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SJlu 300 years five Sundi.ys in Fen
ruary can occur only nine times.
The apple crop of this year ex
ceeds anything in the previous bisto
ry of the country,
During tho 1 ist twenty-livo years
sixty persons have gone over the Ni
agara Fal's and washed into eterni
ty-
A “what is it’’ lias boon unearthed
In Macon. It is a snake about three
feet long with four logs.
Cuba’s sugar crop this year will
fall 20 per cent, below last year’s
crop. Last year Cuba made 680,000
tons.
The Rome Bulletin trust that the
day is not far dbtance tv hen the
Eternal City will be lu.led to rest by
tha soft music of the cotton spindles.
. *
An accident happened in Jackson
ville, N. Y.. in which five persons
were seriously injured. During a
big Repnbl can demonstration there
a few night) ago a cannon burst -d
and done the injury. Two persons
nro tho right to bo fatally hurt.
Tiic kind uncle lias taken liis
young nephew wi'h him to tho tbra
tcr, having secured seals in the orch
estra stalls. “Do not lean over the
balustrade so recklessly,’’ says the
good old gentleman, “or the first
thing you know you’ll tumble info
one of the orchestra chairs, a id I’ll
be charged 3 francs extra.’’
O to, the son of a NVz Perce In
dian chief is distinguishing himself
as a ■sharpshooter in San Francisco.
His most remarkable feat is in hitting
a mark wl do blindfolded. A glass
ball is suspended twenty feet awny,
and th< b>y ss allowed to gaze at it
Then his eyes are bandaged, and he
is turned around sever.d times; blit
in >ro than half the time lie breaks
the ball, though how lie manages his
aim.is a mystery.
The Pearar-w Gazette says that the
farmers of Coffee County went more
extensively into the cultivation of rio
this year than ever before, and have
been somewhat discouraged at the
Jow price at which they have had to
sell. It says: “The price was never
tnown to be less than one dollar per
tbushel until this year. It seems that
.■speculators "have taken it in hand
and for this cause many ot our farm
ers have decided to abandon it to
some extant another year. Eighty
five cents hardly pays the producer
for his trouble.
A fair proportion of the ladies of
America are intelligent, and some of
-them evince much spirit, but in too
affairs of fashion they submit unco-m
■plainingly to a tyranny of the roost
‘heartless character. Those whose
isensc of propriety would induce them
•'•to resist t’u arrogance of French
manufacturers, dressmakers and mil
liners, have not the courage to ac
,cept the “latest styles.’’ If Par s
says a lady must carry a flowergnr
den or an aviary unon her head, no
one will dare to refuse obedience to
!hor command.
Pike County News: Barncsville is
one of the wea tliiest and most pros
perous towns in Georgia, with a pop-'
illation of 2,000 people. She has
plenty of good churches, one of the
■best schools in the State, and the so
ciety is first class. It has nearly
tthirly business houses, including two
of t iO best buggy and w.gon manu
factories in the State, together with a
foundry and furniture mani.lactory.
The white population in the main is
composed of the very best class ol
people, and there is not a more de
sirable place to live in the South, or
one better suited to raise and educate
a family in, Its population and bus
iness is gradually increasing, and as
time rolls on the town will increase in
size and importance. Property is
reasonable enough, and parties de
siring a pleasant summer home to ed
ucate their children, or to do busi
ness, could not do better than to lo
cate in Barnesville. Its cit zens all
work and pull together to help every
enterprise that tends to build up the
town or add 10 the wea'tli ot its pco
i le. We shall have more to say on
th.fi subject in the future.
Monroe Advertiser: Miss Pearl
Hlephens, of Forsyth, after standing
i\ rigid examination in various text
t. >oks, has been sil cted as one of
l ie lady representatives from Geor
gia in the Peabody Normal Scho 1, of
Nashville, Tenn, Site left last week
tor that city, and will take such a
4'iuirse of study as will thoroughly
qua lily her for teaching,
W. A. SINGLETON. Eti & Prop'r.
VOL 6.
BE WILLING TC THY.
BY MIIS M. A, KIDDED.
Don’t give up so easy,
I pruyj you my friend,
New jrdge at the first
How the journey wilt entb,
The pathway is rugged,
The mountain is high;
But ero yon lose courage
Bo willing to tiy 1
You gain quite a foothold,
Yon, step by step, climb;
Look out I Have ajeare
How you tread ; and take timo !
Lot Hope he your watchword -
I t faith be yoar b oiy;
Though evils beset you,
Be willing to try.
You’re up near tho summit
You’re sighting tho goal,
Where rivers ot beauty ,
Unceasingly roll;
Forgetting your footsteps,
To think of the crown,
One single step backward,
And you may plunge down !
If so, don’t give over
Men greater than )<>n
Have missed nor lost heart,
Starting time anew
With staff well in hand,
And a glance at the skv,
They said to their comrades;
' “Again I will try 1”
Persistence works wonders,
find pluck is like’gold,
And he who would thrive
Must have patience untold !
Much wrestle with fate,
Till the day htshalljjdie,
Or sink like the coward,
Who never would try 1
THE NEW COMET.
Scientific American.]
On every evening since its an
nouncement, interesting observations
have been made at my conservatory
of the splendid telescopic comet now
vkible tit the western evening sky.
The comet was discovered in this
country at the Ann Arbor Observa
tory on the 13th of September, 18.80,
Vi It A 14 hours 38 minutes, north
declination 29 degrees 20 minutes,
anti so announced in the papers last
Saturday morning. On Saturday
afternoon, however, a telegram was
received by me from Europe via
Washington, announcing its discov
ery by llartwig at Strasbnrg, on the
29th ult., one,day previous to it
discovery itt this country, in It A 14
hours 8 minutes, north declination
29 dcgiees 45 minutes. It is a su
perb telescopic object, and when seen
by me on the evening of its an
nouncement it was situated about 3j
degrees below Alphecca, or Alpha
Corona Borealis. The next evening
(October 3) it was in the same field
of the telescope with tho star, and
presented a very fine appearance,—
Last evening—-Oct ober 4th—it was
very close to Delta Corona Borealis.
It is just visible tc tho naked eye,
but it is not growing any brighter as
was at first hoped, although it will
doubtless be visible for some time.—
It has a large bright head with a
sparkling muclens, and a faint tail
about two degrees in length. The
head is nearly as bright, in the tele
scope, as the great cirstor in Hercu
les. The tail points upwards or
■ away from the sun. It is moving
about 3 degrees daily in an easterly
direction, or nearly in a line drawn
Irom Alphecca to Altairin the Eagle.
It is a beautiful object, and its scien
tific value will be very great. By
following the direction of its motion
just given no one will have any
trouble in finding the comet with
quite a small telescope, and it wil
be well worth the search.
William R. Brooks,
Red House Observatory, Palps, N
Y, October 5, 1880.
“Elder, will you have a drink of
cider?” inquired a farmer of an old
temperance man who was spending an
evening at bis house. “Alt—hum
no, thank, ye,” said the old man; “I
I never drink any liquor ot any kind
(specially cider; but you will call it
apple juice, 1 11 take a drop,”
J\. DEMOCHATIO F.A. JW JLT2' NEWSPAPER,
BUENA VISTA, MARION COUNTY, GA„ OCTOBER 27, 1880.
A Perilous Predicament.
One of those thrilling episodes that
occasionally punctuate the life cf a
miner and illustrate its perils occur
red recently in tho Wallace and Fur*
gnsion mine, at She-'P ranch- Tho
shaft has two compartments, amt is
four hundred feet tloep. H ath com
partments are used for hoisting pur
poses, signal bell being utilized to
unable tne engineer to distinguish
between the divisions of the shaft. —
ono day last week three men went
down in a bucket, their destination
being the 100-loot level. One of the
trio, Thomas Taggart got into the
bucket, while the other two stood on
its top and held on by tho cable
tile “usual way.” Arming at the
200-foot station tho two men stepped
off into the level, and Taggart had
got partially out of tin bucket when
the bell of the other compartment
gave the signal to hoist. The engin
eer mistook the signal and hoisted in
the compartment in which the men
had just gone down. Taggart was
in the act of getting out of toe buck
et—had one leg out and one in, in
fact—when the latter started up the
shaft. The bucket:. With Taggart
hanging to it, had proceeded but a
few feet when it tipped over, precip
itating tho unfortunate mat head
long down the siiaft. At the mo
ment of falling —iu utter desperation,
as a drowning man grasps at a straw
Tap-cart caught at the rocky wall of
shaft with his hands. By a miracle
of good fortune one of his wrists
lodged in a wedgc-slmped interstice
in the side of the sh ift, ,nnd Taggart
hung by one arm, suspended in mid
air, with 200 feet of space beneath
him. No one can have tha [faintest
conception of the unutterable horror
of such a position. Enveloped iu au
impenetrable darkness, suspended by
one arm over an abyss that invited
him to certain death if his frail sup
port should give way, and alive to the
knowledge that the descending buck
et might pricipitatc such a catastro
phe. Taggart’s situation was inex
pressibly horrible, and its contempla
tion makes one shudder. Luckdyi
however, his comrades comprehend
ed tho situation of affairs and by
acting promptly prevented a tragic
ending of the accidont, Taggart was
released from his perilous position,
escaping any more serious injuries
than a severe strain of his physical
system and mental faculties—Gala
verus (Cal.) Chronicle.
Wisdom-
The flamoof sorrow burns up some
hearts while others it purifies.
It is perfectly natural that a man
should see Ins mistake after he has
made it.
There is aright way ami a wrong
way of rubbing a man’s mind as well
as a cat’s back.
Love of tiutli shows itself in dis
covering and appreciating wtrat is
good wherever it may exist.
Some people are like peaches, soft
until you get at their hearts, and oth
ers arc like chestnuts, pretty hard to
get at, but sweet inside.
The harsh hard world neither secs
nor tries to see men’s hearts; but
wherever there is an opportunity ot
evil supposes that evil exists,
If good people would but make
goodness agreeable, and smile in
stead of frowning in their virtue,
how many they would win to the
good cause!
Whoever is an imitator by nature,
choice or necessity, has nothing sta
ble; the flexibility which affords this
aptitude is inconsistent with strength.
A good moral character is the first
essential iu a man. It is, therefore,
highly important to endeavor not
only to bo learned, but to bo virtu
ous.
To feel much for others and little
for ourselves,Jo restrain our selfish
ness and to indulge our benevol nt
affections, constitute the perfection
of human nuture.
LIGHTNING STROKES.
Tbo fatalities from lightning are
very inucliigreater in number and ex
tent than is generally supposed. In
European Russia alone the deaths
lor five v lB7O-71 were 1,-152
men and 818 women. No fewer than
4,092 fires are here also fullv official
ly reported front the same cause du
ring this period. In Russia, where
the registration of the causes of
death is exceptionally, careful, 1,001
persons were reported as killed by
lightning in tin nine years from 1809
to 1877, If wo may trust the report
of our Register Genera! this country
is more foitunato in this regard, for
during tho Same period only 194
such deaths are registered for Eng
land anti tValeS, bat our returns are
admitted incomplete.
In Austria —from 1870 to 1877 (8
years)—lightning occasioned upward
of 40,000 fires, and destroyed more
than 1,700 lives. In Switzerland the
returns seem curiously variable. For
example, in ,1866 only three such
deaths are reported; while in 1877
we find as many as thirty. Of the
deaths by lightning in France, M
Boudin some years ago collected sta
tistics which showed that during t.hc
thirty years, beginning in 1831 and
ending in 1863. as many
people were struck dead by lightning
in that country. During tho last ten
years of this period the deaths
were 880, and of these only 243
were women. Nothing, indeed, is
more striking in these statistics than
the uniform preponderance in ti-c
numbers ot the male owr those ol
the female sex. With the exception
of Swecden —-where, for some reason
not explained, and not easily to be
imagined, this preponderance is not
so observable —there seems to be
genera’Jy about two men killed to one
woman. Tho traveler who account
ed for the impunity of tho Swedish
women by their comparative “lack of
personal attractions” was as ungal
lant, and we believe, moreover, as in
correct in his fact as ho was certain
ly wanting iu the decorum that for—
hi Is jesting on setious subjects. The
country seems invariably to suffer
more than the to vn, the village more
than the great city;
Public buildings fare, it seems, lit
tle better than private houses, tho’
a century and a quarter has elapsed
since Franklin’s famous experiment
With the kite demonstrated the pos
sibility ol controlling the Metric
fluid, an 1 nearly a century has pass
ed since the learned, taking interest
in lightning conductors, were div i
ded into histile tactions on the fa
mous question of “knobs or points.’’
Mr. Anderson estimates that at least
ono h ilf, and perhaps two-thirds of
the public buildings, including the
churches and chapels, of Great Brit
ain and Ireland, arc without any
protection against lightning; while it
is believed that not fivo out of a
thousand private houses are fitted
with conductors. St. Paul’s was
among tlie first buildings in Europe
to be. protoctod. Benjamin Frank
lin’s “lightning rods’’ having been
first set up over Sir Christopher
Wren’s dome in 1768. London
> cws,
The Front Gate,— lt was night,
The sable goddess stretched her lead
on scepter over tire silent, slumber
ing world, and they were still swing
ing on the old front gate. He had
placed his artn around her graceful
waist, and drew her closer to tiis
throbbing breast to protect her from
the falling dews of heaven. Her
head was resting on his strong, man
ly shoulder, and tiie love-light was
shining in her lustrous eyes as bright
as the head-light of a locomotive.—
Ho looked her earnestly in tho eyes,
and passionately murmured, “Jem
ima, is your folks had a mess of
spring peas yit?”
Many people who hunt for happi
ncssjare continually finding fault.
Origin of a “Wild Goose Chase”
A writer in tho Troy Times says:
“Wild goose eh iso was a term used
1 1 express a sort of racing on horse
back formerly practiced, resembling
tho flying ot wild geese, these birds
generally going in a train one after
another, not in confused flocks as
oth r birds Jo. In this sort of race
the two horses, after running twelve
score yards, had liberty, which horse
soever could get the lead, to take
what ground the jockey pleased, the
Undermost horse being bound to fol
low him within a certain dis
tance agreed on by the articles, or
else to be whipped in by the triers
ant! judges who rode by, and which
ever horse could distance the other
won the race. This sort of race was
not long in common use, for it was
found inhumane and destructive of
good hors .a when two such were
matched together. For, in this case,
neither was able to distance tho other
till they were both ready to sink un
der their riders, and oiten two very
good horses Were both spoiled, and
the wagers forced to bo drawn at last,
rite mischief of this sort of racing
soon brought in the method now in
use, ol only running over a certain
quantity of ground, and determining
the wager by coming in first at the
winning post. The phrase “wild
goose chase” is now employed to de
note a fruitless attempt, or an en
terprise undertaken with little prob
ability of success, such as May, an
daily dramatist, thus described:
At), me ! throughout the world;
Doth wickedness iu the hand
And wail I.wot, on abounder
Can honesty bo found.
Tho wisest man in Athens
About tho city ran,
With a I,intern in the-) midst of day,
To find an honest man.
And when at night ho sat.bim down
To reckon on his gains,
Ho onlv found—alack, poor man—
His labor for his pains,
’ A MESMERIC SEANCE
The' other morning, while the
swell barkeeper at Baldwin’s was
putting an extra polish on some po
ny glasses, a couple of strangers en
tered ami as they ordered drmks,
one of them, a longhaired, cadaver
ous person, in a faded ulster said:
“Oil! it’s very easily done I as
sure yon.”
“Easy 1” exclaimed his companion,
with much animation, “why it’s the
most remarkable —the most astonish
ing tiling I ever saw. What did you
say you called it 1”
“Mesmerism!” said the the long
haired mm, holding his glass up to
the light. “The principle was dis
severed by a German scientist nam
ed Mcsmer.aiso though it is unques
tionably indent teal with animal mag
netism kuown to tho early Greeks.
Tacitus says —’’
“But you don’t mean to say,” in
terupted the other, who was making
afoimidable demonstration on free
lunch—’’you don’t mean to say, Pro
fessor, that the person subjected to
tho influence hasn’t the faintest
idea what is going on ?”
“Exactly!” said tho Professor.
“The person under tha influence of
mesmerism has no more self-con
sciousness than a cane bottom chiar.
For illustration: Do you see that
man at tho corner over there? lie
is evidently waiting for a car—big
hurry to go somewhere—and yet I
could btitig him into this saloon in a
perlectly unconscious state in less
than two minutes.”
“Bet you ssyou can’t do it!” said
the other man producing a rather
dubious-looking V.
“Y-a-s!” added tho bar-keeper, ar
ranging his diamond pin in the glass>
“and I’ll go him twoenty better he
can’t do it.”
Well —ahem! gentleman, dont
want co rob you; and then—ahem 1
ANNUAL SVASCRIPTION, $2 00
—l'm not sure 1 have that much w.th
utp,’ falter- and the Professor,
“Oh you haven't eh?” Bird Ihe
cocktail minor, winking at the by'
standQrs, who were plso fumbling out
their coin. “Wj!l, we’ll trust 3 on.
Just fire away, and if you win you
can lake the pot.’’
“Weil, gentleman, I suppose I’ll
have to try, anyway,’’ and amid a
variety of significant winks from the
gathering crowd of bystanders, be
walked to the window and began
making a series of mysterious pas
ses in the air, with his eyes fixed on
the party at the corner.
“Dili you ever sea such a blamed
idiot?’’ said the bar-keeper. “Looks
like a Santa Clara windmill, doesn’t
he? Iloilo! by jove, tho feller’s
coming!”
The man on the corner had slow
ly faced the window, passing his
hands before his eyes in a bcwiUer
mg manner, and then began walking
in an uncertain way 3 across the
street.
“II will have more effect on him
when lie gets closser,” said the Pro
fessor.
The man entered the saioan and
stood still,loking stiaigt ahead with
a vacant expression.
“I'll make him ask for a good
drink,” 6 thc disciple of Mesmer whis
pered. “Just stand back, gonf le
mon!’’ Sure enough the subject
walked mechanically to tho counter,
and asked in a hollow voice, for a lit
tle old rye.
“Give it to him—humor him eve
rything !’’whispered the Professor,
and the victim solemnly swallowed 1
the drink. lie then stood motion
less as before,
“.Now, I’ll make him think he is
an actor, said the illustrator of will
power, said the other began to srtut
about and recite Shakespeare in a
tragic voice,”
“Make him bark like a dog," sug
gested the man who had bet $5
Whereupon the man began to imi
tate a tprior, and tried to bite a spec
tatox-, to the amusement of every
body. Alter that he was caused to
do several things, such as crowing
like a rooster, catching a fly, and
pocketing the “pool” money which
lay on the counter,
“Make him think he keeps the
bar,’’ put in the Professor’s friend,
and the subject walked promptly be
hind the counter, turned up his
sleeves, compounded a cocktail, put
the money in the drawer and counted
out the change with great dd.bera
tion.
“Now,” said the Professor, “we
will make him put the contents of
the drawer into his own pocket, and
then restore him to consciousness and
accuse him of having stole the mon
ey.”
Everybody said that would be a
a fii'tt class joke, but the $5 man
thought it would be better to let
him walk outside ami arrest him in
the street and his astonishment
would be all the greater, he said.
Tho man solemnly cleaned the till,
walked from behind the bar and out
the dooi\ As soon as he struck Ihe
pavement, however, he darted dowD
Powell street at a three-minute
clip.
“Dear mo !’’,>houled the Profes
sor, “I must have been thinking about
running, somehow. Come and help
mo catch him !” and the soui-subduer
and bis friend, dashed off in his pursuit
They are stil waiting at the Baldwin
for the return of the trio, who must
have “divvied” about $55 apiece, and
detectives think they are liable to wait
for long time.
Why is t ha money you give to the
poor like a newly born infant? Be
- it is precious littlo.
How a woman can keep on talking
while she twists up Her back hair and
has her mouth full of hair pins is a
mystery not yet explained.
Tin- per Luw,
Ihe newspaper law says if any
person orders his paper discontinued,
lie must pay all arreage?, ortho pub
lisher muv continue to send It uni
payment is made, and collect th°
win-loamount. Alto a:t a-1 on l'o r
fraud cun be instilutid again*! any
person, whether he is responsible 111
a financial view or not, who refuses
pay for his subscription.
Any person who takes a paper
regn'ariy fiom the jioatoflloe —wheth-
er direct; and 'o his 1 a no <>r nnoiin r
or whether he has cub.-eibed orjiiut--
is responsible for the amount.
'i he courts have and. cidi and that re
fusing to lake newspapers t r period
icals from the postuffice, or remov
ing an leaving them unr-nllt-d for is
pi’iina facie evidence of interuatiou.
al fraud.
NO. and
Wit andjiiHumor.
-'A I.ittle nonsense now and then
Is rtlislicd by the wisest men.”
An auctioneer has many bidder
recollections.
A Detroit girl at a spelling bee
sat down at.on “panta'oons.”
If yon would be wealthy get upon a
mule. Yuu’il soon fimljtliut you arc
better off. , v
No ru m can become giliorongh'y
acqu-.'Ped with his family history
without running for office.
The spots on the sun do not begin
to create the disturbance produced
by the freckles on th'-Jdaughter.
When a mangis "making love to’.a
widow he iecls as if he had to begin
where the other fellow JefCoff.
Mending blue stockings with whitb
thread makes them a darned sight
too conspicuous.
There is nothing more unreliable
in the four quarters of the globe
than the hind-quarter of a mule.
One hair in the hash will cause
more b ird feelings than seven mot
toes on (he wall can overcome.—Alta
California.
Ihe dealer in salt must have a pre
cious time of it. The sait-celiar, you
know, is always getting overturned
The real loafer finds the days so
short that, he must stay up half the
night to get through with the noth
ing he has to do.
Did you ever see a man with big
feet who do not delcare that his boots
were two or three sizes too large for
him, and that he likes them easy,you
know ?
An old bachelor observ3 that you
can tell a newly married pair by tho
indignation of the groom when a fly
alights on the bride’s butter.
“In what condition was the patri
nerh Job at the end of his life ask
ed a Sunday school teacher at tho
foot of the cliss. “Dead,” solemnly
answered the boy,
A man recently died in New Or
leans from eating matches, says tho
Washington Capital. We presume
eating matches may be as fatal as
starving or walking matches.
A colored preacher in Baltimore
says that he has attended thirty-one
camp-meetings, and that all the grace
a convert can secure in a whole week
will vanish in two hours after the
mosquitoes begin to bite.
A California man buried three
wives, whoso maiden names were
Green, Grass and GruzO. Recently
he stirred up the fire with kerosene,
and now he lies in the cold, cold
ground and the green grass grovrs
above him.
A Kansas City reporter records the
fact that the defeated candidate took
ins way to the train wrapped in
gloom and new store clothes. The
gloom was an elegant fit but the''
store clothes were too short in (he
legs and were very baggy about tfio
shoulders.
The trouble about taking a medi
cine warranted to cure all diseases
is that it may not know exactly what
is wanted of it, and in that case it
will go fooling around in the system
trying to cure you of a disease that
you havn’t got,—New Orleans Pica
yune.
An absent-minded professor in go
ing out of the gateway ol his college
ran against a cow. “In the confu
sion of the moment he raised his hat
and exclaimed, “I beg your pardon,
madam.’' In a little while ho stum
bled against a lady in the street. With
a sudden lecollcction of his mishap
he called out with a look of rage hi
his countenance, “Is that you again
you brute l" .