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fIOIJIH AM 4k KUEtBY, BUtwi ud Proprietors. VOL. XI. ELLIJAY COURIER PUBLISHED EVERY THURSDAY —BY— COLEMAN A KIRBY. IB* Office in the Court House " geweraFdTrectort. „ Superior Court meets 3d Monday in May and 2d Monday in October. CoUSTY OFFICEBB. J. 0. Alien, Ordinary, T. W. Craigo, Clerk Superior Court, H. M. Bramiott, Sheriff, J. H. Sharp, Tax Receiver, G. W. Oates, Tax Collector, Jas. M. Weat, Surveyor, G. W. Rice,- Coroner, W. F. Hill, School Commissioner. The County Board of Education meets at Ellijay the Ist Tuesday in January, April, July and October. Hon. James R. Brown, Judge. George F. Gober, Solicitor General. COUNTY COUBT. Hon. Thomaß F. Greer, Judge. Meets 3d Monday in each month. pourt of Ordinary meets first Monday iu each month. TOWN COUNCIL. E. W. Coleman, Ihtendant. L. B. Greer, L. P/ S’ Jr. Commissioners. T. J. Long, M. T. Dooly, Marshall. HELIGIOTTS ranTioue. Methodist-Episcopal Church, South— every 4th Sunday, and Saturday before, Rev. C. M. Ledbetter., Baptist Church—Every 2nd Saturday and Sunday, by.Rev.B.-B. Bhope. Methodist Episcopal Church—Ever. Ist Saturday and Sunday, by Rev. R H. Robb. FRATHRNAX BEOOBD. Oak Bowery Lodge, No, 81, F. A. M., meets first Friday in each month. W. A. Cox, W. M. L. B. Greer, 8. W. W. F.Hipp, J. W. R. Z. Roberts, Treas. T. W. Craigo, Sec. W. W. Roberts, Tyler, T. B. Kirby, S. D. H. M. Bramlett, J. D. DR. J. R. JOHNSON, Physician and Burgeon GEORGIA. , Tenders his professional services-to the people of Gilmer and surrounding coun ties and asks the support of his friends as heretofore. All calls promptly filled. E. W. COLEMAN, ATTORNEY AT LAW, ELLIJAY, GA. Will praotleein Blue Bidge Oireuit, County Court Justice Court of (Ulmer Countj. Legal business solicited. “Promptness" is our motto. DR. J. S. TINKERSLEY. Physician and Surgeon, Tenders his professional services to the cit i . sens of Ellijay, Gilmer and surrounding conn ties. All calls promptly attended to. Office upstairs over the firm of Cobb <fc Son. mi WALDO THORNTON, 0.0.8. DENTIST, Calhoun, Ga. Will visit Ellijay and- Morganton at both the Spring and Fall term of the Superior Court—and oftener by special contract, when sufficient work is guar anteed to justify me in making the visit. Address as above! TmavlLls Young men Who wish a Thohocoh preparation foi Business, will find superior advantages at MOORE’S BUSINESS UNIVERSITY 'ATLANTA, GA. ’ The largest and best Practical Business Schoo: in the South. 6~Students can enter at ant time. for circulars. ' . WHITE PATH SPRINGS! —THE— Favorite and Popular Resort of NORTH GEORGIA! Is situated 6 miles north of Ellijay on the Marietta & North Georgia Railroad. Accommodations complete, facilities for ease and comfort unexcelled, and the magnificent Mineial Springs is its chief attraction. For other particulars on board, etc., address, Mbs. W. F. Robertson, Ellijay, Ga. CENTRAL HOTEL! Ellijay, Georgia. In the special popular resort for commercial men and tourists of ell kind, and is the general house for prompt attention, elegant rooms and are second to none, In this place. Seasonable rates. Mrs. M. V. Teem will give her personal at tentlon to gneste in the dining hall. 1-14 Mountain View Hotel! ELLIJAY, QA. This Hotel is now fitted up in excel lent order, and is open for the reception of guests, under competent management. Every possible effort will be made t make the Mountain View the moat popu lar Hotel in Ellijay. Accommodations Is ovary department first-class. Livery, salt sod feed feabtea in connection with hotel. Guaete tmeefarad to and from all trains fra* of eharga. • M ly THE ELLIJAY COURIER FOB GOOD to • JOB PRINTING —GO TO THE— COURIER OFFICE. if a* • > * * •'■Jg 1 1 Pamphlets, Circulars, Bill Heads, Letter Heads, Envelops, Easiness Cards, Statement!, Posters, And in fact everything in the Job Printing line neatly and cheaply ex ecuted at short notice. SATISFACTION GUARANTEED. Give us a call. 3s-stey Organ. 0-olidly Made. Unrivaled. UjJ-legant Finish. of Popularity.' illustrated catalogues sent free. Estey iDrgan Co.* Brattieboro.yt. Automatic Sewing Machine Cos. 72 West 23d St., New York, N.Y. _ |f: . Wo Invite special at . tantion to our New Latest Automatic Ten- JV j hon Machine, making Im /iVB . precijelythe same stitch Tf . uLPT as the Wilcox & Gibbs, ■XL L ASLIMKa and yet, if not preferred the Wilcox & Gibbs Automatic Tension Ma- chine, can bo returned any time within 30 days and money refunded. But what is more remarkable still, we never knew a woman willing to do her own family sewing on a shuttle machine after having tried our New Patent AUTOMATIC. Even Shoe Manufacturers find it beet suited tc their work—its clastic, seams are more durable. Truly Automatic Sewing Machines are fact superseding shuttle machines, and it is no use to deny it. Truth le mighty and does prevail. Shuttle Machines have seen their beet days. Send fir Circular. Corretpondmu colicitcd. INVALID ROLLING CHAIRjfr vSlsE* 10 only lean nisei, inr at rceliuag rulliag akttn. Kiy Chair C#.. New Hew- Cotm. “4 MAP OP BUST UPB-ITS PLVOTVATIOXS AXD ITS PAST COXCBBXS." ELLIJAY. GA.. THURSDAY, JANUARY 20. 1887. THE BARTHOLDI STATUE. Not like those tom pies of tea oldau times, ■* Built by the Heeding hand* of tolling ilavos, The cornerstones laid over new-made graves, In bold commemoration of dark crimes; Not like the mystic Sphinx, whose dull, cold face Left to toe world no lesion and no grace. Is this majestic emblem of toe Free 1 No history of wrongs, her wearing mars— But, rival and companion of the (tars. She lifts her glorious jorch, that all may see This symbol of a Nation’! Motherhood, Fair Liberty, toe beautiful, toe good) Stupendous triumph of ambitious art, Helped bra million eager, eanest hands Up to the lofty height whereon toe stands, She knits two great republics heart to heart And, smiting from our country's open door, Welcomes.the homeless wanderer to our shore, —Ella Wheeler Wilccm. OUT OF THE DEPTHS. “I tell you, Hawkswortli, I know what I'm talking about, and I don’t believe in any chicken-heartedncs* when it comes to a clear matter of justice; and if I caught tramp, beggar<ir thief on my premises, and could prove he’d been tak ing anything belonging to me, I’d show him no mercy whatever.” And Captain Whippleton brought his strong fist down on the railing by which he happened to be standing with a thump which made the metals ring again. He was on his way home from the Mariner’s Club rooms, and hod encoua teredthe Chief of Hawks worth, who had been telling how some young thieves were destroying the peace of some of the residents of Prince ave nue, but how hard it was to arrest mere boys. Captain Wjpperton’s fine house was a little way out of the city proper, and now, after having chatted with several friends on the shipping naught the club, he was on the way home to -eat his Thanksgiving dinner. The Captain was rather given to blus ter and nourish, but was strongly sus- of being-A. ktßdnnau at heart, though some wondered Ait, well off as he was, ho’never seHned Very charitably disposed. _ His housekeeper dispensed small charities occasionally, but the Cap tain, a hounteous provider where his own table was concerned, thought but little of the wants of the “Great Outsldp.” “Rather a strange time to be talking of justice and tramps, ” said the minis ter, as he cheerily joined the two men at the railing on his way home from church. “I hope,” he added, a genial smile overspreading his benevolent coun tenance, “we shall nut forget the Giver of all good gifts this bright Thanksgiv ing Day,” and the minister passed on. Marshal Hjtwksworth started, for the station, and Captain-Whippleton turned toward home, visions of a savory meal preceding his heavy footsteps. A short distance from his own door his reflections received a sudden shock as he saw a boy dart out of the side gate, a suspicious looking bundle in a handker chief dangling in one hand. The boy without looking either to the right or left darted along the road, soon turning into a side street. “Oh, I’ll catch you, you young ras cal,” said the Captain to himself aa be sprang along with surprising iigility, con sidering' his weight. The boy, still without turning, sped along, the Captain following with equal swiftness. The child led him a long race, and many persons along the lower part of the city where he was now traveling gazed curiously at the large, well-dresaed man evidently .bent on reaching a given point within a limited time. The narrow streets grew still narrower as the boy, apparently fancying himself more secure on his own soil, slackened his pace, so allowing his unseen fol lower to gain upbn him rapidly. At length he turned into a contracted Court, ana entered a door just as Captain Whip pletonentered the alley. The.boy also disappeared round the top of a flight of stairs just as the Captain entered the outside door. For tvro reasons the Captain went over the stairs guardedly. He wished to make no noise, and he half feared the rickety stairs would give way beneath what he styled his “uncommon heft.” At the far end of the first ladding was a room with the door ajar. The Cap tain approached and listened, a boyish voice was saying: “Now then, let’s sit right up in our little bed, and see what we’ve got for a nice Thanksgiving dinner. Up-a-diddy; that’s it I Now then, what’s in this bun dle, we wonder.” V*t The hall in which the sturdy Captain was standing Was almost as dark aapitch, but a window at the end of the little room into which be peeped enabled him to sea the boy h'b had been- pursuing. He was, while talking in this cheerful strain, also lifting- from a bid of rags the emaeiatedformotayoung girl. At first the Oaptain thought her a mere child; but when she spoke he found him self mistaken. Opening the, handkerchief, the boy held up some fresh looking biscuit, the remains of some broiled chicken, a few fried potatoes and a mass of potato skins. “Now you see, Janie,” he ran on, “I’m a-goin’ to hyper round an’ git a smart fire in no time'; then'l’m a-goin’to boil these parin’s an’ have a feast. Rich folks, they don't mind how they peel potatoes; why, there’s mos’ half the in* side left on these skins.” “Where did you get these nice things, little brother i” The voice which put the question was thin, weak and anxious. “Oh, I kctched them up in a kitchen just in time to save somebody the trouble o’ throwin' them out. ” “Oh, Bony!” said the troubled voice, “don't you know (Jod will bo grieved if you do so! I couldn’t cat things you took without they wasgiveyou. Why didn’t you ask some onef” “I tell you 'twas only bavin's,” in sisted the child, ’'things as was pitched into an old haain to he heaved out. Hop* you don’t c ill that nothin’ wrong, takia’ what was golu’ to the piggies. Why, you ain't got no idea, Janie, you ain't, what feast- rich folks throws away; but like’s not If I'd a-asked they'd a sent me awsy without even the leaviuV” Csptuin Whippluton easily recognized the terns ins of his ebundaut Thanksgiv- ing breakfast, and not being uied at all to aucta scenes, his eyes were gutting blurred disagreeably, and a great lump in his throat reemed threatening, to choke him every moment. But the law voice be gan again: ‘‘You know, little brother, mother, stfhtNpew about the Bible, snd nights, when she lay, a-dying, he used to repeat things she knowed to me, aud I remem ber, ma, she used to aay as ’twas better to starve than to take what wasn’t our’n, and Miss Limpsev, ny Sunday-school teacher, she said what I’ve often and often told you, Booy boy, we must obey God first of all, and He certainly will care for ms.” There was a tremble in the poor voice which made Captain AVhippleton swal low so hard he nearly strangled in his ef forts to suppress a cough. “Bony,” pausing in the midst of the fire he was making, asked in a voice so piteous its tones lingered in the Captain’s memory long afterwards. A. “Why don’t your, teacher ever come to see you, I’d like Jo know; and say, Janie, you don’t 'speck God wants a cove and his poor, sick Bister to starve, do you? I worked like time’n Csesar all last wefck an’ only got money nuff to buy these chips ana coils, for I won’t let you freeze, Janie, a nice ole sister that’s took care o’ me from a baby, when I warn’t nothin’ but a bag o’ bones an’ got named after my owa ’pearanoe. Why! bless you, Janiejgffi, I could- a-fleoced these rich folks like Sixty! There warn’t no one in the kitchen, an’ there stood a big chicken pie Ml wady for the table— my 1•> how she looked, and how it must a-tastedl” ~ j Bony. paused, a dreamy look of some delicious imagination transfixing his far off gaze for it moment, then ho went on: w And then there was vegetables, or anges, nuts, puddin’s, pies. Gracious! Y’ou nover saw anythin’like tho things they had—but all I took was a pan o’ ole leavin's. You don't call that bad for a hungry cove, do you? Thanksgiving Day '“o:„ to God atone was known tho | heroism involved is the sick girl’s re ply: /‘l’d rather you’d take them back again, dear little brother.” “Well then, I will!” impetuously burst out poor Bony, gulping down a great sob. “I’ll take ’em all back and beg ’em—” b “No, you won’t!” thundered the Cap tain, bursting pell-mell into the little room; “no, you won't, because I won't have it I You just come with me, little feller, and I’ll give you half that chicken pie you saw, and a few slices of turkey beside. Then you shall have some potatoes and turnips and squash and onions and cranberries. I’ll sling in a pie and a taste of pudding, too, and a few'oranges, and jim cracks, like tea and sugar, for Janie over there. Como, we’ll 'tart right along. You needn’t look so frightened • I only hollered like a luirricario because my throat hurt, and I couldn’t master my voice somehow; and I tore in wilder than a nor’easter because I—l was in a hurry.” Then he added in a voice tender as a woman’s, turning to nanie: “My poor child, how long have you lain here, and what’s the trouble!’’ “It’s my hip, sir,” answered Janie,hor eyes dilated, and still only half recov ered from the fright the Captain’s unex pected entrance had given her. “I fell and broke it; but one of these days I may walkagain when I get a doctor to It. But please don’t blame poor Bony, sir; he meant no wrong, I’m sure. We want to.belhonest people, indeed we do, sir !’* “Well, wen,’’ Baid the Captain.gruffly, “the first thing's to get some dinner down both your throats. Throw that stuff away, there. Come on, my boy.” Marshal Hawkswortb, on his way from the station-house to his Thanksgiving dinner, suddenly encountered Captain Whippleton striding along by the side of a small, ragged boy of about ten years, as between them they carried a great market basket, which evidently taxed the Captain’s herculean strength, for it was evident the boy.’s share of the burden was only a mere pretense. * For the first time since he peered into Janie’s narrow room; his conversation concerning his terrible threats as to tramps ana thieves, recurred to his mind upon seeing Uawksworth’s face. “Halloo 1” shouted the Marshal, “what’s up?” “Gh, we’re bearing away to a shallow port,sort o’ loading up for a fresh cruise,” shouted back -the Captain without stop ping. : • Whan Janie’s astonished eyes beheld the wondrous supply contained in the great'basket, her nrst remark was: ‘)Oh,”how splendid! now: what, a Thanksgiving dinner Granny ijeers shall have!” * ' • “WJwfe-Granny Beers? inquired the ■Captain. • . Sh e .was an old’ bed-ridden woman on the-next -floor above, who at the time of her mother’s death, years before, had been very kind to’Janie. Impelled by some sudden impulse, Captain Whippleton told Janie to keep what he had brought, it was all for her and Bony. He would attend to Granny Beers. Slowly ascending the creaking stairs, he' reached another miserable room, where a very old woman was slowly .fad ing out of life with consumption. Before Captain Whippleton had sat by her side fifteen minutes, he had heard more of genuine thankfulness, and seen more of real resignation and content than ever in. his life before. The housekeeper declared afterward that “Captain Whippleton, dear soul, did act the queerest that Thanksgiving Day” of anything she ever heard. Run ning about with first one basketful of provisions, then another, until she “cer tainly thought the man gone clean crazy.” When Captain Whippleton started out the next day to consult his doctor about Janie, and to call again on Grandma Beers, he came upon' the minister and Marshal llawksworth, and tbe latter be gan sportively: “Well, Captain, caught any thieves or tramps yeti I thought myself something of the kind had you pretty well in tow yesterday.” To tho Marshal’s surprise the tall, pow erful Captain flushed visibly through his swarthy skin, and Anally replied with a huskiness which claimed tbe hearcr’q, gravest attention: “Yes, Hawkaworth, 1 suppose 1 did catch a little tramp of something akin to one, yaatarday, but it was only that Urn Almighty, who kindly feeds us all, might teach me a lesson. I believe, now, that vengeance is not always’ justice ; what looks like justice is not generally what God calls mercy.” Then he added with charming humility from such a towering figure : . “ Here I’ve been taking God’s boun ties for years anil years withouttovrr a truly thankful feeling in my sinful old heart. Since I gave up the sets I’ve often fretted over not having enough to do. Bless your heart, man, some of-the best, most graceful and loving of .God’s creatures are all but starving within sight of my own door ! I’ve found oc cupation. From this time forth I pro pose to recognise some of tho claims, human and divine, which, in my ignor ance of their existence, I’ve shirked like a thief heretofore.” “They do say,” remarked the City Marshal, a few months later, “there ain’t a kinder or more charitable man in the place than old Captain Whippleton. He didn’t used to be just like that, but I guess something kind of woke him up about Thanksgiving time. I suppose he knows all about it.” Yea; the Captain kuew,— Qolden Rule. English Rural Snpcrstltitm. There are workingmen in secluded hamlets who still eling to their ances tors’ faith in astrology and in the “voices of the stars,” as translated to mundane comprehension through the medium of the prophetic almanacs. Aud this not vaguely, tentatively, but with a robust credulity which can shape and govern their every-day actions, their buying and selling, their sowing and reaping, their contracts, whether social, commercial ■or matrimonial. Wo quote a bona fide .example. .A skilled couutry mechanic, a man of distinct pretensions to ability, lost his after fifteeh years of approved service. He sought another, but at first unsuccessfully. Trade was depressed, and the outlook sombre. An opening offered in a somewhat novel quarter. The inquiry was made if he would commence work on the Monday succeeding his en gagement. He hesitated, aiid lugubri ously demurred. “I will come on Tuesday, without fail,” he said. “Why not on the previous day?” curi ously asked the employer. “It’s a bad one, sir.” “ A bad onel HOw? I don’t under stand.” "B, the almanac, air. I wouldn’t marry on that day if I were ever so deeply smitten by 'Cupid’s arrow,’ as they call it on the valentines, and if it wero a choice between then and never; and I won’t start at anew job on Monday next for any master iu tho country, h'orry to disoblige, sir.” Remonstrance and ridicule were alike vain. “No, no; I mayn't be able to ex plain it—there’n a heap o’tliings iu the world that we can’t tell just the. why aud the wherefore of—but I’ve proved, and that’s bettertliau explaining It;” “In fact, there’s a proof here in this little-bit of business. My almanac told me I was to havo changes this year. I looked (all round, but couldn't po much as guess where they were to come from. But you see that after all the almanac was right; and I've noticed it scores of times.” This same artisan stood sponsor on another occasion for a statement so cu rious as to be worth reproducing as a specimen of the humor not simply of rural, but of technical superstit’on also. He was descanting on various occult in fluences of the heavenly bodies—a fa vorite topic with a congenial audience. The moon’s power'is very remarkable,” ho said; “as is well-known and admitted, it rules the tides. And it likewise makes a wondarul difference to timber. You may hardly credit this, but it's a matter of experience ngain. Timber felled when the moon is waxing planes or cuts up nigh as easy again as tho very same sort, and age, and'growth of tim ber felled when tne moon is on the wane. It's queer, but true.”— Cattell. Sugar Statistics. The ordinary sugar of commerce is made from sugar oane-and beets. There is very little difference in the quality of the two varieties. The bulk of the cane sugar is grown in the'tropicat regions of North and South America, the East and West India Islands, British India and Southern China. The beet sugar is pro duced chiefly-in France, Germany, Rus sian Poland and Austria-Hungary. The relative amount of cane and Deet sugar is very nearly equal; 1 the prospective crop of cane sugar for the- current year in wht are known as exporting .couutries, being 2,445,000 tons, while the prospec tive crop of. beet 'sugar will not be far from 2, r, 25,000 tons, making a total available.supply for the year of 4,980,000 ttwiß. ' ’ *"• ’ Statistics show, however, that sugar, like some of her good things in the world, is not distributed evenly. Great Bi-iteib consumes more sugar per cipita than any other country, and the United States come noxt in the list. For the year 1886 the consumption of sugar,'so far as it-can be traced by relia=; hie figures, was go followsi: Tons. Tons. United State*...l,2B4,<’oo Other European Great Britain.. .1,203,003 countries 833,000 France....,, .. 570,000 Non - exporting German Empire 836,000 countries*...,.l,6oo,ooo Austria 1-11,000 1 Holland 43,000 Total M32 v 000 This statement, allowing the last year’s crop to have been as great as the prospec tive crop for 1886, would leave 1,149,000 tons on hand or to have gone into con sumption unaccounted for. ‘ Tho "per capita consumption of Great Britain was a trifle over 60 pounds; that of the United States, 49.3 pounds; that of France was scarcely 80 pounds, and that of Germany still U ss. The consumption for the United States varies somewhat, according to the condition if business. While in 1885 it was 89.8 pounds per capita, in 1864 it was 51 and m 1883 only 47.6.— Philadelphia Timet. The Trag. 'y of Lire. (Scene First.) Ponsonhy—“You see the Continen tal P’ De Twirliger—“ Ya-as.” Ponsonhy—“Xy father was about the i Irst man to enter :hat hotel when it was : ipened.” (Scene Second.) First Old Mechanic -“See that young dude acros- the way.” Second Ditto—“Ay." First Old Mochaulo—“l knew hii I father well; he used to be a porter ip the Uoutiuental.”— Philadelphia Call, COLONEL BOWIE. SLAVE TRADER, DUELIST AND TEXAN REVOLUTIONIST. Eventful Career of the Man Who Invented the Celebrated Hunt ing Knife Named After Him —A Life of Danger. 4t - James Bowie was born in Logan Coun ty, Kentucky, in the year 1780. Ilis parents were natives of Georgia, his father being a woodsman and hunter, in which craft James was brought up. The family wandered from place to place, usually seeking the remotest frontier, and finally settled on the borders of Louisiana and Texas. Here, in ltH4, James Bowie made a clearing for him self, built a log. cabin, and lived .princi pally by fishing and hunting. Many were his deeds of daring and reckless ness in his forest adventures, and many stories have been preserved of his wild exploits. He would catch and ride not only wild horses, but wild deer, and on one occasion he caught, roped, and rode an nlllgator. He grew to be a large and powerful man, six feet in height and extremely muscular. His temper is said to have been good, but he was easily aroused to anger, which was terrible and unap peasable, and led him into many a trag ical encounter. He uever fought a reg ular duel, but was engaged in many fights, most of which had a bloody ter mination. He was said to liavo been a general favorite among his friends and neighbors, which goes to disprove that he was not of a cruel or bloodthirsty dis position. Texas, at that time belonging to Mex ico, was a sort of promised land to the adventurers of the Southwest. One of tbe first expeditions into that country was under General .Tamos Long, of Ten nessee, and Bowie accompanied it. This was in 1819. The expedition resulted disastrously, Long being captured and killed by the Mexicans, but Bowie re turned safely to his home. He now sold his land, and in compnny with his brothers engaged in slave trad ing with Lafitte, the notorious pirate of the Gulf. Under the laws of tho United States at that time slaves were not al lowed to be imported into tho country, but the brothers Bowie easily evaded difgculty. Their plan of operations was to go to Galveston anil purchase from Lafitte a number of negroes, for which they paid at the rate of $1 a pound, or about |l4O for each negro. These they would bring into the limits of the United States, and then go to custom house offi cers and become informers against them selves. The law gave the informer half tho value of tho negroes, which were put up and sold by the United States Mar shal. At the Marshal’s sale they would themselves become tho purchasers, would receive half the purchase money back and a certificate of sale, which en titled them to dispose of thu negroes in the United States. Howie followed this business until he mado some SOO,OOO, most of which he soon spent in riotous living in New Orleans. It wau during these expeditions to Galveston that liis genius evolved the hunting knife, with which his name will always be associated. It was made for him by a blacksmith after a design of his own. It was made with a heavy back, so that it could be used in chop ping as well as thrusting, thus fulfilling the purpose of a hatchet, for which ho used it in his woodsman life. In the exciting political contests that grew out of Jackson’s advout-as a candi date Bowie took an active part. In 1820 he was residing at Alerandria, on Red River, and during a political cam paign he got ioto an altercation with Norris Wright, Sheriff of Rapides l’ar isb. Bowie was unarmed, and Wright drew a pistol and shot him through the body, but even then, if Wright hud not been rescued by bis friends Bowie would have killed him with his fists. ' This at tack so enraged him that he determined thereafter never to go without his knife, and he had a scabbard made for it, and said he would wear it as long as he lived. A year later this feud with Sheriff Wright culminated in a terrible encounter at Natchez. In September, 1827, two very respectable citizens of Louisianna, Dr. Maddox aed Samuel Wells, having a difference to settle, agreed to meet ou a sand bar in the Mississippi River op- Natchez with a few friends. They m t, exchanged shots, and became reconciled. When retiring from the ground Wells Invited Maddox and his second. Colonel A. I Crane, to tho woods adjoining, where some others of his friends, excluded from the field, were, to take refresh ments. Crano objected, on the ground t, that there were certain men there he could not meet. Wells then assented to go where Maddox’s friends, who had also been excluded from the field, were. When on the way the party were met by the friends of Wells, who were James Bowie, General Curry and another per son. Crane and General Curry were mortal enemies, and immediately drew their pistols. Cmne had a pistol in each hand, and shot Bowie first and then Curry, the latter being instantly kiUed. At this the friends of Maddox hurried to the , scene, and among them was the Sheriff Wright who had the encounter with Bowie a year before. Wright also fired at Bowie, and he fell. A general firing ensued and several others were killed. Wright seeing Bowie lying ap parently dead, approached and bent over lihn, when 'Bowie suddenly drew his knife and stabbed Wright to the heart. He then arose, though severely wounded, and stabbed another of the parly with his knife, end the battle then termi nated. When Bowie recovered from his wounds he determined to leave the United States and take up his residence in Texas. There he went in the year 1830 and engaged actively on the side of the revolutionists, his valor soon gaining him a distinguished name in thatcouii try He married a daughter of one of the ex-governor* of the province and was ap pointed Colonel of one of tho Toxas regi ments. During the next few years lie was cng.iged in many fight* with the Indians and with the Mexicans, in one of which he and nine or ten men suc ceeded in defending themselves against 150 Indians, with a loas of only one killed and two wounded. Ills career was finally ended at tho bloody battle of Alamo. He had been ordered to that place to take command, on DOLT. A Par h A-,,,,, but a few days after he reached there he was taken down with pneumonia, and during the siege was confined to his bed. As is well known Santa Anna, command ing 3,600 Mexicans, besieged the fort in March, 1830. It had only about ISO de fenders. After some days of attack the place was stormed and c/ery Texan put to tbe sword. No one escaped. Bowie, sick in bed. is said to havo shot down with pistols and killed with his knife a number of his assilants before lie yielded up his life. Whether this is true or not it is safe to assume that if he had strength and consciousness enough to do it it was done. The celebrated Colonel Lavid Crockett was also a victim of this massacre.- -Chicago Herald. Rice. ~ * i ■ The word “rice” is evidently of Este em origin: Tamil, ariri; Arabic, Aria; Latin, oryta; Italian, rito; French, m. It is only second in importance among the cereals to wheal, and forms toe grain food of over one-third of. the human race. Its use by the inhabitants of China and India extends as far back as the earliest records of either country. A Chinese classic describes minutely the drainage and irrigation works constructed by tne Emperor Yu on tho Yang-tse-kiaag 4,230 years ago. It was cultivated in Egypt fully fifty centuries ago, though not the principal food of the latter coun try. Frequent Biblical references to rice arc found. Herodotus fully describes it, as docs Pliny in his treatise upon the food plants of India. While Gibbon con siders that It was cultivated in Bpoin at the time of the Roman occupation, it ccrta'nly, as an industry, attained no prominence in Europe 'until compara tively modern times, and it is generally believed to have been introduced by the Moors into Andalpsia during the eleventh century, and to have crossed from Spain into Italy alviiifrh century later. Rico is grown in nearly every'portion of the globe—in Javn, Brazil, Hawaii, America, Italy, Japan, Indio, but princi pally in China and Rurtnah. The Bur mese crop is nearly all exported, the in habitants subsisting on sonHf cheaper food, as millet or dourrha ; that of China is principally consumed at home, though a good deal finds its way into this coun try.—Southern liirouar. Oddities or Noted Men. Charles 11. of England was very fond of hunting insects, and it is related by certain historians that he was hunting a moth in the supper-room at Whitehall when the Dutch fleet sailed up the Thames and burned Sheerness. Frederick the Great in his youth was noted for his stubbornness and bashful ness, aud, we are told, showed this at his Bister’s marriags. Instead of appear ing at the ceremony in court attire he came with the servants dressed as one of their number. Rossini,the composer of “The Barber,” whun engaged; witk_aiiy great compo sition, invariably shaved himself in a most fantastic wayjto prevent his going out of doors. George IV., King of England, was very feminine in his habits; he possessed scores of embroidered shirts, which were considered by him to be the best depart ment of his wardrobe, and were accord ingly displayed with great pomp to any particular friend of his Majesty. Napoleon habitually watched a certain star, which he declared was his, for it never abandoned him,, but was always in sight commanding him to go forward, giving os a reason for his success its own appearance. Augustus Hare, one of the cleverest di vines in the English Church, when he had ended a train of hard thinking, would rise from the desk and spin around on his heel a few seconds and then re sume his stnies. Naval Warfare Reduced to a Science. The Sclfridge torpedo —that in general use—is a tin can filled with about sixty pounds of guncotton, which has the ex plosive force of three hundred pounds of powder. It is exploded by electricity, and makes noise enough to frighten an enemy’s ship into showing her heels, though in the water the sound is of course subdued and nearly lost. Some of the torpedoes, however, are far more terrible things to see and hear of than this comparatively simple specimen. They are made In some cases twenty-five and even thirty feet in length, and filled with so much powder, guncotton, dyna mite and nitro-glycerine, not to mention various combustibles of the jamo agree able nature. When it is necessary they j are set off to spin through the water at a frantic rate of speed, generating inter j nal heat by the action of a sort of paddle I wheel, until, just as they reach the ill . fated vessel which they are intended to , annihilate the whole infernal < ontrivauce : goes off without a symptom of warning, and the unfortunate Eliza, Maud or Anti-Sophia, as the case may be, flies in a thousand million pieces up to the as tonished skies. Dear, dear ! What a, horrible visitation war is, to be sure ! We haven’t any navy, but we are getting j naval warfare down to a very fine point 1 indeed - Providence Journal. Ahead of the Egyptians, i “Talk about Egyptian embalming,” said a Chicago undertaker. “Why, it don’t compare with what we do nowa days. Those old Egyptions didn’t know what art was in the profession of under taking. is too much nonsense 1 afloat about the lost art of embalming as practiced by the Egyptians, In the first place their (female is of a kind to pre | serve dead animal tissue whether it is embalmed or not. It is very dry in 1 Egypt and'the temperature is even. The boasted mummies of Egypt are simply dried np specimens of skin and bones. To day we can ambalm a.body so that it will preserve the fu lness and hue of life and it wiii never dry up :rt all. If the modem process of embalming had been know to the Egyptians of several thou sand years ago, those old Kings who wore laid away in the pyramids for us moderns to look at,instead of presenting tlie nppea -ance of tanned leather, would have the kingly dignity of form and fea ture which was thein when their bodies wero laid away for the last long sleep.” Moral courage is mire worth having than physical; nut only because it is a higher virtue, but because the domaud fur it is more constant. Physical cour age is a virtue which is almost always put awsy in tho luinbir room. Montj courage is wanted day by day, NO. 45.