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VOLUME 111.
Uvoteioual (Bavdsi.
attorney at law.
VISTA. OA.
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jiest *ee and th* *'Tp(.
Hardee's Charge.
BY henby c stANitß, in .Savannah News.
[Tor confirmation of the following incident
in the career erf a brave and accomplished
noisier, reference iam ole to that part of Gen.
•lohusou's Niirrsti to the battle of
llentouville, N'. C.]
The month of March had come and fiovvn,
Hie winds of March to silenec blown,
And the bills looked outward bare and lone,
Whence the last echo fell.
.1 shattered army's struggling will—
Charge after charge defeated still—
Strove on that Carolinian hill,
Where the winds this story tell.
In broken words from mouth to month,
Went whispers of a falle.. South,
Parching the lips us a desert drougth
From white Sahara’s pi on;
And in the smoke*from cannon driven,
Decision hung in balance even,
As which, to will or strength, were given
The battle’s loss anil gain.
But when defeat with triumph dallies,
Once more his voice the column rallies,
Like Rolands horn at Bonivsvailes,
When victory grew still;
And then, as arms together clash.
We saw his sabre’s circling flash
Wreathe with a flame the knightly dash
Of flardeeVclinrge at Bontonville 1
Alone—the breastwork steep and long—
He met that army brave and strong,
As Arthurian knight of ancient song
Rode up to Iladon llill;
And as from Shiloh's* nostril came
The red and burning b ittlo flame,
The hovering foitns of death and fame
Met Hardee’s charge at Bcntonville !
A thousand guns wove leveled tli-n,
Aim< and by a thousand veteran men,
Or yet wc saw iheir Sc. ken, when
A voice came ilke the truce’s ho;"'.—
“Cease fire!” the foe c".iiuandcr said;
“Cease fire !" along the lines were sped,
And, like a swelling halo, spread
The doep’uiug glory round ins head —
“Bucli men nr deallilcss born i"
Lrom tin. breastwork, like a yellow grave,
ilaui'C i by an army, sarong and brave,
His sabre wreathed a silvery wave
’Mong the sun light’s golden thread.
As drawn by ueeromancer’s ovo,
The columns ruHb.eil to win, to die,
No pause was there, or question why
They knew ’twas llardy led !
The wore many heroes iber.- t’ .t day,
Some clad in blue and some in Gray,
Each to each in war’s array
Had met as foes at will:
But all, in one accordant breath,
Laid at his feat the bannered heath,
When valor rode the walls of death,
By Hardee borne at Bentouvillo.
And Johnson, Launcelot of our laud,
Whose plumes were wove by glory’s wand,
With spur to heel and hilt in hand,
Saw then the victory won;
And through the smoke came back the boa 1
Of muffled drums and treading feet,
And bugles sounding wild retreat
At turning of the su.t!
There is a life ’bovs human ken,
Born of a life we know not when,
Which marks the footprints made by men
With Fate’s impressive drill.
Though peace may holdJho sword thatg
•sheathed
And death m .y pa e the brow that’s wreathed,
’Tis Nature deals the gift bequeathed
That day at Benlonville.
*Gen. Hardee’s liorso.
Making Sutter sst Urazil.
There aro four native modes ol
making butter in Brazil. The first is
by putting the milk in it common
bowl and beating it with a spoon, as
you would an egg. The*second, by
pouring the milk into a botile and
slinking it until the butter appears,
when it is remoiedby breaking ofl
the top of the bottle. The third, when
the diary is more extensive, is per
formed by tilling a hide with tlio milk,
which is luslly shaken by tin athletic
native at each end until butter is pro
duced. The fourth, which is cons d
ered to indicate vast progress over
sny of the preceding methods, con-
I gist, in didotting the hide or Lather
vessel, filled wLi 1 milk, on the ground
alter a galloping horse until it 'S Sup
posed tlie butter is formed. The
milk is never straiped and the butter
is formed never washed
An Oxford (Ala) man is so close
fisted that he will not, advertise in
the papers, but ties his card to a pig s
tail and turns the grunter loose.
BUENA VISTA, MAE 10. \ COUNTY, GEORGIA, M'EBNESBAY, FEBLARY 6, 1878.
REMARKABLE CLOCKS.
Aii lllnitiation of tltc !Voiil*rful
inventive Ingenuity of Man.
It is almost nn impossibiiHy to state
who was the individual that invented
the clock; and a great deal of the ob
scurity attached ta their early history
is duo to the fact that formerly the
term hoioi gium was applied to a
suiisdial or cio k indiscrimina e!y,
thereby rendering it a task of the ut
most ditlieultv to side at what par
lictiliir period it came to tneun a clock.
Julius Cffisar found Clepsydras, or
water clocks, in Bri ian, when he Car
ried his arms thiiher, ami it was by
them that he observed that the nights
in England were shorter than those in
Italy. Tnerc have been Some won
derful and curious clocks constructed.
The Peisiaa King, Haroundal-Rus
chid, presented the emperor Char
lemagne a water-c ock, wkercof Gif
fard, in his “History of Franc-,” gives
tiie following description :
“The dal was composed of twelve
small doors, which represented the
divi ion of the hours; each door
opened at the hour it was intended to
represent, and out of it came the same
number of little balls, which fell on
by one, at equal distances of time,
on a brass drum. It rn.glit be told
by tlie eye what hour it was by the
number <d doors opened; and by the
ear by tie- number of t ails that fell.
'(Viien it was twelve o'clock twelve
!io.semen in nsima'nrc issued to- I.
at the same time, aad marching
round the and al, shut all the th ors.”
A cl.*ck in Lyons, I\a..c-, ’..as a
crowing cock that flaps liiu wings
nail thrice sou .ds his shrill c'a ion
every three hours, In a gallery be
neath him a door opens on on*-! side,
and out comes the Virgin Mary, and
from tii opposite door the Ang.l Ga
briel, who meets and salutes her
A dov- descends upon tue Virgin's
bead; and after these have retired,
a reverend father comes forth and
pantomimic diy gives ihc spectators
a blessing The days of the week
are represented by seven figur s, each
~f which takes its pLce in a niche on
the* morning of the day it symbolizes,
arid remains there until midn'ght.
Another ma velous specimen of
clock-work is to be sen at the pala.ee
of FriedeiisUin, in Gotha. It is an
astronomical clock end orrery, and
was the labor of an ingenuious monk
for forty years. It has record,-d wiih
accuracy for upwards of 109 years
the motions cf tho heavenly bodies,
the days, months ami years in thei
eternal round; one hand moving over
an inch of the dial in the b.iet space
of a second; another loihng through
the same long and weary journey in
100 years; and a feeling of awe invol
untarily creeps over the mind as one
contemplates the little >n lex tnaf. has
pointed out the rise and fall of em
pires, progressing in its silent, on
ward course, like the unerring course
of time.
A clock of out ions design, made in
Germany about the commencement
of the seventeenth century,was exhib
ited at the meeting of the ArcLselog
ical Institute in 1855. It was in the
form of'a griffin bearing an ascu'chvon
on which was a dial. The animal
rolled its eyes constantly whilst the
clock was in motion, opened its
mouth when the quarters struck, and
flapped its wings at die striking hour.
Some years ago the Emperor of
China received from the East India
Company a clock in the form of a
chariot, in which was seated a lady;
upon b r finger was a bird set with
diamonds and rubies, with its wings
expanded, as if to take flight, and
which fluttered for sometime when a
certain diamond button was touched.
The body of the bird contained the
machinery by which it was moved.
Over the lady’s bo,id were two uni-
A DEMOCRATIC FAMILY IsTTCWSPAPKR.
breilas, undel' the larger of wuicii a
bell was placed at some and static- from
the clock, and apparently having no
connection with it, but from which
communication was secretly convey, and
to a h.miner thn regularly struck
the hour. At her feet was a gold
dog, before which were two birds ou
spiral spiings, having their wings
and leathers set with stones of various
colors. They appeared io be flung
with the chariot, which, by hidden
machinery, was made to run in aiu
direction, a boy stationed at the back
seeming to push it forward. Above
the umbrella were flowers and pre
cious stones terminating in a flying
dragon s-t in the same manner; the
whole was of gold curiously wrought
and embellished with rubies and
pearls.
There Is a curious old clock at
Lubeek, construct, and about A. D 1589
This ancient piece of mechanical skill
is placed mar the altar, and has a
huge and bewildering complicated
dial. On a min a urc Semicircular
gallery above tne dial is the figure of
Christ seated <>n a throne. With the
la-T stroke of twelve, melodious
chimes play a verse of some hvmn,
and at the same time a little door on
the right-of the gallery opens and a
figure in aposfo ic garb appears, ad
's aneng slowly until it reaches the
throne, when it turns and bows be
fore the Savior, and then go. s on,
again disappearing through a door on
th- kf.. E.cvcn apostles pass through
in this manner, but the twelfth, who
is.said to be J nits, 'iffy shows his
Her, when the door i° shut on him.
On each are bas-reliefs illustrative <>f
passages in the If- o! Christ. In that
of the ia.st supper, a mouse is sen
pc> ping from benath the armorial
bearings of the once puissiant Lubeck,
formerly the heal of tiie famous
ilausia.ic League formed there in
1161,
TANARUS: C iarg; st clock in the world i-:i a
skeleton clock at. Mechlin, in Bel- urn.
it has only one hand and makes one
revolution in twelve hours.
An-.:her large clock is at the Eng
lish Parliament House. Tiie tour
dials ot this clock arc twenty-two fe t
in diameter. Every hall ininntc the
point of the hand moves seven inches.
The clock will and a half
days, but onlv strikes s> ven and a
half, thus indicating any neglect in
winding up. The mere winding up
of the striking mechanism takes two
hours, flic pendulum is 15 feet long,
'he whe Is are of cast iron, the hour
bell is 8 foot high and 0 feet in diam
eter, weighing nearly 15 tons, -and
the hammer weighs more than 400
pounds. This clock strikes the quar
ter hours, and by its strokes the
shorthand reporters in the P. riin
tnenl Chambers regulate their lab-rs.
At every stroke anew reporter takes
the place of the old one, while the
fiv-t letires to write out the notes lie
has taken during the previous fifteen
minute*.
But the strangest thing we ever
heard of in the way of a timepiece,
was a clock described by a Hindoo
Rajah as belonging to a native Prince
and jealously guardi and as one of the
rarest treasures of his luxurious pal
ace. In Iront of the clock's disk was
a gong swung upon poles, and near
it, was a pile of artificial human limbs.
The pile was made up of the full num
ber of parts necessary to constitute
twelve perfect bodies; but all lay
heaped logeth r in apparent confu
sion. When the hands of the clock
indicated the hour of one, out from
the pile crawled just the number of
parts needed to form the frame of
one man, part coining to part, with
quick mechanic click; and when com
pleted ihe figure sprang up, seized
a mallet, and walking up to the gong,
struck one blow that sent the sound
pealing through every corridor and
room of that stately palace. This
done, he returned to the pile and fell
to pieces again. When two o’clock
came two men rose and did likewise;
and at the hours of noon and mid
night, the entire heap sprang up, and
marching to the gong, struck one
after the other tils blow, making
twelve in all, ami then turning, fell
to pieces as before.
There is a moat remarkable clock
at Reading, Pennsylvania. It was
buili by Stephen I). Engle, and took
hint 25 years to complete it. This
clock stands eleven foot. high. At its
base it is about four feet wide,
and at the top about two.
It is about three foot deep at
tlie base, gradually less towards th<
top. Its colors are brown and gold.
Three miuutcs before the hour a
p pe organ inside tiie clock plays an
anthem. It has five I ones. Beils are
then lung, and when the hour is
struck, double-doors in an alcove
open and a figure of Jesus appears.
Double doors to the left then open,
and he apostles appear slowly, on
bv one, in procession. As they ap
proach and pass Jesus they turn
towards him. Jesus bows, the apos
tles turn again and proceeds through
the double-doors iu an aicove on tin
right. As Peter approaches Satan
looks out of a window above an.'
tempts him. Five times the de\i !
appears and when Peter pas ts deny
ing Christ, the cock flaps its wings
and crows. When Judas appears
Satan comes down from bis window
and follows Judas ont in the proces
sion, an t then goo3 back up to his
place to watch Judas, appearing on
both sides. As the procession has
passed, Judas and the three Marys
disappear, and the doors are closed.
The scene can be repeated seven
tim> s in nn hour if necessary, and th<-
natural motion of Th clock produces
it four times per hours. B< low the
plaza is the main dial, about thirteen
inches in diameter. To its right is a
figure of time with an hour glass
Above this is a window, at which ap
pear figures representing youth, man
hood and old age. To the left of the
dial is a skeleton, representing Death.
When the hour hand approaches the
first quarter, Time reverses Lis horn
glass and ‘trikes one on a beil with
his scythe, when another bell inside
responds; then Childhood appear*
instantly, When the Lour hand ap
proaches the second quarter or hall
hour, there are heard the strokes ol
two bells. Then Youth appears, and
the organ plays a hymn. After this,
Time strikes two and reverses hi
hour glass, when two bells respond
inside. One minute after this a
chime of bells is heard; when a fold
ing door opens in the upper porch,.
and one at the right of the court,
when the Savior comes walking out.
Then the apostles appear in proces
sion. The clock also tells of the
moon's changes, the tides, the seasons,
days, and day of the month and year
and the signs of the zodiac; and on
top a soldier is constantly on guard,
walking back and lorward. As the
hours advance, Manhood, Old Age
and Death takes part in the Pau
oram
The Orange Business.— The or
ange business has not proved a re
munerative one this season, troin
what we can learn. We are not ad
vised as to the real cause of this.
The markets were crowded in the
start, with half ripe fruit, which no
doubt influenced to some extent the
low prices that ruled all along. We
wore in hopes that this would prove
a permanent ns well as profitable pur
suit to many of our citizens, but it
seems their experience has been rath
er sad thus far. The Florida orange
while unsurpassed for its rich flavor
and size, will not keep long. They
rot very fast. February, March and
April may prove better months than
the past three and give our shippers
a chance to catch up. —Florida State
' Journal.
Horrible Death.
The Virginia (Nev) Chronicle tells
the awtul story ot a man’s deuth a
the Savage carpenter shop in that
city. The m.-io, whose name was
William Carpenter, was boring a hole
through o’stick]of Hiardt.uood about
three inches'thick and eight fee* long,
and was leaning his might against it,
under the impression that there was I
a gunge atiad ed to the machinery to
prevent tiie block going further along
the itugur than the distance required.
Suddenly a workman near Carpenter
observed an indescribable look upon
his face as his body shot forward and
doubled over the terrible machine.
It had passed (oncer's sword
through iiis stoinaehe,*and was por
iruding at the back He was literally
imputed upon the adgur, which was
churu'ug his intestines at the rate of
from 1,000 to 1,500 revolutions per
minute. In the midst of ttiis horrible
agony Carpenter seems to have main
tained his presence of mind, for he
cast himself backwards and got off
the augur, fading to the floor as he
did so. The most terrible excitement
prevailed iu the shop among his com
rades, and there was a rush to the
prostrate man. Tiie sight must have
almost paralyzed them. Carpenter
was lying on his back, with his clothes
torn and twisted about the abdomen.
Just above him the augur was still
whizzing, and clinging to it was a
mass of intestines, the loose ends ot
which spread out with the t evolution
and gave the a gur the appearance
of a buzz-saw. He was taken to a
room and tbe physicians who were
un moi.cd decided that Le had better
.die under the influence of chloroform.
Before the drug was administered he
was told that he would never come
from under its influence alive. He
lay in this state as calmly as a sleep
ing child until a lntle after four
o’clock on Saturday morning, when
the influence of choroform passed off
and lie opened his eyes. He did not
seem to sutfef much pain, ami occa
sionally talked tQ his attendants. He
died at five o’clock and as those who
saw him said, “Di-d like a man.”
IBs last words were, “I am passing
into the unknown.”
A Russian Princess in Jail.
A liuss'an lady, Princess Manwelofl
having fallen into an objectional habit
of hitting her governess, a lady of noble
birth, in the face, tbe latter lodged a
omp'aint against her Mistress with the
local justice of the place, who with com
inendable consideration for the rank of
the accused, let her off with three days’
arrest in her own house. The governess,
who was so unreasonable as to feel dis
satisfied with this judgement, appealed
lo a higher court, who quashed the sen
tence and substituted for it one of three
months’ imprisonment in tbe common
jail, where the Princes Manweloff (who
in her present situation can scarcely be
described as a “woman well off.”) will
have ample leisure to reflect on the im
prudence of raising her fist for the
chastizing of governesses, especially
when they are of noble blood. Blows
in Russia are the peculiar privilege of
the plebs.
Staphen A. Haviland, known among
printers as a remarkably correct type
setter, died recently in New York, aged
Bixty-six. He learned the trade when
a boy, in the employ of William K.
Dean, at New and Wall street. He has
been known to set twelve book pages
of type, in mixed Greek, Latin, and En
glish, without an error; and the re
markable feat of setting a concordance
of the Bible in diamond type without
an error, is attributed to him. ll* was
f or twenty-five years a proof reader for
the Methodist Book Concern.
‘Tapa,” asked a boy, “what i meant
by Paradise ?” “Paradise, my son,” re
plied the father, “is tbe latter pari of
the summer, when your mother goes on
a visit to your grandfather.
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News Summary.
There are 1,836,558 single
women in the States.
It is a fact that 243 English per
sons went mad over lovo last year.
Three Presidents lie buried in
Tennessee—Jackson. Polk and
Johnson.
The father, and not the husband,
of a Hussian woman has supreme
authority over her.
A convention lasting ten days
was held in St. Louis by the color
ed school teachers of Missouri.
A Hartford, Conn., newspaper
proposes a bachelor show, the
prize to be awarded by ladies.
There are 5,000 lakes in the sur
veyed portion of Minnesota, equiv
alent to 1,500,000 acres of water.
There are seventy-two glass
factories in the United States, with
a capital of $6,000,030.
The losses of the Scotch farmers
this year through floods and bad
weather are estimated at $40,000,000^
The Chinese language is spoken by
about 350,000,000. The English lan
guage is spoken by from 80,000,000
to 85,000,000.
Thirty Texas papers have died
within the last twelvemonths, end
sixty new r ones sprung into exist
ance during the same time.
Ashes from the recent eruption at
Cotopaxi, in .Ecuador, are said to
have fallen at a distance of 1,000
miles from the volcano.
Queen Victoria’s allowance from
the British nation during the past
year was about $3,033,545. The
Prince of Wales received $200,000.
During the last ten years the Ital
ian government has confiscated and
sold at public auction $106,000,000
worth of church property.
The farmers of Santa Aud, Lot
Angeles county, Cal., arc building a
canal fifteen miles long by t*n feet
wide at a cost of $50,000, by which
15,000 acres of land will be irrigated.
The number of lives lost on
Western rivers during the past
year —mainly the result of the ex
plosion or bursting of steamboats
- is seventy, and the precuniary
loss is set down at $5,330,000.
A frightened team backod a
containing itfrs. Morris and
four children off a bridge across
the Odin river, near Nashville,
Tenn., and ah tho children were
drowned.
An immense crowd witnessed
the hanging of Jack Harris, at
Clinton, Tenn., for tho murder (f
Isaac White in 1863. After his
crime he escaped capture for over
twelve years.
A French Author says: “When I
lost my wife every family in tho town
offered me another; but whan I lost my
horse no one offered to make him
good.”
Among the many surmises as to what
will become of the last man, it is queer
that nobody has yet discovered that he is
destined to be talked to death by the
last woman. —[Ex.
Then what will become of the last
woman ? Will she not commit an act
of justifiable homocidef
“The Tea Plant’’
This pamphlet should be in the hand*,
of many of our citizens. Mr. O.t, of
South Carolina, who has experimented
largely with the tea plant, says: “On
the sandy soils of South Carolina the
onlv thing necessary to insure success ia
to set out the plants, not deep, and give
them a thorough mulching of pine
straw or half rotted wheat straw. The
object of this mulching is to proloct the
roots from the heat of the sun. Let tbe
ground be covered around the plants
just in proportion to the length of tha
roots, aa nearly as practicable..
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