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FRANKUN » 1 COUNTY REGISTER
BY ELLEN J. DORTCH
THE SPECTRE
That Frightened one of our Citi
zens at Indian Creek.
The Baptiist church at Indian
creek is situated on the public road
six or seven miles west of Carnesviile
Tbe church was established many
years ago, the building is old, the
graves hard by, appear to have been
tenanted for centuries, and the place
taken altogether, has an old and a
long-timjBrago-look about it. It is
suggestive of ghosts and gobbling
and a timid man would hesitate to
pass there after night fall. A num
ber of stories have been told of
strange sights seen and strange
sounds heard there. It has the re¬
putation of being haunted. Most
of the stories about haunts and
ghosts, date far back in the past and
are handed down traditionally, but
the Story I am going to relate is of
recent occurence, is told by a man
who is well known to many of our
readera, and whose character for
Veracity and stron g common sense
is unquestioned.
The church stands some 60 yards
south of the public road with the
side of the building facing the road.
Vhere is a door on the side #f the
house next the road and a door at
the east end of the building.
One evening in June 1866 a little
past the middle of the afternoon, N
C. Gordon, his wife and two chil¬
dren passed the church on their
way home, which was about a mile
west of there. Mr. Gordon wa3 on
foot, Mrs. Gordon was riding with
one child behind, her, and carrying
an iufant in her lap. A fearful
looking cloud was rising in the west
great balls of lightning shot across
the clouds and sky, and peal after
perl of deafening thunder shook the
e*rth. They were hurrying rapidly
home to escape the threatened storm
About the time Mr. Gordon was
oppos : tethe middle of the church
building, Mrs. Gordon rode up to his
and asked if he saw that men
the east door. Upon being ans¬
wered in the negative she said it
was the most awful sight she had
evereeeu,and that she tried to attract
attention before Iip had passed
out of sight. Noticing a tremor in
her voice, he looked up in her face
and seeing that she was pale and
trembling with terror, and not
wishing that should be frightened
without cause, and to cerrect the
false impression under which he
thought she was labormg, he said:
“It is only some one stopring out
of the storm, and to convince you,
we will go back, and perhaps we
had best stop ourselyes. until the
cloud passes.” They turned back
in a direction that brought the east
door of the church in view when they
were tw enty-five or thirty steps away
There was a man sitting in the door
with his feel resting on the steps.
He was dressed in snow white gar¬
ments, bis feet encased in white
stockings, and purple gloves were on
hands which were folded in his lap
Bis head was bare aud his short hair
black as night, bis eyes were
dosed, bis face clean shaved, there
Was no tinge of blood in his cheek or
lips, and his Jskin had the ghastly
yellowish lode usually seen in the
of the dead. Hr. Gordon ap¬
proached .slowly until near enough
to have touched it with his walking
tick. He looked at the man intently
and was unable to detect any motion
of the muscles or any imv e
ment of the chest that would have
given indication of breathing, jphile
looking on undecided as to what he
should do, the horse on which Mrs.
Gordon and the children rode
to show evidences of fright, and Mr.
■
Gordon led him away, and before
passing out of sight he looked back
and saw the man in the same posi¬
tion as when first seen. Just before
reaching home they passed the resi¬
dence of Mr. T. C. LeCroy and he
and Mr. Gordon hurried back to the
church to make further investigation
but the strange man was gone and
bad left no trace of his visit.
This is the exact story as tclu by
Mr. Gordon and his wife :t was
jroad day light and,there was nothing
to deceive or uls’.ead them, and there
is no question as to th e truth of the
story. Mr. Gordon was raised in
this couuty and was well acquainted
with the people in the county and
especially in that neighborhood, but
the man in white was a stranger to
lim. Who he was, where he came
;rom 4 why ha was there and in such
a garb, why so ghostly and immova¬
ble, and What became of him, are
questions we cannot answer; we only
give the story as related by Mr, and
lira. Gordon, who live near Carnes
ville and will vouch for its truth.
New Mode of Identifying Pris¬
oners.
The latest method of identifying
prisoners which has been introduced
into France bv M. Alphonse Ber
tillen, and which js now successfully
practiced, not only in the chief
French prisons, but in Russia and
Japan as well, is the exact measure¬
ment of the prisoner on his arrival at
the jail. His waist, the length and
width of the head; the , left middle
finger, the left foot, the ontstretched
arms, the three other fingers of the
left hand, the left arm from the el¬
bow to the wrist, and the length ami
width of the ears are measured, and
the color of the eyes, and any pecu¬
liarities are noted down. A photo¬
graph is also immediately taken, and
by these means the many mistakes
whicn have been made by trusting to
a photographer only are avoided.
The fact that during the two years
since this mode has been m operation
826 habitual criminals, who presented
themselves under an assumed name,
have been identified in France,
shows that M. Bertillon’s method is
superior to any other. It is stated
that habitual crimnals, particularly
English pick-pockets, are so convinc¬
ed of the infallibility of the method,
that they will on no account submit
to the measurement, and offer violent
resistance whenever the attempt is
made to measure them. In such
cases we are assured that it is nearly
always sufficient to measure the in¬
side of the hat and boots.- -Amateur
Photographer.
"The Felt, Location of the Ego.”
himself to be situated in himself. "When
the finger is pinched, it is plainly enough
not I that am pinched, but my finger;
and the same is true of a hurt in any
part of the body. Notwithstanding the
KTlr^TT^e S felt
been able to discover that a headache
any nearer to me than a finger ache.
Perhaps the nearest approach I have
known to a sense of closeness, or to a
veritable me-ache, has been a sharp pain
2Sk£f thatf^egLon°by
a bat which slipped from the
hand of a striker. But there is one point
£« IPthSa
brought out so deliciously by the dear
little girl in Punch. “You ought to tie
your own apron strings, Mabel!’’ sayB
rm Maurier’af re ^How ) S”® 5 fa
tbe reply. “I’m in front, you know?”
—Atlantic Monthly.
CARNESYILLE, GA., TUESDAY, FEBRUARY 1 1887
TERRIBLE MELINITE
An Explosive with ten times the
Power of Nitro-Glicerinc.
A special from Paris says: The
subject of supreme interest in the
military circles just now is the new
explosive melinite, about which’
little is known except its terrible
destructive power, and which is
therefore, natuially a fruitful theme
for discussion. The centre of
Erench artillery operations now is
at Bourgess, where the new explo¬
sive is being manufactured for ex¬
perimental purposes, Buorgess has
taken the place of Metz and Stras
burg. It is here that experiments
are going on without ceasing and a
corpse of distinguished officers are
seeking a solution of the problom
low to kill at a single stroke as
many men as possible. It is a
‘rightful problem, which science
should solve as soon as possible, for
there is good reason to hope that
the solution will prove the ending
of all wars—wars which had some
of the elements of chivalry a con,
;ury ago, but has become hideous
since chemistry has taken a hand
in them.
The two men who discovered the
principle of melinite are Capiains
Locard and Hirondart, who are ab
tached to the guff factory at
Bourgess. As a reward for their in¬
vention, M Locard has been promo¬
ted to the ranks of Major, and M.
Hirondart has been docorated.
Major Locard is regarded as a sa¬
vant of the first .rank. Scarcely
any of his time has been given to
the routine of military service. He
is more of chemist and an inventor
than a soldier: His latest discovery
in connection with Captain Hiron¬
dart, is this destructive powder,
which lias been christened melinite,
because in color it resembles
honey.
Following the first experiments
with the substance, which were
made at Le Fere, works for testing
the invention havs been pushed ic
tively at Bourges. Three small forts
have been constructed to try the ef¬
fect of the new shells charged with
melinite. The forts, which have
*b(en finished seventy days, looks
somewhat like turnated pyramids.
Two are of concrete pebbles, and the
thiid, which is the largest, is of f as¬
and silex. It is twelve meters,
about 39 feet, square and base, three
meters, about 10 feet higfc, and cost
37,000f., (about $7,400). The other
two cost together, 45,000f., or about,
9,200. It is predicted that the me¬
linite will destroy these works .solid
built as they are in less tirna than
it takes te write it. Daily experi¬
ments have been made on a small
scale, and their result has been so
satisfactory that wagon loads of ma¬
terial for manufacturing the new
explosive are arriving at Bourgess
<j ai w Ether is one of the principal
ingredients of the powder, and as the
production of this is only about
QQ 000 aljnual | f. y France, ’ Minister
Boulanger has his agents out
ether wherever they can find it, and
some has been purchased in Germany
for the manufacluae of shells which
ar(J ex p K CC ted some day f. to be used
the foices ot . that , .
against empne.
To launch the shells charged with
melinite no special design of mortar
is required. Gen Boulanger has de¬
on immediate manufacutore
of 210,000 melinite projectile,, wdich
w yj j,e r ady l’ by spring, but the
, .
to be mLadc at yons and , Kive
are
de *Geir instead #f Bourgess. When
they J are ready J for charging ° ° they
will be transported to Bourgess. and
there the melinite will be infioduced.
Boulanger explans his action by say¬
ing that the government lias work¬
shops at Lyons all ready for produc¬
ing the shells and that lie will save
800,000f, by having them made there
The melinite is being manufac tured
at BourgcSs : s fast* as possible un
der the supervision *f its discoverers.
The destructive power of the new
explosive is reported to be 100 times
greater fhan ordinaiy gunpower, or
ten times greater than nitro-glycer
ine. An ordinary shell, falling on
tfhe roof of a building, bursts and
shatters everything in its immediate
vicinity. Tho melinite shell is in
tended to strike the ground at the
foundation of the building, an d once
there it explode? and shoots every
thing into the air, reducing beams
joists t o an almost impalpable pow¬
der.
In the meantime, while the man¬
ufacture of this terrible explosive is
going on, its inventors are experi¬
menting with a new kind of rifle
powder, which explodes without
making any smoke; and which will
enable a body of infantry to fire on
the enemy from cover without be¬
traying their position by little clouds?
of smoke. The chemists are devel¬
oping into wholesale slaughterers of
men, and when the time comes, as it
apparently will come, that a general
by blowing can annihilate a hundred
thousand of the enemy, covering a
ling, of several leagues, the theory
of universal peace, founded on whole
ale massacre at a distance will be
very near! y demonstrated.
Among tul the stories that are amus¬
ing Parisians just now—and it is
part of the duty of tho daily press
to furnish amusing stories; even at
the sacrifice of space needed for new s
—is told of the frugality of tho fa¬
mous German general Yon Meltkc.
The incident is placed at during the
seige of Paris by the German forces.
Yon Meltke used to soften the rig¬
ors of war by occasionally giving a
little dinner party, and to one of
these he had invited five gentlemen.
The covers were laid for six but one
of the expected was unable to appear
and sent his regrets. Von Holtke
it is related, upon receiving tbe note,
hurried off in person to the pastry
cook’s establishment and notified tho
presiding genius of the place to
send but five eclairs instead ol s ix
as had been o-dered. This story of
German economy is told with great
gusto and laughed at heartily in the
cafss and clubs.
Tha readers of tbe Register will be
pleased to learn that there is at least
one dreaded disease that science has
been able to cure in all its stages,
and that is Catarrh. Hall’s Catarrh
cure is the only positive cure now
known in the medical fraternity
Catarrh being a constitutional disease
requires a constitutional treatment.
Hall’s Catarrh cure is taken internal¬
ly, acting directly upon the blood
and mucus surfaces of the system 5
thereby destroying the foundation of
the disease and giving the patient
strength, by building up the constitu¬
tion and assisting nature in doing its
work. The Proprietors have so
much faith in its curative powers
that they offer one hundred dollars
for any case it fails to cure. Send
for list of testimonials. Address
F. J. CHENEY & Co., Toledo’ O.
jgfijpBold by Druggists, 75 cts.
Cure for Typhoid Patient*.
The best physicians now freely admit
that typhoid patients, in tbe great ma
ioritv of cases, would recover without a
drop' of medicine; that they need medi
ssss.w--.-h~.
A SURVVAL OF TI1E UNFIT
TEST.
In his inaugural address before tho
Sanitary Congress recently held in
New Tork, Sir T. Spencer Wells,
the president of the congress, touched
upon a subject of great interest to
the educators. He said, speaking as
a sanitarian, so far as concerns the
mental and physical training ot chil¬
dren and giving women the opinion
of other occupations than those of
domestic life, he saw no groat cause
for alarm. It is an age in which edu¬
cation—at any rate, foi the middle
classes—must be pushed far beyond
the litmte which our fathers thought
wide enough for us, Mere rule of
thumb work is almost out of date;
and there are so many industries in
which scientific knowledge and ex¬
actness are requisite, that tho want
of education cuts off a youug man’s
chances of advancement. A work
man must now be something more
than a mere machine. He must have
head as well as hands, brains as well
as muscle; and as uneducated braius
are not worth more in the labor mar¬
ket than untrained muscle, wo mast
be content to make somo sacrifice in
their culture. As for tho outcry
about the dangers of women taking
up men’s work, it is breath wasted.
Many failures will out-weigh the
few successes and bring the balance
right.
“For my own part,” continued the
speaker, “I think woman capable ol
a groat deal more than they have
been accustomed to do in times past.
If overwork sometimes leads to dis
case, it is morally more wholesome te
work into it than to lunge into it.
And if some molical practitioners
have observed ca-.es where mental
overstrain has led to disease of mind
and body, I cannot deny that 1 also
have at longer intervals some such
cases. But for every such example I
feel quite sure that I have seen at
least twenty where evils equally to
be deplored arc caused in young wo
men by want of mental occupation,
by deficient exercise, too luxurious
living and too much amusement or ex
citoment.-*-Science.
NEGLECTED GRAVES.
Washington, January 21.—Mr.
Sheimau has offered in the senate
an amendment to be proposed to the
sundry civil bill to appropriate $8,
000 to put new fences around ceme*
t.eries in which confederate deal are
buried near Columbus, Ohio, and
Johnson’s Island. Accompanying
fc he amendment is an extract from
the recent annual message of Gov.
Foraker, in which he refers to the
dilapidated condition of tbe fence
and the neglected state of tho
grounds, and adds:
The hatred ani destination that
all loyal people must and should evei
entertain for the desti uctive political
doctrines that these men fought for
ought not to stand in (he way of,
cithei a cordial feeling toward the
living, who have abandoned such
heresies, era proper regard or Chris¬
tian respect for the graves of the
dead who although wrong, yet hero¬
ically and valorously contended for
the convictions they enterta-ned.
The bent Salve in the world for
cuts, bruises, sores, ulcers, salf rheum
feavers, corns tetter, chaped hands,
cuts biains and all Bkin E uption
and positively euro piles, or no pay
required. J.t is guaranteed to give
perfect satisfaction, or money re¬
funded. Price 25 cents per box. For
sale by 11 . M. Freeman.
Facing the World.
One thing is certain, that a man who
from his boyhood has been
face the world to fight his own battles,
ft> pay bis own bills, make his own^vay,
Howard. * ;-;L
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VOL XI. NO 6
Past and Present.
“The good old times” that are so
much wanted might be restored, the
Biidgeport (Conn.) Sentinel suggests,
for the enjoyment of the existing
generations. It asks: “Why not
pass a law forbidding steam-beats
from plowing the waters, railroads
from running on land, tslegraphs
from sending messages, telephones
from being used, all furnaces, steam
tieaters, etc., to bo taken out of houses
and other buildings, all grates for
burning coal to be taken out, all
stoves to be melted foi old iron’ all
waterworks in cities to be left empty,
the use of all gas and other illumina¬
tors, except dipped tallow candles,
to be disused, and really go back to
the ‘good old times,’ say for five
years. Then, if at midnight on a
cold, stormy night, a doctor is want
ed, he must ho sent for instead oj
telephoning for him. If one wished
to send a message to a distance, in¬
stead of telegraphing he must write
a letter and send it by stages to its
distant place, and waif patiently for
days or weeks for the answer. When
one goes homo on a freezing night
he can sit by a wood fire, raasting on
one side while freezmg on fhe other,
and reading by the dim iight of a tal¬
low dip, instead of the blaze of a
gaslight, or the more agreeable light
of Arerosine. If ho undertakes a
journey,instead of getting into the
cam and going where lie wishes, the
best ho can do is to take a stage at
four times the costs and ten times the
discomfort of tho cars. Let those
and other modern improvements be
forbidden, and ‘good old days’ be
brought back; how long would it be
before an extra session of the Legis
lature would bo denfanded to knock
the ‘good okl days’ into splinters, and
to restore the much better
days which wo now enjoy, and lor
which we ought to bo most devoutly
thankful.”
The South is expected to strike
out in new paths financially, socially,
and industrially, but the same old
ring is to rule things down here in
Georgia. The p following oxtract
; (
from a Washington letter to the
the New Fork Star will sho <v how
things are to bo fixed. , “An elec¬
tion for Govcrno of Georgia means
a re-election without opposition; so
Governor Gordon will again be
chosen in October, 1888. Next
month SenatorJColquitfistob re-elec*
ted for tbe term begining on Match
4th 1889. Governor Gordon will go
oat of office in November, 1890, and
will be elected as the successor
to Senator Brown, whose term will
expire on March 3,199L”
The minister who preaches tbe
best sermon, the lawyer who knows
the mosf low apd how to apply it,
the doctor who has the most skill
his profession, the mechanic who
understands his business, works hard
and saves money, thd * storekeeper
who g ive« full measure' and doet not
put all the large apples on top, and so
on down to Bridget in the kitchen
who can keep the most tidy house—•
»re “our best people,” •
Sheriff* of England.
The sheriffs of England are taken from
gentlemen residing in a county who are
supposed to be rich. The selection is
arbitrary (although it sometimes happens
that some wealthy snob" who had just set¬
tled in a county announces his readineM
to serve), and the expense, which aver¬
ages about $2,500, is sometimes a heavy
tax upon the unlucky geptlemen who are
pushed into the honor.—The Argonaut.