, trifle though it bo,
The smallest of all coin,
Becomes the vary heart of wealth
Win n it and others join;
So little streams that from the hills
Come laughing in their gl**o,
When they flow down the rocky shore
Hxpand into a s
K’eu from the simplo seed which ranks
Among (lie smallest thiuys,
And st ems a lifeless particle,
The richest harvest springs;
And effort, howsoever small,
If iihofnl and combined,
Shall build the grandest inonutoonts
E’er raised by baud and mind.
Look at the granite corner-stone
In its deep solitude;
Alone it does not seoin to ho
With mighty power imbued !
a is laid,
Tho towering columns rise,
’Till stands a temple beautiful
llevoulcd against the skies.
Thou lot us value ovory act,
However email, wo do,
Anti pleasure it by usefulness,
> which it n
For he has wisdom learned who knows
The fruit that labor brings,
Whoowus the wondrous potency
[Translated from tho French.]
THE DESERT OF ICE;
A JOURNEY TO THE NORTH POLE.
BY JULES VERNE.
CHAPTER XXII.
THE APrROACIIF.8 TO THE POLE.
Amid this uncertainty time passed.
Nothing showed itself in this circumfer
ence so clearly outlined. There was no
spot which was not either sea or sky. On
the tops of the waves there was not even
a vestige of those laud plants which
caused the heart of Christopher Colum
bus to thrill as he sailed to the disoovery
of America.
Hattoras still looked before him and
on either side of him.
At last, toward six o’clock in the even
ing, a vapor of doubtful shape, but of
elevated position, appeared above the
lovel of the sea. It resembled a smoky
plume. Tho sky was perfectly serene,
therefore it could not havo been a cloud.
Sometimoa it disappeared for a mowont,
and theu reappeared, as if agitated.
Uatturas was tho first to notice this
phenomenon. The doubtful point, this
inexplicable vapor, ho inclosed within
the spaco of his glass, and for an hour
longer ho examined it without relaxing
from his gaze.
Suddenly a sure sign, apparently, mot
his look, for he stretched his arm towards
the horizon, and with a loud voice cried:
“Land! land!”
At these words each one rose to his
feet, moved by an clectrio thrill. A kind
of smoke plainly rose above tho sea.
“I see! I see!” cried the Doctor.
“Yes! Certainly!” exclaimed Johnson.
“It is a cloud!” said Aitamont.
“Land! land!” replied Hatteras, speak
ing in a tone of steady conviction.
The fire navigators examined the dis
tant object with the closest attention.
But as it often occurs with objects
where distance renders thorn iudistinot,
the point noticed seemed to havo disap
peared. At last their gaze caught it
again, and the Doctor even thought that
he detected a rapid light twenty or
twenty-five miles to the north.
“It is a volcano!” he cried.
“A volcano?" exclaimed Aitamont.
* ‘Undoubtedly.”
“In so high a latitude?”
“And why ’.not?” replied the Doctor.
“Is not Iceland a volcanic country and,
so to speak, composed of volcauoos?”
“Yes, Iceland,” returned tho American
“but so near the Pole?”
“Well, did not our illustrious country
man, Commodore James lioss of the
Erebus and the Terror, ostabiish tho
existence on the Southern Continent of
two tlro-belohing mountains in full erup
tion, in seventy degroes of longitude and
seventy-eight degrees of latitude? Why
then should not voloanoes exist at the
North Pole?”
“True, that is possible,” repliod the
American.
“Ah!” cried tho Doctor. “I soe it dis
tinctly. It is a volcano!”
“Well!” exclaimed Hatteras, “let us go
straight to it!”
“A head wind is blowing,” said John
son.
“Spread the foresail and forward.”
But this manoeuvre resulted in increas-
ing the distance between the launch and
the poiut observed, and tho most atten
tivo scrutiny could not discern it again.
Still there could be no doubt of the
proximity of tho coast. There lay tho
end of the voyage of which they had
a glimpse if they had not yet attained it,
and doubtless before twenty-four hours
should elapse this new soil would be trod
by a human foot. Providence, after hav
ing permitted them to approach so near,
would not prevent these brave sailors
from making a landing.
Nevertheless, under the existing cir
cumstances, no one exhibited the joy
which suoh a discovery should havo pro
duced. Each one retired within himself
and asked himself what might bo this
land of iho Pole? Tho animals seemed
to ilee from it; at tho evening hour the
birds, instead of seeking a shelter there,
flew southward. Was it then so inhospi
table that a sea-gull or a ptarmigan could
not find refuge on it? The fish them-
Belvos, the great cetaceans, fled this coast
through the transparent waters. Whence
came this sentiment of repulsion, if not
of terror, common to all the animate be
ings that inhabited this part of the globe?
The navigators yielded to the prevail
ing sentiment. They allowed themselves
to be gnided by tho spirit of the situa
tion and, by degrees, each one felt sleep
weighing down bis eyelids.
It was Hatteras’ tnrn to watch. He
seized the tiller; the Doctor, ;Altainont,
Johnson and Bell, stretched on the seats,
fell asleep one after the other, and they
were soon plunged in the world of
dreams.
Hatteras endeavored to resist this in
clination to sleep. Ho did not wish to
lose any of his precious time, but the
slow movement of the launch insensibly
rocked him, and in spite dY hiraseif ho
yielded to an irresistible impulse to
sleep.
Nevertheless the vessel scarcely moved,
as the wind waa not strong enough to
swell its flipping sail. Far away a few
motionless blocks of ico in tho west ro-
fleotod the luminous rays and formed iu-
oandesoent sheets on the surface of tho
ocean.
Hatteras began to droam. His rapid
thoughts wandorod over all the events of
his life. He recalled them with that
swiftness peculiar to dreams, which no
savant has beeu able yot to calculate. Ho
went back to his past days. Once again
he saw his winter quarters, Victoria Bay,
Fort Providenoe, Doctor’s-House, the
meeting with tho American in tho ice.;
Then the dreamer’s imagination went
back to a more distant period; ho saw
himself leaving Eugland, and ho recalled
his former voyages,his abortive attempts,
his misfortunes. Then he forgot his
present situation, his approaching sue
cess, his hopes half realized. His dream
plunged from joy into agony.
Thus passed away two hours. Finally
his thoughts wandered into a new chan
nel. They carried h/iu with them to
wards the Pole. Ho at last saw himself
stepping on this English continent and
unfurling tho flag of the United King
dom.
While he thus slept an enormous olive
colored cloud rose above tho horizon and
cast its shadow on tho ocean.
One cannot imagine with what dread
ful rapidity tempests break over tho Arc
tic seas. Tho vapors engendered in tho
equatorial countries are condensed above
the immense glaciers of the north, caus
ing masses of air to replace them with
irresistible violence. Thus can be ex
plained the violence of the northern
tempests.
At the first shock of the wind the Cap
tain and his companions were aroused
from their sleep, and set to work to uin-
noonvre the boat.
The sea rose in high billows, ^slightly
developed at their base. The launch,
lifted by the swell of the sea, plunged
into deep gulfs or oscillated on the crest
of a sharp wave, inolining at an angle of
more than forty-five degrees.
Hatteras had taken with a firm hand
the tiller, whioh moved noisily in the top
of the rudder. At times this tiller, as
the rudder was violently caught in the
trough of the sea, pushed him and bent
him backward, in spite of himself. John
son and Bell employed themselves con
stantly in bailing out tho water which the
launch shipped in its plungos.
“This is a tempest on which wo did not
count,” said Aitamont, clinging to his
seat.
Wo must expect everything here,”
repled the Doctor.
Theso wordH were nttored amid tho
whistling of the storm and tho noise of
the waves, which tho violence of tho
wind reduced to an impalpable liquid
dust. It was almost impossible for them
to hoar each other spoaking.
It was hard to keep tho boat’s prow to
the north; and thick fogs prevented tho
from seeing tho sea beyond a few fath
oms’ distnneo, and everything in the way
of a landmark, so to speak, had disap
pear! d.
This sudden tempest, coming on at tho
moment whon the end was about to be
attained, soemed to enfold it in a serious
warning. To the excited imagination it
might have appeared like tho injunction
to go no further. Did nature, then, wish
to forbid accoss to the Pole? Was this
end of the world surrounded with a ram
part of storm and tempest which would
prevent the approach to it?
Nevertheless, to see tho energetio faces
of these men, it would bo understood
that thoy would neither yield to the wind
nor to the waves, and that .they would go
to the goal.
They struggled thus during tho whole
day, braving death at every moment,
making no headway in the direction of
tho north, but still not losing ground,
soaked by a lukew arm rain and met by
tho sea water which tho tempest biew in
thoir faces, while with tho whistlings of
the wind mingled at times tho lugubrious
cries of birds.
But in tho very midst of r.n increase of
tho wrath of the waves, towards the hour
of 6 in the evening, a sudden stillness
foil on tho sea. Tho wind ceased blow
ing as by a miracle. The sea became culm
and unshaken as though its swell had not
risen for twelve hours. Tho storm seem
ed to Jiavo rospooted this part of the
Polar Ocean.
What was now taking place? A phe
nomenon as extraordinary as inexplioablo
and which Captain Habinc witnessed du
ring his voyages in tho Grconland seas,
Tho fog, without lifting, had become
strangely luminous.
The launch was sailing in a zono of
olcctrio light, au immense brilliant Saint
Elme fire, but without boat. The mast,
the sail, tho rigging were clearly defined
against tho phosphorescent background
of tho sky with an incomparable distinct
ness; the navigators were plunged in a
bath of transparent rays and their faces
were lighted up with fiery reflections.
The sudden calmness that fell on this
portion of tho ocean arose, doubtless,
from the ascending movement of the air-
columns, while the tempest, belonging
to the kind known as cyolones, revolved
rapidly around this still centre.
But this fiery atmosphere brought a
thought to tho mind of Hatteras.
“The volcano!” he cried.
“Is it possible?" excluimed Bell.
“No, no!” replied the Doctor. “We
should be smothered if tho flames reach
ed as far ns this Rpot.”
“Perhaps it is its reflection in tho fog,”
observed Aitamont. “It isn’t that cither.
We should have tef admit that we areuear
land, and iu that case we should hear the
noise of the eruption.”
“But then?” asked the Captain.
“It is % cosmic phenomenon,” replied
tho Doctor; “a phenomenon rarely ob
served thus far! If we ooutinuo on our
way wo will soon emerge from this lumin
ous sphere to find ourselves in tho gloom
.d the tempest.”
“However it may bo, forward!” .cried
Hatteras.
“Forward!” repatod his companions,
who did not even dream of pausing to
take breath in this tranquil sea. ^
The sail, with its fiery folds, hung
along llie shining mast; the oars plunged
into the glowing waves, and seemed to
raiso from them sparks composed of
drops of brilliantly-lighted water.
Hatteras, compass in hand, resumed
the route to tho north|gJ>y degrees the
fog lost its light, nud then its transparent
appoarauce; a few fathoms’distance away
the noise of the wind’s roaring was heard
nud soon tho launch scudding before a
sudden squall, re-entered the zone of
storm.
But tho tempest fortunately had turned
n point to tho south, and the vessel could
sail with tho w0d at their backs, speed
ing directly to the Polo, running tho risk
of sinking, but rnshiug forward with a
frantic swiftness. An obstacle—a rock
or a block of ico—might rise at any mo
ment from tho waves and the launch
would infallibly have been dashed to
pieces.
Nevertheless, uot one of these men ut
tered an objection, not one of them rais
ed the voico of prudence. They wero
lized with the insanity of danger. The
thirst for the unknown controlled them.
Thus they went not blind, but blinded,
deeming the frightful rate of speed at
which thoy were 'going too slow to suit
their impatience. Hatteras held the til
ler in his unchangeable direction, amid
the waves foaming under tho lash of the
tempest.
Now, however, the approach to the
coast begau to become apparent; there
wero strnngo symptoms in the air. Sud
denly tho fog was rent in twain like a
curtain torn by tbe wind, nud during an
interval as .brief as a flash of lightning
could be soon on th6 horizon an immense
plume of flames rising skyward.
“The volcano! The volcano!”
This was the word that issued from eve
ry mouth in the company, but the fantas
tic vision had disappeared. The wind
leaping from out the southwest struck
the vossel obliquely, nud compelled it
again to fleo this terriblo inaccessible
shore.
“Curse it!” cried Hatteras; “we wero
not three miles from tho coast!”
Hatteras could not resist tbe violence
of tho tempos!: but, without yielding to
it, ho inclined himself before the wind,
which blew with nn indescribable rage.
At intervals tho launch turned on its side
so much so as to arouse fears that her
keel would entirely emorgo from the wa
ter; but in tho end she would right her
self under tho action of the rudder, like
a courser whose hams bend under him,
but who rises to his foot again under
tho pro*"me of the bridlo and of his
rider’s spur.
Hatteras, with dishevelled hair, with
his hand clutching tho tiller; seemed to bo
tho soul of tho vessel and to bo a part of
it, like the mini and liorso in the days of
the centaurs.
Suddenly r» dreadful spectacle ap
peared beforo thoir eyes. Less than
tou fathoms away a cako of ice
was swaying on tho swelling crest
of the waves; it rose and fell like tbe
launch; it threatened them with its fall,
and with n single touch it would havo
crushed them.
But joined to this danger of being
rushed down into tho soa was
another not less terrible; for thiB block,
drifting at the rneroy of tho waves, was
freighted with white bears huddled close
together and crazy with fenr.
“Boors! boars!” cried Boll, with
choking voice.
And each one. terrified, Raw what he
saw.
The block was making fearful lunges;
sometimes it leaned so fnr to ono side
that tho animals rolled pell-mell one over
the other. Theu thesy uttered growls
which mingled with tho noise of tbe tem
pest, and a formidable concert arose from
this floating menagerie.
Suppose that this ice-raft should turn
over, and that tho bears, throwing tbein-
boIvgh towards tho vessel, should endeavor
to board it!
For a quarter of an hour, which seem
ed ca long as a oentury, the launch and
the ice block sailed in company, now
separated by a distance equal to twenty
fathomH, now on the poiut of colliding.
At timeo tho one hung over the other,
and the monsters on it might easily have
allowed themselves to drop on tho boat.
Tho Greenland dogs trembled with fear.
Duke remained motionless.
natteras and bin companions were mute;
thoy did not even think of deviating
from their course to avoid this dangerous
neighbor, and they continued on their
way with an inflexible determination.
A vague sensation, which partook more
« f astonishment than fear, seized on
their minds—they admired; and this ter
rifying spectacle completed tho struggle
of the elements.
At laHt the block fell away gradually,
drivou by the wind, which the launch,
with its foresail drawn iu to suit tho di
rection of tho wind, resisted, and the ico
disappeared in the fog, announcing its
presence from time to time by tho dis
tant growlings of its crow of monsters.
At this moment tho tompest redoubled
in strength. It was an indesoribable un
chaining of the atmospherics waves. Tbe
vessel, lifted above tbe billows, began to
whirl around with ft dizzying speed. Her
forcsAil was tern from the must and was
carried away in tbe gloom like a great
white bird. A circular hole, a new mael
strom, was formed in the eddy of the
waves, and the navigators, caught in this
whirlpool, sped around with ho groat a
swiftness that the wnter seemed to be mo
tionless notwithstanding its incalculable
rapidity. By degrees they began to sink
halo * tho level of tho sea. In tho bot
tom of tho gulf a powerful suction and
irresistible attraction was drawing thorn
towards it and was swallow ing them
alive.
All five of thorn rose. They looked on
with startlod eyes. They were overcome
with dizzinoss. They felt within them
selves that indefinable sensation of tho
abyss.
But suddenly tho launch stood up per
pendicularly. Its prow oxteuded beyond
tho water circle of the whirlpool. The
rapidity with which it had moved bad
thrown it out of the centre of attraction,
and escaping at a tangeut from this circle
which made more than a thousand revo
lutions a second, it was hnrlod beyond its
influence with tho swiftness of a cannon
ball.
Aitamont, tho Doctor, Johnson and
Bell wore hurled backward on their seats.
When they picked themselves up Hat-
teras had disappeared.
It was 2 o’clock in the morning.
[to be continued.]
—The Chicago river is alleged to Btuoll
to heaven.
—Prof. Huxley will undertake for tho
next three months the course of lectures
at Edinburg which Dr. Cams has hither
to been giving iu the place of Professor
Wyville Thompson.
—Mr. H. W. Pickersgill, It. A., died
recently at his residence at Bianford
square, at the ago of ninety-threo. llo
was one of the oldest members of tho
iioyal Academy, which ho entered us a
student at the age of twonty-threo.
Captain Boynton vmitod Southamp
ton a few days ago, and exhibited his
life-saving dross and apparatus. IIo was
taken in the steamer Vectis to Fawley
Bay, about three miles down tho river,
in company with about throo hundred la
dies and gentlemen, nud although tho
spot appointed for tho exhibition was
not made known until the captain enter
ed the water, a great many steamers nnd
sailing craft went out laden with persons
anxious to sec him.
Iu soveral shops iu Munich various
objects of art have boonjdisplnyed, which
remarkable for thoir brilliant silver
hue. It nppears that thoy are mere plas
ter models covered with a thin coat of
mica powder, which perfectly replaces
tho ordinary uictulic substances. The
mica platos are first cleaned and bleached
by fire, boiled in hydsochlonic
acid and washed nud dried. The
mateiial is then finely powdered,
sifted and mingled with collo
dion, which serves as a vehicle for apply
ing tho compound with a paint-brush.
The objects thus prepared can be wushed
iu water,nnd are uot liable to bo injured
by sulphuretted gases or dust. The col
lodion iulheros perfectly to glass, porce
lain, wood, moral, or papier-mache. The
mica can be oasily tinted iu different col
ors, thus adding to tho beauty of the or
namentation.
—Professor Sohwarzenbacli, of Borne,
recently devised tho following new meth
od of gilding on glass: Pure chloride of
gold is,dissolved in water. The solution
is filtered and diluted until, iu twenty
quails of water, but fifteen grains of gold
is contained. It is theu rendered alka
line by the addition of soda. In order
to reduce the gold chlorido; alcohol satu
rated with marsh gas and diluted with its
own volume of wator iH usod. Tho re
action which ensues results in the dispo
sition of metallic gold nnd the neutrali
zation of the hydro-chlorio acid by the
soda. Iu practice, to gild a plate of
glass, the object is first cleaned aud
placed above a second plate slightly larger
about one-tenth of nn inch separating
the two. Into this space the alkaline so
lution is poured, the reducing agent be
ing added immediately beforo uao. After
two or throo hours’ roposo tho gilding is
solidly fixed, when tho plate muy be re
moved und washed.
Change or tub Color oy tue Hair.—
It is stated that the transactions of the
British ltoyul Society, extending over
200 years, contain no instance of any
sudden change iu tho color of tho human
hair—a circumstance regarded as conclu
sive that no such chuuge has over occur
red, for, had it ever been undoubtedly
witnessed, it is not likely that it would
have remained undcscribcd. Tho mout
eminent modioal writors confess them-
selvos unaware that, irrespectively of re
corded evidence, anything in support of
tho popular notion on this subject can bo
adduced on physiological grounds. It is
well known that human hair cannot be
injected. Using colored fluid, such as a
Bolution of nitrate of silver and a solu
tion of iodine, dues uot produco any
charge of color except in the portions ac
tually immersed. Whether it owes its
color to a fixed oil, to a peculiar arrange
ment of ils constitutional molecules, or
both, it resists decay in a romvkablo
manner; it resists tho action of acids and
alkalies, except the strongest, which dis
solve it; it resists maceration, and even
boiling water unless for a long time ap
plied and undor pressure, when it suffers
disintegration ’and decomposition. Ex
posure to the sun will blouch hair, but
this will not account for any very sudden
change of color. Tho popular notion,
however, is in favor of the affirmative
of this question, and soino naturalists
and physiologists adduce what they re
gard as credible instances of hair chang
ing to white or gray in the case of per
sons under strong emotions of grief or
i terror.
—A girl thinks “a thing of beauty is
a boy forever.”
—An Irish doctor lately sent this bill
to a lady ,,< To curing your husband till
ho died.”
—Mr. Twice of Uhodo Island weighs
400 pounds, nnd it is very,proper to say:
“Once Twice is two.”
—A Govington man died and they
put hint on ice, but ho awoke in tho
night and yelled ont: “Why don’t you
put some wood in that stove!”
—A man is said to bo absent-minded
when ho tbinkiwho has loft his watch at
homo, and takes it ont of his pocket to
soe if he has time to return and get it.
—A certain Western editor, who was
presented with a box of collars in pay for
advertisement, is waiting in daily expec
tation that some one will presont him
with a shirt.
—A|now version about the widow’s
mite was given by a little boy. The lat-
(or began to read, “And there came a
certain poor widow, and she threw in two
mites, whioh make a fair thing.”
—A Delaware man Arrosted for murder,
proved that on that night aud at the hour
of tho murder, he was at homo mauling
his wifo, and this fact saved him. A
word to the wise is, and so forth.
—A loquacious blockhond, after bab
bling sometime to Lord Erskine, observ
ed ho was afraid ho was obtruding on his
lordship’s oar. “Oh, not at all,” said
Erskine; “I have not been listening.”
—A little girl reading the history of
Eugland with her mother, and coming to
tho statement that Henry I. never laugh-
od after tho death of his son, looked up
aud a«id: “What did he do when he
was tickled?”
—Tho worst case of selfishness that
was ever preseutod to the public, ema
nated from a youth who complained be-
cutise his mother put a bigger mustard
plaster on bis younger brother than sho
did on him.
—A man came home drunk on a cold
night, and vomited iu a basket containing
young goslings, which bis wifo had
placed before tho fire; upon seeing which
ho excluimed: “My God, wife, when did
I swallow them things?”
—A man who was sentenced to be
hung was visited by his wife, who said,
“My dour would yon like the children to
see you executed?” “No,” replied ho.
“That’s just like you,” said sho; “you
novnr wanted tho ohildrou to have any
enjoyment.”
—A policeman met a negro at night
carrying a.trunk along tho street, and
collared him. Tho negro explained: “Do
family what was boarding uio has been
axing for money, and as doy was gwino
out to-night I thought I would get into
Home family whar dey respected do pnn-
—A minister examined his school boys
thus: “What is tho meaning of the
word ‘repentant?’” “Please, sir, don’t.”
“Now if I bad stolon a loaf of bread,
what should I be?” “I’loaso, sir, locked
up.” “Well, should I fool sorry?" “Yes.”
“Well, why should I foci sorry?” “Please
sir, ’cause you was cotchod.”
—“Dar ar,” said a sable orator, “two
roads through this world. De ono
broad and narrow road dat leads to de
struction, and de uddor am a narrow and
broad rood dat leads to sure perdition.”
“If dot am de case,” said a sable hearer,
“dis cullrnl individual takes to ito
woods.”
—The best horse on reoord, Eclipse,
waa chestnut hued.
—All the Portland, Maine, hotels have
closed their bars.
—The produoo movement from west to
east ia very small.
—Ah Frank Blair Btill lives, transfusion
must be a success.
—Yossmite tourists complain sorely of
the poor accommodations.*
—Niagara liotel-kcepors will keep the
hackmen in cheok this year.
—Ton thousand sunburnt fellow-citi
zens of Philadelphia nro preparing to
emigrate “to do seaside to assist in de
help.”
■A wire conneots fourteen houses in
Waterloo, Iowa, and tbe young women
telegraph tho freaheat gossip to each
other.
The last of the Shasta Indians died
recently at Healdsburg, California. He
had bocotne oivilizod, and was a devout
Methodist.
—The gas burned in the Clifton House,
Canada, is conveyed via the Suspension
Bridge, from this side, and the duty paid
by tho hotel-keeper to our Government.
—Mr. Gurdon S. Hubbard of Chioago,
has given thirty aores of laud near that
city to the Reformed Episcopal Church,
for tt»r. purposes of a theological semina-1
A. A. DOZIER,
Attorney and Counsellor at Law,
Practices In State and Federal Court* iu Georgia
JaO
Mask II. Blardvoed. Loon F. Garrard.
BLANDFOBD 4k GARRARD,
Attorneys and Oennsellora at law.
Office No. 67 Broad street, over Wlttlch ft Kin-
lel’i Jewelry Store.
Will practice In the State and Federal Court*.
L. T. DOWNING,
Attorney and Malleltor.
U. 8. Oow’r and llegtcter in Bankruptcy. Office
novae| over Brook*' Drug Store, Columbus, ia.
R. J. MOKES,
Attorney and Counsellor nt Law,
ond aterjr.
Grocers.
—Mrs. Kimberly, a very wealthy resi
dent of Liberty, Iowa, is an enthusiastic
admirer of fine cattle. She has just
bought a famous bull named Breastplute,
for $7,000.
-About a fortnight ago the friends
and admirers of John Mitchel (in Han
Frsncisoo formed a society to raise a ten*
tamonial fund, and subscribed $1,000 the
very first evening.
—In court at Montreal, lately, a law
yer quoted some points in the Beecher
trial, whon Judge Mondlet said:* ‘Don’t,
for God's sake, quote from (hat case here.
It’sadisgraoe to New York.”
—A bride and groom appeared at tbe
dinner table of tbo Mansion House, Troy,
N. Y., on one of the hot days of last
week, the bride being lavishly dressed,
and the groom in his shirt aleeves.
—The magnifloent mansion of Legraud
Look wood, at Norwalk, which cost $1,
250,000, has passed iuto the hauds of the
Michigan Southern Kail road Company,
they having foreclosed their mortgage
on it. *
—In Russia leather goods this year we
have an umbrella or suushado of that
material. It is not very big nor very lit
tle. It is more ornamental than useful,
especially whon wo consider the price,
whioh is $25.
—In spite of business being down on
its baok, modistes testify—well, perhaps
not npon oath!—that never have they
had more ordora to fill, and never
have more varied tastes boon called into
being. Fashion has at last bended grace
fully to taste, and, in fact, when short,
we know what we want, and, when tall,
we know what we don't.
—The ways of fashion nro mysterious.
Glace kid gloves are rsp lly going out
and gants de suede rapidly coming in.
The new importations of those delicate
gloves show snob improvement in texture
and idiadoi, that it is no wonder they
have become so dear to the feminine
heart and tmnd. White gloves, too, when
only bridos have worn that absence of
color.
DAN»L R. BINE,
Dealer lo family Groceries, on Bryan sttoet, be-
J. H. HAMILTON,
Wholesale and Retail Grocer,
Watchmakers.
O. U. LKUU1N,
Watchmaker,
134 Broad itrooi, Columbus, Ga.
Watches and Clock* repaired in the beat man-
jail
r aud warranted.
Nome of Franklin** Maxims.
—“Tho most expensively dressed man
I over Raw,” writes u captain in tho Brit
ish navy, “was an African chief on the
gold coast. Ilis wives had anointed
him thoroughly with palm oil, and then
powdered him froui f head to foot with
gold dust. You never saw in your lifo a
man got np so utterly regardless of ex
pense.”
—A youth who attended tho Scotch re
vival meeting for the 'fun of tho thing,
ironically inquired of tho minister,
“whether he could work a miracle or
not?” Tho young man’s curiosity was
fully satisfied by the minister kicking
him out of the church, with tho maledio*
tion: “We cannot work miracles, but w*
can cast out devils!”
—A Frenchman being about to remove
his shop, bin landlord inquired the roa-
son, stating at tho same time it waH con
sidered a good stand for business. The
Frouchuiun replied, with a shrug of the
shoulders, “Oh, yes, he’s a very good
stand for de business—by gar, me stand
all day, ;for nobody^come to make me
move."
—A boy about twolve years old knock
ed at the door of a house in Detroit, and
when tbe lady appeared he said, “There
will be a boy around bore pretty soon to
clean your walk, bnt don’t givo him the
job. His name's Jim; bo’s oross-eyed
and ho blows up cats with powder snaps.
I’ll be hero with my partner pretty soon.
Wo go to Sunday school, never hhsh our
fri. and we nro going (o give half
tho money to the grasshoppers.” Tho job
Raved for him.
—Plow deep while sluggards sleep, and
you shall have com to sell nnd some to
keep.
—Pride is an loud a beggar as want,and
ft great deal more saucy.
—Silks and satins, scarlets and velvets,
put out the kitchen tire.
—Diligence is the mother of good luck.
—Pride breakfasted with plenty, dined
with poverty, and Bupped with iufarny.
— Extravagance and improvidence end
at the prisou door.
—It is easier to build two ohimneys
than to keep one in fuol.
—If you would know the valuo of
money go and try to borrow some.
—Tbe eyes of o master will do more
work than both his hands.
—What maintutns ono vico would
bring up two children.
—Ho that goes borrowing returns sor
rowing.
—Rather go to bed suppcrless jtban
rifio in debt.
-3b th, like rust, conxumes faster than
labor wears.
—A lifo of leisure and a life of laziness
are two different things.
—Three removes are as bad as a tiro.
—Creditors have better memories than
debtors.
—The rolling stono gathers no moss.
—If yon would have your business
done, go; if not, send.
—Somebody wanted to know who wrote
ajuliarp article in the Texan Telegraph
d was answered thus: “The man who
wroto that article, early in life was a hard
working blacksmith, later be was a deck
hand on a steamboat, then he waB a cow
boy on tho froutier, but of late years he
has followed tho profession of prize
fighter. He only became an editor to re
duce his flesh by starvation so as to be
come more successful in bis peouliar
line.” The Telegraph received no fur
ther inquiries.
Tin and Coppersmith*.
WM. FEE,
Worker 1m Tin, Sheet Irem, Uopper.
Order* frum abruad promptly attended to.
1*7 No. 174. Broad
Dentists.
W. r. Tiustsua.
Dentist,
Oppo.lt. filruppm’. building, Rudolph fit.
Special attentloa given to the Insertion or Artt>
ficlsl Teeth, as well M to Operative Usutl.iry
tenia d.w
COI.DM.lllt niltia MSHIMH,
W. T. Pool, Frop'r,
Oeorjjla Home Building, Oolumbna Georgia,
Tailor*.
Q. A. KGEHNKp
Merchant Tailor end Gutter,
ft full *to*k of French and English Broadcloth*
0***lni*r** and Vaatlng*.
oprie No. 134 Broad Street
HENRY BELLMAN.
Gutting, Gianning nnd Repairing
Dono iu the best style.
*pr24| Corner Crawford and From Pm.
Dress-Makins;.
MISS M. A. HOLLINGSWORTH,
Drem-Maklng, Cutting and Itting. Term* dump.
KoMidunc* andshop la Brownuville.
uovlrt
Piano Tuning, Ac.
E. W. BLAU,
Repairer and Tuner of Piano**, OruAiib and
Aocordeon*. Sign Painting alio -Jo*;*.
Older* may be be left at J. W. Pea-* .V i.t.ini.tii’t
Rook Store nepS
Cun and Lockamiths.
PHILIP LIFLER,
Gun and Loukswith, Crawford street, nest to
Johunou * corner, Coluinbas, Ua. Jail
WILLIAM SGUOBEB,
Gun aud Locksmith and dealer in Gunning Ma
terials. Host of Strapper’* Comectiouary
Jill
Fresh Meat*.
J. W. PATRICK,
Stall* Mo. IS and IS, Market House,
fresh Meat* of every kind aud best tiuality,
Jail always on hand.
J. T. COOK,
Front* Meat* or All Kinds,
■ep6 Stall* No*. 15 aud 17.
Barber Shop*.
ED. TERRY, Barker,
Ortbwford 8t. f under Hankie House, Columbus, Go.
deidti
Builders and Arohltocta.
J. G. CHALMERS,
House Carpenter and Ralldor.
Jobbing done at short notice.
Plsns end specifications tarnished for mil stylos
of buildings
broad Street, next to G. W. Brown's,
J*9 Columbus, Go.
Livery and 8ale Stables.
ROBERT THOMPSON,
Livery, Sale and Exchange (liable*
OULXTHOkl’S, Nofttu or Ravdolm Kts.,
oct30 Columbus, Gs
Tobacco, Clear*, Ac.
MAIER DORN.
If you want to enjoy a good amoke, go to hi*
Cigar Manufactory,
Ketween Georgia Horn* and MnsoOgs* Uoa
Improvement* flu Egypt.
In Egypt, a very hot country, the vice
roy is endeavoring to introduce the plants
aud shrubs of colder climates. He is
abovo all fond of resinous trees, and has
bad several cargoes sent to him, Scotch
pines, Austrian blacks, and other cona-
boarers, together with araucarias, and
excelss. He has also had apple-trees
transported from Europe. The pasha
has laid out some grounds not far from
the sea and facing the north, ond has
surrounded thorn with high walls destined
to shelter the western plants from the
rays of tbe midday sun and from the hot
andhandry breezes. Long alleys of (hi
products of the north have beon planted,
and the result is now awaited. Down to
this time chestnuts which wore intro
duced look woll, and the apple-trees are
flourishing.
Cotton Factories.
Sheeting*, Shirting*, and Bewln*
Kutttlu* Thread,
Card* Wool and Grind* Wheat, ad Corn-
Offlc* In rear of Wlttlch ft Kln**r«, Randolph at.
JalR R. II. OKILTON, President.
MUSCOGEE MANUFACTURING CO.
Mav •ifbetursn of
BIIBBTING8 SHIRTINGS,
TARN, ROPB, ft*.
COLUMBUS, GA.
0. P. SWIff, President.
W. A. SWIft, Secretary Treasurer. octSl ly.
HINES D0HZR.
Attorney at Law,
HJiniLTOI, ha..
W ILL procti in tha Chattahoochee Otrenfft s
or any where else. All kind ef oftMeeliaas \
“Pay mo or run away.” aeVtl tr
HIDE*.
M M. HIRSCH
HAS BEHOVED TO
HIS OLD STAND
ON
Crawford Street,
Near Alabama Warehoust,
Where ho will oomtinu. to PAY tho
HIGHEST PRICES for
Rags, Hides, Fun and Wax,
eagle JutftdlT
(
REAL ESTATE ACENTS. I
JOHN BLACKHAB,
Next to Preer, Illgas ft Go., Nt. Glair Street,
and la*
(M
Real E.tite, Or age
For
Now examine ant aelact hooka far ike neat mae
campaign. In our catalogue I cent treat you
ill find all you neat, tmdafSt had quality. E
SONG MONARCH,
(75 cent,).
Uneqaell.d at a ahum boek tm
tinging MbeeU.
American School Music Readers.
Hook I, 35 o.nUl Book H,^ W^e«.U^awt
Kxo.ll.nt
Richardson’s New
FOR PIANOFOBTB.
Clarke’s New Method :■$!%
REED ORGAME. \
(*2,50), which oeeople, Tery iml,the tamo
Ichardson’s (loo* to *th*r
ode.
And If, as 1* likely, you ar* a
eholr or muiioal sooftty, yon will
material in our
quarlel*
Voice*, or
vice*, (Episcopal), |ft MK
r£¥S sweet!** ftp'll
OLIVKU DITSOM A Co., Host**.
Cha*. H. DITBON ft Oo M 711 Br*wftf, I« ¥.
joia tr
CRAY’S
Ferry PRINTING INK Works
PHILADELPHIA. V^jj
ROBINSON rf PRATT, \
PRATT* ROBINSON, i
F MKOM the Phllad*lp|0fl„
■L United State* Gositerj—
mendatfbna of tho Print
at the GRAY'S FKRK"
ar* using Ink from M*g
Work*, and ara pleased
IhVOBAY’S
WORKS:
“We call th* attani
to th* c;ird of th* GRAY'S
ING INK WORKS, Of V __ ,
buying Ink for ion, yean put. We e>a
mend the i;entlem*u who.ran Umm W«rim
want* of their r.uetom*r*, and a* i
raon to deal with w* ever met,
the firm ol Maciv.oiler, Smith* la Jm
founders, of (ho „m* city, ar* man I
do to tie TO, oertala or reatlvlMt 1
treatment and prompt attention.™
lanlV if
Notice.
Ornoa Uobiu fc Onun Baiuoao, i
m i, in*, i
Juel, ~
•Tho Annual Oonrentlon ef the
holder, of the Mobile h a Irani Be
road will bo hold at the Depot I. Girard, Al
hama, on Wodnorda,. July 7th, at Ton Veto
A. M, whon an election lb, Preatdvt aud ■
Directors will take plan,.
Stockholders wtth thatr will
passed free to Oolumbna Cm Mh —»»7th,
elusive, and return any da, until —t h i *
slvo.
Certificates of stock aawt boauhlblMd *
Conductor by the atoekholdeir a.
OThleue. ,
thoir being entitled jo paw true with thtfyl
■ant ehhlblt aarHMuii
111. s, and a proxy ,
•took and powar at Attorney, otharwlM tin
will bo required Iu both oaaes.
Byordor J, |
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