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Newspaper Page TextCEDARTOWN RECORD. W. S. D. WIKLE & 00., Proprietors, CEDARTOWN, GEORGIA, FRIDAY. MARCH 23, 1877. VOL. III. NO. 39. CUlt It B.V T P Alt AO It A 1‘US, So dull is bufiiness in Washington that the district marshal has some three hundred letters from people desiring to serve as jurors so as to support their fam ilies, uo other employment being open to fhetn. A riix'i: of coral, measuring about twelve inches in height, six inches lin diameter at the lop and two at the base, was recently taken ofl' a submarine cable which had lain only four years in the sea. Tiir attractions ot French women born of French parent*, as a rule, consist of a graceful movement of the body, small feet and well shafted hands; a sometimes fascinating expression belong- ing to irregular features and a facility for conversation which often make? you forget they do not belong to the Plirync ideal. They dress better than any other ladies in the world. There arc scalp claims awaiting the action of the supervisors of Mendocino county, California, amounting to $1,787. The animals slaughtered were sixteen California lions, one hundred and nine teen boar, comprising the black, brown and cinnamon species, and two hun dred and forty-four wildcats. The lion and panthers draw n bounty of $10 each, hears $5 each,and wildcats $8 each. Thera are no grizzly scalps. RELIGIOUS. •• Cfeme Vntn Mr.” In iiip, jo heavy Imlt-u, I'll xhli-M you urllh mv I'll l.-ari y„u all Ihflhort AihI k«*p you .■wtfcfnui Como uiilo hip, yp hunjo; Who linger hy I ho way, My llolda are wide. I've l Como tnko It wldlo yp r » Mf, ye till it,! \ Who All thiouRbuiy fertile IiuhIh. For aiirtVrcw 1 toll. Coiiip unto mo, yp way ward onoa In flowery paths ot sin ; ForiuUe the paths ye lovo so well, For daiigpr lurks therein; Your lives w»irp Mine, ye helit tlio til hark, Hut your ulna I will iorgivn If you'll Bring to Mo tho remnant left—— Coiup unto Me ami live. Cotne, every nation, kimlreil, tongue— Couip UenUle, ami coiiip Jpw— There's room In Heaven for every one, SIX ruluod, loat, undone— ' Mine, I purrhnaeil them •Mrs. Nellie Fish' r, in ,V. IIVrA/y. Ax Irish review says that In Dublin society tlie professional classes arc every thing nntl tho commercial classes noth ing; that wealthy tradespeople are al ways persistently endeavoring to gain a social footing in Dublin, but are sternly resisted by the “profeaaionocracy,” that no seamstress works so hard as tlie wives of rich Dublin traders trying to fight their way into the charmed ring of lawyers and doctors. Englandexpects every policeman to do his duty. A fortnight ago a stalwart defemler of.the public peaoo marched into tho Marylebone police court h ading a child four years old, who was charged with stealing a rasher of bacon from a shop. . The child complacently sucked an orange and winked at his mother while tho efficient officer described the shop lifting. The magistrate refused to send the little ono to jail, but advised tho mother to give him a good scolding. What a zealous public officer this Hritish policeman would nave been in Herod’s day. A correspondent relates in The Star, of St, Helena, Cal., a story of a won derful dog in Pope valley. The owner kept sheep, and the dog herded them. Finally the sheep were sold to a Ber- ryes.sa man (an adjacent valley some ten miles away). The owner and (the dog delivered the sheep and returned home. Soon after the man missed his dog and searched for him in vain. He was a valuable dog, and his loss was mourned for a couple of days, when, behold, up he came fro A Befryctwl with tho whole band of sheep, which ho had brought safely home again. It is remarkable fact that nothing surpasses in modern engineering, the pyramids of Gbizeh, built some five thousand years ago. It Is universally acknowledged by the highest professional authorities in this line that the masonry could not be surpassed in these days; and, moreover, the design is perfect for the purpose for which they were in tended, above all to endure. The build ing of pyramids continued for some ten centuries, and from sixty to seventy still remain ; many contain enormous blocks of granite from thirty to forty feet long, weighing more than three hundred Urns, and display the most consummate in genuity in their construction. A more difficult operation than the mere trans port of weight—that of raising obelisks weighing more than four hundred tons— was performed with precision by the Egyptians, but their method of lifting them remains unknown. The use of large stones in fortifications was known to the Peruvians; and in India, too, from their repugnance to the use of the arch, builders have commonly used large blocks both in bridges and buildings But the Romans surpassed in mechanics tbe Egyptians who set up obelisks, since they transported them from Egypt, and afterward erected them at Rome, where more are now to be found than remains in Egypt. Immense stone were used in L^e temple of Baalbec; one lies ready quarried which is seventy feet long and fourteen feet square and weighs up ward of 1,185 tons. The Drtnt Church In Clianotown. 'Flie interior of the church was almost as dreary and forlorn an it* exterior. The two row* of low,-backed, comfortless pews, with aii uncarpetedaisle separating them, looked forbidding and homely. The gal lery opposite the pulpit was decorated with wooden ornaments in very bad re pair, and the moon-faced clock had a broken long pointer and a crooked short ono. A red curtain drawn over a brass wire, just aImjvo the gallery-rail, revealed a small mclodeon, weighted down with half-worn singing-hooks. Tho little square of carpet in front of the pulpit was glaring in color, and offended tho minister’s eyes. But hty cared little for the appearance of the church. Ho turnctl fliixibtisljp to llie Congregation, and glanced over tho men and women who wit waiting his remarks. They did not even seem inclined to look at him now, although ho saw many faces whose owners had stared at him curiously enough at the depot. The church win dows were open, and n delicious breczt laden with the perfume of lilacs in neigl boring gardens, of the apple-blossoms on the adjacent hills, rustled gently the leaves of the hymn-book which tho min. istcr was opening. Mr. Argent longed to spring to his feet, ami to address the congregation with burnioB words which should infuse life into their fainting souls. For lie well knew that their souls were faint. A kind of spiritual jKirulysis had, two or tlirce years ptevious to his arrival, fallen upon both the Congregational and Bap tist churches in Clmsetowu, and thus far all efforts to heal it had been vain. Gradually the attendance fell away, and hy and hy it became difficult to secure preaching in either church. The Con gregational minister, who had for twenty years contented himself with a meager salary and small approval,had a call else where, and, despairing of Chasetown, ac cepted it. The church thenceforth be came dependent on “trial preachers.” The Baptist brethren were reduced to the sarno precarious method of obtaining spiritual assistance, and Redman, tho rich manufacturer and prominent worker in their demonination, had thought ( /> do them great good hy sending Mr. Ar gent among them. The young clergy man’s fame had preceded him,and dozens of the Congregationaiists had thought it worth their while, on the occasion of his first appearance, to visit tiie Baptist church. They secretly longed fer that spiritual awakening, the hope of which had almost vanished from their breasts. Would it come from him ? The little church was not filled. There were great ugly gaps in the very middle of the congregation. Here and there half a dozen bright, handsome girls occupied a pew together, and, conscious of the contrast of their beauty with the hard features and angular outlines of the farmers’ wives and the farmers scattered about them, they looked coquettishly at the new minister, a* if surprised that lie did not notice it. As for the farming folk, they appeared gloomy and unsym pathetic; the husbands set apart from their wives; each person seemed to shrink into his or her corner, as if some wrath to come was concealed in the gathering twilight. A few elderly, red-faced, squared-jawed men looked critically at the minister, as if wondoring why he were so presumptuous as to delay his be ginning. When Mr. Argent [arose, he felt ns if he had Iho whole congregation upon his hack, and it was crushing him. But this was only for a moment. He prayed; and his prayer (bund an echo in ninny a heart. The old cracked bell In the belfry had reaped ringing but a min ute or two before life began, and bin Voice, coming after tho metallicdissouance, wan like sweetest music. His prayer waa short; a rustle swept over tho congrega tion. Its members had expected a longer supplication. They began to fear that they were to bo called upon to aid in tho work. Each man eyed Ins neighbor sus piciously. Mr. Argftut gave out a hymn, which was sung hy the young girls and tho “choir,” whose singers arrived late and hustled into the front seats with consul ernble nstentation. The minister haw that they wore two beautiful faces among those of the singcra who aided the choir most skillfully. One waa that of a woman about twenty-four or twenty- live, a delicate, pain-laden, even wrinkled face, with pleading, protesting eyes, timid lips and a broad, high forehead; the other, that of a girl, thin, sensitive, passionate, the lovoly oval face framed in folds of chestnut hair ; a Ineo capable of almost infinale variety of expression After the hymn, Mr. Argent announced that there would he preaching in the church, morning and afternoon on the morrow, ami Sabbath-school concert in the evening, after which he road a char ter from tho gospel of St. John. He then laid asido the great biblc, and stepping down from a low platform began to sing a simple melody with which ho lmd been wont to awaken religious fervor in rude hack-woods communities it^the far west. The melody waa inspiring; the words ap pealed ; the singer was natural, graceful, effective. It was a song to move hearts, to awaken souls. But it seemed to have little or no effect on the congregation. When tho song died away, Mr. Argent fancied that ho heard sounds as of sob bing here and there in the church, hut the mnHH of his auditors looked straight into space before them, almost as if they were determined to ignore him and liia song. Mr. Argent resumed his seat, saying “ Will some brother lead us in prayer?” There was no answer. The twilight had deepened into dark now ; the breeze was cioler; night had come. Mr. Ar gent waited in vain. It was evident that there would ho no response. His heart overflowed with pity and sorrow for these cold and unlovely souls that could not oven warm themselves with his enthusiasm. He addressed them froely, with burning and eloquent words he urged them to return to the higher life from which they had departed, mid to consecrate themselves anew. Hlill no answer Both men and women listened uneasily, Some were willing to respond but they desired a “more convenient season.” “Morey sakes! he flustered everybody e’en a’most to death,” Aunt Nancy Brown said, afterward, relating t he history of the meeting to a congenial gossip, over a smoking cup of tea. “ Will no one lead in prayer ? Is there no ono who will come with mo to Christ’s altar?” said Mr. Argent, once more, this time very gently. He bowed his face hid it in his hands and waited. The silenco in the littlo church was painful Uncle Brutus, who sat near tho door, shuffled his bools in the hope of relieving the horrible spelP* which seemed to have fallen upon all. But there was no hope. All were mute. Mr. Argent arose. “ Brethren and sisters,” he said, laying his hands upon the bihle, slowly placing it in position, and placing the hymn-book upon it “ there will be no further services here this evening. Brethren and sisters, there is no Christ here !”—Bouton Journal. BETTER THAN GROG. A correspondent ot the I^ondon Lan cet, w'ho owns water power mills, writes 1 am frequently compelled, at this sea son of the year, to have men working in water even in frosty weather. I find the following allowance gives great satisfac tion to the men, and we never have case of cold or injury to the men in any way: Kettle of coffee, made with half sweet milk, half ’water, three or four eggs whipped poured into it when off the boil; hot toasted bread with plenty of butter of the finest quality. Serve up this every two and a half hours. Tnc expense is much less than the ususl allowance of whisky, and the men work far better, and if care is taken to have the coffee, milk (cream is still better) v bread, and especially the butter, of the verv finest quality, the men arc delighted witli it. I am jiersuadcd it would be worth while to try this allowance instead of grog. Giving extra grog irive* the men a notion that it is good for them, and perpetuate? tho belief in stimulants among workingmen. MtiW.. 1'Atwed the nonaD*., A* it became a law Law of I net rear.... Reduction TUtS ARl'DOUIUATIONS. Tcji of the regular appropriation hill* were passed by congress, and show an excess over the total of the aanie bills at the last session of $2,898,398.94. Tho army bill and the river and harbor bill fill led. The following summary give* the history in brief of tbe bills of the present session: THE PENSION HILL. in ported to Iho house $28,533,500 00 ’anted the house 28,333.600 00 Parsed tho Nona to 28,633,60000 As it leoamc a law 28,633,600 (X) of la.il year 20,633,600 00 Red uetton [1,000,Out) 00 tub rosTomci: mu.. the house 832,1183,025 00 31,5)21,618 00 ... 31,903,690 00 . 33,207,300 00 ... 31,685,701 00 ... 1,318,31100 THE FORTIFICATION BILL, Reported to the house $2.10,000 00 (tawed the house 250,IKK) 00 Passed the senate 350,000 00 As it heoaine a law 300,000 00 Uw of Inst year 316,090’bo Reduction 15,000 00 THE CONSULAR AND DIPLOMATIC BILL. Reported to the house $1,137,085 00 Pawed the house 1,137,086 00 PrtiHetl the Sonnto. 1,138,097 (M) Aa it became, a law 1,138,8-45 50 Law of last vear 1,187,197 50 Redaction l.j..'. 60,360 00 THE LEGISLATIVE,’ EXECUTIVE AND JU DICIAL BILL. Reported to the house $11,260,065 50 " ‘ ‘ ' ...1-1,523,935 50 ... 16,311,986 89 ... 15,314,960 30 ... 1,5373.960 00 68,999 70 THE MILITARY ACADEMY BILL. Reported to the house $265,161 00 Passed the house 265,101 IK) Passed the. aonatcj : 299,605 00 Aa it became a law 286,604 00 Law of last year 290,065 IK) Reduction 3,101 00 Passed the house... 'asset! the. annate .h it became a law.. -aw of lnHt year Reduction THE INDIAN BILL. Reported to the house.. Passed the house Passed the senate As it became a law Law of Inst year Increase ....$4,148,099 12 4,439,499 12 .... 6,154,935 09 .... 4,751,499 12 4,672,702 01 .... 178,733 11 THE DEFICIENCY BILL. Reported to the house $1,127,197 48 Passed the house 1,240,377 68 PbshccI the senate 3,816,051 42 As it became a law 2,398,966 53 Latgm last year 2,58)8,177 09 RetRUAlbit,..'. 509 224 60 THE NAVAL BILL, Reported lo tho house $12,192,952 IX) Passed I he house. 12,197,962 11 Passrd I he senate 17,019,952 40 As it became a law 13,549,962 40 l/uw of last vear 12,742,166 -10 Increase 808,797 00 THE SUNDRY CIVIL BILL. lie ported lo IhehotiHc $14,018,595 -I Passed (he house 16,146,807 .1 Passed the senate 18,008,917 7 As it became a law 17,590,229 3 I/iw of Inst, year 16,351,474 6 HUM MARY OF IIILLH FOn 1S77-8. Pension hill $28,633,500 I Posloftice hill 33,276,390 1 Foitificntion hill 3(K),(KM) I ronsulsr and Diplomatic, hill.., 1,136,847.' Legislative and executive hill.. 15,314,9601 Military academy bill 286.004 l Indian hill 4,751,499 1 Deficiency lull 2,308,8561 Naval bill 13,440,962 -; .Sundry civil bill 19,590,229 : Total of ten hills $119,129,938 87 Total of same hills last year, 116,735,042 93 There were passed IN ADDITION TO THEBE, two Hinall hills, the house deficiency bill, $1311,254,98, and tho printing deficiency bill of $350,000. The house committee on appropriations attempted a reduction of about 9300,000 in the naval appropri ation, but failed in tho effort. The bill as passed appropriates about $700,000 more than last year’* bill, but this is $2,500,000 less than Robeson and the senate would have had it. The aenate attempted lo raise the amount of the pay of the navy over a million dollars above THE HOUSE FIGURE#, but they split the difference, and fixed it at 96,000,000. The house sought to fix the item for the bureau of equipment and recruiting at $700,000, but finally allowed $970,000. Of this amount $10,- 000 is immediately available for provis ions and clothing. The item for the bureau of construction and repair is $1,750,000, which is almost exactly one- half less than the senate domanded. 'The item for the bureau of engraving is $942,000, for which the senate demanded $2,000,000. THE MAIN POINT on which the senate yielded was its de mand that $1,500,000 for construction and repair and $760,000 for engineering should be immediately available. This would have helped out Mr. Robeson and the new administration beautifully, but they yielded to prevent an extra session. The bill is in all its minor details the same as the bill last year. - The house yielded the scheme for a mixed commis sion on the navy, which was Whit- thorne’s pet hobby, and which was at tached to this bill. THE OREATE8T VICTORY OF THE HOOBE was on the post-ofDe bill, which they succeeded in reducing a million bolow the appropriation of last year, in apito of the growing demands of the depart ment. The aenate under took to pits* in this hill AubsldloA of half a million for the Pacific mail steamship company’s Asiatic line, and the aamo amount for the mail service between New Orleans and Rio Janeiro. Tho schemes were two of the greatest jobs that appeared in congress, and their defeat was u great good fortune for the country. The second one was merely a cover for a salo of one or more iron eteamshiits by John Roach, of Philadelphia, the provision lielng that the ship should be “ accepted” hy somo naval officer to ho appointed hy tho secretary of the navy. The follow ing are THE PRINCIPLE ITEMS of this hill: Compensation of postmas ters, $7,250,000; payment of letter-car riers, $1,825,000; rent, light and fuel, $400,000; clerks in imst-offices, 93,340,-- 000; advertising, $00,000; stationary, $55,000; miscellaneous incidental items, $80,000; inland mail transportation, $9,250,000. Of this amount the bill says $150,000 may be used for THE FAST MAILS. 'The department demanded $250,000. Other items aro as follows: Compensa tion to railway post-office clerks, $1,225,- 000; route agents, $1,000,000; mail- route messengers, $150,000; local agents, $110,000; mall messengers, $670,000; mail-hags and hag catchers, $200,(^00; manufacture of ntamps, $150,747; man ufacture of stomped envelopes and news paper wrapper*, $000,000; manufacture of postal cards, $300,000; transporta tion of foreign mails, $250,000. THE AMOUNT ACTUALLY APPROPRIATED and available under this hill in excess of the revenues of the department is $2,- 932,725. The amount of $6,000 h appropriated to continue the post-office commission, so-called, and the hill in structs the postmaster-general to cause a careful inquiry to he nmdo into the com pensation paid to clerks in poBt-offioes, with a view to more equitable adjust ment and reduction thereof. He is also required to inquire into the number of letter-carriers in clitics, and lq< reduce the number of them and tho number of deliveries to the reasonable require ments of the public Bcrvice. The effort to reduce the pay of the carrier* in this hill failed entirely. WERE THEY INNOCENT V The case of Ryan and Oschwald at Newark is attracting as much attention abroad as it does at home. In reviewing it tho New York Herald says: This case calls to mind the well known and re markable case of the murder of tho Ital ian organ grinder in Dublin some yenrs ago. Tho hoy was found dead in a vacant lot on tho outskirts ot the city with his throat cut. Where the body lay the branch of a young sapling had been freshly broken off. Acting on this clew tlio ever vigilant special detectives followed up the case, until they hunted down and arrested “on suspicion” u tinker named Cooney, a tippling “ne’er- do-weel,” who was given to “bad com pany and night walking.” On searching his room the branch ot the sapling, fresh from where the hoy’s body lay, was found Under his bed. The model detec tives “worked up” the CR«e beautifully and everything was prepared for the trial and conviction of the vagrant tin ker. But the story as published in tho papers met the eye of Sir Frederick Hudson, tho deputy lieutenant of Ire land, then in Paris. He returned im mediately to Dublin, aupeured at the tinker’s trial and proved an effectual alibi. Outlie night of the murder he had hired Cooney to attend to his horse, and had detained him during tho very hours the deed must have been mitted. Cooney whs acquitted. The question then arose, hy whom had the twig of the sapling been placed under the tinker’s bed ? Investigation fol lowed, and soon John Dclahanty, one ot the very detectives who had run the tinker down, was placed under arrest as the real muroerer. Link followed link in the chain ot cvi.lence, and at last Delahanty confessed the crime. The special detectives, of whom ho was one enjoyed snug berths,|butwere|threatened witli dlsbanishment because they had nothing to do. In order to “make up a case” and prove the usefulness and ne cessity of the special force Delahanty first cut tic poor Italian hoy’s throat and next displayed his own efficiency by tracking thcmurJerer. He would have hung Cooney, if lie could, as remorse lessly as lie took the life of the un fortunate boy. Delahanty was executed for the crime. We commended the case to the consideration of Gov. Bedle. The circumstantial evidence against Ryan and Oschwald was ns well worked up ns was the case against the Irish tinker. AGRICUL1 UR A L. Drop 1‘loivhiff /hi* Corn. A correspondent of the Rural World remarks a* follows: It is better to raise one hundred bushels of corn on one acre of ground than fifty bushel* per acre on two acres. The yield could be doubled on nearly every acre of ground in culti vation in tho west. What is wanted Is deeper plowing and better preparation cf the soil and more thorough after cul tivation. Tho skimming over the ground is one of the greatest evils in western farming. jlMow deep anti then cross- plow deep, and you prepare food and inoitituro for tho plants and enable them 'to resist the droughts, and make them laugh and thrivo and bear ahundnntfy. On tho above, Moore’s Rural New Yorkei says: “ Tho positive iteration of generalities, and especially the emphasis placed on deep plowing for corn, invites the suspicion that the writer was airing some very plausiblo theories, instead of writing from practical experience. It may he under certain circumstances that corn will do better on deeply plowed ground; hut. we never saw such a ease. As for “cross-plowing” deep for corn, we know that this i* only theory ; for if corn is planted on <i newly-turned sod, as it should ho, cross-plowing would only turn the sod uppermost again. Most probably the writer of the paragraph pioted does not know anything of the subject which ho was discussing, but has borrowed somo plausible ideas from the agricultural wisdom always floating in the newspapers. 'Jroa fluff a Kick Horne, Generally medicines are given to horses in the form of a ball, because the administration of a drench is a much more troublesome affair; and In almost all cases more or less of the (lose is wast ed. {Sometimes, however, a liquid medi cine is to be preferred, as in colic or gripes, when the urgent nature of the symptoms 'demands a rapidly acting remedy, which a. ball, from its requiring time to dissolve, is not; and besides this, a ball cannot contain any of the sjiirituous cordials. The liest instru ment for giving a drench Id a horse is the horn of an ox, cut obliquely, so as l» form a spout. Bottles aro sometimes used in an emergency, but their fragile nature always renders them dangerous. On giving a drench the tong no is held the same as for the delivery of a ball, but tho head must ho elevated; the drench is then poured into the throat, in small quantities, after which tbe tongue is lot go, hut the head still kept up till it is all swallowed. The horse cannot swallow if the head is held too high, and the fluid is apt to cntei the wind-pipe and lungs. Allowance should always bo made fo£ some waste in giving a drench. CERULEAN VERDANCY. Now that the public mind is occupied with the silly blue-glass munia, tho fol lowing passage hy Addison, from the Spectator of May 24, 1712, may be in teresting. The physiology is, to say the least, as good as Gen. J’leasonton’s, and the inference that nature is best adapted, as it is, to tho general health of living creatures, is, we think, at once sensible and scientific: “There are writers of great distinction wli•> have made it ad argument for IVovidctico that the whole eartli is covered witli green rather than any other color as being such a right mixture of light and shado that it com forts and strengthens the eye instead of weakening or grieving it. For this rea son, several painters have a green cloth hanging near them to case the eye upon after too great on application to their coloring. A famous modern philosopher accounts for it in the following manuer: All colors that are more luminous over power and dissipate the animal spirits which arc employed in sight; on the contrary, those that arc more obscure do not give the animal spirits a sufficient exercise; whereas the rays that produce in us the idea of green fall upon the eye iii such a due proportion that they give the animal spirits their proper play, and hy keeping up the struggle in a just bal ance, excite a very pleasing and agreoa- hie sensation. Let the cause he what it will, the effect is certain, for which rea son the poets ascribe to this particular color the epithet of cheerful.” We are not aware what the origin of the expressions “the blnc-s” and “blue devils” maybe, but they certainly are not suggestive of cheerful associations. We occasion'llly have to inform corre spondents tluit in our editorial capacity we never p/escribe, hut'wc are tempted for once to far to depart from our rule as to suggest to hypochondriacs, who are always or the alert for new remedies, to try the extent of blue p ; ll before investing in blue ^Inss,—N><iicnt' tind Surgical Jour nal.

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The Cedartown record. (Cedartown, Ga.) 1874-1879, March 23, 1877, Image 1