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general news.
There aro 223 newspapers publish
ed in California and only 74 of them
are over ten years old.
The New York Herald Is said to
consume in its various labors 1,000
miles of white paper 5 feet 3 inches
wide, weekly.
There aro eight paper mills in
Japan, which turn out. about four
tons of paper evety day.
Gen, J. 11. Gordon has been invited
by the democrats of Florida to dc liv
ed speeches in that State and has
decided to do so. Gov. Colquitt and
Senator Grown have also been urged
to canvass the State in behalf of Han
cock and English.
There will be emigres of Journal
ists in Brussels, Germany, in 1881.
An addition to the Brittish Muse
um costing $300,000 will be built at
an early day.
An extraordinary groan of spots
was on the sun’s surface on the 12th
of September last by Wm. R, Brooks,
at the Observatory in Phelps, N. Y.
It is said to have been over 200,000
miles in length and began about
midway, extending ou the western
limb south of the equator.
1,300 Casks of Uaska seal skins,
aggregating 92.500 and valued at
nearly $1,000,000 will pass through
New York to London this year to be
dressed. The Scientific American
savs the freight on the first 950 casks
to New York was alxmt $13,040. —
Alter bci.ig dressed bv furriers the
skins will be reshipped to the Uni
ted States.
New York Sun says : A vote for
Garfield and Arthur in 1880 is a vote
for Grant and Empire in ISB4.
At the Bee Keeper’s Society which
mot in Cincinnati on the 29t h ult,
there were about 150 delegates.—
Those were from nearly every State
and Territory and from Cauiua. It
is said the honey crop this year is
only about half the usual crop.
The Italian Government has open
ed a coup< tition for a monument to
Victor Emanuel. All arti-ts may
compe'e, irespcctivo of nationality,
and throe prizes, several of SIO,OOO,
$6,000, and $4,000, will toward the
best, designs. The cost of the mon
ument is not to exceed $1,000,000,
Goo. Grant says: Ilancok is a fine
soldi'-r. At the time ho was named
Major-General we were not very
good friends, and my personal pref
ercnc-s were for Schofield; but I felt
Hancock had earned the promotion
and gave his name to Stanton. 1
have great respect for Hancock as a
man and as a sol her.”
Giiebnville, S. 0., Oetob r 11.
An affray occurred near here on Sat
urday night, alter a joint meeting of
negroes and white men of the coun
ty. Stones and pistols were used.—
Two negroes were injured, one se
verely. One white man was serious
ly wounded, and several were slight
ly injured by stones. All is quiet
now, and no trouble is expected, al
though there wero disturbing rumors
l ist night. Warrants have been is
sued lor the arrest of Lho white men,
and the Sheriff lias gone for them. —
It is said the troublj arose between
colored Democrats and Republicans.
Savauuah News: In view of the
tlio fact that the epizotic lias btokcu
out in soveral of the Northern cities
and may possibly extend to Savan
nah again, the following cure, lio
nised l>.y an old veterinary surgeon
of the United States army to a New
York paper, wt 1 bo of interest:
“Take one pound gum assafeetida,
mix it with ouo gallon boiling water;
stir the mixture until the assafeetida
is all disolved. Let the mixture
coll. Strain and give the burse half
a pint every three hours,. Th's
will relievo the burse iusido of 12
hoars, and give him a good appe
tite.”
A Chicago saloon keeper named
McMahon, who had retired to bed
and closed r.p his place, was awak
ened a few nights ago by burglars
boring out the lock ol the door, and
oi| put his he,.d out of the window and
told them to go away. That was ev
ery word he said, when the burglars
leveled a revolver aud-shot him dead.
It is getting so in Chicago that a
man docs’not know who to speak to
Deck’s Sun,
IP. A. SINGLETON, Ed <t Trop'r.
VOL 6.
• AUTUM WOODS.
Mountains bonding,
Steop asccmtting,
Clad in colors bright and blending,
Windy woodlands never ending,
Flaming floods on every slope;
Fiery blsbcs.
Tawny flushes;
God is in tbo burning bushes
And tbo vision on ns rushes
Like tiro rosy heights ot hope !
Crimsotn, yellow,
Misty, mellow;
How the forest bow and billow !
Maple, asli and oak and willow
Shed Ibo trophies of the year:
Thus wo rendor
All our splendor,
. Leaf by leaf in sad surrender,
Pomp and pride and pleasure tender,
Wheu our days aro in tlio sear,
Down they shiver!
Quake and quiver !
On tlio swift and silent river,
Wlioro the current glides forever
To the wide and windy sea !
Silting, sowing,
Drifting, blowing;
Now they’re floating—gaily going.
Like tlio lives of moil n flowing
To tha lifo that is to be,
—Modern Argo,
a • •
A Man Living with a Hole in His
Head and a Bono in His Brain.
Louisville Commercial,]
A most remarkable case in surgery
has been developed at the United
States Marine Hospital here. It is
one of those rare cases that disobey
all the laws of the yellow-back books
and cflectually puzzle the doctors. —
During the labor riots of 1873, a
mulatto named Jeff Jones, who is
now 8G years old, was struck on the
crown of the head with a club and
his skull badly fractured. This oc
curred in the interior of the State of
Ohio. For several days the man was
unconscious; but in six munths’ time
he had recovered sufficiently to go to
his work, Soon after this, however,
ho began to complain of severe pains
in the place \vh‘T3 the fracture oc
curred; the pain grew worse and
finally Jones became subject to epi
leptic convulsions, which continued
till two years hud elapsed from the
time of the original injury. Atsome
small town in Ohio the operat on of
trephining, or boring a hole in the
skul, was performed, and the de
pressed bone was removed. Jones
was entirely relieved by the opera
tion, and Soon afterwards he went to
work as a roustabout on a steamboat.
In 1878, three years after the tre
phining, lie began to complain of the
same pains which 1 flowed lho orig
inal injury. The pains gradully be
came nub. arable, and epileptic con
vulsions again occurred. In this con
dition on the 19th of January, 1880,
thu man was admitted to the Marine
Hospitital here, and Dr. W. 11. Long,
the surgeon in charge, undertook his
ease, which was diagnosed as one ol
pressure ou tl e brain caused by the
bone having reformed over the open
ing made by the trephine. The new
hone was cup-shaped, with the con
vex! y pressing on the delicate tis
sues of the brain. The man was al
most a skeleton and suffered intense
ly. Iu March ho was agaim trephin
ed and the convex piece of bone was
removed. The trephining was done
at the scat of the former operation,
and gave instant and complete relief.
Rut in about four weeks the pains
wero renewed at the spot, of the tre
phine, and a small quantity of pus
was discharged through the scalp.—
This state of affairs continued for
about two weeks, when I)r. Long
made an incision in the site of the
wound, and it was discovered that a
piece of bone was loose in tlio brain.
The butte was removed, and was
found to be about two incees long,
one and three quarter inches broad,
and very thick. The smooth internal
and external plates of the bone had
been almost entirely absorbed by the
brain, and tli.o pieco of bone bad
beep eaten away until it had become
honeycombed. On one side the bone
bot e about one quarter of the circle
A DEMOCRATIC FAM -laTxT TSTENATSI? APER,
BUENA VISTA, MARION COUNTY, GA„ OCTOBER 20, 1880.
made by trophening. Dr. Long sup
poses that when Jones was struck the
bone bail been held in its proper po
sition by tlio other bones of the
skull, In the operation cf trephin
ing the bone had been further loos
onod and had fallen into the brain,
where it must have lain six weeks. —
vVlion it was removed tlio sull'erer be
came relieved from all pain and the
wound rapidly healed.
But tlio man’s ills were not over;
in a short time lie began to complain
of a violent, pain in the back part of
tbo bead, and tho scalp then became
elevated and seemed to contain puss.
It was opened deeply,but not a drop
of puss was found. As pain con
tinued it was finally determined to
cut down tho bone. Consequently
in tho latter part of May the mail
was put under the influence of chlo
roform, and a conical incision four
inches broad was made over
tiio seat of tho pain in tho prom
inent part of that portion of tlio
skull. It was found tnat hero the
external table of iho skull in a space
of more than four inces had boon en
tirely absorbed, leaving the bone in
u rough state, the cellular being ex -
posed to view, This surface was well
scraped and the wound was dressed.
Since lhat time there lias been no re
turn of pain, and tbo wounds aro en
tirely healed. Jones has gained more
than twenty-five pounds in weight,
and for the first time in many months
is able to bo out of doors and at
work. The most curious feature ol
the case is that, notwithstanding tho
immense amount of damage done to
the external plate of tho skull in the
posterior part of the head, not a sin
gle drop of pus ever ran from the
placo. There is no history of sypli
alis in tho case, or it, would be easy
to account for the absorption of the
bone. As it is, however, it cannot
be accounted lot'. When the scalp
was cut, it was found that it was
three-quarters of an inch thick. This
unusual thickness supplies the place
o( the bone in the skull whore there
is an opening made by tho piece
which was taken from the brain.—
The b >no will in all probability nev
er form over tho opening, but a sic
catrical tissue lias formed there.
Jones is about able to return to his
work as a roustabout, and will leave
the hospital in a lew days.
PRIVACY.
A worthy wife of forty years’
standing, and whose life was, not
made up of sunshine and peace, gave
the following sensible and impressive
advice to a married pair of her ac
quaintance. The advice is good:
“Preserve sacredly the piivacus ot
your own house, your married state
<>f your heatt. Let no father or
mother, sister or brother over pre
sume to come between you two, or to
share your joys and sorrows that De
longs to you two alone. Build your
quiet world, not allowing your dear
est earthly friend to bo the confidant
of aught that concerns your domes
tic happiness. Let moments of alien
ation, if they occur, bo healed at
once. Never, no never, speak of it
outsido, but each other confess, and
all will come out right. Never let
morrow’s sun find you at variance
Review and renew your vow —it will
do you good; and hereby your souls
will grow together, cemented in that
love which is strong r than death,
and you will become truly one.”
on 1,,,*
It is said that a small quantity of
sassafras bark mixed with dried fruit
will keep it free from worms for
years. The bark easily obtained,
and the experiment worth trying.
The fish in the lake of Upango
were killed and cooked in January
last. There was a series of earth
quakes, the waters rose violently,
and then three mountain [leaks shot
up the central one attaining a height
of ninety feet above the water level,
and belching flames so fiercely that
the boiled bass and catfish floated
dead to the shore-
An l nterprising Woman-
The days of Nancy Halt has been
recalled by tlio nerve shown by a
Newton count A woman in Wyatt dis
trict on last Sunday morning. It ap
pears that a l'udofboy was in her
chestnut tree and ill the men folks
were gone, and the boy know it, and
when tho good lady ordered him to
Come down, he declined tho invitation
and used bad words in return, (sec
Webster’s speller.) She imm>diate
iy ictnrncd to tlio house and donned
a suit of her liusband’s clothes, and
’returned to that chestnut tree and
began to climb it with tho intention
of shaking the boy out; fortunately
tho limb ho scrambled on broke and
tli!- fall caused only a sprained anklo
and a genteel beating, administered
at the hands of the man-woman, The
boy at ill believes that ho was “sheer
ed’’ out of the tree by a man. The
above is fact and not fiction and in
every way true, as can bo corrobora
ted l*y one of the most truthful men
in Wyatt. —Covington Enterprise.
W allying The Best Exercise.
Physical training puts good blood
in to a man’ll veins. There are ma
ny methods of excercisc—boxing,
rowing, terming and walking, regu
lar gymnastic exercise and other
m< thods; but, men always havo some
kind of an excuse, an excuse, and
go on suffering from indigestion and
sluggish, poisoned blood. A man
who takes a good, swinging walk of
a mils or more, as ho is b- st fitted for
it, docs a good work; for he has in
jected seme good blood into his veins
to the exclusion of as much mad
blood. If systematic exorcise is be
gun, it should be kept up, and grad
ually increased. If a man sticks to
his regular exerciso for any length of
lime, ho will not bo uis posed to givo
it up. Tho phyical and mental re
mits of a proper amount of exerciso
amply repay for the investment, and
make a lie thousand times more
pleasurable.
THE WORLD'S WOOL CLIP.
The wool clip ol the world has in
creased fivo times sine 1830, when it
was about 320,000,000 pounds in
weight. In IS7B--thc latest year for
which there are complete figures—
Europe produced 7-10.000,000, River
Plate 240,000,000, United States
208,000,000, and South Africa 48,-
000,000 pounds, making a total of 1,-
585,000,000 pounds. Great Brittan
and Franco consume each about the
same quantity of w 001—380,000,000
pounds a year. Germany consumes
about 105,000,000 pounds; and iiu.sli
ia, Austria, and oilier countries, 400,-
000,000 pounds.
RA PID TELEGIIA I’ll INC.
A political speech, of about six
teen thousand words, and occupying
four hours in the delivery, was tele
graphed to Cinciii'itti, from this city,
September 24 in fivo hours and five
minutes, by one opperator on one
wire. He used the Phillips system
of stcno-tclography.
A carrier pigeon belonging to John
C. Haines, of Tom’s River, It. J.,
flew recently the distance of 30 miles
in a air line in twenty-four minutes.
Ten other p ; gcons released at the
same moment reached home a min
ute later than their leader.—New
York Sun.
It was so common for Freeman to
whip his wife, at Memphis, that the
neighbors paid little attention to the
bruises which she constantly bore.
She never.complained of them, and
was seemingly resigned. But a few
days ago a pistol shot was heard iu
her house, and her husband was
found with a builet in his head. “1
concluded that 1M stood it long
enough,” she sai 1, ‘hmd.Lordy sakes,
wasn't h*i surprised when I hauled
out my pistol and popped at him P
Why tho Nocdlo Point3 Northerly.
Journal of Chemistry. |
A San Francisco gentleman recent
ly wrote to the Superintendent of the
United States Cost Survey, Professor
C. T. Patterson, asking the reason
why the magnetic needle points to
the north. In reply. Prof. Patterson
wrote as follows, and possibly more
than tho original cnqaiier may be
glad to read bisfitatmncjjtin tho case:
The reason why tho needles point
in tho notherlv direction is that tha
earth in itself is a magnet, at
tracting tno magnetic needle
as tho ordinary magnets do; and the
earth is a magne t as the result of
certain cosmical facts, much affected
by thu action of the sun. These laws
have periodicities, all of which have
not as yet been determined.
The inherent and ultimate reason
ol the existence of any fact in nature,
as gravity, light, heat, etc, is not
known further than that it is in har
mony with all facts in nature; oven
an earthquake is in perfect harmony
with, and the direct resultant of, the
action of forces acting under general
laws.
Tho condensed explanation in re
gard to iho needle pointing to the
northwaul and southward is as fol
lows : The magnet ic poles of the earth
do not eon side with the geographical
polos. The axis of rotation makes
an angle of of about 23 dgrees with
a line joining the former.
The northern inagetic pole is at
present near flic Arctic circle on the
meridian of Omaha. Hence, the nee
dle doos not everywhere point to tho
astroniinical north, and is constantly
variable within certain limits. At
San Francisco it points about 17 de
grees to the cast of north, and at Ca
bas, Maine, ns much to the west.
At the northern magnetic pole a
balanced needle points with its north
end downwards in a plumb line; at
San Francisco it dips about 63 de
grees and at the southern magnetic
polo tho south end points directly
down.
The action of tho earth upon a
magnetic needle at its surface is ol
about the same f.-rce as that of a hard
steel magnet, foity iuches long,
strongly magnetized, at a distance of
one foot.
TRUTH.
One of the sublimest things in the
world is plain truth.—Bulwtr.
Truth is tho foundation of all knowl
edge, and ccinotit of alt society.—Cas
aubon.
Truth wili be uppermost one time
cr orthcr, like cork, though kept
down in the water. —Sir W. Temple.
Truth, whether in or out of fashion,
is the measure of knowledge, and
(lie business of the understandig.—
Locke.
General abstnet truth is the most
precious of all blessings; without it a
man is blind; it is the eye of reason,
Bousseau.
He that finds truth without loving
her is like a bat, which, though it has
eyes to discern that there is a sun,
yet hath so evil eyes that it cannot
delight in the sun.—Sir Philip Sid
ney.
Truth can hardly be expected to
adapt itself to the crooked policy and
wily sinuosity of worldly affairs, for
truth, like light, travels only m
straight lines. —Colton.
After all, the most natural beauty
is honesty anil moral truth, for
truth is beauty. The features make
the beauty of tlio face and true pro
portions ihc beauty of the architect
ure, as true measures ihat of harmo
ny and music.—Shaftesbury.
Color blindness lias assumed im
portant consideration recently. Ma
ny of the accidents on sea arc said
to have their cause in this defect of
human judgment, The blindness
generally extends to only a lew shades
tn the same person, but to different
similes in different persons. Thus a
persons is said to bo green blind
when they substitute another color
for green; or red blind when a dif
ferent shade is selected for red. We
knew a person who selected reu for
blue and blue for red. llevvas blue
b'iud and red blind.
ANNUAL SUBSCRIPTION, $2 00
GEORGIA NEWS.
Dahloncga Signal: There is n hole
in Penilsntiaiy Cove, in Fannin
comitv, Iroin, winch there constant
ly issues a volume of wind and
smoke. Its drp hs has never been
fathomed. Largo rocks have been
thrown into it, but no sound of their
striking the bottom ever reached the
cars of the listener.
Warrenton Clppc’r: ‘On Saturday
night last near Cflinuk, a little negro
child was accidentally burned to
death. The child’s mother was in
yard milking a cow when she heard
the screams of the child, but arived
at the sceno too late to do any good.
Mrs Mary Maddox, a happy bride
of three months, near Dublin, a few
days ago, was handling an old pistol
supposed to be unloaded, and hand
ed it to her husband saying, “Snap
it at me.’’ lie “snapped it,"and she
fi ll at his feet with her brains and
blood flowing from her temple. The
poor husband is almos t crazed.
The Darien Timber Gazette tells cf
a negro riot in that c'.ty on election
day, in winch tlie majority of negroos
styled “town negroes’’ attacked Ihe
minority,about 40, styled tue “coun
try negroes,” and Idled one and
wounded others. The Gazette says
the majority of colored people can
not bear with a minority of colored
people.
Savannah News: The Macon and
Brunswick lailroad company gives
notice that it will apply to tno next
legislature for the passage of a bill
extending the time for the payment
of the balance of the purchase mo
ney due the state for said railroad
overa period of thirty years, and to
provide for the interest upon said de
ferred payment.
Dahlonega Signal: Wo were ac
corded the pleasure last Saturday of
seeing the mass of gold that made
the September clean up of the Find
ley mine, and truly it was a magnifi
co-nt specimen of the pure stuff, The
lump wc should say was of about 1G
pounds troy weight.
Home Bulletin: “The receipts of
cotton up to date are flattering, and
all Rome coutidentally expects the
figures to bo run up to at least 100,-
000 bales before the season closes.
The crop is a good one, and the in
crease of acreage great, hence these
figures are not at all overestimated.
The bulk of cotton wid not be re
ceived until about Christmas. This
is duo to a complication of causes,
principally a scarcity of labor,”
A 11. E., asks: By what process
can beeswax be cleaned from comb
and other substances which do not
belong to it? A. Agitate it with
about live times its weight of boiling
soft water, collect the wax, remelt
and pass it through a fine linen
strainer. It may be bleached hy
agitating it with hot water contain
ing a small! quantity of chlorido of
lime (wax 5(1, watir 56, bleaching
powder 7 lb.) When it has become
white it is purified from the lime by
the addition of a sufficient quantity
of hot dilute sulphuric acid (acid 1,
water 9), then repeatedly boiled
with plenty of fresh water, collected,
fused at a gentle heat, ami kept iu
this condition untill all adhering wa
ter has been driven off.—Scientific
American.
The fastest trotting time is that at
tained by Maud S.,—a mile in 2:10|
minutes. The best 4 mile trotting
time is that of Ferida on September
18th, atCheago, 1: 28J minutes,
A Grumbling car driver said to a
passenger:‘You always want me to
stop when you get oil,” “No, sir,”
said the passenger,who inno jumping
notions, ‘ I don’i care what you do.
I only want the car 'o stop. —You
Can go on.” ,
Law.
The newspaper law says if any
person orders his pnperdisoontinued,
lie must pay all arrange , or the pub
lisher may continue to oid it uutil
payment is mode, and co'leet the
whole amount. Also an action loir
fraud can bo instiluted against any
person, whether ho is responsible in
a financial view or not, who refuses
pay for his subs< rqttion.
Any person who takes a paper
regu fioin ihcposlofflce—wheth
er directo and io his name or nnoi h.-r -',
or whether lie has fu loci bed or not—
is responsible for the amount.
The courts have and eid< and that re
fusing to lake newspapers < r period
icals from Iho postoflico, or remov
ing an leaving l hem uncalled for is
promt facie evidence of intcruution.
al fraud.
NO. 7
Wit and Humor.
“A Little rions use now nnd then
Is relished by tlio wisest men.’ 1
A lean lover insy boa man of grest
siglrn.
Bonds that ate hard to redeem—
Vagabonds.
According to Diehard. Grant Write,
“hug” a word that embraces a'great
deal.
Every harness-maker leaves truces
of his work behind.
Butchers are not to be relied on;
their’s is a skin gmne.— Waterloo-
Observer. .
Speech is silver, silence is golden',-
and cheek is brass.
Fat says: “And sure, nearly fviry
(rind I liev- lift in the world luz bur
ded long since.”
“One touch of nature,’’ observed*
the inebriate as the ground rose and
stiuek him.
Ruth was a good girl, and she had
as fine a BoazCould be found in those'
days.
“I have got so in the habit or
ing married by an Episcopal clergy
man, that 1 really don’t f-cl satisfied
with any other kind,’’ said a frequent
widower.
Professor to student, reciting:
“Define a cylinder.” Student: “A
cylinder is a vacuum surrounded by
a curved surface.”
AMassachusetts minister closed bis
sermon,preached to thechildrcn.with,
“Boys, love your country, your God
and your girl.”
The small boy’s dig stive apparat
us is undoubtedly the nearest ap
proach to perpetual motion that the
world has yet known
The fact that nature only put ono
elbow in a man’s arm is snflicicDt to
indicate that she never intended him 1
to fasten the collar button on the
back of bis shirt.
A Cincinattian whose specialty was
very mad at his neighbor, the, editor
who meant to be complimentary
when be spoke of the physician as :
the celebrated idiot doctor, j
One of the most pitable sights in’
this liie is the spectacle of a man, who
has been married three months,wear
ing cotton in his ears.
He was too solemn; ho didn't suit
in Nevada. The chairman of the*
farewell committee expressed it well.
Said he: “Now, you can gil, pard,
wc ain't agin religion out hero, and
it riles us to see a feller spilling it. —
Git!”
The enormous apple crop in New
England has been squeezed into so
much cider that the price of the fluid
has dropped to 90 cents a barrel. It
is said that drunkenness is in conse
quence" far more common than usu
al.
Again tho tuneful cat doth woo the
midnight muse—[Exchange. Put
an “o” in nihso, and then wo say let
her “woo” It is her business.
A young Philadelphian, threatened
with a breach-of-promise suit, says:
“Suo away. Contracts made on
Sunday ain’t lcgul.”
Aleott’s little poem on the baby is
being produced in this shocking way
in Massachusetts;
Baby, new to earth and sky,
Soon as bom begins to cry.
Day and night does baby yell,
And makes his dady mad as—well,
Mad as anything.
The new Orleans Picayune thinks
that in this country professinal beau
ties are crowed out by amateurs.
“Never drink inloixicataling liquors
of any kind,” said a fond father to his
boy, “then you will never care for
them when you aro a man. 5 ' “Why
dikn’t grand father tell you of it when
you were a boy ?” glancing at sire’s
ruddy nose.
The Alabama Farm Journal says;
Chloroform poured upon them is au
excellent rcmeily for tnagots in thij
wound of an animal. '1 hat it will en
tirely destroy them without injury t d
the wound, &9R