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Armuretti, Prunella, French Flannels, Silks and Velvet Applique, All-over Laces, and the latest styles ^ :
of Dress Goods, and Trimmings. Also a large and well selected line of Double and Single Face
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In Fact, We Have Eclipsed all Former Efforts in Selection.
We would be justified in expatiating on the grandest collection of new fall and winter dress stuffs I
gathered by any house in Covington. We have made preparations for the fall and winter trade such
as have never been surpassed in all new and popular fabrics. We make the assertion that our line of V SD
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■he Greatest Mathematician.
I The remarkably precocious de
of the mind of Master
Joyner, the hoy preacher,
has been in Covington the
week, is not more wonderful
the extraordinary faculty for
and astronomy which
uly developed in the mind of
Truman Henry Safford.
Williams college, at Williams
Massachusetts, who died last
of paralysis.
Frof. Safford was horn at Royal
Vermont, in 1S36, and at a
e ry early age he attracted the at
of the learned world by liis
wonderful powers of mental
Before he was nine years old he
mentally extract the square
IU * cu ’oe root of numbers of nine
: te n places of figures, and could
four figures by four fig
as rapidly as it could he done
paper. In 1845, when he
nine years old, and nine years
ore he was graduated from Har
aid college, he prepared an alma
and at the age of fourteen he
the elliptic elements of
first comet of 1849.
a method of his own he
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abridged by one-fourth the labor of
calculating the rising and setting
of the moon. After long and dif¬
ficult problems had been read to
him, he could give their results
without effort.
Prof. Benjamin Pierce said of
him, in 1845, that his knowledge
"is accompanied with powers of ab¬
straction and concentration rarely
possessed at any age, except by
minds of the highest order. > »
He spent several years at the
Harvard observatory and between
1850 and 1862 he computed the or¬
bits of many planets and comets.
In 1865 lie was appointed profes
sor of astronomy in the University
of Chicago, and director of the
Dearborn observatory. From 1869
to 1871 lie was engaged upon the
great catalogue of stars then in
course of preparation by the opera¬
tion of Kuropean and American as
tronomers. interrupted in this
work by the Chicago fire in 1871,
he was employed in lattitude and
longitude work in the territories by
the United States corps of engi
neers He was called to the chair
of astronomy at Williams college
in 1878^_______
The ’possum is now coming in
on the home stretch.
Covington, Ga., Tuesday, September 10, 1901.
Local Option in Mississippi
A local option figlit is now being
waged in Monroe county, Missis¬
sippi, with considerable bitterness,
and both sides are fighting with
the usual determination to win.
The wet men have reproduced
the famous letter of PZx-President
Jefferson Davis, written by the
great statesman in 1887, during a
heated contest on the prohibition
question, from which letter the fol¬
lowing extract is taken.
I11 that letter Mr. Davis said :
i t Local prohibition is a wood¬
en horse, in which a disguised
enemy to state sovereignty as
the guardian of individual lib¬
erty is introduced. The abuse,
and not the use of stimulants
is the evil to be remedied, and
if drunkenness he the cause ot
crime, why not pronounce
druukenness itself to be a
crime, ai.d attach to it proper
adequate penalties. J >
and
Mr Davis took an active part
factor c . *
and ana was was a prominent r m
some of the memorable local op
tion contests in Mississippi, which
occurred sometime before his death.
Col. Estill has had the last word,
in the gubernatorial race.
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Fishermen have their troubles as
well as their sports. It has al¬
ways been their practice to carry
along "a snake bite remedy, » »
when they went fishing, but now
to meet the demands of the new
discovery in science, they must
hereafter take along a remedy for
mosquito bites as well. Now, what
do you suppose the mosquito bite
remedy will be ? Probably it will
be more snake bite remedy. For
tunately here in Newton county
we have but few mosquitos, and
so, we presume, the fishermen will
not bother about carrying an addi¬
tional remedy for them.
The Memphis Commercial-Ap¬
peal is raising a dime subscription
for a medal for Admiral Schley.
The dimes are pouring in at the
rate of nearly’ 1,000 a day, and over
$^00 has already been raised. That
shows how the public pulse beats
for the hero of Santiago. The
medal will be worthy of the great
American naval hero, and the Com
mercial—Appeal raeroa ‘ ... deserves much
effort Ins .
patriotic . in
credit crecm for Ior its P
honor.
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g am bling or games of any
kind permitted in or around Teets
Bros.’ show’, a moral refined show’.
A Man Turning to Stone.
Dispatches from LaPorte, Indi¬
ana, last week, gave a remarkable
account of the ossification of a man
at North Judson, by the name of
Eli Green, which is baffling the
medical experts of that section,
who say his case is incurable.
They say Green’s body is grad
ua n y going through the process of
ossification, and it cannot be stop
ped.
His body is rapidly turning to
stone, lhe upper part of his stom
ach is as hard as rock, as are also
the upper parts of his arms and
limbs. A knife can be run into his
body at places without his feeling
it. He has been baked in
heated to 120 degrees, hut with lit
tie improvement.
His heart is being gradually en¬
crusted with a stony formation,
which will sooner or later stop its
action. He no longer perspires and
his weight is steadily increasing.
The extraordinary conditions in
Green's case began to develop
about a year ago. The process of
ossification was then slow’. Pbysi
cians say that, when life has been
crushed out of the human frame,
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Green’s body will be literally a
stone corpse.
The medical experts who have
examined Green say there is only
one parallel cased in medical au¬
nals, and that was recently report
ed from Australia. The conditions
which contribute to the phenom
enon of Green’s case are an enigma
to the medical fraternity,
The Atlanta Journal says Chi¬
cago is going to furnish chaplains
for the firemen of that city, and
suggests that a citizens’ committee
s i lou u provide missionaries for the
Chicago city council. Well, that
j s a p right for Chicago, hut what
is to become of Atlanta’s ( t city
fathers ? ■ *
'^ ee Buckskin Bill break glass
balls as fast as they can he thrown
in the air, with a common Smith &
Wesson revolver. Free exhibition
at 1.30 with Teets Bros,’ show and
trained animal exhibition, in Cov
ington, Ga., September 5.
See Norman Orton, the man who
r j^ es an orc ij nar y safety bicycle on
a pjg], strand of wire, and carries
tw children on his shoulders.
Don’t fail to see Teets Bros.’ show
September 5.
5 Starlight Items.
The Augusta Herald says the
.Sunday excursions to the seashore
have cost that city $100,000 the
present season. If that be true,
1 the boys must have had good
a
deal of fun.
If you want to see fine acrobats,
gymnasts, leapers, tumblers, aeri
alists, fancy rifle shooting, riding,
trained ponies, horses, mules, and
dogs, don’t fail to see Teets Bros .
show,
It is pathetic to hear Oom Paul
Kruger appealing to the Irish "as
brothers in oppression.’’ And thej r
are both oppressed by the same
people.
Tillman, with his pitchfork, and
McLaurin with his rapier, seem to
be about six of one, and a half
dozen of the other, in South Caro¬
lina.
The Chronicle says Fiance witl
have to import 100,000,000 bushels
of wheat to supply the people with
bread. Well, "we have them. » >
The census returns show that we
living longer now than we used
live. That is very clever and
to most of ys.