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W. A, SINGLETON, Editor and Proprietor.
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M its. Itll.fi WHITII i KS.
Ai Abandoned Woman Smelt
ing Redress at the 'loinbn,
A bony litt'e woman, with a big
hook-nose, sidled up to Justice Otter
bourg ai. the Tomiis Police Court
veatei’daj afternoon, and in a squeak
ing v< ice and a jerky louo domand
‘You tlie gentleman as deals out
the law h.ver?'
•Well, madame,’ said the kindly
Justice, ‘that depends. What kind
of law do you want?’
‘I want bang-up law, double ex
tract, warranted to go through Bill
Whittles quicker’n a streak of greased
lightuit)’,’ and down went, the palm of
her right hand on the Judge’s desk,
not hard, but slowly and deliberately,
which said more than if she had
come down lull weight, nose and all,
on that same desk.
‘And who may Bill V> Littles be .
queried the Court.
•Well, be might be anybody, but
he jest happens to be this hyer gals
husban’, ’cording to law.' and she
pointed very slowly towards her right
breast, thinking perhaps he> heart
lay there
•Ah, then you are Mrs. o Littles.
What’s the trouble ?’
‘Domestic.’
‘Auy children?’
‘Eight.’
‘All living ?’
‘Guess they are, fer I know I licked
eight young’ns this very day, all
mine, too, and I didn’t lick none of
’em twice, neither.’
‘Ami I suppose Bill linked you?”
This was very iudisdreet ou the
part of the Court.
‘Lick me! Lick me!’ squeaked
Mrs. Bill. ‘Don’t you never be car
ried off by no sich notion, squire.
Bill Whittles lick me! Yes, when
ItieHl flvt) big brothers oi‘ biii’n holds
me for him to do it, not belore,’ and
Mrs. Bill folded her ai ms and closed
her mouth very tight, and looked at
the Justice.
•Well, what can I do for you?’
asked the Court! with a mingled ex
pression of abashment and admira
tion on its lace.
‘l’ve got eight children, a mother
and a lame sister to support, and
considering that Bill Whittles ought
to support ninp out of that crowd I
don’t think it's fair he should turn
things and make m< take his place as
he’s be l n doing t-very since Belinda
was born, and I want the law on that
and the be t vou’ve yot, too.’
‘And bow long since Belinda was
born ?’
‘She’s the sixth ; nigh on to three
years I reckon.’
‘And Bill hasn’t dune anything for
you since?’
‘Not hda n thing I give him 50
cents that n ght ; he went out and 1
didn’t see him lignin for a week.’
‘Then you want me to issue a war
rant for' his arrest for abandoning
you ?’
‘Where does that leave me ? Does
that make me out an abandoned wo
man ? asked Mrs. Bill, looking fear
fully concerned about something.
‘Not as you understand it; but
suppose we have him arrested for
abandonment,?’
‘That’ll fix it better, I should say.
Any swearin : to do ?’
‘Oh my, yes. Mr. Clerk, just put
this lady in swearing trim.’
The affidavit made out, Mrs
Whittles returned to the Justice to
attest it. She put her hand on the
book, and the expression on her face
told plainly that she was swearing *v
every leal in it. The kb~s she gave
the Bible was audible throughout
the court room. With a parting
jerk ol her little head, and the re
mark, “That’s some of the very best
swearing ever you tended to, squire,’
Mrs. Whittles left- Ex.
Ireland sends 103 members to the
House oi Commons, 64 of whom rep
resents 32 counties, 2 Dublin Univer
sity, and 31 represents 31 towns.
These last 31 towns, which return
more than one-third of the Irish
members, have only 53,953 electors,
among a population ot 882,146.
The canal around Mussel Shoals,
in the Tennessee river, will be four
teen and a half miles long. Some
thing less than a million dollars, in
addition to the amount already ex
pended, will bo necessary to com
plete the work. The locks will be
large enough to accommodate a first
class Mississippi nver steamer.
J3U JOIST Ac VISTA- MARION COUNTY, GA, A.XTGTJST 22 1877.
An Electric Candle.
On Friday night the loth inst., a
series of interesting experiments
which possibly at. some future period
may have an important bearing in
the illumination of public buildings,
ware houses, docks, etc., took place
at the West India docks, London,
England, before a considerable num
ber of gentlemen. The apparatus
used for the occasion consisted m rely
of an electro-magnetic machine
worked by a small steam engine, some
insulated wires, and the electric can
dles, which are the invention of M,
Paul Jablochkoff, an officer in the
Russian eng neering service, and
composed of two carbons placed side
by side with a slip of insulating sub
stance between, which burns away
wbh the carbon exactly in the same
way as the wax of a wax candle is
consumed with the wick. The light
thus obtained is not. accompanied by
those irregulari ies which have hith
erto formed part of the electric light,
and which aro the consequences of
the constantly varying length of the
voltaic are occasioned by the move
ments of the carbons and regulators.
One of the principal features of M.
JablocbkofFs inventions is the divisi
bility of the light, it being possible
to burn several lights with a single
current of electricity. In lighting up
a building with the electric candle in
stead of gas, a magneto electric ma
chine would take the place of gas
works, and telegraph wires w >uid be
substituted for gas pipes. With re
gard 10 the question of cost, it was
stated that it was considerable less
expensive than gas The lirst experi
ment in order to show the suitable
ness of the invention for dock pur
poses consisted in the lighting of four
of the “candles” in a large yard.
The light thus obtained, which was
shaded by ground glass, brilhan ly
illuminated tlie fnciosure, it being
possible to read small print at a con
siderable distance from the lights,
while at the same time the eyes were
not all'ected by the glare, as is in the
cas'- with the ordinary electric light.
The second experiment was confined
to the ilium nation of the toj story ot
one of the large ware houses, and
this, like its predecessor, was equally
successful, A arge vessel at the
quay side was also lighted up, as also
was a portion of the quay. The
whole of the experiments were very
successful, and it was stated that
each candle gave a light equal to 100
gas lights.— Ex.
Some Remarkable Trees.
The South American cow tree
grows on the poorest and most rocky
soil. Its leaves are diy and leathery
in appearance, and lor several months
in the year not a shower falls to
m> ibteu its roots and biancnes. Yet,
by piercing the bark, i yields a liquid
resembling milk, which is sweet and
nourishing. Another South Ameri
can tree is the ivory-nut tree. The
natives use it in building their huts,
and out of its nuts they make buttons
and various trinkets. Of 1 ite years
the nuts have found their way to
other countries, where t .ey are
worked tip in ah sorts ol fancy arti
cles. The cannon ball tree grows in
the tropics. It rises about sixty-five
feet high, has beautiful crimson flow
ers, inclus ers, very fragrant. The
resemblance of the fruit to cannon
halls has given it its martial name.
When fully ripe, the balls burst with
a loud report. Shells are worked in
to cups, and a great variety ol useful
and ornamented household utensils.
Two more cum us trees complete our
list. The tallow tree lives in China,
and yields an oily substance resem
bling tallow, which answers well as a
substance for it. The tree is only of
medium size at maturity. The var
nish tree is Japanese, though found
also sparingly in Cnina. This i the
ree which produces the black Japan
varnish, so useful an article of c >m
merce. It resembles in general ap
pearnce, the while ash tree. It does
not lurni3k its peculiar liquid in large
quantities until nine or ten years old.
Ex.
Artemus Martin, of Erie, Pa., ou
whom the degree oi A. M. was con
ferred by Yule College at the last
commencement, is a market gardner
who sells vegetables in tne streets of
Erie twice a week. He is a regular
contributor to foreign and American
educational publications, and his a
mathematical library of several hun
dred volumes. He is self-educated.
-A. DEMOCRATIC I’A.MIIX.'X' newspapee.
Aii Extraordinary Heiress.
The daughter of a country practi
tioner, in a little village in Scotland,
awoke one morning to find herself a
great heiress. Her uncle had died,
leaving an estate and $1,590,000 to
her. Miss Macpherson Grant was
bright, clovet, and handsome, and
about 21 years ot age. She took pos
session of her property and lived in
great style, keeping ala ge stud of
lorses, and driving tandem herself
all over the country. Some fifteen
years ago a young lady paid her a
visit, ylt ended in this young lady,
MisY Temple, leaving father and
mother, and living with Miss Giant
for better or worse, until death should
part them ; in Let, they formed such
a friendship that they entered into an
engagement that neither should
many, and that they should pass
their lives together. Miss Grant
then and there refused a very good
offer of marriage, ami rejected ait
other suitors. The conditions wee
that Miss Grant was to leave tier es
tates and everything to Miss Temple,
if Miss Temple, on her part, never
left her and never married. A will
was made by Miss Grant unde- which
her property was to pu-s to the Tern
pies. Two years ago Miss Temp e
married, and last Christinas Mis
Grant died. The will was revoked.
She never forgave tire defection ; she
never made another will, and tlie es
tate goes to n obscure country doc
tor in Aberdeenshire, who hardlv
knew he was related to M ss Grant,
and never snw her. Oilier relations,
poor tradespeople, come in for a share.
Over this question of succession there
will be a terrible fight in the courts
between the Temples and the heirs
at-law. The London World finds
this interesting stoiy in its Scotch ex
changes.
Slow to Obtain ©airy Cotvs.
A New York dairyman of large ex
perience says :
To obtain a good lot of cows in the
shortest time, buy the best regardless
of cost. But unfortunately, with
must dairymen this canuot be done
f r want of means, so we musi look
for other ways to procure good cows.
One way will be to raise heifers from
the best cows in the herd, got by
thoroughbred males of dairy breeds.
Thus, although not the quickest, will
be by far the cheapest and be*t way
to accomplish the desired result. A
good cow often lucks much of being a
handsome one. But the size and
shape of her head and horns have
much to do towards making her a
good cow. I have never yt-t seen a
good one that had large, broad horns.
The best cows carry a small, fine
head, with good sized ears ; and in a
broad-hipped cow we always find
th<* milk marrow well developed.
Anyone who owns a cow should lose
no time in finding out her qualifica
tions, and if she will not make, at the
lowest ca eolation, 200 pounds of
bn ter per year, she should be speed
ily disposed of. In a large herd it
will be motp difficult to accomplish
tins than where only a few are kepi.
But still it can be cFsely approxi
mated if care is token. A cow that
gives milk as blue as whetstone is
poor property for any but a city milk
man. Many farmers keep too many
cows ihat produce that kind of milk.
A cow can be kept until she is four
years old without loss as her growth
will pay the cost of her Keeping, and
by that time the amount of her pro
duction should be ascertained be
yond a doubt. I think that with care
in breeding, cows can be raised that
will yield, on an average, three hun
dred pounds of butter a year, if well
kept.
Fifty years ago veiy few daries in
New York averaged one hundred
pounds of butte: 10 the cow ; now the
best cows do three times as w< 11. in
one district ihe milk of 2,500 cows is
now received at a Ang e butter and
cheese factory. Probably greater
changes will take place in the next
half Century in New York husbandry,
as the Pai rolls of Husbandry combine
intelligence, uciiviiy and co-opera
tion. — Ex.
A San Francisco clergyman says
his city is the most irreligious in the
United S'ates, and gives the follow
ing as a Californian’s prayer : “Oh,
my God, (if there is a God) have
mercy on my soul (if I have a soul).”
Enormous Tax on Elonr.
WJint a Patent Is Expected to do in
Keeping up Taxes*
The New York Tribune says: Ex-
Gov. C. C. Washburn, of Wisconsin, in
conversation with a representative of the
'lribune recently, gave a history of a
patent for milling wheat, which threatens
to impose a tax of millions of dollars on
the flour consumersrof the country. He
said : “I am particular interested just
now in fighting the infamous patent
right swindle, which is going to levy
tribute on every loaf of bread made in
this country. You haven’t heard about
it ? Why, it’s making a great sensa
tion in the West. It’s a long story, but
I can give you the gist of it in a few
moments. I am. by the way, the largest
miller in the United States, my mills
being at Minneapolis, Minn. All mil
lers are now using whai is called the
high process of grinding, which was
generally introduced in this country
about 1871, but had been in use in Eu
tope for fifty years. I will explain the
terms of high and low grinding. Low
grinding means letting the upper or run
ning mill-stone low down and in close
pioximity to the netherstone by reason
of which the largest amount of flour is
derived from the first grinding ; but as
necessarily must be the case, a great deal
of the outer coating of the wheat, to
gether with the embryo, would be reduc
ed to such fineness as to go into the flour
and a separation was impossible. The
high grinding is tlie direct opposite of
the Aw,and th object is at tb- first g> tid
ing 1 g: - rid t ita at - nee, and make
as little flour as -.* saiblThi • is clone
by blowing the bran off .he course
ground grain or middlings, and after
wards grinding fine the small white
granules. 1 bought mv machine in
Frajace, This improved picc-ss s now
absolutely iticiispeiisale o succ- sfir
milling. Deprive arij unller of it and
he ia ruined.
rii.got sp- • net’ors in Washington
ly go ho and -m oid patent.
.v. g t
all :he uiao ines for effecting
the process I have described. It is
called the Cochrane patent. After qui
etly talking out the reissue they went
on without making any noise and took
a suit up to ihe Supreme Court, with a
man of straw for defendant, and as no
real defense was made, they’ easily ob
lained a decision based on an opinion
given by justice Miller. Now this gang
of patent swindlers are attacking he
heaviest millers with suits, expecting to
terrify all the others. They have s’n-
g ad out the Jewe is, of Brooklyn, th
llaxalls, of Richmond, and my mills at
Minneapolis. Th y have put tne under
bonds in the enormous sum of $250,000,
pending the conclusion ot injunction
proceedings.
“I iearn that the rascals propose to
be magnanimous and to grant license to
such millers as wil l recognize the valid
i<y ot their patent for the moderate sum
of $6,000 for each run of stones, which
for this city alone amounts to the vast
sum of $1,200,000. While primarily
this great sum would come from the
millers, reaiiy it comes out of the farmer
and consumer at last, and they are the
real people most interested in defeat of
this enormity. As there are over 6,000
run- of stdiies in the United States, this
are going to bring this great outrage
license will amount to $36,000,000, We
before Congress next winter and try to
have it cancelled. The grain-growing
sections in the West are indignant at
the exposure of this enormous fraud,
and the grain consuming East to be
equally aroused, for the attempted tax
on the chief necessary of life affects both
alike.”
ICapid Civilization.
The Cherokee nation has a national
debt ot such large proportions that
the tax-payers of the tribe are unable
to meetit without bankrupting them
selves. What is the use of ascending
the scale of civilization if a nation is
not allowed to carry a big debt along ?
Whon the Chcrokees inhabited the
beautiful region along the Tennessee
i iver they were regarded as being in
a barbaric state. Then they owed
no man outside of their nation a
cent; but since they have gone into
education and the luxuries of music
they musi expect to share all the glo
ries and discomforts of civilized com
munities. If the elder Boudinot.
Alexander McGilveray and William
Wetherford, the plumbed Red Eagle,
were alive would they envy that civiliz
ing process which bring debt and
impending bankruptcy to Indian
tribe I—Ex.
Trajan's Wall.
Tlie events now transpiring in the
neighborhood of the Danube bring into
curious providence tlie name of tlie
Emperor Trajan, the buttresses of whose
bridge, wo believe, still stand on oppo
site batiks of the Danube, and whose
famous wall seems to be the line along
which the tide of war is rapidly rolling.
The btidge thrown over the Danube by
this great monarch was, in some respects
at least, tlie most remarkable of all the
structures that successive belligerents
have erected for the passage of then'
troops. It was not a mere floating
bridge, but a permanent structure, car
ried on piers 150 feet high and 00 feel
wide, and it comprised twenty arches,
extendingaltogcthe’ overaspan of 4,770
Roman feet. This giant structure, than
which ancient history records nothing of
ihe kind equal to it, seems to have been
intended as a fortress as well as a bridge.
Standing eighteen feet above the water,
it is supposed to have afforded the com
mand of the Danube navigation, a gar
rison posted on it being, of course, able
to damage or destroy vessels pass
ing under, while they would be above
the reach of retaliation. It was de
stroyed by Hadrian, and its precise local
ity has been the sul ject of some dispute.
Ruins, which evidently might have
formed the buttresses of a bridge, occurr
ing on the line of an old Roman road,
however, seems to leave little room to
doubt. Trajan’s wall is ano her relic of
this terrible energetic old Roman. It
is, strictly speaking, a rampart of earth
about 35 or 40 miles long, and extends
from Bassova, just at the bend in the
Danube, to the shores of the black Sea.
Though onlv an earthwork, it is a form
idable line of defense. It is Bor 10 feet
high, with i fosse in front ol it, while the
western oor tori is sliil further fortified
by <i-ep i kes and the swatrpy valley of
Kara-Su. In audition to ail th is, an
oi tier rampait of a similar character lies
just in tlie rear of it. This is known as
the South Wall, the space between the
two ramparts being from 1 ; 000 to 2,000
feet. —London Globe.
A Submerged City.
A strange discovery is reported ,
from the lake of Geneva. A tourisi I
having lost his trunk, two diversj
were employed to search for ft. While
they were below water, they found
what they supposed to be a village,
since covered by the lake. Their
statements led to an investigation of
the spot by the municipal authorities,
who took measure to ascertain the
truth of the extraordinary account of
the divers. On covering the placid
surface with oil, these iatter were
able to distinguish the plan of an an
cient town, with streets, squares, and
detached houses marking the bed of
the lake. The ruddy hue which char
acterized them led the obs- avers to
suppose that the building had been
covered with the famou vt-rmdliou
cerm nt which was used by the Celts,
Citnbri, and tb early Gauls. There
are about two hundred hous s
arranged over an obloug surface, near
the middle of which is a space more
open, supposed to have been used for
p ibi c assemblages. At the east, rn
extremity lies a large square tower,
which was taken for a rock. A super
ficial investigation seems to indicate
that Ihe construction oi these build
ings dates from some centuries before
our era. The Council of Vaud has
decided to have the site of the dwell
ing enclosed by a jetty stretching
from the land, and to drain off the
water, so as to bring to light wliat
promises to he one of the most inter
esting archeological discoveries of
our day. —London Daily Telegraph.
Twelve Year* After the War.
Twelve years ago Richmond, with
45,000 inhabitants, lay half in ruins.
Now she has rebuilt the wholo of the
burnt districts, has established 200 fac
tories, and with a population of 75,000
people is the handsomest city iu the
world. Norfolk ships near 1,000,000
bales of cotton this year, and has devel
oped a trade in vegetables, Iruit and fish
which has extended through our great
Northern cities, across the Atlantic, and
has increased tne value of lan ls in the
adjacent counties many hundred fold.
Tlieve are in the Convention 51 law
yers, 44 farmers, 15 doctors, 13 mer
chants, 15 manufacturers, 4 railroad
munagurs, 2 teachers, 2 editors, 5
preachers, professional office holders 4.
—Ex.
Annual Subscription $2,00
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ITEMS OF INTEREST.
There are eighty-eight hospitals in
London.
Meriwether county has 14 stills in
one district, ail in full blast.
New York receives annually $7,-
000,000 worth of eggs.
There are nearly 3,000 known spe
cies of fish.
Memphis has $10,000,000 in delin'*
quent taxes standing out.
Martha’s Vineyard c.mpmcetiug
has 1,000 cottages.
A reo nt case of death from Asiatic
cholera is reported in New York.
New York City lias paid a yearly
lax of $1,748,456-34.
Good judges estimate Ohio’s wheat
crop this year at thirty million
bushels.
Over two million bushels of wheat
were shipped from New York to Eu
rope last week.
The wheat yield of California is de
cidedly more valuable than the gold
product.
It is estimated that the wheat crcp
of Minnesota will yield thirty million
bushels.
In 1814 tlie debt of Paris was $45,-
000. In 1873 the interest on the
debt was over nine million dollars.
An extensive iron trade is about to
be opened between the United States
and Brazil.
The strawberry and vegetable
crops have relieved the stringency ot
the times in New Jersey.
A Canadian Bible Society sent SSOO
worth of Bible3 to the “burnt out ’
people of St. John, N. B.
A Boston thief got away with a
trunk containing SIB,OOO worth of
railroad bon cl a, *lo other <iov.
Only 50 deaths are reported in
Meriwether for last year ; the births
were about two hundred.
The crowd of visitors at the Sul
phur Springs is larger than it has
been since the war.
The Warm Springs campmeeting
will embrace the first Sabbath in
September. Tent boldeis are get
ting ready for the meeting.
California sent abroad 301 cargoes
of wheat and flour during the year
ending June 30th, valued at $81,427,-
500.
An immense crowd of people went
to church in Quebec, a few days ago,
to pray for deliverance from the po
tato bug.
Mrs. Mary Leach, of St. Joseph,
Missouri, has fallen heir to a fortune
in the West Indies, valued at $20,-
000,000.
Henry Marshall, late cashier of a
National Bank at Olney, 111., has been
arrested fer embezzling $40,000 from
the bank.
A large number of the Pennsylva
nia Moliv Maguires have located in
Montr al, and were the chief instiga
tors of the riots on the 12th of July.
Twelve hundred houses in Phila
delphia are labeled “For Rent,” and
in the best part of the city whole
rows are untenanted.
The volcano of Cotopaxi is in au
active state of eruption, and has
caused a terrible destruction ot prop
erty in Ecuador’.
The chairman of the Grand Trunk
Railway states that the railways in
America have lost $47,000,000 in the
last two years, from competition in
cutting rates.
There are 7,874 retail, liquor deal
ers >n New York City, of which num
ber 2,1.76 have licenses and 5,699 sell
without license, violating the law
every day of the week.
A sleep-walking young lady in Cot
tonwood, California, while passing
through her lather’s bed chamber was
awakened by his hand upon her
shoulder. She fell down dead.
The Washington national monu
ment is to be completed according to
the original .pi n, wi h a shatt 485
feet high and ugly enough to “m..ke
a pig squeal.”
The girl whom King Alfonso of
Spain is to marry, in spite of his
mother’s opposit oti, is his cousin.
She is young, very handsome, has
dark but anima ed features, is tail,
bright and lively, and dresses with
exquisite taste.