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CEDARTOWN RECORD.
w. D. WIKLE & CO.. Proorietors. CEDARTOWN. GEORGIA, FRIDAY. JUNE 22, 1877. VOL. III. NO. 62.
CU'/tRENT PARAGRAPHS.
/he peach crop in Delaware will be
enormous this year, and the shippers are
puzzled how to get it all to market.
The remains of Mrs. Madison, a sister
of Patrick Henry, lie in an almost un
marked grave at Bowling Green, Kv.
Many farms in Maine, it is said, can
be bought for less than the cost ot the
buildings and fences upon them.
Whatever clfle may be said against
the Chinese, no one can truthfully say
that ho eVer saw one who parted his hair
in the middle.
A party of twenty-eight Chinese naval
erdeta arc now on their way to Paris and
liondon, whore they will pass a courso of
instruction in the uaval academics.
In Germany thero are fewer railway
accidents than in any other country
which ]>os8essert a considerable railway
system.
A SINGULAR case of death by lightning
recently occurred at tho Thames gold
field, New Zealand, where a man was
killed at the bottom of a shaft five hun
dred feet deep.
A moth-proof barrel in which clothes
can be safely stored is a late invention.
But this leaves tho moth at large. What
is wanted is a barrel in which the moths
can be kept, and thus have the clothes at
large.
The five months of the present year
have been notably prolific of serious fires.
Insurance companies claim that the Iobs
to them thus far has been double the loss
for tho same time during 1870.
Professor M. W. Harrington, of
Michigan university, who is now in
Europe, has been offered by tho Chinese
government coliege, at Pekin, tho chair
of astronomy in that institution, at a
salary of $4,000 a year, with perquisites
amounting to $1,000 nioro.
Kentucky has 4,1)00 square miles
more coal measures than all of Great
Britain ; superior iron-ore and more of it;
good grazing and cattle ; fino wheat and
corn fields; largo water communications;
an excellent climate. Limonite ores,
fluxes, hearth-stones, fire-clay, and coal
and lead are tound contiguous in five
counties, and the tensile strength of her
pig-iron smelted with a local flux is said
to exceed any other.
New Jersey awoke yesterday morn
ing with a startling din in its ears arid
found itself invaded by millions of seven
teen year locusts, whose busy hum filled
the groves. It is the genuine red-eyed
locusts, and the creature no sooner
emerges from tho ground than lie climbs
the nearest tree, sticks his claw into the
bark, bursts the back of his jacket, awk
wardly gets out of his old clothes and
appears with a set of brand new wings
and a head a little uglier than his original
one. How much harm these invaders
do remains to be seen. For the present
they seem to be mainly musical.—N. Y.
Herald, 2 L
An extraordinary discovery of ancient
coins has just been made on the Montrane
estate, a few miles from Cuparo Fife, in
Scotland, the property of Mr. Allan Gil
more. In draining a portion of land the
laborers struck on what appeared to be a
bowlder, but subsequently was discovered
to be a pot. A stone was firmly wedged
into its mouth, and on being removed
it was found that the vessel was filled
with coins, the total number of pieces
being 9,000. Most of them have the ap
pearance of a well-worn six-pence, a few
are of the size of a florin, though not
quite so thick, and a small number are
about the size of a shilling. They are all
silver, and, so far as has been ascertained,
of the twelfth, thirteenth ond fourteenth
centuries. It is supposed they were used
in the reigns of Robert II., Robert III.,
and David II., and have lain in the earth
more than three hundred years.
it BO WTH OF IX DI AN Cl VILIZA TIOX.
Mr. William H. Lyon, one of the
board of Indian commissioners, furnishes
from the lHat report of the board, which
is not yet printed, the following statis
tics showing the present condition of the
266,000 Indians in the United .States,
compared with their condition eight
years ago:
Hnufets occupied l»y Indiaus 7,47ts
Schools on Indian reservation*... Ill
Tho roao is praised for Ita beaming face,
Tho Illy lor aaintlv whiteness ;
Wo lore this bloom for ita languid grace,
And that lor its airy lightness.
Each vci
With s
Hero’s n lo«son that ho who ruus may road
Though I four but low have won 1U-
rho boat reward of n kindly deed
Is the knowledge of having done It!
— Mpar Fawcett, in St, Xichotat.
n UMAX BA TTER1ES.
IXvrntm
Remarkable Re-
O:-
buildings
'.orircn members
I> dlans wearing citirtn’s dress.
Aorta of land cultivated
Wheat raised (bushels)
Corn raised ('bushels)
Cats and barley < bushels)
Horses and mule* owned
Cattle owned. ..
Sheep owned
Swine ou ned
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it has been known for sonic time that
tho human body becomes much charged
with electricity in the altitudes and ex
ceedingly dry atmosphere of the high
plateau between the Sierra Nevada and
Rocky mountains, but it. has heretofore
been unknown that such accumulated
electricity is a cause of great danger to
persons bundling exploders. Two very,
serious and sad accidents have hap
pened within a few months at the
mouth of the Sutro tunnel, both
through tho sudden and apparently
unaccountable discharge of a number of
exploders j$\ the exploder house. In the
first case,fenry L. Foreman, formerly
connected with the signal service bureau
at Washington, a gentleman of scholarly
attainments, a good mathematician and
astronomer, was engaged in examining
some of these exploders when two hun-
hundred went off, completely destroying
his eyesight and otherwise seriously in
juring him. These exploders nrs large
copper gun-caps, an inch and a sixteenth
in length ami three-sixteenths of an inch
in diameter, and most kinds are charged
with fulminate of mercury.
Two insulated gutta-percha wires con
nect with each crap, through which the
electric spark is sent (after they are
placed in cartridges of the different com
binations of nitro glycerine) which sets
off the cap, and tho concussion caused
thereby explodes tho powder. The sec
ond accident referred to happened but a
few weeks ago in the same place and
probably in the same manner, by which
Thomas Coombs lost his left hand and
part of his arm. Ho was engaged in
forming ten exploders into a coil around
his hand, when suddenly they went off,
shattering that member in so fear
ful a manner that it had to be amputated.
These Had occurrences led Mr. Sutro
to at once institute sonic careful ex
periments, for ho was strongly im
pressed with the belief that it was
body electricity, and not concussion,
which had caused theso explosions. Elec
tric exploders made by different parties
were taken, ono after the other, and
placed in a strong wooden Ihjx in Mr.
Sutro’s parlor. This room is covered
with n heavy Brussels carpet, walking
over which causes the human body
to lie speedily charged with electricity.
Mr. Hancock, tho chief blaster, assisted
in the experiments, and held the wires
while Mr. Sutro walked round the room
two or three times with slippers, sliding
his feet gently over the carpet. After
doing this he approached the end of one
of the wires with his forefinger, and in
stantaneously a loud report was heard,
the exploder having been discharged
This first experiment was with one of the
San Francisco giant powder company’s
exploders. Now one of the Electrica-
Construction company’s was tried, with
out effecting its discharge. Next one of
George M. Mowbray’s, of North Adami
Mass.; which did not go off on the first
trial, but it did on the second with a
very loud report. After this another of
the giant exploders was tried, which
went off* by the time Mr. Sutro’s forefin
ger had reached within two or three
inches from the end of the wire.
These experiments have clearly estab
lished the fact that exploders may be set
off by electricity accumulated in the hu
man body, and the men about the tunnel
were at once informed of the fact. In
structions were also issued for handling
them hereafter, and a sheet-iron plate
in the floor of the exploder-house, to
which is connected a wire reaching into
the water flowing from the tunnel.
The men in handling exploders now
stand on this iron plate, and have in
structions to wet their boots before enter
ing, and to put on India-rubber glovee
before touching tho exploders. If theso
precautions aro properly carried out there
will bo no dnnger of explosions hereafter.
Any electricity accumulated in the hu
man body will at once bo carried of!
through the iron plate, while the rubber
gloves, being non-conductors, form an
additional protection. No accidents
from the explosions have occurred inside
the tunnel, for, since the place is very
wet, no electricity can be retained in tho
body. But little doubt exists that both
Mr. Foreman and Mr. Coombs havo met
with their misfortunes in the manner
indicated.—Aufro (Ncv.) Independent.
TOE AWFUL lORXAlH).
Heir It Approached tho Doomed Toien of
.1It. Carmel, Ht.
'The natural phenomena that presaged
the fearful storm wero as grand and
awe-inspiring as was tho demonstration
of its awful power. Duo west of the
little city, at a distance of eovcral miles,
is a forest which skirts tho prairie that
stretches thence to tho town. Nestled
amid tho undulations of the ridges, tho
inhabitants of the doomod town watched
the gathering of tho tornado with no
fear at first. In tho west a hank of
clouds began to form, first on the edge
of tho horizon, and then grew with
magical swiftness, creeping up against
the sky, which it presently totully
covered with its tcrriblo frown. Blacker
and blacker it grew, and onward it
rufhed with frightful velocity, the face
of tho cloud dark aud tho edge fringed
with fantastic wreaths of vapor, whirled
into a thousand varying forms ns the
awful and death dealing tempest swept
over tho faco of the smiling country,
Although it was daylight, a dusk almost
like that of twilight foil upon tho* little
city and tho smiling fields and blooming
plains that girded its flourishing borders.
Then fear fell upon the inhabitants, who
began to think where safety might he
found. Tho school building, which wus
thronged with children, was in the path
of the tempest, and tho little ones,
frightened by tho appalling spectacle of
the galloping storm, begged leave to fly
to their homes. They wore nil huddle^
Dn tho ground floor, except a few who
could not be reslrained, where a special
Providence appeared [to work out their
safety.
With tho lightning speed of a race
horso tho tempest came onward and
leaping over the wood that skirted the
praire, rushed ii|>on tho ground and
swept toward tho city with tho un
earthly Hhriek of a fiend. Tho residence
of Dr. Harvey, midway between the
forest and the city, sitting fair upon the
level plain, fell shattered before the
fearful blast, which a moment later fell
upon the doomed city and its in
habitants.
With an awful crasli tho tornado
swept through the streets with a con
tinuous noiso like the explosion of bomb
shells. fro frightful was its velocity and
so vast and irresistible its force that tho
buildings of tho^wn shivered before it
like sand, and fen as if crushed by the
weight of an omnipotent hand. Enor
mous substances weighing hundreds (of
pounds were lifted upon the wings of the
wild wind and borne forward like dead-
leaves upon an autumn gust. Walls
crumbled like sand and went prone upon
the earth, and massive buildings erected
to stand tho test of years, sank under its
force and left scarce a trace of their pres
ence upon the devastated earth.
This lasted but a moment, an awful
moment, pregnant with tho fell harvest
of death and destruction, and the fright
ened and awe-inspired people, who had
beared the crash of their homes and
looked upon the relentless tempest which,
like an infuriate monster, seized upon
the fair village and tore its beauty froip
the face of the earth, could scarcely
realize tho truth that their senses bore tes
timony to. This horrified amazement and
stupor lasted hut for a moment. Fol
lowing in the wake of the tornado came
a torrent of rain—tears which Heaven
seemed to shed over the desolation it
had wrought,and with which the pitiless
flames that began to leap from the ruins
was partly quenched. Then thunder
crashed and lightning flashed from the
sombre sky and fed upon the homes the
wind had spared.—Evansville Journal.
The Authoress of “ Daniel De-
ronda. ”—George Eliot, at the opening
of the Grosvenor gallery, is described by
a writer in Truth as “quiet and'gentle,
dressed in black,, with a whito cashmere
shawl thrown square over her shoulders.
The face is powerful. Wordsworth re
sembled a horse, the noblest of beasts,
and George Eliot has similar qharacter
istics. Beside her stood her husband, G.
H. liewes, who wears the worst of soft
hats on the cleverest of head*. Hfa con
versation is simply delightful. ”
Tine vends ov mum. |
The report that ono of tho missing |
arms of this famous Htatuo had boon dis
covered is followed by tho assuranco of
Gen. Meredith Road, tho American
charge d’ Affairs at Athens, that both
arms havo boon found on tho island of
Milo within a distance of less than thirty
foot from whero tho statuo itself was
taken in 1820. For tho benefit of those
who will ba ready to greet this announce
ment with head shakings, and even doris-
ion and cries of fraud, Gen. Read says :
The arms aro exquisitely modolcd. One
holds a kind of disc or shield. The work
manship and tho locality compel oven
the skeptical to acknowledge the authen
ticity ot theso wonderful relics. The
test of the matter will he to forw’ard tho
arms to tho Louvro in Paris, where tho
multilated statuo has been standing
since 1884, waiting for tho rest of hor,
and for the solution of tho mystery that
hangs over her lovely head over sinco she
camo to the light of the modern world.
Those lost arms have been tho theme
of more wild speculation among artists
and connoisseurs than tho lost tribo of
Israel has been to theologians. lOach has
had his notion about the peculiar posi
tion in which the body of tho stntuo re
quired them to ho placed. Thero will
ho great curiosity to see who, or whether
anybody, has hit right. Tho arms were
also needed to clear up the meaning and
even tho namo of tho statuo, for while
tho general supposition has been that it
was a Venus, and by Praxiteles, or least
a copy of that master’s work, others
have deuiod that it was a Venus at
all. Our countryman, W. J. Stillman,
an artist and a very competent judge of
art, trained by long experience on classic
ground, has given his opinion that tho
work is really a statue of Minerva, and
he presents somo very plausible reasons
in support of that conclusion. It is
barely possible that, in theso days
of more ingenuity than genius, when
Raphaels aro manufactured so as to
deceive tho very elect in urt, and ancient
manuscripts of any required stage of
decay can ho produced to order, these
long lost. urjiiH of tho Venus of Milo,
when brought to their appropriate place,
maybe found to ho humbugs; hut let
ns hope not. When image breakers of
all kinds aro abroad, let us trust that at
least one single instance of “reconstruc
tion” will cheer the hearts of artists and
connoisseurs. In France tho discovery
of the lost arms was regarded as an event
of so much importance that tho secretary
of the fine arts issued an official bulletin.
—Boston Journal.
MEDICATED ICE.
Dr. J. V. Mott has published a paper
in which ho shows tho beneficial results
of medicated ice whore the patient has a
difficulty in wyvallowing either on account
of nervous irritability or of inflammation
of tho larynx. Ho has found that the
solution can he frozen without either
separating the ingredients or affecting
their tonic or astringent properties,
while the ice itself is almost tasteless.
The ice js prepared in this way: The
solution of the desired strength is placed
in a thin glass tube, tho bottom of which
is smaller than the top. Tho air is
excluded by a tightly fitting rubber cork
reaching the surface of the liquid. Tho
tub? is then placed in a vessel containing
a mixture of chopped ice and salt, and
revolved there for twenty minutes, when
the medicated solution will be turned
into a solid mass, which can ho easily
removed from the glass tube by the
application of a warm cloth tosthe out
side of the glass. Ice thus made has
been found of great value by Dr. Mott
in cases of diptheria, quinsly, laringitis,
and croup.
IVII AT PETER COOPKIt KNOWS
ABOUT FINANCES.
Peter Cooper, a candidate for president
of the Un i ted States at th e 1 as t election ,has
just addressed a long open letter to Pres
ident Hayes, criticising the past financial
policy of the sovereign government, and
also marking out the proper course in
his opinion to be pursued in the future.
Mr. Cooper begins his letter with these
words: “Allow me to offer you my
heartfelt thanks for the wise and inde
pendent course you have adopted in the
discharge of the responsible and difficult
duties you have been called upon to per
form.” Mr. Cooper argues that our
national currency must bo made re
ceivable for all purposes throughout the
country, and interconvertible with three
er cent, bonds. Such a currency would
ave been worth more to the American
people than all the gold mines that have
ever been discovered on the continent
of America. He advises that silver be
withdrawn from circulation and used in
the purchase of foreign bonds, the frac
tional and other currency to be revived.
EXCITING ADVENTURE WITH POLAB
IIK A IIS.
Three of the crew of tho steamship
Intrepid, Captain Soutar, had a very ex
citing adventure at the Greenland seal
fishery this season. During the time
that their vessel was fast beset among
the ice, threo of the crow—Thomas
Royal, Wolverhampton ; James Winter,
Peterhead; and William Mulligan,
Dundee—sot out ono day to pay a visit
to tho ship Perseverance, of Peterhead,
which lay apparently about four mileH
distant. After walking about a couplo
of miles it was seen that tho distanco be
tween tho two Hhips had been misjudged,
and that in reality they wero six mileB
apart, and the dangerous nature of tho
journey began to dawn upon tho seamen
when they realized how far they wero
from any vessel, and that their sealing
clubs wero the only weapons with which
they wero armed. When they camo to
realizo tho real distance they begun to
deliberate whether it would not bo the
best courso to toturn to their Bhip. One
of the trio insisted on making tho jour
ney, while the-others wero of the opinion
that they should give up (the attempt.
In the midst of tho debate an unwelcome
visitor enino upon tho scene in the shape
of a she bear, with ono of her cubs, and
as she was fast coming up between tho
men and their ship, tho only chance o*
escape was to run on in tho hope of reach
ing tho Perseverance, a distance of about
four miles. When tho men took to their
heels tho bear quickened her pace, and
in a short time was close upon tho sail
ors. To attempt to fhyo tho animal with
their clubs was useless, and accordingly
ono by one tho men took off portions of
their clothing and threw them down on
the ico. 11 this way tho progress of the
bear was retarded, as Bruin stopped to
sniff and tear at each of tho articles as
hIic came up ttf them. By this means
tho men wero enabled to keep a little
ahead for about a couplo of miles, by
which time, however, they had parted
with moat of their clothing, one of them
having nothing hut his pants, a cravat
and a woollen shirt upon him. He had
retained possession of his club, and,
fastening his cravat to tho end of tho
weapon, lie waved it as a signal of dis
tress, and fortunately the attention of
the Perseverance was attracted to the
porilous position of the threo seamen.
Several of the crew of the Perseverance
immediately set out, armed with guns,
and, nftor running ubout a mile, they
came up to tho three men just in time
to save them, as they had almost no
clothing left, and were quite exhausted
witli the chase. The hear and her cub
wero so cIoho behind that the rescuers
had no difficulty in despatching them
with several bullets. The following
morning the three sailors returned to the
Intrepid. They wero escorted part, of
tho way by a number of the crew of the
Perseverance, and the male bear having
been seen in the vicinity, apparently on
the loek-out for the she boar and cub,
he was likewise killed. The most of the
men’s clothes and their sea boots, were
picked up, all more or less torn. Tho
three men had been kindly treated on
board the Perseverance and supplied
with clothing, so that they suffored no
bad effects from their exposure and ex
citing adventuro. — Danube (Scotland)
Advertiser.
DON'T KIEL BROKEN - L EG GED
HOUSES ANY MORE.
It is now argued that it is unnecessary
to kill broken-legged horseH, and a point
in caso is stated: Twelve weeks ago,
the right hind leg was broken of Mr.
William’s valuable and favorite mare,
in Utica, by a kick from another horse.
The fracture was half way between the
fetlock and the gambrel jointH, and was
complete. A veterinary surgeon under
took to set the leg. A canvas sling was
arranged, and the mare suspended in i^
in such a way that she could occasionally
rest upon her uninjured limbs. The
fractured leg was then set, bound with
hickory and leather splints, with a heavy
leather boot outside of all. The mare
did well,’and never missed a meal. After
threo weeks a plaster of Paris bandage
was substituted, and in soven weeks
“ Nellie’' was walking around the stable.
There was no sign of the fracture, and it
is thought that she will keep her 2:40.
gait.—St. Y. Tribune.
Two carrier-pigeons were liberated one
day last week at Magnolia, on the Phila
delphia, Wilmington and Baltimore rail
road, and flew to Philadelphia,one in two
hours, and the other in one hour and
fifty-five minutes. A strong north-west
wind was blowing against them. The
distance isseventy-nine miles,
GRAVE AXJ) GAY.
Motherhood.
All about tho dummy houso
Flits a sunlwatn, softly bright,
Uold locks with trusses light
Dnnr-lng, tossing up and down *,
O, swoet heavens! for such a crown I
In and out where all la null.
Sound gay tones In shout ami songs
Pimpled chucks, laughs 1mm mid long
From pure merriment within ;
Fun nnd sho aro noar of kin.;
Up and down the quiet room,
In the garden, on tho stair,
Ruby-lips Is overywhern i
Uhnttnrfng ns childhood will,
Only when In mlschlof, still.
"Momma" ibis, and "Mamma" that,
"Tnnt 17" "Tnn 17" all the hours,
Eves like stars nnd breath like flowers,
Rosy little hnuda and foet;
(rod makes motherhood so sweet.
- lAierece in The Golden Buie.- ,
..When a man begins to find fault
with other people ho may well bo advised
to look for evil in his own heart and life.
.. Comparisons aro odious. The major,
rocking Nelly on his knee for aunt
Mary’s sake—“ I suppose that is what
you like?” Nelly--" Yes, it’s very nice.
But I rode on a real donkoy yesterday—I
mean ono with four legs, you know.”
..“ I tell you, sir,” said Dr. one
morning, to tho village apothecary, “ I
tell you, all, tho vox populi should not,
must not, bo disregarded.” “What,
Doctor I ” exclaimed tho apothecary,
rubbing his hands, “ you don’t say that’s
broken out in town, too, has it? Lord
help us! what unhealthy times theso
aft! ”
. .The other day a simple child of na
ture was walking along tho banks of a
river. Suddenly she said to her com
panion, “ Tell me, where does this water
go?” “ Into the sea.” " But, then, why
doesn’t the sea overflow? Ah, I know
why it is. Because in tho sea thero are
so many sponges they suck it all up.”
.What linoof business do you think
I had best ndopt ? ” asked a young as
pirant for tho stage of the “ leading
man.” “ Well,” said tho old stager,
gazing critically at the youth’s elegant
costume, “ I should say the clothes line
would suityou best.”—Boston Commercial
Bulle.vu
.. “A lover ” writes us: “ Supine I
seo ft young lady homo from church, aud
tho night is dark and rainy, aud upon
arriving at her house she darts through
the door without saying as much as
‘good-night,’ leaving me standing out
side—what would you advise me to do in
such a case ? ” You had better start for
homo immediately, if you have an urn
brella. Under no circumstance should
you stand on the steps of the young lady’s
house all night. It would be preferable
to crawl into the nearest friendly store
box, and await for day-light to appear or
the rain to disappear. — Norristown
Herald.
ANN ELIZA IN A SCRAPE.
The good heart of Ann Eliza Young
got that lady into an unpleasant predica
ment tho other day. She was on her
way to Kalamazoo, Mich., and, 'having
travelled quite a distance, was very tired.
At Hudson, Mich., when the train stop
ped, Mrs. Young was resting her head
on some of her baggage as she was read
ing away at the half-dozen periodicals
obtained from the train newsboy, so she
did not nolico tho conductor passing
from the front to the rear of the car
with a strange-lopking man. It being
the last car, the conductor was taking the
man to the back end to let him off, as
he lucked the “wherewithal.” The con
ductor had put him off, when the man
asked permission to make a request of
the passengers. Permission was given,
and tho strange-looking man boarded the
train and called out in a very excited
manner: “My wife is a little insane.
She is trying to get away from me. Her
baggage is checked through to Kalama
zoo, and I have not sufficient money to
pay my fare, and tho conductor must put
me off unless I obtain it. Will any gen
tleman hero give me enough to see me
through ? I have friends in Kalamazoo,
so I can refund the money when I reach
there.’’ Mrs. Young’sheart was touched,
and she f urnished money enough to carry
the man on to White Pigeon. The “ in
sane wife ” directly appeared, and burst
into tears. It was evident that if either
was insane the man was. The woman
bad determined to desert him, for he had
on the previous evening drawn a knife
on her and threatened her life. He was
a worthless, shiftless fellow with a very
bad temper. “The last I saw of Mrs.
Young,” says a correspondent of the
Inter-Ocean, “she was taking the un
fortunate woman to dinner at White
Pigeon, while the crazy husband was
beggiug from the crowd for aid with
which to follow his runaway bride to
Kalamazoo.”