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VOL. XVII.
COLUMBUS, GEORGIA, SUNDAY, JUNE 27, 1875.
THE OLD HOME.
My thought* nil wnmler hock to-night
To day* I mg |wt and goliu;
) I, a child,
and long.
That door old farnit a Runny spot—
’Twill live iu memory e*or;
I’ll ne’er lorgot my childhood's homo
Beside the restless river.
As momory take* mo back, far back,
All other days have tied,
And I'm a little girl once more
At play with brother Ned I
Onca morn, throngh woods and meadows gruon
Wo roam the long, long day;
Or ’ueath the orchard’s fragrant shade
We pass the hours iu play.
Iu the old homo wo moot again
With loved ones as nl yore;
And the gay laugh aud music sweet
Sound oa the air once more.
Around tho table I can son
Kach Well remembered face;
They ull are there—a happy group—
Kach lu his own old place.
Thoso happy times! they could not Inst.
Oue calm, sweet summer's day
Tim golden gates were opened wide,
And father passed awayt
lie passed away—tho gates were closed;
Hut ’long tho path lie trod
A bright and shining light w as cast,
To guide us home to Uod.
The noble rivor still flows on
I'mst that oh! homestead door,
But strung irs stand within it now—
We’ll moot there never uiorel
For time* are cliauged—old friends aro gone—
Aud childhood's lied forever;
on gather home,
'vor.
—Ballou's Monthly.
THE DESERT OF ICE;
A JOURNEY TO THE NORTH POLE.
NO. 148
BY JULES VERNE.
CHAPTER XXIII.
TUE FLAG OF ENOLAND.
A cry issuing from four hoarts succeed
ed tbe first moment of stupor.
“flatteras !” exclaimed the Doctor.
“Disappeared! ” criod Johnson and Boll.
“LoRtL’
Th^Jooked around thorn. Nothing
appeared on the surfaco of tho swelling
sea. Duke barked with a dospairing ac
cent. He tried to jump iuto the waves
and Boll could scarcely restrain him.
“Take tho helm, Altamont,” said tho
Doctor, and lot ns do all that it is possi
ble for ns to do to find our unfortunato
Captain!"
Johnson and Bell resumed their seuts.
Altamont grasped the tiller, and tho
drifting launch was agaiu brought under
oontrol.
Johnson and Boll set to work rowing
vigorously, and for an hour tho parly re
mained near tho seone of tho catastrophe.
They looked everywhere but in vaiu! Tho
(lufortiinato Hattcras, carried oil by the
tempos!, wor lost!
Lost! So near tho Polo! So near tho
goal of which ho had only caught a
glimpse!
Tho Doctor shouted, called, fired off
his gnus. Duke added his lamenting
barking to his noise; but no response was
made to tho Captain’s two friends. Then
a deep griof seized on Clawbonny. His
head fell on his hands, and his compan
ions heard him weeping.
In fact, at this distance from the land,
without an oar or a piece of wood of any
kind to sustain him, Hatteran could not
reach the shore alive, and if anything
of him should at last reach this land ho
long desired, it would bo only his swollen
■and bleeding body.
After an hour devoted to the search
they resumed the route to the north and
•entered on their struggle with the expiring
throes of the tempest.
At 5 o’clock on the morning of the 11th
of July Bio wind lulled, the swell de
creased, tho sky resumed its Polar clear'
ness and, less than three miles off, the
land was seen in all its splendor.
This new continent was only an island,
or rather a volcano, reared like a light
house at the Northern Pole of the world.
The mountain in full eruption, vomi
ted a mass of burning stones and frag
ments of incandescent rooks; it seemed
to shake under reiterated shocks like the
breathing of a giant; tho moss projected
rose into the air to a great height amid
jets of immense flamo, and streams of
lava unrolled themselves in impotuous
torrents down its sideR; here, fiery ser-
peuts glided between the rocks, there,
glowing cascades foil amid a purplish va
por, and lower, a great streurn of fire,
formod of a thousand rivors of flame,
emptied into tho sea through a bubbling
month.
Tho volcano soomod to havo but a sin
gle crater whence escaped the column of
fire, ribbod with transverse flashes, and it
might have been thought that electricity
played a part iu this magnificent phenom
enon.
Above tho panting flames floated an
immense oloud of smoke, red at its base,
black at itH summit. It rose with incom
parable majesty and nnrolled in a wide
radius in thick folds.
The sky was clothed to a great height
in an ashen color; tho gloom that had
prevailed during the tempest, and which
ilia Doolor had not been able to explain,
evidently was caused by the columns of
ashes which hid tho sun like an iwpouo-
trublo curtain, lie then remembered
that a similar circumstance had happened
in 1812, at the Barbedoes, which, in
broad daylight wore plunged in profound
darkncHS by the mass of cinders thrown
out of tho orator of tho island of St. Vin
cent.
The enormous fire-vomitiog rook before
them, rising out of tho ooean, inoasurod
a thousand fathoms in height, nearly the
altitude of Heola.
A line drawn from its summit to its
base formed an angle of about eleven de
grees with tho horizon.
It seemed to emerge by degrees from
tho bosom of the waves in proportion as
tho launch approached it. Not a sign of
vogtntion was visible on it. It ovon
lacked a shore, and its sides descomled
abruptly into tho sea.
‘Clan wo make a lauding?” naked tho
Doctor.
The wind is in our favor,” roplied
Altamont.
“But I do not boo a foot of beach ou
which wo could stand!”
“This spoils to ho ro from a distance,”
replied Johnson, “but we shall find
enough space whereon to laud our boat.
That is all wo require.”
“Lot us on then!” said Clawbonny sad
ly*
Tho Doctor no longer had any interest
in this strange continent that rose boforo
him. Tho land of tho Pole was there
indoed, but not tho man who had discov
ered it!
At a distance of live hundred paces
from tho rocks the sea builod under the
action of subterranean fires. Tho island
which it surrounded might have been
eight or ton miles iu circumference, not
moro, and according to their estimate it
was situated very near tho Pole, ovou if
tho world’s axis did not pass exaotly
throngh it.
On approaching tho island tho nnviga-
tors observed a little fiord in miniature,
which was sufficient to shelter their ves
sel. They immediately mado for it, fear
ing at tho same timo to find the Captain’s
body thrown on the shore by tho storm.
Yot it seemed difficult for a body to
fiud lodgment there; there was no boach,
and the sent bent against abrupt rocks; a
thick bed of ashes, virgin of all trace of
humanity, covered their surface beyond
the roach of tho waves.
At last tho launch entered by n narrow'
entrance between two low rocks level
with tho water, and thoro it was perfectly
sheltered from the surf.
Then Duke’s sorrowing howls redou
bled. Tho poor animal callod tho Captain
his sympathetic language. He asked
him of ibis pitiless sea nud of these
echoless rocks. His balking was in vain
and tho Doctor caressed him with his
hand, without being able to calm him,
whou tho faithful dog, ns if he wished to
iplnco his master, made a prodigious
leap, nud tirat alighted ou tho rocks amid
a cloud of ashes which arose around him.
“Duke! here, Duke!” cried tho Doolor.
But Dtiko did not honr him and disap
peared. Then the party proceeded to dis
embark. Clawbonny and his threo com
panions lauded, aud the launch was firm
ly tied.
Altamont was about to clitub nn enor
mous pile of stones, when Duke’s bark
sounded at a short distance with an unu
sual energy; it oxpressod not anger, but
grief.
“Listou!” said t ho Doctor.
“lie has found some animal,” suggest
ed tho boatswain.
“No, no!” replied the Doctor, with a
shudder; “it is a sorrowful bark! There
aro tears in it! llatteras’s body is there!”
At those words tho four mon hurried
in Duke’s tracks amid the ashen, which
blinded them; they roachod tho extremi
ty of a fiord, at a distunto of ton foot,
from which tho waves oscendod and died
away in ripples.
There Duko was barking near wliat
soomed to bo a corpse, wrapped in tho
English flag.
“Ilatteras! Hattorap!” criod the Doctor,
failing on his friend’s body.
But immediately after ho uttorod nn
exclamation which it would bo imppossi-
ble to describe.
This blooding body, in appearance
lifeless, had moved umtor his touch.
“Living! living!” he cried.
“Yes,” replied feeble a voice. “Livinj
on tho land of tho Bole,where tho tempest
has thrown me! Living ou the Island of
tho Queen!”
“liurruh for England! cried tho five
men with one accord.
‘And for America!” said tho Doctor,
extending one hand to Ilatteras and tho
other to tho American.
Duko also criod “Hurrah!” after his
fashion, which was worth any of tho oth
ers.
During tho first few moments these
brave mon gave themselves up entirely to
their happiness at again seeing their Gap-
tain; they felt their eyes moisten with
tears.
Tho Doctor satisfied himself of Hatter-
as’s condition. Tho latter was not seri
ously injured. Tho wind had carried
him as far as tho coast, where tho land
ing was very dungeous. Tho bold sailor,
several timed thrown back, succeeded
finally by dint of ’energy in clinging to a
fragment of rock, nud thus hoist*ng him
self above tho waves.
Thoro he lost cousciousuess aftor hav
ing wrappod himself iu his flag, and it
was not until ho heard Duke's barking
and felt hid caresses that ho returned to
life.
After the first care which his condition
required hud been given him, Ilatteras
felt strong enough to rise, and taking the
Doctor’s arm, to sot out for tho launch.
“Tho Pole! tho North Pole!” he re
peated as he walked.
“You are happy!” said the Doctor to
him.
“Yea, happy! Aud you, my friend, do
you not feel tho happiness, tho joy of be
ing on this spot? This land which wo
aro treadimg is tho land of tho Pole! This
Ben which wo havo crossed is tho
tho Pole! This air which wo breathe is
the air of the North Polo* Oh, the North
Pole! tho North Pole!”
While thus speaking Ilatteras was tho
prey to a violent exaltation, to a sort of
fever, and tho Doctor in vain sought to
calm him. His eyes shone with au ex
traordinary light, and liis thoughts boiled
in his brain. Clawbonny attributed Ibis
state ovor-excilomcnt to tho dreadful
dangers that tho Captain had just expe
rienced.
natteras evidently had need of repose,
and they began to look about thorn for a
camping ground.
Altaiuont soon found a grotto made of
rooks which, falling, hnd taken the shape
of a cavorn. Johnson and Bell brought
the provisions there and let loose the
Groculand dogs.
Towards 11 o’clock all was ready for a
meal, tho tent-cloth served for a table
cloth; tho breakfast, composed of pem-
wienn, salt beef, tea and ooffee, was
sproad on the ground and only asked, as
it were to bo devotirod.
But before this Ilattoras required that
tho bearings of tho island should be
taken, as he wished to know exaot
ly regarding his position.
The Doctor aud Altamont therefore
took their instruments aud, after an ob
servation, they found that the exact posi
tion of tho cavern was 89 deg. 59 min.
15 soc. of latitude. Tbe longitude at
this height was no lougor of importance,
for all tho meridians became confounded
a few hundred feet higher up.
Therefore the island really was situa
ted at the North Polo, aud the 90th do-
greo of latitudo was but 45 seconds dis
tant from Uio party—exactly three-quar
ters of a mile away, in tho direction of
tho summit of tho volcano.
Whon Ilatteras was informed of this
resnlfc, ho asked that it should bo so set
down ia a written statement, of which a
ilupliento should bo kept, and which
should bo deposited in a cairn on the
shore.
Therefore, the party being all assem
bled, tho Doctor took tho pen aud drew
up tho following document, one of the
eopios of which is now to bo soon in tbe
ltoyal Geographical Society of Londou:
“This llth of July, 1801, in 89 dog. 59
min. 15 soc. north latitudo, was discov
ered ‘the Island of tho Queen,’ at the
North Polo, by Captain Ilatteras, com
manding tho brig Forward of Liverpool,
who w ith liis companions, signs this.
“Whoever may find this document is
requested to despatch it to the Admiralty.
‘Hignod: John Hatter ah, commander
of tho Forward; Doctor Clawbonny, Alta-
mont, commander of tho Porpoise; John
son, boatswuiu; Bell, ourpenter.”
“Aud now, my friends, to breakfust!”
said tho Doctor gayly.
[to be continued.]
I'KEnNINAN.
Nevada has lots of muhogAny.
Tho rattlesnake rarely Hhuta its eyea.
Sewing machine oil is the best to use
on a gun.
—Raloigb, N. O., is callod the metrop
olis of dead newspapers.
—Noon organ concerts aro being given
in Boston.
—A Vienna maiden thinka nothing of
a quart of beer for dinner.
The papers record numorons light
ning strokes but no sun strokes.
—Tho Salt Lako papers urge Mrs. Liv
ermore for Governor of Utah.
—Adelaide Phillips is forming a now
opera company for next fall.
—A Lancaster lad who Rwallowed a tin
wbistlo is none the worse.
—The heat of tho Brooklyn court
room is attributed to tho summers up
there.
—Joaquin Miller will represent a Lon
don newspaper at tho Philadelphia cen
tennial.
—“From Now York to New Orleans
in sixty-four hours” is tho latest railroad
achievement.
—Laporte, Ind., calculates on a }iel<l
of 20,000 bushels of cucumbers this sea
son.
—A field of ice thirty miles in extent
still exists on Lako Huron.
—Bitfinarck chopped $07,000 worth of
wood last year in his county of Lauen-
burg, donated to him after the ; C(» cam
paign by tho Wilheimish Majesty.
—Families in Spain aro pretty well di
vided ou the question of parties, of
which no less than twenty-six manage to
thrivo nud get ulong in the land.
—Tho latest fasting phenomenon is in
Folsomville, Iud., where a girl of four
teen is alleged to have lived thirty-seven
days without eating a morsel of food.
—The once famous race-horse Kanga
roo, for which the Marquis of Hastings
oneo paid 12,000 guineas, now goes iu
front of a London cab at sixpence a mile.
—Statistics show that in the last ten
years, ou an avorage, ten out of every
bund rod thousand inhabitants in the
beautiful country of Dante were forcibly
ejected out ol' tlluir skins. “Accidente!”
—A Hartford architect says that build
ing iu that city is r>s active as over, and
promises to continue so, but tho day for
lavishing great sums in private houses
or business has passed away.
—A small woolen manufactory has
been discovered among tho ruins of Pom
peii. Several charred fragments of tap
estry wore found, besides various ma*
chinos for cardiug and weaving wool.
—Some miscreant is found to have
sawed almost in two tho ladder leading
iuto tho deepest part of n silver mine
near Eureka, Nov. It is supposed that
tho object of tho deed was revenge for
past bad troatiuent.
—A memoir of Gen. Burgoyne, from
the pen of Mr. Barrington do Fonblanquo,
nephew of Albany Fonblanquo, will
shortly appear. It will contain many un
published letters of the most eminent
English and American statesmen of the
time.
—A rattlesnake with thirty-ono rattles
was killed n fortnight ago on the Kowoun
Rivor, iu Tuloro county, Cal. It meas
ured thirteen foet in length, and is said
to havo been tho largest rattlesuako over
killed on the California coast.
—Lowis Miller, of St. Louis, a Goman
who, having been “snow-blinded,” had to
abandon his occupation as a sailor, arose
ono morning recently with vision as good
ns ever. Neither he nor bia oculist can
aooountfor it.
Tub Kind of Lead in Pencils.—The
‘lead” in pencils is not lead at all,though
it is called “black lead.” The weight, if
nothing else, tells you that -It ii a,win-
oral called graphite, (from the Greek
word to write, and is more nearly relatod
to coal than to load. You hove learned
that both coal and the diamond are forms
of the element carbon. Graphite is still
another shape in whioh carbon is fouud;
it usually contains a very little iron.
Plumbago is another name for it. It
cannot bo melted, but at a vory high heat
will burn. Tho fine kinds are very
soarce.
Burning Ikon —A Berlin experimenter
has demonstrated the combustibility of
irou in a peculiar nmnnojf. Ho takes a
straight bar magnot of Borne power, and
sprinkles iron filingH on one of its poles.
These filings urraugo themselves iu accor
dance with tho lines of magnetic force;
aud however closely they- may appear to
bo placed, of coutso no 'two of the mo-
tallio filaments are parallel, aud conse
quently, a certain amouU| of air iuclosod
iu a motalic sponge. Tho flame of any
ordinary spirit lamp or gas burner readi
ly ignites the fiuely divided iron, aud it
continues to burn brilliantly for some
time, the combustion being, apparently,
as natural and easy as thut of auy ordina
ry .substance. If tho oxperimeutor with
this operation stauds on a slight olovation
ntid waves tho magnot to aud fro whilo
burning, a magnificent rain of fire is said
to bo produood.
Explosive Force or Volcanoes.—
Thero has recently been an eruption of
of tho groat volcanoes of Iceland,
and it is interesting to note that some
short time afterwards a heavy rain of
ashes or sand took placo from the west
coast of Norway to tho Hwedish frontier;
the whole of tho country was covered
with gray dust to such an extent that
from a pint of snow more than a tablo-
npuon|«f of *utA«a WAa US ftltof the
snow had molted. Homo chemists of
Christiania have examined tbe ashes, audL
oue of them, Prof. Wuage, states tnat'
the dust consists of little, irregular, but
sharp.edgod grains, almost all colorless—
some few are of brown color, and they
consist principally of sillicatos. Acids
extinct Homo lime, iron aud alumina
Iron' their powder. Tho professor thinks
it likoly that the dust originates from the
eruption in Iceland. This view is con
firmed by a miueralogical investigation
made on another samplo of the dust at
the Christiania University by Prof. Kje-
rulf and Foarnloy; they recognized tho
dust to consist of fragments of pum
ice-stone which is identical with the llec-
la pnmico-stoce. According to Hwedish
newspapers some traces of tho dust fall
were observed even iu tho vicinity of
Stockholm. Tbe dihtanco from tho Ico-
laiul volcanoes to the Hwedish frontier is
about tbe snmo as that from Mount jEtna
to tho Baltic.
—Tho utilization of Rower rofnse for
gas—an industry originating with M.
Hendormaun, a Swiss ongineor—has now
provod so successful as to yield nn excel,
lent illumination, and this, it is stated
on a scale sufficiently great to warrant
the belief that tbe plan might be extend
ed to moot the requirements of large
communities. The apparatus employed
for this purpose, aud which is built un
dorgrouud, consists in a large reservoir
in which the material is collected and
thence run off to retorts located at a still
lower level. Tho gas is hero generated
in the usual way, and conducted to a tar
cistern and then to a condenser. The
purmcutlun in oiioctod by milk of limo,
and finally by passage through clean wa
ter. Tho gas thus obtained is said to
burn with ovon a brighter flame than that
made from coal, aud its odor, though
slightly acid, is not at all disagreeable.
Tbe common residues, such as coke, tar,
and fatty matter, aro inodorous and per
fectly utilizable. Tbe cost of tho appa
ratus does not exceed that of tho ordina
ry description, while the expense of
the product is necessarily less than that
of coal gas.
wrap themselvoH thoroughly in .warm
clothing thAt the evaporation from tho
body might not be condensed, in which
case it would full at once in the shape of
spikolets of ice.
There, doubtless, is some particular
fascination whioh induoes enterprisiug
travelers to visit the Arctic regions, but
when we road such accounts as that of
Lieut. Payor, wo feel quite reconciled to
our lot, albeit we are writing with the
•t 94 deg. iu the shade.
He Didn't Advertise In the New aim-
per*.
Bj the Fat Coutribntor.
ho, he said, he didn’t believo in adver
tising in the newspapers. Didn’t think it
did him auy good—money thrown away.
“But don’t you advertise in auy way?”
wo asked.
“Oh, you,” ho replied. “I spend a
good deal of tnouey iu advertising. Now,
here is a good thing I havo invested in
to-day. It is a tooth-pick with my nauio
and business stamped on it. I havo paid
a man fifty dollars to havo iny business
card stamped on every tooth-pick used nt
the hotels iu this city for oue year.
“How does he mauage it?”
“Easy enough. He keopn au agout sta
tioned at each hotel, day and night, furn
ished with a stamp, and whon a man
steps np to tako a tooth-pick ho dexter
ously stamps ono for him, and there is on
the tooth-piek:
*: i! ’ PUNKINHEAD.' ”7
• GROCERIES AND THINGS, j
Very Cold Weather.
Lieutenant Payer, tho well-known ex
plorer of the Arctic regions, lately deliv
ered, before the Geographical Hocioty of
Vienna, a lecture which is vory refresh
ing reading down here with the thermom
eter high up in the nineties.
On the 14th of March, 1874, Lieuten
ant Payer and bis companions were at
Francis Joseph’s Land, tho thermometer
exhibiting n temporature of 122 degrees
below tho zero of Fahrenheit’s scale.
Thoy wore obligod to pour rum iuto their
mouths, for if their lips had touched tbe
rim of their metal cups tho same effect
would have booh produced os if they bad
touched red-hot motul; the rum itself had
lost its strength and had acquired tho
thickness of oil. It was impossible to
smoke a cigar or a short pipe, tho saliva
iu tho mouth being at onco formed into
ico.
Mr. Payer assorts that such an intense
cold paralyzes tho will, nud that a man
subjected to it feels nil tho symptoms of
drunkenness, his movements becoming
irregular, his spcoch very thick aud his
mind w&udoring. Another effect of tho
cold, resulting from the evaporation of
moisture from the body, is a most tor
menting thirst. Hnow should bo avoided
then, as it creates inflammation of the
throat, the pnlnto and the tougue, and it
then tastes like molten metal. Meat bad
to bo chopped with axes, and mercury bo-
camo as hard as iron. Tno senses of
taste and HtneU wore considerably weak
ened, and tbe eyelids when closed be
came frozen together. If they stopped
walking their feet becamo^totally numb
ed.
Their only effectual protection was to
“I am informed,” ho continued, “that
four hundred thousand eight hundred
and seventy-two tooth-picks are used l>y
tho Cincinnati hotels every year, which iH
equal to that many business cards of
mine diatributed to tho public. Now fif
ty dollars wouldn't buy that numhor of
business cards and insuro their distribu
tion.
“Certainly not. Bat this inscription
on the tooth-picks ninst be very small;
I don’t boo how it can bo read.”
“Nothing easier, my dear sir. Yon sec
each agent carries a .small microscope to
assist people in making it out. But thnt
isn't the only advertising plan 1 am in
with. Yon see Ihii pinco of rag with my
«JV«I printed on it? Yes; well you prob-
«onldn’t guess what it is for. I ll
toll yon. Its for ao.„ B „ Hor „
“What has a sore finger cot to do with
advertising?”
“Everything, my dear sir, everything.
Thero are over a million soro fingers in
AuiorioA every yenr. At a vory moderate
expense an advertising firm in Philadel
phia prints my cards on rags
like these and furnishes them to
victims of sore Angora Luo of chorgo, so
they will use them in preference to all
others. A million of theso rags aro sent
to all parts of the Unitod Hiatus, and I
am only required to pay one hundred and
fifty dollars for tho privilege of having
iny name on them. ”
“And you paid it?”
“Certainly 1 did. I had to, in order to
prevent any other man from getting tho
chance abend of me.”
“A sore finger, thon, you consider a
botter advertising medium than an estab
lished and popular newspaper?”
“Well, yos, in this onse. Been travel
ing lately?”
“Yes; made a trip to Minuenotn and
Iowa not long ago.”
“Then you must have seen my business
card painted in black letters on a white
board and nailed to tho telegraph poles?”
We hadn’t seen anything of tbe kind,
“Singular if you didn’t. A man t amo
along last fall aud collected one hundred
dollars of me for nailing such a hoard
on every telegraph pole in tho Uuited
States. That was his contract, and I
paid him tbe money on his affidavit that
the work MP& done. But perhaps you
wmu'I liutluiug telegraph polos. No, I
dont’t believe I will put any advertiso-
ment in your paper this week. You Ree
1 am advertising a good deal now. ”
Just thou a man came in and collected
a bill for sticking Punkinhead’s caul on
every balloon that weut up during 1874,
and effuoted a new contract for 1875,with
what ho called tho “diving bell supple
ment,” agreeing to attach a card to all
diving bolls that go down in 187/!
without extra charge, a compliment, as
he said, to their regular advertisers.
When we left •another advertising agent
was laying before Punkinhead the great
advantage of investing in a patent stamp
to bo attached to the seats of boy’s pants
THE ItEANON WHY.
ft was not that I lovori her overmuch
Tlint outdo our purling hitler;
» not for the imttaon of her touch,
Orlter eye*’ alitler.
All fl
t WHS 1
We Mill 11 (1
t for the cunning hit she wore,
'era nml luce mill h-nther,
tlmt, though temperance to then
’ ‘ 'gather.
Did
not that when we parted her small hand
ed mi adieu—\ did not to discern it;
that she borrowed my umhiolln, ami
—A run of luck—Winning a race.
—A distant relation—Your nnt-Ipodos.
—To signal a bark—Pull a dog's tail.
—Farewell porformancos—Good meals.
—A stamp act—Trouding on pooplo’s
toes.
—Most disinterestedly good—Good for UVf
nothing.
—If you want to bo a “swell” of the
llrfit water, got tho dropsy.
—Mrs. Partington says she prefers tho
Veuus do Modioiuo to any statute she
knows of.
—Advertising for a wifo is just ns ab
surd as it would bo to get measured for
an umbrella.
—Hint to young Bachelors—Pay your
hills before you pay you addresses.
—The woman who was filled with emo
tion luuln’t room for lior dinner.
—A man cannot expect half a loaf
whou ho loafs all tho timo.
—A placard in tho window of a Centre
street painter's shop says: “Paint your
black eye whilo you wait.”
—What is everybody doing at tho name
timo?—Growing old.
—Tho most pompous Holdior ever
known—General Importance.
—“Two Roles that beat as ono,” re
marked (ho boy to his mother, ns she
wi\h dealing with him for bis sins with
both slippers at once.
—McCulloch Rays forty millions of
Fronchmon could subsist on what forty
mill ions of. A nioriuarin thrnvr nmny
—For Dinner—A queer old gontloinan
being asked what he wished for dinner,
replied: “An nppotito, good company,
something to eat, and a napkin.”
—District visitor, blandly: “Well,
dame, nnd how do you find things now?”
Crusty old cottager: “llow do I find
thiugs? Why, by looking nrtor ’em to bo
—“I am having myself taken in oil,”
said a well known physician, complacent
ly looking round. “Cod-liver, 1 sup
pose, ” growled an oxperienood patient.
—“Your son, madam, persists in doing
nothing,” says the master. “Then,” re
plies tho woman, by no means ilisaon-
oorted, “you should give him tho prize
for persovoronoo.”
—Half a dozen horso thieves hanging
in a row formed a pleasing spoetnclo that
met tho oyo of a rocent Boston visitor in
Western Arkansas. “Six hempor tyran-
uis,” was his fooling remark.
—“Why, Jennie, yon look good enough
to oat,” said a loving husband to bis wifo
ono morning nt breakfast. “Well, I'm
eating an fust as I can, ain’t I?”
—“Here, boy, hold ray horso,” said n
gentleman who hnd driven u wretchedly
lean animal up to tho door of a village
pin. “Hold him!” oxclnimod tho boy.
“Hold him!—Jos’ loan him up ngin that
young tree there, that’ll hold him!”
—A gentleman in addressing tho charm-
Jnff J tuly X, who % vn« just remarried in
Paris for tho third timo, Raid reproach
fully. “You do not coiuo to Londou any
longer?” “Oh, 3’os,” she replied in a
most natural manner, “I always pnss my
widowhood thore. ”
—On Monday evening his wifo asked
him whore ho was going, as she observed
him putting on his ovorcoat. “I’m go
ing to sally forth,” ho replied; and she
warmly rejoined,” “Lot mo c&toh you
with Hally Forth!”
—“No, goutleman of tho jury,” thun
dered an eloquent advocate the other
day in n Denver court, “lhis matter is
for his Honor to decido, who sits there
sleeping so beautifully.” liis Honor
Hotel.
CENTRAL HOTEL,
140 And 143 Itrond Nt., Colnmbm, tin.
Mas. 8. E. Woldripob,
ap21 Proprietress.
Lawyers.
LIONEL €J. LEVY, Jtt.,
Attorney and Counsellor nt lew.
OounalBslunor of Denis N. Y. and otfyrr Staton.
SAMUEL II. UATC'HCU,
Attorney at Law.
Ofllc* over WJttieli A KImrI'i
Painters.
WM. 8NOW, JR.7 A O0„
House and Sign Painters.
Old Oglethorpe comer, (Jnst north ef poetoffloe)
Columbia), Georgia.
Will contract for Iloaito and Sign Painting at
asouablo pricoe, aud guarantee latiifactiou.
Holer to win. Buow, Hr. (aprfi
A. A. DOZIER,
Attorney and Connaollor at Law,
l'rui tinea In State and Federal four In In Georgia
Jnli
Doctors.
DR. JAS. ’*. WARNOOK,
Surgeon and Physician.
Offlco at Slaughter's Drug Store, Railroad street.
Maek II. RuNuroan. Louis F. Uakkakd.
HLANDVORD St GARRARD,
Attorney* and Connaollor* at Uw.
Ofllce No. 07 Broad ntroot, over Witticli A Illn-
eel'e Jewelry Store.
Will practice In tbe State aud Federal OourtK.
Hotels.
A DAMN HOIJNE.
When yon go to Opolika, bo Bare to ftop at the
A iliinm Ilousr, opposite Paaaonger Depot.
L. T. DOWN I NO,
Attorney and Solicitor.
I'om'r and Register in llauk rtiptoy. Oflh
uovvJO) over Brooks' Drug Store, Columbus, ia.
H. J. MOMEK,
Attorney aud Couuaellor nt Law .
ieorgla Hums luMurance Company building, h ■
out/ Iy.J nml story.
HINES D0ZIEB,
Attorney at Law,
11AMIBXOH, UA.,
W ILT, practice in the Chattahoochee ClrcnjJ
or any where elec. All kind of pollection*
PUHiiKi). “Pay me or run away.” novlt tf
Grocers.
• DAN’l.K. HIKE,
Family Groceries, ou Uryau hi rent, be
Dealer lu Family
(weeu Oglethorpe * Jack*
Lr No charge lor Urayago. dec
J. II. HAMILTON,
Wholoaule aaid Retail Grorer,
Junction nr Franklin, Warren A Oglethorpe I
N e charge for dray age. ..-pi
Watchmakers.
C. II. LKUU1N.
Watchmaker,
1:14 Dread street, ColinubUH, Ga.
HU and OlockH repaired lu the bent i
warranted. ju
Tin and Coppersmiths.
WM. VKK,
Worker In Tin, .boot Iron, < opp-r.
Orilur. frum .bruKd .irumiitly .1 l».
1-7 No. 171. Ilm.J M ri‘nt.
HIDES.
M M. HIRSCH
HAS 4PMOVED TO
HIS OLD STAND
ON
Crawford Street,
Near Alabama Warehouse,
Where lie will ooutinno to PAY the
HIGHEST PBIOEP for
Rags, Hides, Furs and Wax,
13 JUWdXT
Dentists.
REAL ESTATE AGENTS.
JOHN
Next to Proor, lllgoB k. Co., 8t.
Columbus, Go.
Real Estate, Brokerage
COLCMHI/M DENTAL ROOMS,
W • Y. PouL, Prop'r,
Georgia Homo Building, Columhns Georgia.
Tailors.
O. A. KOSIINE,
Merchant Tailor and Culler.
A full stock of French nnd KugliMh Broadcloths
GaSHitiieri'M and Vest loan,
aprlfl No. m Brand Street
HENRY BELLMAN.
Cutting, Cleuulug and Itapnirlng
Done iu the best style,
aprili) <;»»rn»r Crawford and Front Pm,
Dress-Making.
MINS M. A. llOLLINMNWOKTH,
)reuH-Maklug, Gutting aud iltiug. 'J'ei ms cheap.
Ileniih nee atidnhop in flrownovillo.
noviu
Plano Tunln<tv&c.
E. W. BLAU,
Repairer and Tuner of l’lauoes, Organs
AccordeoiiB. Sign Fainting also iloue.
Oidom may bo 1m* left at J. W. Feaso A Normau'n
Hook Mi or.-«« “
when they go skating. Whon thoy got j opouoil both his eyes and his mouth, and
a fall his nuiue and business will bo boat- “All cwiug to your narcotic speech,
ly stamped upon the ico, ho that all who fi ir.”
ukate may road.
When it comes to judicious advertising
the race of Fuukiuhoads is vory numer
ous.
To Ornament » .Firrplace.
—A doaf and dumb man in Texas felt
in his pocket for a pencil, to write his
utterances to a stranger, but the stranger,
who had seen that motion iu othors, shot
_ . . ,. . him dead boforo ho could draw the ex-
Lace curtains would vory rood become , ,
.. , , . - , . ., .. peoted pistol. And now, what to him
roiIo.1 boforo o fire place; be-Klex, they ‘
would be too transparent unless lined
with red silk. If lined or of red velvet,
they might he drawu across. The fonder
should be removed; but a pretty fonder
stool might he left, aud would not look |
aro tho storied urn or auinmtod hunt?'
—A Chicago man mot General Hhori-
dan last week, and said: “Cheer up,
Phil.—the war’s over.” “Ain’t too sure
1 of that,” Phil, said with u twinkle iu his
amiss. A looking glass, with narrow gold j ‘V 0,
molding to fit at the part inside the man
telpiece, looks very well, and in that cose
tho curtainfl should he draped an before
a window. Wo have also seen a very
pretty arrangement of plants, tho shelves
for them being wooiloo boxes, into which
tho pots wero sunk, and flllod np with
inosn, the upright part hohiud each row
of plants looking glass. Tho stauil had
three sides to it, and gradual!}' decreased
in size as it asoonded, and the top or
third, row only held ono pot of fonts.
Ferns will grow quite well in the shady
cool retreat of an empty fireplace.
—A man in Crawford county, Kansas,
while digging a well noino days ago dis
covered a bod of shells, apparently of
oyntors, at a depth of t wenty foot below
the surface. The bod measured tliroo
foot in thickness, and the shells wero al
most ft solid mass.
“Ah long as a man’s siuglo he can
keep out of a fight, hut when he marries
bo’s got to take his chances.”
—A clergyman being applied to in less
than a year after his appointment to put
a stove hi tho church, naked how long
bin predecessor had been 11- ro, and when
answered twelve yearn, he -aid: “Well,
you never hud a fire in tho church during
liis timo?" “No, Hir,” replied tho appli
cant, “hut wo had fire in tho pulpit
thon.”
—A young lady was standing on tho
wharf, waving her handkerchief at n
schooner lying in the stream. “Know
anybody aboard?” queried her companion
as he cuino along. “No, I don’t but
they’ro waving thoir handkerchiefs at
me,” she replied. “Hand (ha!) kor (boo)
chiefs!'’ ho exclaimed, dropping his bas
ket and leaning against a woodpile; “why,
them’s tho moil’s blurts hung up to dry.”
Bbo waved into a warehouse.
Cun and Locksmiths.
PHILIP EIPLER,
Mini IjnckkWltli, Orawlord ntroot, next
JoIiiihoii'h comer, Uoliimbim, Uu. Ji
WILLIAM ICUOBKK,
Gun Mild Lockmuitli aud dualor in Gunning Mu-
torialx. Kimt of StrupFur'n Uoufoutioimry
JalB
Fresh Meats.
J. W. PATRICK,
Stalls No. 16 and 18, Market House.
J. T. COOK.
Preah Meat* of All Kind*,
I St«l 1m Nod. IA Mild
Barber Shops.
ED. TERBY, Barker,
Builders and Architects.
J. U. CHALMKRft,
House Carpenter and Builder.
JohbiuK donu »t abort notice.
Finn* and N|»ocillcutionM Airuiflhed for ull HtyluM
if lillillliU^N
(trend Btroot, uoxt to 0. Vf. Br<v
Jm9
iotuiul.il
. Gm
Livery and Sale Stables.
ROBERT THOMPMON,
Livery, Stile and Eaeliaiigo Nflablea-
OoLiTUoupi, North or ?UNm>i.rK Ftb.,
«»ct30 Uotiiitil.n., (-in
Tobacco, Cigars, Ac.
MAIEH BOB*.
Tf yen wuiit to enjoy a good .nioko, po to hi*
JifOir Miiiiutiictorjr,
Itatwi-nn GiMirxiii I loan* ami Mubcokm* 11«*i
Cotton Factories.
COLUMliIJN MANUFACTURING CO.
MmiiiractiirtM'i* of
SliMdliiRN, Slilrt!ng*. Mini 8<‘wlrtfr
Knitting Thread.
Cards Wool and Grinds Wln*Ht % mi Coin-
Office in rear of Wlttich A KinaidX Ibtndolph at.
JulK It. II. OF. If.TuN, I'n sldunt,
MtM'UUKi: MANITPAUTUKISU CO,
Mur .ifucturors of
SIIKKTING8 siltRTlNGS,
YARN, KOFN, A*.
COLUMBUS, GA.
0.1*. SWIFT, President.
W. A. SWIFT, Boor t. . y Treasurer. octal ly.
Doctors.
ns. *. h. u«.
Boot and Shoemakers
OPELIKA DIRECTOaV.
LAWYERS.
BOOTS AND SHOES.
Seasonable Spring Goocls.
Durable, fln. - fitting, l«w - priced
Dress and Walking Boots for
Ladies, Misses ond Children.
Children and Infants’ Ankle Ties and
Slippers,
In all doslrabla color*.
Gentlemen’s Fine Shoes—stylish, du
rable, comfortable.
A S1-I.KNUID ASSORTMENT.
Substantial Work for Plantation Wear,
AND A
Full Stock of all tha desirable styles attrac
tive to all classes of buyers.
WELLS & CURTIS,
No. 73 Broad St.,
rl4 tt - Sign of t.ha Big Boot.
HERRING’S,
Patent Champion Safin,
ESTABLISHED MORE THAN A THIRD
OF AUENTURY,
REDUCED IN PRICE.
ALSO TWO HUNDRED SECOND-HAND*
SAFES FOR SALK AT VERY
LOW PRICES.
HERRING & CO.,
son nu.i 231 it no A i> wat, New Twrk
00 and 00 HUUBUMT *T., Ha.*—•
r.bll Mods*
W. W. SHARPE A 00.,
Publisher*’ Agents
No. 2fi l’urk Bow, New York,
Are authorised to tiasttad Par Ad
vertising lu «sr —*•
my 14 tf
CHARCOAL!
Charcoal, Best Quality,
For Sale at
GAS WORKS'
At Three Cents per Bushel.
npVifj tf
J. W. PEASE & NORMAN,
70 Uroiul Sb, Oolntnkss. Urn.
DSALSSS IS
Music, Musical-Instruments, Pianos
OrsAna, Chromoo,
PICTURES • AND FRAMES
Books, Statiqnery.
Newspapers, Periodicals, Magazines,
eto., eto.
A Supply or all Bind* or Re*dl*ff
Mutter, Papers, Mnwle, Ae.,
on linitd immediately »f.
ter l’nlrttentlon. '
Order* for PeriodiOAIn, or aoythhM;
portainintf to tho tuMinosi will bepruiautiy
idled, ('ail anti L’xamfne »or Stock. YouMfty
neu ptmu'tliinn; that you need.
i —„■*&«.
Commercial Hotel,
tmtlU, ALABAMA.
D edicated to tho Oommereiat Travelers
of tha United States, amialljporaons trav-
cling on buMiiioM* or pleoauriL -
f
i
iNOISTfAKT PMMF
Ofllce rumor Broad and Randolph Burras
building.
Residence oa Forsyth, three door* below fit. Clair.
rv*m*eam*nftfl
.UNasble. Oir. u
novlft tf
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do., AtUota, US. “