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CEDARTOWN RECORD. W, S. D. WTKLE & GO., ProDrietors. CEDAHTOWN, GEORGIA, FRIDAY, APRIL 6, 1877. VOL. III. NO. 41. CURRENT l’AHAGJtA PUS. It is now said that Gen. Joe Johnston will be United .States marshal for Vir ginia. When politically disabled he declined the tempting offer of the com mand of the khedive’s army, with a salary of $50,000 a year, because he pre- lerrcd, as he said, to live and die an American citizen. Mo now ekes out a sup|K>rt by a life insurance agency. The case of Miss Mary E. Knox against Mr. John A. Merritt is a most singular one. Miss Knox claims Mr. Merritt as her husband, while Mr. Mer ritt repudiates Miss Knox ns his wife. The courts of Putnam county believe that the marriage ceremony was per formed which unite the two “for better or for worse,*'and so require Mr. .Mer ritt to give bonds for the support of his alleged wife. The unwilling wedded man prefers to go to jail on principle, and thus at present the matter stands.-— New York Herald. Newport is telling of the famous snow storms of February 20 and 24, 1717, which covered the ground from ton to I twenty feet, so that people lor some days could not pass from house to house; it generally covered the lower stories so that people dug under the snow from house to house. Soon after a slight rain fell, and the frost crusted over the snow so that people went out of their chamber windows and walked over it in safety. So far but two women in the United States have been elected as directors of national banks, Mrs. ilradley, of Peoria, Illinois, being one, and Mrs. IiOuisa MCall, of Canton, Ohio, who was but recently elected, the other. Mrs. M’Call’s husband was president of the bank at the time of his death, and she has been elected as well fitted, by her business ability, to represent his large interests. Thcro arc many other women who are equally competent to lill such positions. By the way, there is a bank in this city, located on Fifth avenue, especially de signed for the use of wealthy ladies. Parlors are provided for their accomoda tion, and the effort is to have it known as a ladies bank. Why not elect ns directors a lew of the rich women of the city? 8ueh a course would undoubtedly increase its popularity with the gontler sex.—New York (trophic. The Japanese appear to have hit upon the expedient of providing lire-proof storehouses for the reception of furniture and other valuables. As a security against the vast conflagrations, which, during the winter months, are so pre valent in Japan, the most perishable and t valuable articles arc kept in fire-proof storehouse known as “mud godowns.’ These structures are built of mud, or tc speak more correctly, of clay. .Some of them take as many as three years in building. A double framework ot bom- boo or slight boarding is run up, and the intervening space, about eighteen inches or two feet wide is filled in with mud, which is gradually packed and allowed to dry by the action of the atmosphere- At a great lire which occurred at Tokie on the twenty-ninth of November, and raged for eight hours, destroying nearly ten thousand houses and an immense amount of property, not one Jof the “mud godowns”—and there were several hundred of them—was injured throughout she entire area of from five to six miles in extent laid waste by the conflagration. One of the most remarkable appear ances which have been seen on the planet Saturn since the timejof Herschel[was no ticed by Pro. Mall, of the United .States . naval observatory, on December 7. A spot so bright that it could be seen with small telescopes suddenly showed itself near the equator of the planet. It grad ually spread out along the equator, so as finally to present the appearance of a strip extending overcome ninety degrees. The brightest part was not in the middle of the strip, but near one end, as if the shining material had spread itself out in that direction only. The discovery was at once communicated to several Amer ican astronomers, and the spot was ob RELIGIOUS. Tito Aleck Portrayed. Blessed aro the meek, for they nliall Inherit the h."—Jfni. The world looks down ti|.on tlu> meek, And aroma the very name, Hut hcaven'a high lawa'for them Iwpenk A heaven-recorded fame. l-'or them thr loid of hoaven declares Himaelf will teach hla war, Guiding In Judgment, that life’s nnarvs May lead them not aatray. I'xlng pain Hleat am tl Make* The lielra o With e •k, for rich content in tenure Inn-, niploymenta, blent Hleat la the wiadoni of the meek, Divine their maxima wine : 11 He awlft to hear, and alow to apeak, Slow to lot unger rise." Ho awlft to hear, that what la heard May the true meaning give ; The inisaing ol one little word Mnkea even truth deceive. He alow to speak and that will show How alow to wrath then art ; The tongue well governed curbs the Huw Of passion in the heart. Hilenre la like the summer dewa Diatllling in the night; A happy freahneea they dltluse Against the returning light. Silence la like n golden gate Opening to fields serene, Where quiet eouls w alk separate From anger, pride and spleen. To the All-Seeing i The meek, who rule their ai lUaemhlo him whose wi Urines down the whirlwind Hula howling stormsl« ilrit well. II a angry awcll, —Caroline May, in .X. Y. Obttrx'tr. Why Am I Not a Christian :• 1. 1h it because I am ufruid of ridi cule, and what othern may «ay of me? “ Whosoever shall be aahamed of Me, and My words; of him shall the Son of Man Ire ashamed.” 2. Is it because of the inconsistencies >f professing Christians? “ Every man shall give an account of himsolf to God.” 8. Is it because I am not willing to give up all for Christ? “ What shall it profit a man if he shall gain the whole world and lose his own soul ?” 4. Is it because I shall not bo ac cepted ? “ Him that comcth unto Me I will in no wise cast out.” 5. Is it because I fear I am a great sinner? “ The blood of Jesus Christ cleanscth from all sin.” 0. Is it because I am afraid 1 shall not hold out ? “ Me that hath begun a good work in you will jierfect it unto the day of Christ Jesus.” 7. Is it because I am thinking that I will do as well as 1 can, and that God ought to be satisfied ? “ Whosoever shall keep the whole law, and yet oflend in one point, he is guilty of all.’* 8. Is it because I .am postponing the matter without any definatc reason ing over. Mo chose wisely who said: “ Give me neither poverty nor riches.” Me took the smaller and the sweeter pear. After all, it is better to have no choice, but leave all to our heavenly father.—Spurgeon. Dll. 7lCHENOUR f S HERIL. An JC.rf count Innrf/ Eneoanter Slnylv- Handed U'lth Forty Indians. The particulars of a desperate fight between a doctor name Tichenour and a band of Sioux Indians, numbering about forty, at what is known ns the •‘cone,’* at the mouth of .Sand creek, sixty-five miles west of Ness Fostofllce, Ness coun ty, in the western portion of the state, were received at Fort Leavenworth last week. The doctor and a companion named Dicdenso were out poisoning wolves, and had built a temporary “dug- out” in which to store their skins and provisions. A few days previous to the appearance of the red-skins Dickenson had taken the wagon and gone to the settlement after provisions. The doctor was asleep in the hut on the third morn ing after Dickenson departure (March 4) when he was awakened by a slight noise at the doOr. Think the intruder might be some animal, he took his gun and went lo the door. Upon opening it he was confronted by a burly Sioux brave, but it still being dark he could only dis* tinguish the outlines of tho form. Mo demanded his business, when tho brave turned and fled ; and as uif doctor step ped outside to get n shot at him lie was greeted with a shower ol bullets that drove him back in to the hut. barrica ding tlie door with the best means at his command he pnticntly awaited the day- j light, In tho meantime the Indians, I about forty in number, as near as he I could tell, had moved further up tho creek, but just at daylight, one of them who seemed to be in authority, and lead er of the band, from the mariner in which ho was dressed, camo to tho door of the dug-out, carrying a white (lag of truco, and, in brokon English demanded his surrender. TicHinour replied that there were three moijj,in the hut,all well armed, who would defend themselves to the last. The chief then began to threaten, de claring that he would Urko his scalp and all of those with 1 him, nnd the doctor, taking this to bo a declaration of war, shot tho red man (lend in his tracks ns he stood. The entire band then rushed to ward the hut, but were driven back by a few well-directed shots, retiring in disor der. The next manteuvroof tho Indians was an attempt to smoke him out by burning buffalo chips and the wood work of the dug-out, and from his position the doctor could sec some of the arrange ments made for his destruction. JIo could not see the Indian in charge, but he knew that tho work was going on, nnd that in a short time lie must yield. Realizing this, he made a dash lor the outside, kicking the burning buffalo chips right nnd loft, nil exchanging shots with the head Indian in charge of the fire, killing him instantly, nnd receiving a bullet himself through the lower part of his body. Then began the long-range shooting match, during which he Baw three of his assailants fall. This was kept up during the day. At nightfall a terrible snow Btorm arose which drove “ Roast not thyself of to-morrow, for the IndianB Bouthward and which Hnow . thou knowest not what a day may bring | eJ the plucky doctor Had it not . * lt . , . i been for thin snow Htorm the Indiann Choose ye this day whom you will; wou , d have ca tured h ; aB he W „ H serve for this a faithful ^>"8- “f d able to move for three days. Attheend worthy of all acceptation that Christ L f the sixteenth day tlie wcathcr mod . Jesus came into the world to save sin-1 crated that he waa able t0 0 out and ners.” Chrutmn Cynoture. ^ the ^ cl he traveled „„ Great Wealth a Great Mockery, If you are ever tempted to purchaHC a very large pear, decline the investment or reckon upon a disappointment. You will probably find it woolly,almost taste- leas, and more like a turnip than a pear. We know, for we have made the experi ment in the land where the gigantic pears are grown. Overgrown fruits never seem to us to have the delicate sweetness which may be found in those of the usual dimensions. What is gained in quantity foot to the settlements. The doctor re ceived several bullets in his clothing, but was wounded but once.—Leaueri. worth (Non.) Letter. LIFE IN TEXAS, ing, stranger, it lookR like rain?” Stranger—“I think not.” A shot is heard, nnd tho stranger is rolled out of the back door. Moral--Texas is a fine grazing country.' VVItUKNl MENTION, The plums grown in Martin county, Minnesota, will bo converted into bran dy this year. Boiled steel axles for railroad cars nre being experimentally tried on the Lehigh Valley railroad. More than ono hundred thousand yards of cotton cloth is made weekly at lanesville, Wisconsin. A. K. Whitney, Franklin Grove, Leo county, Illinois, has tho largest npple orchard in tho world. It contains twen ty-two thousand bearing trees. There is a girl ton years old in Hinds county, Miss., who is six foot high, weighs one hundred and ninety pounds, and has six fingers on each hand niuj six toes on each foot. An ivory and porcelain button factory iH to be established at Dubuque by two Frenchmen, who say they can manufac ture those buttons ns cheap in this coun try as in Franco. Among tho latest departures for tho tight compartmonts, nnd is sunk like a monitor when in action. Almost the only part exposed to the shot of an enemy is tho steel-plated deck, which must bo strucki if at all, at an nnglo, so that it will escape tho full force of any shot, the Alarm is guided by tho sarno appa ratus that propels her, a feathering pad- dlo-wheol, nnd can bo turned as on a pivot. Having sighted an enemy her engines drive Jrer at the rato of fifteen 1 note an hour to close quarters. Ifjit night, an electric light on her bow lights up her path. A shot from the fifteen- inch gun in tho bow is followed quickly by tho explosion of tho bow torpedo, striking tho enemy thirteen feet below tho water lino. As soon as tho Alarm recovors from her recoil tho ram is used, and as she swings broadside on, another torpedo spar from her side is shot out, the tjrpedo is exploded, and, if this does not complete tho work of destruction, she can bo again swung round so as to repoat tho operation. In tho meantime guns on her deck have kept up a deadly fire of a thousand bullets per minute, sweeping her enemy’s decks. Her own protection lies chiefly in tho fact that but small portions of her hull nnd upper works are oxposod to tho enemy’s fire, Black Hills have been one hundred nnd I an<1 that she is built In compartments, sixty-llve barrels of whiskey from Frank- j8ud ll double shell, ho that tho entire ford, Ky. The particular point of their Blli P oannot bo filled with water except In the same manner great wealth, great honor and great rank generally turn out to be great shams. Beside the counter- served at Albany, Hartford, Vassar col- ; acting influence ol great care, and great lege, and elsewhere. It was watched j temptation, there is the inevitable satie- during most of a month, when the planet ty in too much of anything, which soon approached near to I he sun, and the 1 renders it tasteless. ’ For sweetness pre band became so faint that no further ac- \ fer competence to enormous fortune, the curate observations cpuld be make on it. j esteem of a few to the homage ol a mul- It does not appear to have been seen in j titude, and a quiet condition to a poBi- Europe at all, as the astronomical jour- tion of eminence and splendor. There is nals which have come to hand are tirelv silent on the subject. The spot was utilized by Prof. Hall to determine the time of rotation of Saturn, which no one but Herschel had hitherto done. The result was about ten bourn fifteen minutes, hardly a minute different from llerschel’s estimate.—N. Y. Tribune. A new comer in a Texas town always enjoys himself. After spending a short time looking around the place, he grows weary and finally asks the clerk of the hotel if there is any chance of having fun that day. And the clerk, scratching more than lost in quality. I his head a moment, says: “ Well, I Junno; I reckon we can get up some thing for you before night. Haven’t been shot at yet, have you ? No! Oh, well, you will be soon. Just loaf around the streets a little while, and even if you ain’t shot at yourself, you can dodge the bullets intended for some otlur person. Maybe you might, object to its coming in that way—sort o’ second hand, you know; and, if you do, why wait a little while, and I’ll go out with you, and I guess we can get u lively.” T; designation was Custer City. Tho total exports of Wilmington, N. C., for tho month of Fcbrunry amounted to $050,000. There were cleared from Charleston, B. C., last week, thirty-live bags of sen island cotton; 1 ,fl‘M bales up- lnnd cotton, 1,005 ticrccH rice, 558 casks Bpirits of turpentine, 2,021 bnrrcls resin, 0,150 tons phosphorate rock and sun dries. A. Millett, of Baylor county, •Texas, with his brother, own three or four rnn- cIioh, on which they have about 75,000 head of cattle. Cattle aro in flue condi tion, nnd prices range from six to twelve dollars, ItordH selling in round lots at nboutjten dollars a head. Band is worth from ono to two dollars an ncre, nnd tho best has already boon taken up or lo cated. A-Correspondent jcllH tho Weldon, N. O., News that about two miles from En field, on Mr. Thomas Glasgow’s farm,’a solid wall, builtof brick, has been discov ered under the ground. Most ol |) the brick nre two and a half inches thick, eight Inches long and seven and a hall wido. Tho lull length nnd width of the wall luus not been determined. An an cient looking sword nnd axe linvo been dug out of the ground adjoining. Four car-londs of headstones and posts for tho graves of the soldies interred in tho national cemetery near Lebanon, Ky., were received lioro last week. There nre live hundred and eighty head stones and two hundred nnd eighty ]X)Hts. They are of American marble, nnd come from the neighborhood of Rutland, Ver mont. They are furnished at the con tract price at $3.3!l each, delivered nnd set up in the cemetery. The freight from Vermont to Lebanon amounted to $805, or nearly ono dollar upon each hcadstono and post. An old man died tlie other day in Par is, who lived on tho poorest food nnd in a wretched room, although worth $40,000, nnd having an annual income of 2,000. He had observed that tho artists who an nually strive for the great prize of Rome were nearly all too poor to pay for models, nnd he had stinted himself that he might leave enough money to provide forever models for poor artists. There nre gen erally about twenty such artists, and each of them will receive $100 of money of tlie old man, who was once a model himself. TOItJ’JSDO 1 VAllFAltE. The Scientific American publishes an illustrated dcscriptiofl of admiral Por. tor’s system ol torpedo warfare, as exhib ited on tbe torpedo steamer Alarm now under command of Lieut. Frederick H. Paine, U. B. N. The Alarm is calcula ted not only to destroy its adversaries but to put lo an end to all the poetry at taching to a naval warfare. The “jolly tars” are, to a great extent, replaced by emotionless machinery, and the bra; commander and his assistants by_ neers and electricians, who steam engines and elects while comparatively sec and shell of the enej ry no longoi tor in by ns many bronchos as there are com partmcnls. Sho is expected to attack much larger and more eoHtly iron-clads, and her method ot warfare contemplates self-destruction, if necessary, in the of- fort to destroy tho enemy; for tho utili tarian in war argues, “if, by tho sacrifice of a torpedo-boat, costing $200,01)0, wc sink n great iron-clad, worth a million, tho life mission of the former craft may well bo deemed fulfilled. The oldest vessel, indeed, in Ports mouth harbor, is Nelson’s Victory, tho only ship which the sentiment of the nation will never allow to be brokon up. She is ono hundred nnd olo.ven years of ago. She is not the first of tho name, a previous Victory, as great, but not so fortunate ns herself, having been lost at sea with a thousand hands. Next lo the Victory in point of age is probably tho St. Vineont, now a train ing ship; after her tho Excellent, for merly called tho Queen Charlotte, whoso launch was signalized by an accident which caused the drowning of fifty poo plo; tho Cnrnalic nnd Malabar, now black old hulks, once gallant ships ot Nelson’s time, though not of Nolson’n fleets. Then comes Codinglon’H flagship at Navarino, tho Asia, an old Indian- built teak ship; there is the Iiellorephon, which received Na|>oleon ; half a dozen splondid old three-deckers which, like the Donegal, Glawgow nnd Victoria, have scon the blue water on a single trip; or else, liko tho Oamperdown, have lain forgotten by tho Admiralty, and actually never been to sen at all. Among the other relics of bygone fash ions there is the Actroon, the Inst sailing ship ever built for the navy; tho poor old Obcron, which once did good service cutting out slavers, now con demned to bo n target for torpedoes; there is perhaps the last of the old French prizes still afloat, the Blonde, enptured in tho time when if a war Hhip came back to Plymouth or Portsmouth without her prize she was felt to have disgraced herself; nnd alongside the modern royal yachts, bright and dainty with gilding and paint, lies the Royal George—not the old line of battle ship which wont down with the flag of Kern- pcnfeldt, and dragged down with her twice lour hundred men, but a ship- rigged, square built craft, designed for King George III., in which his grand daughter, Queen Victoria, made her first voyage to Scotland.—London Daily Newt. Tit UTILS AND 1 RIFLES. ..Large qualities of zinc aro being ininod in Union county, Tennessee. ..A negro’s definition of a bigot—“\ man ns knows too much for one niggah, nnd not omtS for two." .. A Texns stockman recently sold to parties in southwestern Kansas 40,000 head of cattle nnd 2,000 horses for $140,« 000 in silver. . .Mr. RuskinsayB that having reaobed fifty-three years, ho can not look with the old enjoyment at tho Betting sun. It. seems to sink down so fast. . .Cheap non-explosive oil from wood, chiefly pine, Is now extracted in Sweden in fifteen factories, with fnvorablo re sults. . Mon nre frequently liko tea—tho real strength nnd goodness nre not properly drawn out until they hnve been in hot water. Tho woll-kuown steamship com mander, captain Themoa .1. Lockwood, died of hemorrhage of the brain at Savannah, On., the 15th. Tho buildings for tho great Paris ex position of 1878 are making rapid pro gress. Over 2,000 workmen tire em ployed, with 1,200 carts. Six girl bnbioa were born in ono Imusc in Emanuel county, Georgia, in one night recently, and ono poor man had to own that ho was grandfather of the lot. When tho Vanderbilt will contest enmo to its Htiddon end a lawyer was heard to remark: “It’s highway rob bery 1 It rolw tho profession ol $1,000,- 000. Nobody likes to bo nobody; but everybody is pleased to think himself somebody. And everybody is somebody; but when anybody thinks himself every body, ho generally thinks everybody else is nobody. The Paris, Lyons and Mediterranean railroad extends over 2,105 miles, and tho wholo syston, when completed, will cover 4,428, a grantor mileage than any American road can show. .. A married man up town had bluo glass put in his wife’s sitting-room—tu match her oyes, he Haul. Hho returned tho compliment by having red glass put in her husband’s library—lo appreciate tho compliment. .. Forty-two dromedaries passed through Ban Bernardino a few days ago on route for Arizona. They arc intended for transporting machinery and provis ions to the mines of that territory. It is tho enterprise of Bomo Frenchmen. . .The fifth wife of a good-for-nothing- husband, who told fortunes for a busi ness, advises all “widows and maidens” to beware of him. Bhe describes him as “a little, strutting, talkative, feeble, meager, hatched-faced fellow, with spin dle shanks nnd a little warped in the back." .. The presidential family will consist of governor and Mrs. Hayes and three children; Webb C., aged ninteen; Fan nie, aged eight; and Scott Russell, aged bIx. The two oldest of the four sons of Gov. Hayes aro away frem home, one of them attending the Cambridge law I school, and the other is a member of the junior class of Cornell university. A IlMirlCDV Foil nnUNKKNNEnS. A firm of wine merchants in London has been trying a novel experiment dt ing the past year, with a view of help tho men in the employ of the oompa ny to keep sober. The theory on which f experiment is based is that drunkenn comes mainly from the habit of resort lo public houses, and that this hah contracted almost ns a matter of I ty by workingmen having noj to’ go during the dinner! fira/i provided a dinh and a boiler fq there 1 more flavor in enough.than too much. Solomon’s proverb bids us prefer the din ner of herbs eaten in peace to the stalled ox consumed amid contention; and his remark is the more practical when we con sider how often the fat ox seems of neces sity to involve contention, while the herbs are not thought to be worth fight-