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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