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Newspaper Page TextCEDARTOWN RECORD. W. S. D. WIKLE & 00.. Proorietors. CEDARTOWN, GEORGIA, FRIDAY, APRIL 27, 1877. VOL. III. NO. 44. TilE STATE OF TltiDK. This shows an excess of twenty mil lions a month of exports over imports, in poods alone, sinco June, ami of over uineteeu millions in goods and specie combined. It is scarcely to be expected that this rate of excess will continue, but if it should, the year’s trade would result in a balance of $240,000,000 in favor of this country. This is certainly a most extraordinary showing, and none the less whether it is interpreted ns an evidence of poverty or of prosperity; the $180,000,000 of export excess for the year ending with 1870 will probably be not far from $200,000,000 for the fiscal year ending with June next. The specie movement alsohad turned in this direc tion, and this fact may comfort those who cherish the idea that sufficient HjH'cio to pay the government notes can be accumulated without any withdrawal of bank notes. The production of the precious metals, by Dr. Lindcman’s fig ures, was $85,350,000 during the fiscal year last completed, and $1,050,031,871) sinco June 1859. During the same period the total export of both domestic and foreign was $1,189,087,S5Q, and the total im|K)rt $283,517,G02, leaving ns net export $900,100,981—nn annual average of about $53,100,000. The production for that period in excess of the net ex ports, therefore, was $150,401,035. Al lowing for use in manufactures the in crease in stock on hand during that time was about $05,000,000, and of this the addition during the last year was, say, $10,000,000. The tables show that the product during the last seven months has been kept at home, and that there 1ms been a net import of more than $5,. 000,000 besides, against a net [export of $14,000,000 during tho previous year, and $38,000,000 during 1874-5. The in crease in the excess of imjKirts of groods is $101,344,115 during the seven months, as compared with 1875-0, and there iH a change of $19,450,489 in the specie move ment, making a total change of $120,- 800,004 in tho combined movement, and an increase of $81,857,025 in the next excess of exports over imports. If the product of gold and silver he taken ns $7,000,000 a month, tho stock in the country must have been increased over $50,000,000 sinco Inst June.—N. Y. Times HO BE OS. No. 11 ml henrl, we’ll hot rsitiplnln, Tliniiult the wIiuIn nrn hlriik niul days n Sometime tho mow will molt uwMjr, Sometime tho spring's fnlr blossoms hto Think how we have borne tho winter nlr, Tho cutting blast*, tho chilling ruin ; come In rouglnvt |»alli.\ been in vnin ? linn osr long toiling I Though loo Ison tho lonllons I wig*, Though tho withered grass shrinks to tho ground, Sometimes fresh life will rise nud say— " Behold ! I am no longer hound." l.lko pallid ghost ol last year’s (lowers | The "now-drop will Its winding sheet Out off; frail messenger from out tho throng Of those who mine with tardier foot. Oh heart! we have our winter long, Our promised houghs of fruit nre bare; Long under gray and cloud v skies Our leaven have drifted In tho nlr. »liiiv. .rlMliTmuWr'lolili Have hidden tho distance nil nwny. But, if lo nature there cornea a lime When nil life's current rise nud till, Her sluggish V - — * * Her Icndcm i with freshened strength, When songs of bird and tints of flowers I Milt niul bloom throughout n world I'liat was so stricken ; flaunt in nlr Her glorious banners nil unfurled. Perhaps, poor heart, our spring may come, Our deadened life may feel tho thrill If loftier aims, of tender trusts ; Oroen leaves may toss upon our brnnehon still. Thy falrent lilies yet may bio 1* rout ground that lies lamenth tho a A NX A UK STOItY. “ Beware of pickpockets! ” repeated a benevolent old gentleman a* he glanced at a placard posted in tho car in which ho was riding. “ Dear mo, how Had that such a warning should bo necessary in a Christian Innd 1 ” “ Yes, sir,” said tho young man next to him, “ but it’s best to bo careful, for there may be pickpockets in this very car. I know all about that, sir. I’ve been rescued from the lowest depths. 1 was a pickpocket once, sir.” “ Dear mo 1 ” said the old gentleman, starting. “ I’m a respectable person now. Yes, sir, I’m very respectable; ask anybody about Jim Tilks and they’ll tell you that; but I was brought up » thief. I was bom among thieves, and fcok to the trade naturally, and I used to pick pockets when I was ten years old. You needn’t look at yours, if you please, sir. I’ve been converted since, and go to meeting regular. You could trust me with untold gold now. •‘Hut as I saitl, I was a thief, and I might have lieen one yet if it hadn’t been for what happened at Ilickady station, where 1 was sitting waiting for any old lady’s reticule, or any forgetful Three young girls were minding Iloek of sheep, a few days ago, .it Vergt, I person’s parcel, or even an umbrella, or (I lordogne), when a large wolf suddenly j a pocket-handkerchief, as might l>e appeared, and, separating some of tlx sheep, drove them l>efore it. Tho cries of the girlH irritated it, and, passing near one of them, Marie 8., it flew at her, dropped by chance. For folks that’s anxious about gettin’ on the right train at the right time, and nobody to do any thing but snub ’em, which is what the nothing; for hero wero tho jhiBco after me ; at least, a big arm went around my waist, all of a sudden like; and when I jerked it only held mo closer; and what was that—another arm ? “ Well, sir, I thought 1 should just give up that minute, for there and then 1 knew what was twisting about mo was something worso than even a policeman’s arm to such ns I was then. “It was a snake—a great snake—tho kind they put in menageries. Boa-con strictor—yes, sir—that was the kind—a boa-constrictor; and now 1 remembered the face of tho gentleman who had the basket—ho was tho menagerie man. I’d stolen a basket with a snake in it, and it had slipped out when I opened the cover, and now it had me. “Tight, sir, was no word. It was twisted around me until I had very little breath left, but with what I did hnvo I set up a yell. Would you believe it, sir, tho first person that heard me was that menagoric man ; ho was looking for his snako, I suppose, “‘Bless my heart,” says he, when he saw me—‘bless my heart. Well, tho biter bit, if ever it happened. You Htole tho basket, my friend, and out of it came the thief-catcher. Now keep still; don’t move for your life. There’s just one chance for you.’ “ Says I; ‘ Hurry, please, sir; I’in a chokin’.’ “ Ho did hurry. Ho look a bottle out of his pocket, and out of another he took a kind of folding cup, and opened it out. Then he poured something from the bot tle into the cup. “ ‘Milk,’ says lie ; ‘it may tempt him away; if not, say your prayers, friend ;’ anti I tell you tiiat was an anxious mo ment for mo. “[At first I thought ho had dono for me, for tho snake only seemed to twist tighter ; but in a minute tho head poked out towards the cup and I felt him drop off, and saw him [coiled about tho milk- cup. I didn’t wait to boo him feed. I went. “ But it was a lesson for me. It put an end to my course of wickedness. Tills is my station, sir. Good-afternoon. There isn’t a more respccttiole or moro honest young man than 1 am living now. Good-afternoon.” Then he was oft’. “ It’s n very curious story,” Haiti tho >ld gentleman—“very. But he’s evi dently a very conscientious young man now.” Ho put his hand in his pocket for his pocket-handkerchief. It was gone—so was his purse. They had gone with tho conscientious young man. knocked her down, and tore Iter savagely. ! officials are apparently paid lo do, ain’t Hcrche«k and upper lip were sadly in- I as careful of their portable property as jured. However, the dogs attacked tin animal and released the girl. The cries and harking attracted the attention of a man named Moreau, aged fifty, who had formerly been a Soldier, and who, with his daughter, a girl of eighteen, was en gaged in cutting wood, lie came out of the thicket to see what was the matter, and found himself face to face with the wolf, which immediately sprang at his throat. He had no weapon, so he clasped the animal around the body, and they both fell together, rolling over each other. After a protracted struggle Mo reau managed to get'the beast beneath him and hold it firmly by the throat. He then shouted to his daughter, who came and dispatched the wolf with blows from a pickaxe. Moreau was much exhausted by the fight, but fortunately escaped with only a wound on the left hand. The animal was found to measure a metre and a half from the nose to the end of the tail. A DEBTOR USD Ell THE TABLE. they would be otherwise. When I was a wicked sinner, I used to take advan tage of that, you know. You couldn’t bribe me to do it now—oh, no. “ But as I said, I was a-lounging about there, and in came a gentleman with a long basket. It was the curiusest bas ket I ever saw. Had two handles and a padlock. Never saw such a basket. There w.th a cord about it, too. He put it down in the corner as he looked for his pocket-book, and he spoke to a gen tleman who was standing near, and seemed to know him. “‘Got it,’ he saidj ‘and it’s cost me enough, I can tell you, but I wanted it for the collection; couldn’t do without it. So proud of it I brought it along myself. Whew ! five minutes only, and I haven’t my ticket,’ and he rushed toward the office. “ That other man looks at the basket a minute, and then walked away, and that was my time. I crept up to the basket (and took it up and walked away in another direction. Nobody noticed Massachusetts people claim to have I me - I didn’t run, of course. I just the laugh on a manufacturer in that! went out of the station and down under state who has conscientious scruples j ^ ie ^ees, un, I what I meant to do was to against paying his bills. A lady creditor I take the valuables out of the basket and of long standing called at his office the 1 leave it there. other clay, and then, not finding him at , ** I’d made up my mind that it was tho house, she was referred back to the something very valuable, hut what it office, and arrived the second time just, could be I couldn’t guess. I took off in season to see the feet of the owner I the cord first, and then I took the key vanishing under the table. “ I’ve seen ! that hung beside the padlock and un- CEREURA L LOCA LIE A TION. Tho question as to how far tho brain exercises an influence on tho motions of animals has been engaging scientific mon for years. Dr. Broca was among the first to investigate the subject; ho proved that when a man was deprived of tho faculty of speech by a stroko of apo plexy, there invarialdy existed a lesion at tho very same Hpot in tho brain, vir.., in tho anterior region, and on the pos terior side of the third frontal circum volution to the loft. Hence the con clusion that this was tho seat of tho faculty of speech in man, and thus one was led to concoivo a special place for every intellectual action. Fritz, Hitzig, Ferrier, Carville, and Du ret, tho most prominent among those who have treated the question, operate as follows: They take off pnnl of tho skull of a dog, then apply eloetric wires to different parts of the brain thus laid bare, and watch the motions produced. Certain points cause none, so that it 1h not tho whole brain that acts on tho muscular system, but only special points. Ferrier operated on monkeys in the presence of tho Lon don Royal Society. According as he touched various parts of the cerebrum, the ape would shako his list at the pub lic, raiso or stretch a leg, or cut faces. It was shown that in tho monkey the center of motion of the tongue answered exactly to that to which the faculty of speech pertains in man. From all this it follows that the surgeon may now know precisely tho point of tho skull at which to apply tho trepan. Thus, not long ago, a man was brought into the hospital St. Ansolno. Ho had received a blow on the loft temple, and, on coming to himself again, could only Hpeak with difficulty, and then ho would call a fork an umbrella, a lamp a hat, and so on. Moreover, his right arm was half par alyzed. The surgeon at once know what ho had to do; ho applied tho trepan to tho proper spot, and hit upon a piece of bono tin# com pressed, tho brain. This splinter was removed, and tho patient at once recovered tho use of his right arm. A few days later his tongue was freed from all impediment, and ho left tho hospital perfectly cured.—Chilignanih Messenger. a part of you, and you’d better come out!” was her remark. He came and paid part of the $5 due, but said he wasn’t able to pay it all that day. Peo ple who ^have called there on sigiilar errands, after seeing him through the window have often wondered just how he could disappear so rapidly. .. A coroner's jury in Arkansas found “ that the deceased, who was a bachelor, died by his own hand, being moved thereto by the discovery that his hair had grown so thin that he could no longer lioid a pen behind his ear.” locked that, and lifted up the cover a little. Just then there was a noise, and I turned my head. “ When I found it was nothing to be afraid of, I turned back and opened the cover wider and peeped in; but there was nothing there; the basket was empty —not a thing in it. “‘Why, gracious me!’ says 1; only not in them words—I was a wicked sin ner then—‘what does this mean? An empty basket! And what did he mean \ talking of its being valuable ?’ And t*iere was I, running a risk for nothing. Kouben Weldon, of Harrison township, in company with Miss Molda Groves, the daughter of Samuel Groves, went on horseback last Thursday to Elder Pfis- ter’H, of Monroe township, to have a marriage ceremony performed. Mr. Blis ter was not at home, and although the roads were very bad, the couple went from there to Squire Eb.Weldon’sJhouse. ’Squire Weldon was also absent from home, hut the young couple, nothing daunted, concluded to go to ’Squire Jackson Bennett’s. Unfortunately,how ever, ’Squire Bennett was also gone away from home. Night was fast ap proaching, and Weldon was still a bach elor—but he was not discouraged. He told Miss Groves that he knew a justice four miles south of Breckenridge, in Caldwell county, who ’’was always at home. The wearied horses were turned in that direction, but, alas ! for human hopefl. They found that tho justice had removed from tho neighborhood. But by this time they had become used to discouragements, and each additional obstacle only added fire to their zeal. They started for Gomcr station, on the Hannibal and St. Joseph railroad, re solved to go to St. Joseph that night to be married. At Gomer they found obliging official, who, in brief time, pro nounced them husband and wife, and although they had then traveled over thirty miles since twelve o’clock, over some of the muddiest., roughest and most disagreeable roads, they rode home, about six miles, one of the happiest couples in the world.— (jnllalin North Missourian. . .The course of none has been along so beaten a road that they remember not fondly some resting places in their jour neys, some turns in their paths which lovely prospects broke in upon them, some soft plats of green, refreshing to their weary feet. Confiding love, gene rous friendship, disinterested humanity, require no recondite learning, no high im- o agination, to enable an honest heart to A risk. Why, I was done for, for | appreciate and feel them.—Talfonrd, THE DEAR SEA OF AMERICA, There nre no fishes in tho Great Salt lake. The only living thing beneath its waters is a worm about a quarter of nn inch long. This worm shows up beauti fully under tho lens of a microscope- When a storm arises, tho worms arc driven ashore by the thousands and de voured by the black gulls. We found a pure stream pouring into the lake. It was filled with chubs and shiners. The fish became frightened, and were driven down the brook into tne briny lake. The instant they touched its waters they oamc to the surface, belly upward, and died without a gasp. The water is re markably buoyant. Eggs and potatoes float on it like corks. Air. Hood and myself stripped [and went in swimming. I dived into the lake from a long pier, which had been built for tho use of a small steamboat that formerly plied upon the waters. The sensation was novel. Tho water was so salty that my eyes and ears began to smart, hut ho buoyaui that I found no difficulty in floating, even when tho air was exhausted in my lungs. As I. struck out for tho beach I felt as light as a feather. In spite of all that I could do my head would fly out of tho water. The lightness of the water and surging of the waves forced my feet from under me. A person who could not swim might be easily drowned in five feet of water. His head would go down like a lump of lead, while his feet would fly up like a pair of ducks. The water is as clear as Seneca lake—so clear that the bottom could be seen at a depth of feet. When we reached the shorecrawled out upon the sand in the light of the sun, our bodies were thickly covered with salt. We were compelled to go to the small stream from which we had driven the chubs and shiners, and wash off in fresh water be fore we could put on our clothes. Our hair was filled with grains of salt that could not be washed out. The Mormons occasionally visit the lake in droves for the purpose of bathing. Many say their health is improved by leaving the salt upon their bodies and dressing without wiping themselves. ..An old bachelor was courting widow, and both sought the aid of art to give their fading hair a darker shade. “ That’s going to be an affectionate couple,” said a wag. “ How so ?” asked a friend. “Why, don’t you see that they are dye-ing for each other already ?” was the reply. We don’t wish to say much about it, but oven a skirmish with an editor must be written up. After reading our article last week, Dr. Bontly camo and inter viewed us. He brought a few friends along to seo him cat us up, with his hands tied Iwhiml him. Ho did not like tho reading of our last article, and we don’t blame him, for there wero a few sayings in it which wero a little severo. But ho locked nrms with us, and we waltzed around tho room with him to tho tune of high words, and to tho in finite delight of tho spectators. His hands wero not tied very tight, cither. There wore numerous chairs and other furniture in tho room which wero speedily demolished and put out of tho way. Tho doctor got frantic and kicked over a two- gallon jug of ink, which of course wo didn’t like, because it was new ink, and besides it spoiled the looks of tho floor. Wo took the doctor for a sponge and mopped tho ink up as quickly as possible. That’s what made the doctor mad. Ho then shoved over a chair and we rolled around for a while, and then we began to feel like fight, and wo don’t doubt hut what wo would have hud a quarrel very soon hut tho doctor suddenly concluded ho didn’t care whothcr wo took back what wo said or not, and as thero was not any proBpcct of our taking it back ri^lit oft’, ho concluded to quit just ns we had got ready to begin. After tho whole affair was over wo felt sorry that it had begun, but as it was noho of our insti- ;ating wo could not help it.—Rush City Minn.) Post. A RAT IN A BUSTLE, But for tho pluck of a young and pretty woman tho other morning thero would hnvo been an exciting scone in a local train on one of our railroads. Tho blustery condition of tho morning mndo people don thoii clothing with unusual degreo of alacrity. Tho young lady referred to took the train, and having settled horsclf in a seat com menced to reviow a hastily-mado toilet. Feeling something move behind her sho gave an indignant look at tho young man who occupied tho soat with her, supposing that he had placed his hand upon tho ground sacred to the latest stylo of hustle. A crawling sensation juickly convinced her that something other than a human hand was threading the mysterious mazes of the garments beneath her red petticoat. Sho followed the object with her hand until it made a semi circle around iicr body, and then seized it. Had tho young man dartd ho would have assisted her, but those striped stockings, that had just cost seventy-five cents, were not to be profaned by a man’s rude touch. Palo as death, the young lady whispered to him to raise tho window quickly. He did so, and supposing that she might have eaten something for her breakfast that did not agree with her, instantly hopped out of the seat. Scarcely had he done so, when, with her other hand, she drew forth a huge rat and slung him into the middle of next July. The ani mal had probably got into the bustle as a roosting place in the early hours of a very cold morning. American Competition with Eng land.—A correspondent of the Paris Sieclc, writing from that city, takes a sanguine view of the probability of the cotton manufactures of the United States being ahlo to drive Lanchashire goods out of the markets of North and South America. During 1870, he snys, 9,000, 000 spindles in the stato have spun 000, 000,000 pounds of cotton. England, with 39,000,000 spindles, has spun 1,300, 000,000 pounds of cotton. According to this the American spindles have worked up proportionately twice as much cotton as the English. The American ma chines, Hays this writer, are better than the English, labor is now as cheap in the states as in Great Britain, and capital as easily obtained. TltVTHS A NO 1H1FLE8. ..A paper in England called tho Truth teller, has been sued for lying. A slow match—A ten-year engage ment. Why is a had horse liko a |>oor play? Bccauso it can’t run and won’t draw. It is Haiti that hrickmakors nro not long-lived. Tholrs is such a kiln busi ness. . .One of tho most popular hoods for conversation among tho Indies is usually their neighborhood. ..What class of workmen are always on a strike, no matter what their wages are? Blacksmiths. A Long Island hoy, when his mother was castigating him the other day with tho flat sido of a picket, expressed a wish to go behind tho returning board. A fashion reporter says: “Red shawls are to take tho precedence thissea- son. We wonder what will bo tho first thing after them ?” We think it will bo tho young men. Dear me l” oxclaimod a rheumatic old man, annoyed by an untimely snow storm. “I hope that when I dloTll .go whore thoro’ll bo no snow.” “ Well, I presume fou will,” quietly responded his aged wlfo. “Do you see that man over thero?’ said a tall Vermonter to a stranger. “ Ho is the best specimen of tho ‘survival of tho fittest’ on all this earth, ’cause, you see, bo’s had moro fits than|any other man, and yet survives.” A biographical sketch of Roliespierro, which lately appeared in nn English pa per, concludes in tho following manner: “Thisextraordinary man loft no chil dren behind him oxcopt his brother, who was killed at tho same time.” .. A Spaniard and au American wore rccontly dining together in Now Orloans. The former in passing a dish of brains to tho latter said,' ^tyhat yoh lack.'” Tho American, offering tho Spaniard a plate of tonguo, answered, “ What you have a surplus of.” A facetious editor says: “ You can always tell whether a buzz saw is going not by simply feeling of it, but it gen erally takes about as long to find tho ends of your fingers as it would to have gone and asked tho foreman of tho shop if tho thing was in motion.” .. An aged man said : “ If husbands only had any sense, thoy’d never have any trouble with disobedient wives. I did, an’ I’ve been married nigh on to fifty years.” “What is your secret?” asked a friend. “ Why, I always tell my wife to do just as she pleases, an’ she never fails to do it/’ .. “ You see, you young folks,” Bald old Uncle Jehus, “just you hearken to mo and listen good. Marriage begins with courting and sometimes ends with court ing ; the first being proceedings in court ship and ending with tho parson, and the second being proceedings in tho court-house and ending with the sheriff.” ..Tiddy Lavender: “ Weally, now, dadn’t I bottaw—haw—seo you ’cwoss the common ! No ? You’re not afwaid of donkeys?” Lady friend: “Thanks, no, not at all; though of course I’m quite too awfully glad to get rid of them.” Tuldy, (twenty minutes after reflection) : “ Now—haw—what the dooce did she mean by that?” .. A commercial traveler, by mistake, liandcd a merchant, tip«n whom he had/ called, a portrait of his betrothed instead of his business card, saying that he repre sented that establishment,. The mer chant examined it carefully, 1’cmarked that it was a fine establishment, and re turned it to the astonished and blushing traveler, saying: “I hope that you will soon be admitted into partnership.” Prince Nikita, of Montenegro, has declined to command the Bosnian insur gents out of a kindly consideration for Austria. Austria’s situation with refer ence to the Russo-Turkish question is by no means an exhilarating one. Her provinces along r the Bosnian border, Croatia and Sclavonia, are brimful of Sclaves, ready at any favorable opportu nity to rush out and help their brethren. Should the prince of Montenegro become the responsible head of a general revolt Austrian subjects would soon he fight ing against the porte, thus placing the government in the position of an aider and abetter of the Sclavic revolt. Guns in the British Navy.—Ac cording to the testimony of Major-Gen eral Campbell there are tho following number of guns in the British navy: Five hundred and seventy-eight 7-inch guns of Gi tons each ; 140 7-inch guns of 7 tons each; 138 8-inch guns; 038 of 9 tons; 330 10-inch guns; 20 11-Inch guns; 21 12-inch guns of 25 tons'each; 15 12-inch guns of 35 Ions each ; 12 of 33 tons each ; 2 13-inch guns ol 25 Ions each; 1 10-incli gun of 81 tons. Four more of these 81-ton guns are nearly com pleted. Obstinate minds must surrender and admit, that the wonderful cure of Cougnr. Colds and Bronchitis, effected by Dr. J. H. McLean’s Cough and Lung Healing Glob ules. This new way, new principle, produc ing a gas, going direct to the affected parts, is the only remedy. Trial Boxes 2.1c. by mail. Dr. J. IJ. .McLean, 314 Chestnut St., St. Louis.

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