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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" .