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TKIHGS IN GENERAL.
—A three-eyed worm nuisance is an
noying Westchester farmers.
—President Grant Grant has shaved
his beard off and cut his hair.
—The oldest man in Trov is a Mr.
Blackwell, who is 106 years of age.
—Since the world began no man, wo
man or child has died from eating ripe
peaches.
—Japan has coins of so small a
value that it takes a thousand of them to
make a dollar.
—Kentucky boasts of a corn stalk bear
ing fifty ears of corn and an immense
amouht of silk.
—A crocodile race on the Nile is to be
the event of next month in Egyptian
sporting circles.
—A woman deliberately drowned her
self and three children, in Pittsburg,
Penn., last week.
—There is nothing so affective in
bringing a man np to the scratch as a
healthy and high-spirited flea.
—The children of Donaldson, the
seronaut, are said to be in very destitute
circumstances in Rochester, N. Y.
—A machine has been invented in
England for making hay by artificial
heat at a cost of eight shillings per ton.
—The two negroes who outraged Mrs.
Taylor, at Pensacola, were taken out of
jail and hung, by one hundred unknown
men.
—Seventeen bears have been killed in
Mattawamkeag, Maiue, this season.
The State pays five dollars for each cap
ture.
—An lowa farmer has eighty acres of
corn chat stands sixteen feet high, and
will average one hundred bushels to the
acre.
—A Chattanooga tailor is makiug a
goose of himself by advertising the lact
that Andy Johnson was buried in one of
his suits.
—lt is now announced that in the course
of the next ten thousand years the whole
globe will becovered with water the depth
of thirty feet.
—Lulu’s victory over Goldsmith Maid
on the Rochester Course, on Saturday,
was an event memorable in the turf an
nals of America.
—Capt. Webb succeeded in accom
plishing the feat of swimming from Dover
to Calais. He was in the water twenty
one hours and three quarters.
—A London car conductor was lately
sentenced to three months’ imprison
ment, with hard labor, tor attempting
to defraud his employers of four cents.
—One of the most remarkable rob
beries recorded took place at Worcester,
Massachusetts. A ton of hay was stolen
from a field in one night without leav
ing trace of its whereabouts.
—A horrible story of outrage and mur
der at sea, the victims being two sisters
and the murderers the captain and crew
of a schooner on which they had taken
passage, comes from Halifax, Nova
fcjcolia.
—A Danish operator has discovered a
mode of sending any number of tele
graphic messages over the same wire,
by the simple method of pitching each
message in a different key with the aid
of tuning forks.
—There is in the possession of John
Enade, of Buffalo, one of the most an
cient relics owed in the city. It is an an
tique two edged sword, made in 1365, one
hundred and twenty-seven years before
the discovery of America.
—ln one iveek of last month a firm
near New York city received orders for
445 miles of lead pencils. To make
these, only 83,000 feet of cedar lumber
are required, and after they are made
they will load six freight cars.
—Since the year 1800 England has
waged forty-nine wars; France, thirty
eight ; Russia, twenty-two; Austria,
twelve; Prussia, eight; and in spite of
all the peace societies and internal con
ventions they all appear anxious for an
other.
—James Gordon Bennett has his im
ported thoroughbreds and four-in-hand
drag at Newport, and the turnout creates
something of a sensation. The whole
cost of the equipage, including horses
and servant’s livery, is said to be $47,500
in gold.
.
—An English paper makes it: “ Jef
ferson Davis, the American rebel, was in
vited to address the Winnebago na
tives. N. B.—The Winneaagoes are a
tribe of Indians, formerly of Wisconsin
State, but now removed to an agency in
Nebraska State.”
—The season is now approaching when
the young man who parts his hair in the
middle can no longer stand outside of
the church door, more than an hour at a
time with any degree of comfort, few the
purpose of finding out whether striped
stockings are still fashionable.
—Holly Springs Reporter : A young
man at Lamar bought a few pounds* of
Rio Coffee, a few days since, and in pick
ing out the grit preparatory to parching
it, he found a stone that is pronounced
b£ experts to be a dimond of the first wa
ter. The lowest valuation that has been
placed upon this stone is $3,000 and
some estimate its value at $5,000.
—A man in Arkansas, while at work j
in a forest, lately, observed the initials I
“J. C.” cut in a tree, and in the ground j
nearby a depression. Thinking the two \
circumstances meant something, he went !
to digging, and a jar containing near j
three gallons of silver and diamonds was j
the result of the search. The money i
amounted to a little over $1,400. '
CRAWFORD, GEORGIA, FRIDAY MORNING, SEPTEMBER ‘3, 1875.
SWEETMEATS. \
—Girls’ rights—Kisses. " ’
—-Girls’ lefts—Old bachelors.
-And now Bessie Tnrner is writing a
novel.
A girl never looks so killing as when
you tre3d on her dress.
Ethan Allen’s little grandaughter is
just 101 years.oid. She remembers her
grandpop.
W ould you know the color of an au
thoress’ haic r ask. the color she makes
that of her heroines.
—An ugly wart is a difficult thing to
get off one’s hands. An ugly daughter
is still more difficult.
—There is a young lady in Delaware
now nearly eighty years of age, who has
been seven times married.
—The best looking girl in Waukesha
county has an elegantly shaped cork leg,
set on just above the knee.
— Hair nets are gradually making their
way into favor, and by the winter will
probably be worn as much as ever.
—W omen spend the greater portion of
their time these days in fixing up their
pinbacks and hunting for thimbles.
—Just think of it! Tt costs $1,250,-
589,10 to keep the women of this coun
try in imported corsets for one year.
—A woman of 90 was noisy drunk in
the streets of Albany the other day,
and had to be taken to the calaboose.
—Why is a colt getting broke like a
young lady getting married ? Because he
is going through the bridle ceremony.
You’ve pinned it back, he cried, with grief,
Much further than you’d orter ;
Your front stands out in hold relief—
My darter! oh, my darter I
—Fannie Elssler, the famous danseuse,
is liviug at Bremen, the wife of a physi
cian, ana is a well-preserved woman of
71.
—lt has been ascertained by the an
thropologists that, as a rule, women now
a days become gray earlier than men.
Why is it ?
—The female house fly does not bite,
but her tendency to suicide by drowning
in your tea cup quite offsets this admira
ble quality.
—Leaning over a garden fence, were
two gossipers, and as we passed, one of
them remarked: “ Miss Patterson,
shur’s you live, there’s going to be a slit
in our church.”
—When freedom from the mountain
height unfurled her standard to the air,
her skirts, pinned back so very tight,
made her appear exceeding spare.
—A Long Branch beauty was recently
weighed in her promenade costume, and
turned the scales at 165 pound. In her
bathing dress she weighed 105 pounds.
—lt is quite noticeable that young la
dies who wear striped stockings usually
occupy two chairs. They sit down in
one, and prop their feet on the top round
of the other.
—Pin backward, pin backward, oh,
skirts just as tight and make me look
small again just for to-night. Oh, what
is life worth if this I should lack and not
have pretty, the darling pin-back ?
—Mme. Bique, an seronaughty French
woman, was thrown out of a balloon in a
storm, July 7th, but caught by a rope,
and was able to regain her place in the
basket, merely riking her foot in doing so.
—Mrs. Muson, of Des Moise, has pre
sented her husband with a child so small
that it looks like a doll. The precious
little boy weighs only two pounds, but
those two pounds are full of life and
health.
—Frenchwomen are divided in opin
ion as to the revival of bonnet strings, one
party wishing to have bows under their
chins, while the others are contented
with keeping their bows under their
thumbs.
—Au exchange says: “ A Rhode
Island man has invented anew lawn
game. Thirteen girls kiss a man thir
teen times each during the play.” We
wish to goodness they would introduce
the game here.
—Alexander Dumas’ little daughter,
aged six, asked him, “ What is the dif
ference between a woman and a man ?”
They were in a railway carriage, and he
told her that the difference is that a wom
an always has extra baggage.
—One of those two women who have
been travelling about and selling corsets
to ladies, who they insisted should strip
quite bare while trying the article on, has
turned out to be a man, and has been ar
rested for wearing women’s clothes.
—She was pretty, and as they nestled
together on the beach, the zephyrs com
ing from o’er the water chilled her for a
moment, and she sneezed “c-a-chee.”
Augustus caught the false teeth in his lap,
and now the heartless wretch says his af
fections are all centered at home.
— The richest woman in America is
the wife of Professor Gammel, formerly
of Brown University, R. I. She has an
income of at least a million a year, her
father’s estate, which she has just inher
ited, being estimated at fully $20,000,000.
—Misfortunes never come singly. A
Kentucky man lost his barn bv fire last
winter ; one month later three of his
horses died ; soon after he had three hogs
stolen ; and now his mother-in-law has
come to stay with him until Christmas
—Two Connecticut ladies saved a j
White Mountain stage from being precip
itated in au abyss, the other day, by block
ing the wheels with the rear projections
of their dresses. It was an heroic sac- j
rifice; but even bustles must giveaway
sometimes.
AN UPPER NILE MAIDEN.
She Would Follow the White Man if He
Wouldn’t Eat Her.
At a late meeting of the French Geo
graphical Society, Colonel Chaille-Long,
Bay, the Egyptian army, gave an account
of his perilous explorations ofthe Upper
Nil*. The narrator, who is a young man
of French origin, penetrates as far as the
country ofNiam. The tribe who people
those regions are for the most part cam
nibals. In one, where neither a white
man nor a horse bad been seen, he was
the cause of immense astonishment,
mingled with superstitious fear, and was
in fact, taken for a centaur. By the aid
of his interpreter, he asked for an inter
view with their chief. The latter being
inforined of the presence of this
stranger, received him in the royal hut,
and the traveler had the signal honor of
sitting by the side of the negro King.
Whilst the Colonel and His Majesty ex
changed words of friendship, loud cries
were heard outside. These proceeded
from thirty poor wretches who'he bad or
dered to be decapitated in honor of the
visitor. In reflecting that he was the
cause of the death of so mauy victims,
the young traveler’s feelings revolted
against the barbarous custom ; but as he
was among savages, his own safety de
pended on not showing his indignation,
even in his countenance. The black
king offered him a dozen women, whom
he refused. Nevertheless, wishing to
have some proof of his visit, he selected a
youth of a dozen years of age, whom he
persuaded to follow him, and made the
same proposition to a young girl. “ I
want very much to go with you,” said
she, “ but it must be on condition that
you will not eat me.” Colonel Chaille-
Long was attacked at Urobli by the tribe
which, in 1872, had fought against Sir
Samuel Baker, causing him serious loss.
The intrepid voyager was in a canoe, ac
companied by two soldiers and some
servants. A flotilla composed of boats
of rude form, in which the negroes were
packed like herrings, advanced to the
encounter. The chieftain was at the
head, lance in hand. As soon as they
'were within range, the Colonel, armetl
with revolvers, as were also his men, gave
'orders to fire. The negro leader, struck
by an explosive bullet, fell dead. Each
projectile made a victim among the as
sailants, who finally decided to retreat,
alter having lost eiglity-two of their
number. When at the extreme limit of
his explorations, Colonel Chaille-Long
perceived a curtain of smoke, which ap
peared to indicate that the country be
yond was peopled by other tribes, but
all is yet mystery concerning those un
explored regions.
I
A Warning to Widowers.
[Torronto National.]
The Hamilton Spectator chronicles the
appearance of a spectre Grimsby. The
haunted man was a widower known as
Old Kitchen, whose deceased wife had,
before her death, a year ago, threatened
to haunt him if he ever had anything to
do with another woman. He promised
to comply with her wishes, and kept his
word until a short time since, when, in
company with a man named Taylor, he
drove to Smithville to visit a couple of
young ladles. On his return home, late
at night, Kitchen became visibly uneasy,
his agitation increasing as they approach
ed an old church, in a graveyard attach
ed to which his wife was buried. When
opposite the spot, “ the white-robed form
oi-a woman was seen to rise from the
graveyard, and float through the air to
ward them.” Kitchen screamed out in
an agony of terror, the horse gave vent
to a wild snort of fear, and ran down the
mountain at break-neck speed, and the
apparition continued to follow them,
floating through the atmosphere in terri
ble proximity to the faithless widower.
The other man states that it “ looked
like the corpse of a woman with the
death clothes on. The face was quiet,
dead and expressionless, and the eyes
were closed; one hand was extended to
ward Kitchen, almost touching his head,
and the other pointing toward Smith
ville.” Finally the buggy was smashed
against a tree and the occupants thrown
out, and when they recovered from the
fall the ghost was gone.
Swallowed Spectacles.—A Paris
correspondent writes : Another rival to
the man who swallowed a fork last year
has just come to hand. A poor fellow
named Venet has been admitted to the
hospital here on account of having swal
lowed a pair of spectacles. It appears
he partook one day rather freely of a
dish of mushrooms, and having reason
to suspect after having eaten them that
they were poisonous, he attempted to
bring on a fit of vomiting. Not succeed
ing in his first effort, he renewed the at
tempt by thrusting his spectacles down
his throat. A gasp—a gulp—and down
went the spectacles, and there they re
main at the present. As the frames are
are of silver, no danger of poison is ap
prehended, but the poor fellow’s condi
tion is, nevertheless, a desperate one.
A Scene from New Yobk Life.—
A priest was informed yesterday that a j
woman was lying sick and destitute on :
a couch in an unused cellar at 5 Thomp- j
son street, which was half filled with \va- i
ter. He found a middle-aged woman,
clad in a single skirt. Her emaciated
face indicated the sufferings she had
passed through. She shivered with fev
er and ague, and was racked with a
cough. She said her name was Annie
Burtcn; that she was a serving girl, and
becoming sick and deserted by her friends I
had crawled inio the cellar to die. Her j
clothes and shoes had been stripped from
her while lying on the couch. She had
not eaten ary thing since Sunday. She
was taken to Bellevue Hospital. — N. Y. ,
Sun. ’ 1
A HORRIBLE MONSTROSITY.
The Joplin (Mo.) Bulletin gives this
description of a child born near there :
“ \\ rapped in its swaddling clothes lay
the child, weighing about eight pounds,
with a head whose forehead was well de
veloped, but whose mouth, nose, eyes,
ears and general countenance was the ex
act counterpart of a cat’s, though the eves
from their dazzling brilliancy, looked
much like a serpent’s. The body, arms
and hands w*ere well formed and natural,
and so were the legs as far dow r n as the
knees. From the knees they bore an al
most axact resemblance to" a leg of a
chicken—the foot was as near a chicken’s
foot as can be imagined—and the infaut
would contract its toes just as a chicken
would. Its head and neck were covered
with a growth of fine black hair, and the
body and limbs looked like a chicken
when plucked of its feathers ; its cries
were those of a cat. Other peculiarities
were noticeble, but, perhaps, it is best
not to make them public at this time.
It is said that this unfortunate cireum
stance was brought about in this wise :
Some five or six months ago, while the
parents resided in another State, the la
dy was watching a fight between s cat
and a rooster in an adjoining yard. Two
boys, aged ten and twelve years, respec
tively, were watching the contest with
great interest. Finally the cat caught
the chicken by the neck and instantly
dispatched him, the older boy grabbed
a light axe and, uplifted it, rushed to
ward the younger, saying : “ D—n you !
your cat killed my rooster, and I’ll kill
you.” The younger brother, in attemp
ting to escape, stumbled and fell. At
this stage of proceedings, the lady fell to
the floor in a swoon, but only recovered
from one spasm to another, which con
tinued for several hours, and the result
was the birth of this monstrosity.
The parents wished the child put out of
the wav by violent means, but after a
deal of persuasion and the promise of a
large sum of money, the doctor was al
lowed to retain it, provided he would
never make its parentage knowfi, or ex
hibit it for two years. He has hired an
old negro man and his wife, who lives at
an out of the way place on the Arkansas
line to raise the infant. It was growing
finely at last accounts.
A Night with a Rattlesnake.—
While in Houston county last week, a
gentleman informed us that in the early
part of last month, a little child, four
years old, daughter of Mrs. Nancy Ilask
ings, was sleeping on a pallet spread on
the floor, which was made of puncheons.
During the night the child was very un
easy, and called its mother—who was in
the same room—frequently. At one time
the child cried that a rail had fallen on
her finger and smashed it. The mother,
supposing the child was dreaming, paid
no attention to it. When daylight came
a sight appeared to her gaze that chilled
her blood. By the side of the pallet was
a rattlesnake some three aud a half feet
in length, and in the mouth of which
was the child’s thumb. The noise made
by the mother startled the snake, which
glided through the crack. On examina
tion of the child’s thumb, it was found
to be lacerated very much and torn by
the fangs of the snake, the effect of which
was soon visible on the child, and at one
time it was thought impossible to save
its life, but it was saved, we learn, by a
remedv of Dr. Nixon, of that county,
which is moss made into tea and drank,
and used also as a poltice. The suake
was killed by some young men the same
morning.— Denva {Term.) Record.
A Man Who Didn’t Overestimate
Himself. —A Hebrew merchant from a
Western city went into one of our large
wholesale houses the other day, and said
he wished to buy about $1,500 worth of
goods. He was willing to pay $1,200
cash, and give his note ninety days for
the rest of the bill. The firm looked up
the firm which the customer represented,
and came to the conclusion that his note
wouldn’t be of much value. They con
cluded, however, to sell him the goods
he desired, making a sufficient advance
in the usual price to cover the amount
of the note. The sale was made, and the
bill amonnted to $1,450. The purchaser
paid the $1,200, and drew his note for the
remainder.
“Now, mine vriends,” said he, “I
vants you to gif me von present. I al
vavs has a present after so big a bill.”
“Well,” replied the merchant, “we
can’t give you much of a present, but
you can pick out a necktie for yourself,
if you wish.”
“ No, no. I vants no teckties. I vants
a silk dress for mine vife.”
“O, we can’t do that,” said our mer
chant, “ but I’ll tell you what we will
do. We will give you your note.”
“My note ! No, py my gracious, I take
ze necktie !”— N. Y. Sun.
Changing Into a City Lady.— The
rapidity with which females adapt them
selves to the circumstances and fashions
with which they are surrounded, and es
pecially the fashions, is simply marvel
ous. On Monday last a lady, who em
ploys several domestics, got anew table
girl, just arrived in the city from rural
districts, a bright-eyed, rosy-cheeked
damsel, who blushed whenever any of the
male members of the household "looked
at her;a girl whose hair was combed
smoothly back from a tanned forehead ;
whose dress had sleeves to it, came up
to her throat and down to her feet. On
Tuesday her hair weDt up onto the top
of her head, and was coiled up over a—
something; on Wednesday she cut the
sleeves off her dress, turned it in at the
the throat, pinned it back and humped
it out behind, and could look all the
men in the house square in the face for
half an hour without the hue of modesty 1
showing through her prepared chalk
complexion. Yesterday she completed
her degradation by catting off all but an
inch or two of her front hair.
VOL. I—NO. 48.
GOlffa WEST,
They entered Vicksburg just at dark.-
■ the (.wo roiiles belore the covered
! leaned each other for support
and a man having any knowledge of
mules would have said that a luneh of
scrap iron would have been a god send to
them. There was a big dog under the
wagon, and he looked around in a suspi
cious, frightened way, as if expecting an'
attack from some quarter.
Peeping out from the wagon was a
woman and three children. Her face
w'as as yellow as ochre and as sharp as a
plantation hoe, and if the children had a
bit ol bacon for months past their looks
didn’t show it.
“ We’re a sad family,” replied the man •
as he returned from the grocery with a
pound of crackers and a bit of cheese.
“ Anything bad happened?” asked the
reporter.
“You see that woman in the wagon
thar. Well, she weighed a hundred and '•
sixty pounds when we left North Caroli
na a year ago. Thar she is now, gone
down to asnadder, and voucouldnt hear
her holler across the road!”
“ Yes, she does look bad.”
“ And thar’s the three children—fell
away to bones and hide and ha’r. Thar'
used to be seven. The rest ar* planted
over thar’ across the river!”
“ Well, that is bad.”
“ And thar’s them mules,” continued
the stranger, his voice growing huskv.
“ Thar* was a time when they was jistole
lightning ; had to tie ’em up outdoor for
fear they’d kick the stable down in North
Carolina. They don’t look like it now,
but they was once able to run a plow into
the sile so deep that it took a nigger a
day to dig down to the handles 1”
“ They seem worn out now.’^
“ And gaze on that dog—on poor Tim
othy !” continued the man, brushing a
tear from his left eye—“that’s what takes
the pluck ’o me! When I brought that
dog from old Norf Carolina the taller
fried out of him as he walked, ami when
he sot his teeth on to anything, it had to
come or die. And what is he now ?
Whar’s his bounden’ step, his fat, his
grace?”
“ You had bad luck then?”
“ fes, things sot agin’ us at the start.
The raiu drowned the crops out in Texas;
the ague shook us up stairs and down ;
fever took the children away ; and the
old woman and the mules and Timothy
sot right down and pined away to shad
ders?”
“ And you are moving ?”
“ We re a jogging, stranger kinder jog
gin’ aloug and around, lookin’ for a place
to squat. The old woman sighs for
North Carolina, and Timothy he’d get up
on his hind legs and howl if we pinted
that way, but I thought we’d jog a little
further.”
“ Well I’m sorry for you,” said the re
porter.
“ Bleeged to you, stranger. I’ve tried to
keep a stiff backbone, and I guess I kin
see this thing through, but when &
fellow remembers what those mules was,
and see ’em now, it’s nuff to break his
heart, to say nuthin’ about Timothy un
der the wagon, a dog who was brung uj
on the fat o’ the land iu North Carolina, •
and who aint used to sorrow and grief?”
And he climbed into the wagon pushed
on the lines, and the mules moved slow
ly on their way.
Food for Lean Women. —lf any one
wishes to grow fleshy, a pint of milk tak
en before retiring at night will cover the
scrawniest bones. Although now-a-days
we see a great many fleshy females, yet
there are many lean and lank ones who
sigh for the fashionable measure of
plumpness, and who would be vastly
improved in health and appearance could
their figure be rounded with good solid
flesh. Nothing is more coveted by thin
women than a full figure, and nothing
else will so rouse the ire and provoke the
scandal of one of the “clipper builds,”
as the consciousness of plumpness in a
rival. In case of fever and summer-com
plaint, milk is now given with excellent
results. The idea that milk is feverish
has exploded, and it is now the physi- •
cian’s great reliance in bringing through 1
typhoid patients, or those in too low a
state to be nourished by solid food. It
is a great mistake to scrimp the milk
pitcher. ___
Saving. —Says the Memphis Ledger :
Among the mysteries of the marriage li
cense business is the following: Men
have been known to get out licenses, but
the girls failed to respond to the call, so
the jilted men put the licenses carefully
away, as they had paid the sum of $3.50
for them. In five years thereafter the li
cense in one instance was returned exe
cuted, and the original girl had been
dead some years, so the chap married
another girl who assumed the maideni
name of the dead in order to save the ex
pense of procuring another legal
ment authorizing marriage. ThSwUdle*
was discovered not long since in th*
conntv clerk’s office on application of
man to discover when a certain girl bad
married. Her name did not appear on
record, as she had married under Re
name of the former love of the mao.
Wanted to Tramp It.— A good story
is told of a country merchant who agreed
to take a farmer’s oats at forty cents a
bushel if the latter would let him tramp
the measure when filled. The farmer
agreed to it. The buyer paid f<* ixtw
bushels, and the next day he went after
them. The farmer filled the half Mb
el, and then the merchant got ig and
tramped them down. Whereupon the
farmer poured the compressed eats- sate*
the hag. The merchant pretested*, and
demanded that the mewne should be
filled up after tramping. The farmer in
formed him that there was no agreement
of that IBrt, but that he might trtunp>
down the oats to hisheart’s content after
they were measured.