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THINGS IN GENEBAL.
—Beech trees are never struck by
lightning.
— The Presbyterian population of the
world is 30,000,000.
—There is a horse in Jackson, Mich.,
that is 51 years old.
—Every man should take time to eat
and say his prayers.
—The population qf Louisiana gives
an excess of 45,668 colored people over
whites.
—A colored in Sparta recently
lifted another negro into eternity by
means of a pitchfork.
—The James river has uncovered many
of the graves of Union soldiers who were
imprisoned at Belle Isle.
—Down in Alabama the weather is so
dry and hot that even trees are dying and
shedding their leaves like autum.
—An lowa farmer has eighty acres of
corn that stands sixteen feet high, and
will average one hundred bushels to the
acre.
—The damage by rain to the western
wheat crop is not near as great as was
first reported. Scarcely one-third of the
crop is lost.
—A Greenback Convention is called
to meet at Detroit this week. Mat Car
penter and General Gordon are adver
tised as speakers.
—English gardeners now gladly pay $1
each for toads. They find them the best
and cheapest destroyers of the insects
which infest tlieir plants.
—ln some parts of the South the
drought is so severe that there isn’t water
enough in the rivers to keep the fish from
getting sunburnt on the back.
—Poor old Thurlow Weed came very
near getting out of jail Saturday. He
was poisoned, together with his whole
family, by a copper tea kettle.
—The report that Charley Ross has
been returned to his parents, and that
they keep the fact a secret, in order not
to be annoyed, is pronounced untrue.
—Karl Ahlberg, a Sweed, murdered a
man in Louisiana to rob him of a hatful
of advertisements printed to look like
greenbacks, which the Sweed thought a
great treasure.
—There is anew paper in Nebraska
whose staff, from highest to lowest—edi
tors, proof readers, compositors, and all—
are obliged to dress in uniform. It is
published in the State penitentiary.
—A President of Pittsfield, Mass., pub
lishes his belief that there are separate
heavens for men and women. His argu
ment is that all the troubles in this life
arise from the mingling of the sexes,
—Mrs. Joseph Custer, of Worcester,
Penn., stung by a bee, died a few days
after, her arm swelling to the shoulder,
and a yellowish liquid being discharged
from it in several places where it broke
out.
—The Montgomery Advertiser says a
number of emigrants passed through that
city last Saturday on their way back to
Georgia from Texas. They advise every
body to keep away from Texas, asserting
that it is no Eden.
—The Keely Motor has been superse
ded, and now John A. Hoctor, of Roches
ter, N. Y., “ has brought a newly discov
ered vapor to the test of utility in haul
ing trains of loaded cars on a railway, and
driving balls and other missiles from
guns, iarge or small, employed in war.”
—Mr. Andrew Johnson, son of the late
ex-President Johnson, denies all knowl
edge of the reported insurance on his fa
ther’s life, though he says he has not yet
been able to look over all his father’s pa
pers. The estate of the ex-President is
estimated at between $150,000 and $175,-
000.
—The curious story of the kidnapping
Charlie, the infant son of Mr. Brill, of
Greenpoint, New York, about eighteen
months ago, has been revived by the
finding of the child on Randall’s Island,
where he had been sent under the name
of John Smyth. He says he recollects
crossing the ferry with a policeman and
a woman.
—There are few persons who have any
conception of what amount an ordinary
editor may write in the course of twenty
five years connection with the press. It
is a low estimate to state that the edito
rial matter prepared by a single man, ta
king his productiens, good, bad and indif
ferant, to say that a hundred volumes of
five hundred octavo pages, set in medium
sized type, may suffice to transmit it to
posterity in substantial form.
—The building of the Southern Pacific
Railroad through Teheehape Pass in
volves a vast amouut of labor. For twen
ty miles there is a succession of cuts, fills
and tunnels. To reach an elevation in
one part of this section eight miles of
track will be laid to attain one mile of
actual progress. The road at that point
runs through a tunnel, and then encircles
a hill at a heavy grade. Another tunnel
is nearly two miles long, and in places
over a thousand feet below the surface.
—The Memphis Appealoi a recent date
says that a large crow and of Voudoo people
called recently at the office of a Justice
of that place, one-half of the crowd hav
ing instituted criminal proceedings
against the other half for alleged witch
craft, legerdemain and other tricks. It
was asserted that a cew had been run dry
and a sweet-potato patch withered up by
the diabolical practice of the accused.
The Justice, after a patient hearing of
three hours, decided that the proof was
not such as the law required, and re
marked that the complaining parties
seemed to be as superstitious as the other
side.
CRAWFORD, GEORGIA, FRIDAY MORNING, AUGUST 27, 1875.
SWEETMEATS.
—The ladies generally favor contrac
tion.
—Twenty little children crowd and call
Queen Victoria “ grandma.”
—Another scandal case in Brooklyn—
ss,ooo damages—no minister.
—Really, now, ought not the girls to
get some clothes to wear over those
dresses ?
—“ Mother-in-law” is the name of a
favorite mixture in London. It is old
and bitter.
—Sadness hangs over society men just
now, because of the rumored restoration
of crinoline.
—“ Come, sit down on the shelly shore,
And hear the mighty ocean roar.”
“ I can’t sit down, you silly goose,
Because I’d bust my pull back loose.”
—Since those “ pin backs” came out it
is quite difficult for a near-sighted man
to distinguish a lady from a gentleman a
block away.
—Several young American ladies are
at present in Paris, studying the art of
displaying their ankles without appear
ing to do it intentionally.
—The Gainesville ladies pin sprigs of
pennyroyal on their sweethearts’ coats
for the purpose of keeping off the fleas.
Could anything be sweeter?
—Havana wants more women. A wo
man with any pretensions to beauty or
fine physique would sooner die than be
seen on the streets unprotected.
—A marriage was broken up in Duluth
by the young man making an unexpect
ed call and finding the poodle dog play
ing with his true love’s glass eye.
—Miss Nelson’s sickness cost her
SIOO,OOO in broken engagements. When
we were sick, last spring, it'cost us only
nine cents—three pills at 3 cents apiece.
—Mrs. Chambers, one of the heiresses
to the 12,000,000 of francs left by a
French relative, will leave Augusta for
France in a few days to obtain possession
of the fortune.
—Miss Augusta J. Evans is in New
York stopping at Commodore Vander
bilt’s. We learn that the Carlton Broth
ers have offered her $50,000 for her New
work “ Infelice.”
—A merchant who doos not advertise
can no more succeed in drawing custom,
than can a young lady without a bustle
and a few pounds of false hair, succeed
in drawing beaux.
—“ Yesterday afternoon,” says a Ten
nessee paper, “ the handsome Miss Jen
nie Taylor was borne to the cemetery
before a large concourse of grieving men,
women and vehicles.”
—There is less romance than stern re
ality about the fact that Benjamin Bar
ker, a murderer of Monroe county, Pa.,
has been surrendered by his wife, who re
ceives a reward of SI,OOO.
—At Vincennes, recently, during a
marriage ceremony, the bride’s teeth
dropped out, which so frightened the un
happy man that he rushed off like an ar
row, and has not been heard of since.
—The horrible news has crept into the
fashion letters that Turkish trousers for
women are coming. Each trouser
will be lulled into a band around the
ankle, and finished with a ruffle edged
with lace.”
—The Indiana courts hold that the
fact of a girl’s being engaged to several
gentlemen at once does not bar her from
the privilege of sueing each one in suc
cession for breach of promise. This opens
up anew industry.
—The restless genius who decorated
the statue of the Greek Slave in the Cor
coran Galley, Washington, with a mus
tache, in oil colors, has hopes of an offer
from Congress to refresco the ceiling of
the Capitol dome.
—Three old women and a lame man
constituted a debating society at Du
buqe. The three old women live
together, and their chickens scratch up
the lame man’s garden. The debate is
held across the line fence.
—A mountain girl wants a descrip
tion of the tie-backs. If she will just im
agine herself a closed umbrella with all
the ribs broken out but two, she will
have a good idea of a pretty girl leaning
up in a corner attired in the modern style.
—A Pittsburg infant fell out of its lit
tle carriage, and the shock caused it to
bite off a portion of its tongue. As the
infant is of the feminine gender, her
chances of securing a husband when she
grows up are increased ten-fold by the
mishap.
—Jenny Lind is not as much changed
as might be imagined. A correspondent
writes that she has the same blendid ex
pression of firmness and sweetness of
temper, the same winning smile and the
simplicity ot behavior. She is the moth
er of two daughters, aged 18 and 20.
—An energetic woman who had been
married four times had managed by
doubling and tripling to add to the pop
ulation of our beloved country to the ex
tent of twenty-four souls. When we
expressed a little natural surprise and
admiration at the number, she sadly re
marked: “Stranger, I could a’beat that
—l’d a’ made the other dozen ef I hadn’t
lost so much time a courtin’. Men folks
is so slow.”
—“ A feller” (he’s gone away) told us
that he overheard a conversatiqn between
a young lady, preparing for a shopping
tour, and her maid, a few days ago.
“ Now Jane, hand me that powder,” f( the
paint,” “those teeth,” “those two largest
papers.” Now my pa .” Oh ! dear,
we came very near exposing architectu
ral mysteries that should not be known
to the vulgar public. By the way tee are
absent to-day.
“ DEVILTRIES.
—A dentist, love, makes teeth of bone
For those whom fate has left without,
And finds provision for his own,
By pulling other people’s out.
—When does a man have to keep his
work. When no one will take it.
—“ Putting a pull-back necktie on to
him,” is what the Western lynchers now
call it.
—“ You say, Johnson, that four halls
lodged in your bosum ?” “ Yes, codfish
balls.”
—Where ten men will cheerfully lay
down their lives for a woman, only one
will carry her a scuttle of coal.
—A lawyer is a learned gentleman who
rescues your estate from the possession
of another and keeps it himself.
—lt is a summer wonder to a city boy
that a farmer should call a grindstone a
“grunstun,” and a coat a “jacket.”
—“ Say, Sambo, lea us jine de base ball
club.” “ What fer, nigger?” “ Kaseit
lam you how fer ter kateh fouls on de fly.”
—A murderer in Nevada refused to es
cape when the jail door was left open,
“ because he didn’t have a clean sh.rt to
go in.”
—lt was a Connecticut editor who
wrote, “ Is there a balm in Gilead ?”
and read next day, “ Is there a barn in
Guilford?”
—The latest agony in stationary is
Beecher note paper. It has a “ ragged
edge,” and whatever is written on it
means something else.
—A politician who accidently drank
from the wrong bottle with a friend is
one of the few men in the State who know
how horse liniment tastes.
—lt was an lowa landlord who posted
the notice in his dining-room, that mem
bers of the Legislature would first be sea
ted, and afterward the gentleman.
—A book agent took refuge under a
hay stack during a thunder storm, and
the lightning struck him on the cheek,
glanced oft* and killed a mule two hun
dred yards away.
—Simmons was a clerk in a wholesale
store, and has been unjustly discharged
because his emplyers disliked to see their
letters, bills, etc., signed, “ Jones, Brown
& Cos., per Simmons.”
—They call it a “ Keely motor” now,
but there is very little condensed air or
water about it, and a good square dose
will move a man’s tongue oftener to the
square inch than anything else yet dis
covered.
—The following toast was given at a
Concord cattle show in 1846 : “Old
Bachelors. Like sour cider, they grow
more crabbed the longer they are kept ;
and when they see a little mother, they
turn to vinegar at once.”
—“ What de price ob a letter stamp ?”
asked a small darky at the post-office
window yesterday; “ Three cents.”
“ Tree cent 1 Ain't got no split ones fer
two cent?” “No.” “Can’t send dat
letter den,” and Cuffy slid.
—The most attentive man to business
on record was he who wrote on his shop
door : “ Gone to bury my wife ; return
in half an hour.” He was no relation to
the lawyer who put upon his office door:
“ Be back in five minutes,” and returned
only after a pleasure trip of three weeks.
—The most astonishing instance of a
man’s regard for his word was recently
given by a man who killed his wife,
whom he did not like. When asked why
he didn’t go off and leave her instead of
killing her, he replied, jocosely, that he
had promised on the wedding day to live
with her until death should part them,
and that he wasn’t the man to break bis
word !
—Yesterday morning a Harrison ave
nue man who had started out to attend the
funeral of a neigbor returned to the house
and asked his wife where the whetstone
was. “ Whetstone! What in mercy’s
name do you want of a whetstone at a
funeral?” she exclaimed. “Oh, I’ve
been there before, and I know they’ll
fool around and fool around, and I might
as well get a good edge on my knife
while they’re waiting?”
—George Washington couldn’t tell a
lie, and that’s what ails the average
Vicksburg boy. The other day, when
one of them accidentally broke a pane of
glass in a store window, it was touching
to see him walk bravely into the store
and up to the merchant and say : “ Mr.
Blank, I broke a pane of glass in the
window there, and you can charge it to
the old man’s account. Put it down as
a pound of salaratus and he’ll never
know the difference!”
—The attention of physicians here has
been quite generally attracted of late by
the ease of a boy in East Rome. Any at
tempt to bring in water, or saw wood
which he makes, brings on fits of dizzi
ness and a severe headache. Even the
sight of a wood-shed gives him simptoms
of illness. In other respects he is per
fectly healthy, and he can play base ball
all through a hoc afternoon, and go in
swimming in the evening without expe
riencing any evil effects.
—The other day a resident of Vicks
burg went up to Thompson’s Lake to
get a shot at a big alligator, and while
eating a cold bite in the shade a man
jumped over the fence, presented an old
army musket to his head, and cried out:
“Stranger, unkiver yer hed!” The
Vicksburger was dumbfounded, but made
haste to remove his hat, and exhibited a
pate which shone like a newly-polished
pilpaw. “Stranger, that saves ye !” con
tinued the man, shouldering his musket;
“ I thought ye was that red-headed col
porcher what charged my wife seventy
cents fur a testymint that haint a got a
goddarned pictur in it,”
TWO BRAVE CHILDEEN.
I’ - possessing a Lion of His Native Home,
and Keeping House Under a Tree—Lost
in the Woods.
[San Francisco Chronicle.]
Lower Lake, Lake County, )
August 4.j
There is good stuff in those youngsters
of Dr. Baker’s—every one of them ; but
my yarn only concerns the two younger
of the lot. Last Sunday the little one,
Jenny, a girl of six or seven years, made
her appearance into her mother’s room,
and demanded permission to go out deer
hunting with her brother. Claude is
about twelve years old, and killed a deer
about the size of a buck rabbit one day
last week, since when he can’t rest a mo
ment in the daytime, and scarcely sleeps
of nights. It was 10 o’clock when they
started, taking a dog with them. The
mother thought no more of them until
dinner time in the evening. Then she
became alarmed. Night approaching,
she was half wild. All hands, consisting
of some ten or twelve miners, started out,
some on horse-back and some on foot.
Night came; darkness settled down on
the still valley with a quiet that seemed
like death. The mother became frantic.
She heard an occasional gun fired off, and
knew that it was the doctor and men in
pursuit of the lost children. She could
not remain in the house another moment.
She took the direction of the guns’ re
ports, as well as she could, and started
after the crowd. It was midnight when
she came up to them. There was scarce
ly a half garment of any kind on her
body. She seemed to have passed through
a dozen deaths—all but the dying. From
the time she joined her husband and the
other men she led the crowd until, about
3 o’clock in the morning, they heard a
dog bark, and in another moment were
with the children, who were instantly
wakened by the noise. Then it was,
“ Howd’e do, mamma ?” and “ Howd’e
do, papa ?” and “ Ain’t this a splendid
tree to keep house under?” “We had
to fight for it, though,” said Claude.
“ See here—we had to kill the first set
tler and sure enough there lay a Cali
fornia lion, one of the largest size, with
a ball through his brain. Claude had
shot him after dark. They had been lost,
but the boy imagined he had struck the
home trail, and kept running on until he
met the lion and shot him. Jenny says
he was crouched down like a cat, and not
farther away than across the room where
they shot him. He sprang right into
the air and tumbled at their very feet.
Before starting from the house one of the
men bad put some biscuit in his pocket,
thinking the children would be hungry,
and these he offered them. “ No, thank
you,” said Jenny “we had quails for sup
per.” They had taken matches and
Claude had shot the quails ; these they
had roasted on a stick, and of course they
were not hungry. It was an elder sister
of these two plucky youngsters, who was
out on horseback in a very wild tract of
country. She was about twelve years of
age about that time, and had been hunt
ing stock. All at once she saw a pair of
bright eyes looking at her from a turf
of tall grass. “ I’m going to see what
you are, anyhow,” she said. She got
down from her horse, and soon found that
the eyes belonged “ to the prettiest little
darling she ever saw.”
There was more of them but she only
captured one specimen and climbed back
to her saddle. She had not gone half a
mile before she heard something loping
behind her. She turned around and saw
a lion. She put her horse to his best
speed and .almost flew, she says, but the
horrid thing gained on her. “Of course
I knew what she wanted,” said the child,
“ but I didn’t intend to humor her sel
fishness. I didn’t take but one, and I
left her two, and that’s as generous as
any one need be. But she couldn’t seem
to see it. Anyhow, she just flew after us;
and old Phil—talk about his being a fast
horse. I wanted to break his neck. The
lion gained on us at every step, till at
last I took her baby and threw it at her.
‘ Now take it and leave, you stingy old
thing,’ I said ; and she did ; she just
grabbed him up in her mouth and put
off', and I came home.” The mother
says that nothing would give her more
comfort than to know that her Children
were all afraid of their own shadows.
But not one of them has ever shown a
particle of cowardice in their lives, or
their father before them.
Deprived of Her Hair.— The Hart
ford (Conn.) Courant reports that a young
lady of literary tastes, who is staying for
a while at a hotel at Stafford Springs,
awoke one morning last week and found
her hair lying on the floor, and, near by,
a p*ir of scissors. She was very much
frightened and she rushed out into the
hall screaming. Her friends gathered
around her, and, on calmness being re
stored and reason set to work, it was
thought she must have got up in the night
in her sleep and committed the offense
herself. She had long black hair, which
was the admiration of her friends.
How to Remove Warts.— Warts are
not only very troublesome, but disfigure
the bands. Our readers will thank us
for calling their attention to the follow
ing perfect cure, even of the largest, with
out leaving a scar : “ Take a small piece
of raw beef, steep it all night in vinegar,
cut as much from it as will cover the wart
and tie it on ; or; if the excrescence is on
the forehead, fasten it on with strips of
plaster. It may be removed during the
day and put on every night. In one
fortnight the wart will die and peel off.”
The same prescription will cure corns.
—At a wedding in this city recently a
wag pinned in a conspicuous place in one
qf the dressing-rooms a newspaper para
graph reading: “On the evening of
August 12, Jupiter and Venus will ap
proach within one degree of each other,
presenting a rare and beautiful specta
cle.”
VOL. I--N0.47.
A TERRIELE STRUGGLE.
A Child Barely Hes cued from the Jaws of
’ an Alligator.
Handsboro (.Mi;-*.) Democrat.
Last Saturday, about sundown, four
miles east of this place on Biloxi bay,
occurred a scene calculated to send a
thrill of horror through every human
heart, and to make even the boldest tren>
ble with fear. Two little girls, daughters
of Mr. Elam R. Blackwell, living on the
Back Bay of Biloxi, while bathing in the
bay immediately in front of his dwelling,
were attacked by an enormous alligator.
The eldest, a girl of about seven years of
age, was holding the youngest, an infant
of two years, in her hands, and was quiet-*
ly enjoying her bath, when suddenly her
little sister was snatched from her, and
borne swiftly from the shore. Terrified
beyond measure, and unable to render
any assistance to, her unfortunate sister,
the elder girl uttered ascream,which w r as
quickly caught by the ear of the father,
who happened,accidentally, to be passing
within 30 or 50 yards of the spot where
his daughters were bathing. Realing
instantly, from the tone of the voice, that
his children were in some peril, but un
able to conjecture its exact nature, Mr.
Blackwell, who is an active and athletic
man, rushed rapidly to their assistance,
and arrived at the spot just in time to
discover his little daughter being borne
out into the bay by an alligator. Com
prehending the scene at once, and nerv
ed to almost superhuman effort by the
desperate situation of his child, the agon
ized father leaped madly into the water
in pursuit of the would-be destroyer of
his daughter, which w r as then some 35 or
30 yards from shore. The water, for a
distance of 40 or 50 yards out into the
bay from the point where the children
where bathing, ranges in depth from one
and a half to tw'O feet, and then suddenly
attains a depth of 40 or 50 feet, and both
the animal (which by this time had dis->
covered the pursuit) and the father
seemed to realize that, the deep water
immediately in front of them once reach
ed, pursuit and recovery would be alike
impossible ; both, therefore, redoubled
their efforts, the one to reach the point,
and the other to prevent it. In this
struggle, although sinking to his waist
in the soft mud at the bottom at each
bound, the father was successful. He
succeeded in grasping the child by tho
arm about ten feet from deep water.
The alligator, which all the while held
the child’s foot in its mouth, perceiving
itself overtaken, alarmed and confused
by the boldness of the assault, released
its hold, and made its way rapidly into
the deep water in front of it. The fath
er, completely exhausted, raised his child
out of the water, and, perceiving that
it still lived, by desperate effort succeed
ed in regaining the shore and depositing
the child safely in the hands of its moth
er. The little girl is unhurt, w r ith tho
exception of a couple of bruises on it
foot, made by the teeth of the monster.
Railroad Across the Atlantic,
[New York Express.]
A railroad across the Atlantic is on tho
list of possibilities for the future achieve
ment of science. Many years ago a civil
engineer suggesting sub-marine railways.
His thepry was that at a certain depth of
the ocean—a hundred fathoms or more
—far below any agitation from surface
storms, the waiter is of such density that
nothing in tubular form, whatever the
weight, can possibly sink. Having thus
made a foundation in the very bowels of
old Neptune, he proposed to sink a con
tinuous line of immense iron tubes—.af
ter the manner of the recent cable laying
—in which a double-track railway could
be laid between Cape Clear, Ireland, and
Cape Race, Newfoundland, and thus
trains go booming through, to the con
sternation of the sea-serpent and the mor
tal terror of the big and little fishes.
The only really serious objection to his
project that the engineer of this deep-sea
scheme could then see, was the suffoca
ting effects of the smoke from the locomo
tives ; and, if this could be overcome,
then the grand oceanic railway only re
quired the necessary construction capi
tal to enter upon its career of “ success
ful experiment,” be duly figured out up
on the profits of the ample traffic bet ween
the two worlds. Now, the aforesaid “sci
entific objection” has already disappear
ed in the smoke-consuming engine of
modern invention, to say nothing of the
“ Keely motor.” Can the capital ques
tion be as easily solved ? Who will form
the company, and who will take tho
shares ?
Was it Morgan’s Body.
Apropos of the statement of Mr. Weed
in the Herald of the 9th inst., regarding
the disappearance of the recreant Mason,
Morgan, fifty years ago, I wish to relate
a circumstance well authenticated,
which may not be devoid of interest.
There is a lady now living in Lockport,
New York, eighty years of age, who can
vouch for its truth. Bix months subse
auent to the alledged murder, a corpse
rifted ashore upon the beach of a farm
situated near the mouth of Niagara river.
The owner of that farm, who has been
deceased for eight years, found the body,
which, after an informal inquest, was
buried. A narrow band of wrought iron
was found around the waist of the re
mains, to which was attached a short
iron chain, from which it was evident a
weight had been rusted or wrenched
away. The corpse was buried unpublish
ed and unclaimed upon the spot where
it was found.
I think Mr. Weed is mistaken regard
ing the non-existence of a current in
Lake Ontario. There is a very percep
tible current from the mouth of the river
at least for forty miles eastward.
A Mason’s Daughter.
New Y T ork, August 12, 1875.
—A bootless task—Putting on socks,