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A WONDERFUL INDIVIDUAL,
A Marvellous Development of
Clairvoyance in Alabama.
Singing Hymns and Delivering Sermons
wails in a Trance-Events Happening
Many Miles off Correctly Described.
(From the Nashville Union.)
In these days of spiritual manifesta
tions and materializations of shadows, it
may be of interest to our readers to learn
there is a first-class medium in the neigh
boring State of Alabama, who far outdoes
all the Fosters. Humes, or Rosses, and
yet claims nothing for his extraordinary
powers but the great misfortune of an at
tack of sickness, that by its peculiar ef
fects upon the brain has enabled him ever
since to, as it wore, disengage liis soul
from his body and send it on an explor
ing expedition. He is an humble minis*
ter of the Cumberland Presbyterian
Church, and always feels humbled and
humilitated after one of his trances. He
is in middle age, and in all respects
healthy. He is a married man, and lives
■in North Alabama, and though we with
hold his name, and a notoriety of this
kind is never grateful to him, we never
theless feel it due to society to tell them
of this extraordinary man, who could, if
he wished it, produce a No. 1 sensation
as a Spiritualist, and vet is content to
pursue his humble path as a Christian,
and not impose his misfortune ou the
■community as a gift.
He had no evidence of unusual powers
until after his youth. Then, after mar
riage, he had a severe attack of fever,
with congestion of the brain, and large
'quantities of quinine were used. So soon
as recovery took place this condition be
gan. He is familiarly known as the
“ sleeping preacher,” and great curiosity
is felt wherever he goes to witness one of
those sleeping performances. We cannot
better describe this peculiarity than re
peat a graphic description given of a ser
mon heard by our informant—one of the
leading ministers of the Cumberland
Presbyterian Church, and a resident of
Will iajnson county :
“ I and my wife were in Mooresville,
Ala., at a protracted meeting, and Mr.
— came to assist. We all felt great
curiosity to see and hear him, having
heard so much about him. He stopped
at Dr. Thaeh’s, we at Miss Waltou’s.
We made Dr. Thacli agree to let us know
if he got into one of his spells. Mr.
preached at nigh a very fair sermon, but
nothing unusual, and his voice was rather
harsh and grating. After the congrega
tion dispersed we were sitting in the
front portico of Miss Walton's house,when
a negro came running toward us, saying
the Doctor had sent for its to hear Mr.
lor, and Mr. was sitting in a rock
ing chair, apparently sound asleep, eyes
■closed, and head resting on back of the
chair,
SINGING IN ANGELIC 'WHISPERS.
He, however, was singing in a low
semitone of voiee a hymn, and while he
sang the room gradually lilled up until
not an inch of space was unoccupied.
His voice had altogether changed from
its usual loud, harsh character, and was
low, soft, and musical to a degree I nev
er heard surpassed. In fact, it reminded
me of angels’ Whispers. And then it had
n tone of inexpressible melancholy about
it that reached the heart of every one
present, and when he ceased to sing there
was scarcely a dry eye in the room. At
the conclusion of his song he began one
of the most feeling, earnest prayers I ev
er heard, and in so piteous, beseeching a
manner that nothing could resist him.
This prepared us to expect some rare
treat, and we were not disappointed. He
took his text from Paul’s letter on faith,
and you know I have heard good preach
ing, but never did I hear his sermon sur
passed. .11 may have been the peculiar
circumstances Under which it was deliv
ered, and the charm that would natural
ly cluster around one in his condition
that added interest to it, but certainly I
never saw a greater effect produced. It
fell as gently and pure as the snow. Still
in the same melodious voice, and the on
ly gesture was the cluck of the fingers
when he wished to emphasize a point.
To say it was eloquent does not express
it. It was simply glorious, chaste and
intellectual. He described faith as a gol
den chain connecting earth and heaven,
and man to his God. He preached thus
for about thirty minutes, when all at once
his face, hitherto calm and unruffled, be
came perfectly livid, his brow corruga
ted, until you could have laid your finger
in the depression, and he clutched his
left side with his right hand as if a vio
lent pain had assailed him. The parox
ysm lasted several minutes, when grad
ually it began to abate, and he exclaim
ed : “Oh ! what are all my sufferings
here, if, Lord, thou find’st me meet?”
And then his brow relaxed, his form
again assumed its easy posture, a sweet
smile passed over his face, and he slept
on quietly and calmly, and the crowd
quietly withdrew from the presence of
tne unconscious preacher.”
When questioned about these somnam
bulistic sermons, he knows nothing about
them ; not even a dream of it has left its
shadowy trace behind. This is not the
only result of his sleep. If he is sitting
by a table writing when this spell comes
on, he continues to write, but not ou the
subject that engaged his thoughts, aud
he awakes to find sometimes the strangest
revelations, one or two of which we have
appended.
FINDING LOST JEWELRY.
Dr. Blake, of our city, has a little
daughter to whom her grandmother had
E resented a golden eagle, and requested
er to have a ring made of it and wear it
in her memory, which the doctor atten
ded to ; but the ring being too large, it
was worn temporarily by her mother.
On one occasion, iu assisting her cook,
she laid the ring down in the kitchen,
and on returning for it an hour or so af
terward, it was gone. Of course all was
distressed ; aud diligent search was made
for it at every possible place, but noth
ing could be found. A few days after
terward, while the family were assembled
at breakfast, and the cook, whom, by the
way, all suspected, was in watingj Dr.
Blake knowing the great superstition ©f
negroes, said to his wife he intended to
write to Mr. , of Alabama, who had
the power of finding stolen things, aud
related several very striking incidents.
The negro listened intently, and at last
seeming to be impressed with a new’idea,
she turned to little son and told him to
look under the window’ where Mrs. Blake
was in the habit of sitting. The boy
went away and soon came back with the
Ting.
A. day or so alter, Dr. B. visited Ala-
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BY T. L. GANTT.
bama on business, and at a depot he met
with M. . After greeting, Mr. B.
said: “ Brother —? —, I made use of your
name to some good purpose the other
day.” “ Yes,” said Mr. ,“ I heard
you.” And then he related to the aston
ished Dr. Blake the whole circumstance,
who gave the ring, who made it, the in
scription on it, its loss and manner of re
covery, even to the complete conversa
tion at the table. He also told Dr. Blake
the whole transaction was on paper, and
had been written by him while in a
trance. Dr. Blake, having never spoken
of the circumstances to any ona, was of
course wonderfully astonished
TELESCOPIC VISION.
One dark, drizzly night Dr. Thach no
ticed him while asleep put his hand to
his eye, making a telescope of it, and ap
pear to look through it at some far dis
tant object. “ What are you looking at,
Doc ?” says the doctor. “ I see a ring.”
“Where?” “In front of the hotel, in
the mud.” The hotel was two hundred
yards away. “ Well, get up and let’s go
to it,” says the doctor. Mr. at once
arose, walked out the door into the dark
ness, and Dr. Thach following him, he
took the centre of the very muddy street,
and Went unhesitatingly to the front door
of the hotel, stooped down and picked
up a gold ring, and handed it to his com
panion. It was down in the mud. At
another time, with the same companion,
he saw some money, and being bid to go
after it, the doctor still following, he
went to a stable lot and picked up a $2
bill. Dr. Thach saw the money as soon
as the other this time, it being light.
He told a friend in one of bis visions
he saw, as if a long while ago, a vessel
with a large quantity of gold on board
and sailing for this country. He saw a
mutiny on board, and the mate and offi
cers murdered. He saw the scoouer run
into the mouth of a certain creek on the
sea shore, and at a certain spot, washed
in a certain way, he saw them remove the
gold to the shore and at the same time
scuttle the vessel. Three men only were
engaged in it, and they buried tlie gold
at a well-marked spot. Here they sepa
rated, and being afraid to come for it,
soon it transpired that they were all three
killed or died, and the gold was left un
disturbed iu its hiding place, and there
it still rests in its bed. “ Why don’t you
go and get it? Would you know the
spot?” “ Yes, I can go there and put
my hand on the box, but it is ill-gotten
gold. It is blood money, and it will car
ry a curse with it.” And no argument
would alter his determination or make
him reveal its hiding place to any one.
IN THE DARK.
He had a daughter attending school
at Dr. Ward’s, in this city. On the
night of the commencement he was in a
trance—we know not what else to call it
—at his far away home in Alabama. All
at once he sprang forward and exclaimed,
excitedly, “ There, we are in the dark.”
His wife said to him he was mistaken,
the light was burning. “Ob ! I mean at
Ward’s. I was attending the examina
tion, and now its all dark.” When his
daughter returned, she told them of the
accident of the gas going out while the
commencement exercises were in progress,
leaving them all in darkness.
He has other and diverse powers. One
day he carried Miss Walton’s mail from
the office. Handing her a letter, he says,
“This is from brother McD.” “No,
this is from his wife. He only backs her
letters for her.” “ No, this is from him,
and he writes to you about so and so”—
and he repeated to her its contents. At
another time he said to his wife :' “ A
letter, directed to me from Nashville,
passed on to-day by mistake, and it con
tained so and so,” and he repeated the
contents of the letter, as was seen on its
return from the other direction. It is
said among his neighbors he can read
any letter through its envelope. The
whole neighborhood apply to him when
anything is lost, and he can always, if
asked while in a trance, anq|rer correctly.
A WONDERFUL INCIDENT.
But the most singular of all his per
formances, and equal to the pretentions
of the best Spiritualists, in the last cir
cumstance we will relate. There are
thousands of others, hut we deem it only
necessary to give a representative leave
in eacli branch of his power. The Meth
odist Conference year has closed, and the
new’ minister of Mooresville had come.
On Saturday Mr. frequently spoke
of his curiosity to hear the new’ preacher.
He was sick all Saturday night, so much
so that he could not sleep. After break
fast, Saturday morning, he told his wife
he would take a nap, and then go to
church. He was sleeping so sweetly at
the regular church hour that his wife
would not wake him. Just as the con
gregation began to pour out he raised up
and his wife said : “ You were sleeping
so soundly I did not disturb you to go to
the Methodist Church, and so you missed
hearing the new preacher.”
“ No, I heard him.”
“ How could you hear him, and I know
you have been asleep all of the time?”
“ Nevertheless I heard him, and to
prove it, I will show you.”
And he wrote down at once a text di
vided into various heads and made a syn
opsis of the sermon, giving the leading
arguments. This was shown that even
ing to the Methodist minister and others,
and they all recognized it as almost the
literal sermon.
It is said that if asked where any miss
ing article or property is while in his
trance, he at once sees it and is able to
tell its precise location. A boy stole
his wife’s breastpin, and on being in
formed of its loss, Mr. , without any
hesitation, named the party who had it,
and it was recovered.
How can these things be ? That they
are so is unquestionable, as Drs. Provine,
Baird, aud Blake will testify, but how
they are so puzzles the scientific mind.
Mr. scouts the idea of spirits aiding
him, and will not, under any circumstan
ces, receive money for any information,
nor will he give the information, if
asked for it, at any other time except
while under the influence of hie epileptic
or cataleptic exacerbation.
Flize.— l hate a fii, a fli ain’t got no
manners. He ain’t no gentleman. He
is an introoder ; don’t send in no kard,
nor ax an iutroduckshun nor don’t knock
at the front door and Jie never thinks of
taking off his hat. Fust you kno he is in
bed with you and up your noz; what they
want there is a mysterry ; and he invites
hisself to breakfast and sits down in
your butter thout brushing his pants. I
hate a fli. Darn a fli. —Josh Billings.
—ln Wyoming Territory there is a
barroom to .every 180 inhabitants.
CRAWFORD, GEORGIA, FRIDAY MORNING, OCTOBER 8, 1875.
THINGS IN GENERAL.
—Louisiana has 52,000 Baptists.
—Bismarck’s head has but three hairs.
—The insurgents in Cuba roast child
ren alive.
—There are 8,000 drinking saloons in
New York city.
—Louisiana’s new census shows 20*000
more colored residents than whites.
—“ Queery—Has any physician ever
seen or treated a bald-headed consump
tive ?”
—Detective Pinkerton has expended
SIB,OOO trying to find Charley Ross, and
still he is at it.
—New York has contributed $3,808
for the Texas sufferers. Boston sent
$5,000 several days ago.
—The greatest depth of the Pacific
Ocean, as found by the British ship
Challenge, was about five miles.
—A Nashville boy is said to have en
graved the Declaration of Independence
in red ink on a piece of parchment of the
size of a silver dollar.
—For a fit of idleness—Count the tick
ing of a clock ; do this for an hour, and
you will be glad to pull off your coat the
next day and work like a negro.
—Twenty cigars a head is the number
annually manufactured for every man,
woman, and child iu the United States.
Fort\ r years ago two was the allowance.
—Last Saturday Mrs. Ebenezer Dins
more, of Weathersfield, Vt., being re
fusediby her husband the privilege of
attending a circus, poisoned herself and
her three children.
—There is a pond near Watch Hill,
Rhode Island, the bottom of which the
longest sounding lines have never suc
ceeded in finding, and which is popular
ly supposed to be fathomless.
—A Weaverville, Cal., butcher, while
dissecting a beef’s liver a few days ago,
found an Indian arrowhead in a well
preserved state, that had, to all appear
ances, been imbedded in the liver for a
long time.
—Lautenschlieger, a St. Paul murder
er under sentence of death, was on Mon
day allowed to visit his house to see the
body of his child that had died sudden
ly. He was heavily shacked, and under
a strong guard.
—A man seventy years old is to be
hanged at Cleburne, Texas, on the first
Friday in October. Determined to make
the most of his opportunity, he has asked
for three hours iu which to deliver a
speech on the gallows.
—Westervelt wept when they pro
nounced him guilty, and poor Mr. Ross
wept that the whereabouts of his little
boy had not been revealed. Surely the
innocent and guilty of this world are
ever weeping together.
—They are very much blessed with
snakes in Dallas county, Texas. In one
bed chamber there, since last spring,
they have killed one rattlesnake of five
feet, three tarantulas, and one long fel
low, simply described as a serpent.
Some demons in human shape, after
the disaster in Indinola, “ prowled about
among the dead, rilling the bodies of
whatever valuables were discovered.
Fingers and hands were cut off by these
marauders, in order to possess themselves
of the rings upon the fingers.”
—A marriage ceremony was performed
at Sebec, Maine, the other evening, unit
ing two who had previously been di
vorced. The bride is reported to have
been married twice since her divorce
from her present husband. Husband
No. 2 was divorced and No. 3 died, and
so No. 1 takes the place of No. 4, and
concludes to try it again.
—Ruth Currier, of Hallowell, Mo., re
cently brought suit for divorce, alleging
her husband’s adultery, and he retorted
with a similar suit. The truth of both
libels was sustained, but, as the Maine
law denies a divorce when the adultery
of both parties is proved, the husband
had to withdraw his suit in order to un
tie the knot.
—The aeronaut had a little son eight
years old, whom he put in the basket
and told to wait a minute while he
looked to the ropes. The little son,
however, drew’ a knife, cut the ropes,
and went up alone. Though this hap
pened in France, it is believed that he
has gone to meet Donaldson, nothing
having since been heard of him or his
air-bag.
—Mrs. Robert Taylor, living near
Greenville, Va., has been iusane for some
time past; but lately, complaining of a
pane in her head, she drove a large nail
into it. She concealed the fact for some
days, and when it was discovered the
doctor had great difficulty in getting the
nail out; but Mrs. Taylor’s mind has
been entirely restored by this extraordi
nary operation.
—A horrible incident occurred recent
ly near Falmouth, Jamaieai A w’hite
man and his wife having had differences
resolved to separate, and a judicial order
to that effect was obtained. A dispute
arose as to the custody of their youngest
child, aud this one day w r as followed by
a scuffle. Each seized the infant and
attempted to drag it from the other, and
in the stuggle they actually tore the child
in pieces, killing it.
—Mr. Slusher, the largest man ever
born in Tennessee, died at Greenville, in
that State last Friday. He was but nine
teen years of age, and, had he not been
bent by an attack of rheumatism, would
have been nine feet high. His boot was
18 inches long, and one of his hands
was about the size of four ordinary ones.
He could sit on a chair and pick up
anything three feet from him. His
head measured about 14 inches, and his
chest 7% feet in circumference. His
coffin was 8J feet long, 28 inches wide,
and 2 h feet deep.
—Upon the land of Mr. Webb, of Ma
son county, W. TANARUS., is a cedar tree which
is forty-feet above the ground. This tree
has been burnt out by the fire, leaving a
hollow in it into which five men on
horseback might ride and remain at oim
time with ease and comfort. Near this
monarch of the forest is another one, also
a cedar, which seems to have been blown
down by the wind, and is burnt out like
the other, within whose old, charred walls
ten men on horseback might at one time
find comfortable shelter. California is
not the only place were big trees may be
found.
DEVILTRIES.
—A Brooklyn church has canary birds
in the choir.
—A number seven hat will just fit a
St. Louis mosquito bite.
—The good little bootblack’s epitaph—
Gone to shine among the angels.
—Women think all men are thieves.
Well, they may rob them even of their
names.
—Contentment is said to be better
than riches, but the latter is good enough
for this man.
—Mary had a little lamp,
’Twas filled with kerosene,
And Mary down the chimney blew,
And left this earthly scene.
—An Ohio boy swallowed four or five
of the wheels of an eight-day clock, and
he has kept the whole family running
ever since.
—A Maine woman dreamed that her
sister was run over by a railroad train,
and the next morning learned that she
had twins.
—A maiden’s heart is like a hotel bed
—you may never discover the previous oc
cupant, but you may be sure there has
been one.
—Hold up now ! Let’s get that name
in full : Greene Shadrach Washington
Lewis, colored member of the Alabama
Convention.
—There are said to be more than
2,000,000 Williams in the United States,
to say nothing of several hundred thou
sand spurious Bills.
—Burning gas has been discovered is
suing from a newly-sunk meneral well
at Round Lake. And the camp-meeting
isn’t in session either.
—“ What substitute can there be for
the endearments of one’s sister ?” asked
Mary. “ The endearments of some oth
er fellow’s sister,” replied John.”
—“ Who would have thought they
would take to lacing around the hips?”
remarked a countryman in astonishment
this noon, as a “pin-back” lady passed
him on the street.
—“Ef county fairs is goin’ to do-agri
cultur’ enny good,” says a Long Island
farmer, “ keep out the wimrniu. Them
pull-backs get a man’s eye so sot that he
can’t see nothin’ else.”
—Rev. Gent.—“ But you really can
have no serious reason to wish to be par
ted from your wife?” Rustic—“ Well,
no, sir. I like my wife well enough, but
you see, she don’t please mother.”
—“ Only a woman’s hair,” remarked
Spivens, musingly, as he gazed down in
to his plate—a “ red headed woman at
that! It may be very sentimental, but it
somehow does away with my appetite !”
—The newspapers state that a well
known banker of Paris has absconded,
leaving a deficit behind. Mrs. Parting
ton thinks that it is very good of the poor
man to leave it, when he might have got
oft’with everything.
—“ It is astonishing,” says an ex
change, “ what short dresses are worn
over those sloostockings.” Astonishing
indeed. So sensationally astonishing as
to inspire a hope that high-priced under
garments will never get higher.
—A Cincinnati corpse rose in its coffin
and quietly remarked : “ I feel very
queer.” The two young men who were
sitting up with it had important business
down town the next moment, and did
not hesitate to pass out through the win
dow to it, either.
—Two Fergus Falls (Minn.) men, driv
ing behind a team of mules, discovered a
glitter on the hoof of one of them, ex
amined it and found a gold ring, which
he had stepped on and secured with the
cork of his shoe.—[Romance set afloat by
a designing Coroner.]
—Said a distinguished politician to
his son : “ Look me ! I began as an al
derman, and here I am at the top of the
tree; and what is my reward? Why,
when I die, my son will be the greatest
rascal in the city.” To this the young
hopeful replied : “ Yes, dad, when you
die—but not till then.”
“ Job printing!” exclaimed an old lady,
the other day, as she peeped over her
spectacles at the advertising page of a
country paper. “Poor Job! they’ve
kept him printing, week after week, ever
since I larnt to read ; and if he wasn’t
the patientest man that ever was, he nev
er could have stood it so long, no how !”
—“ Tommy, my son, what are you go
ing to do with that club ?” “ Send it to
the editor, of course.” “ But what are
you going to send it to the editor for ?”
“ Cause he says if anybody will send him
a club, he will send them a copy of his
paper.” The mother came pretty near
fainting, but retained consciousness
enough to ask : “ But, Tommy, dear,
what do you suppose he wants with a
club ?” “ Well, I don’t know,” replied
the hopeful urchin, “unless it is to knock
down subscribers as don’t pay for their
papers.”
—Last night, as a frisky colored youth
was walking up Clay street, in Vicks
burg, he was accosted by a colored, ac
quaintance, who remarked : “ Well,
Brutus, dey say you iz in love ?” “ I iz,
Uncle Abra’m—l don’t deny dealledged
allegation.” “ And how does you feel,
Brutus?” “You have stuffed your el
bow agin a post or sumthin’ else afore
now, hasn’t you. Uncle Abra’m ?” “ I
reckon.” “ And you remembers de
feelin’ dat runs up yer arm ?” “ I dose.”
“ Well, take dat feelin’, add a hundred
per cent., mix it wid de nicest ha’r oil in
town, sweeten wid honey, and den you
kin ’magiue how I feel!”
—“ Pears ter me, Pete,” remarked Si,
as the two stood in front of the shop, di
viding a nickels’ worth of tobacco,
“ pears ter me dat de bottom rail is rid
in’ de fence now! ’Tain’t like t’ings
used to wuz when Bullick and all de ud
der ’p’blikins was shassavin’ ’round
hyar I” “ I wuz pesterin’ of myself las’
nite ’bout dat, too, Pete! De nigger
isn’t sich a big elemphint in de p’liter
kil sicberwashun, fur a fack.” “ Yaas ;
de dimmycrats is scoopin’ up de ’pub
lick’us all de time now, 'an’ it’s ’bout
time fur de niggers to change kvars,
kase de ole train is gittin’ switched off
on de side track to stay dar.” “ I t’ink
so, too, kase dere isn’t but one squad o’
radikils in offis now—dem’s de not’ry
publickins—and I’m t’inking dat dey
hab to take down dere tin sines arter der
next ’leekshun.” “ Looks moughtly dat
way,” said Si, as he wandered off.
SCATTER SEEDS OF KINDNESS.
Let us gather up the sunbeams
Lying all around our path
Let us keep the wheat and roses
Casting oui the thorns and chaff;
Let us find our sweetest comfort
In the blessing of to-day,
With the patient hand removing
All the Driers from the way.
Then scatter seeds of kindness,
For our reaping by and by.
Strange we never prize the music
Till the sweet-mouthed bird hath flown ;
Strange that we should slight the violets
Till the lovely flowers are gone ;
Strange that summer skies and sunshine
Never seem one-half so fair
As when winter’s snowy pinions
Shake the white down in the air.
Then scatter seeds of kindne.'S,
For our reaping by and by.
If we knew the baby fingers,
Pressed against the window-panes,
Would he eold and stiff to-morrow,
Never trouble us again,
Would the bright eyes of our darling
Catch the frown upon our brow ?
Would the print of rosy fingers
Vex us then as they do now ?
Then scatter seeds of kindness,
For our reaping by and by.
Ah ! those little ice-cold fingers,
How they point our memories hack
To the hasty words and actions .
Strewn along life’s backward track !
How those little h-' nds remind us,
As in snowy grace they lie,
Not to scatter thorns, but kindness,
For our reaping by and by.
Then scatter seeds of kindness,
For our reaping by and by.
Lips from which the seal of silence
None but God can roll away,
Never blossomed of such beauty
As adorns the mouth to-day;
And sweet words that freight our way
With their beautiful perfume
Come to us in sweetest accents
Through the portals of the tomb.
Then scatter seeds of kindness,
For our reaping by and by,
Accident to Pilgrims.—A frightful
catastrophe has befallen a large party of
pilgrims to the Mahalingam shrine on
the Tinnevelly frontier in India. They
were camped in the dry bed of a torrent
at the base of the shrine one Sunday
evening. Thousands, of men, women,
aud children were talking, or eating, or
dancing in the sandy bed ; hundreds of
sheep and fowls, brought up to be sacri
ficed, stood in mournful groups, each
awaiting its turn. At five o’clock there
was a heavy shower of rain, but the mul
titude stirred not; ten minutes later the
hitherto dry bed was full, and the freshet
rushed down head-long, carrying those
who, notwithstanding all their frantic ef
forts to gain the bank, could not force
their way through the crowd. The wa
ter did not gradually rise, else the peo
ple would have escaped ; but a wall of
water came down unexpectedly, and ren
dered any attempt of their rear ranks to
go in the store problematical. In half
an hour the water had fallen considerably,
and one hour after the eatastophe there
was no water iu the bed, only the surface
was wet aud slippery. Many dead bodies
intercepted by roots and bushes were
picked up. Some were found jammed
between stones; and only a very few
of the ill-starred lot saved themselves
by catching a friendly bough. It is be
lieved that over 200 men, women, and
children must have perished.
Watching One’s Self. —“ When I
was a boy,” said an old man, “ we had a
schoolmaster who had an odd way of
catching the idle boys. One day he
called out to us : ‘ Boys, I must have
closer attention to your books. The first
one that sees another idle I want you to
inform me, and I will attend to the
case.”
“ ‘Ah !’ thought I to myself, ‘there is
Joe Simmons, that I don’t like. I’ll
watch him, and if I see him look off his
book I’ll tell.’
“It was not long before I saw Joe
look off his book, and immediately I in
formed the master.
“ ‘ Indeed,’ said he, ‘and how do you
know he was idle ?’
“ ‘ I saw him,’ said I.
“‘You did? And were your eyes on
your book when you saw him ?’
“ I was caught, and never watched for
idle boys again.”
If we are sufficiently watchful over
our own conduct, we shall have little
time to find fault with the conduct of
others.
The Coming Fashions. —The old fo
gies who have groaned as they saw their
wives and daughters shrink before their
eyes from the full proportions of the
hoop-skirt of twelve or fifteen years ago,
to the present skimped “tie-back” skirt,
will now have anew grievance. The
Paris fashion makers are about to intro
duce geometrical, zoological and floral
designs on dresses, and Mrs. Grundy will
presently appear in a brocade gown
sprinkled profusely with lions, tigers,
panthers, griffins, monsters and chimeras
dire. The mother of a family will pre
sent rather a startling spectacle to her
younger children, arrayed in such a
dress, or another, “exquisitely pretty,”
in which various insects are introduced.
But this new mode will enable careful
mammas to unite self-gratification with
the instruction of their children, by il
lustrating their dresses with objects nat
ural and artificial, and making a bind of
kindergarten of themselves.
A Fountain of Death. —On Nebow
Ridge, in this county, about four miles
from Jacktown, and on the farm be
longing to Henry Miller, there is what
is called the gas spring. This is prob
ably the greatest curiosity in Pennsyl
vania. The water is cold, but bubbles
and foams as if boiling, but the great
est wonder is the inevitable destruction
of life produced by inhaling the gas.
No living thing is to be found within
a circuit of 100 yards of the spring.
The very birds, if they happen to fly
over it, drop dead. We experimented
with a snake of the copper head variety
on its destructive properties by holding
it a few feet above the water. It stretched
out dead in two minutes. It will kill a hu
man being in twenty minutes. We stood
over it about five minutes, when a dull,
heavy, aching sensation crept over us,and
our eyes began to swim. The gas which
escapes here is of the rankest kind of car
bonic acid.
—Squirrels do not open their eyes un
til 42 days after birth.
—Orthodox Jews will have only six
teen working days this month.
—A cannon has been cast in Russia
weighing 40 tons and costing $65,000.
VOL. II—NO. 1.
•A. Wonderful Crop of Potatoes.
[Coventry (England) Standard.]
An extraordinary instance of the re
markably productive qualities of some
of the American varieties of potatoes has
occurred in the gardens at Capesthorne,
the seat ot W. Bromley-Davonport, Esq.,
M. P.
In the spring of the present year the
gardener (Mr. F. Ford) purchased two
new varieties of American potatoes (one
named Snowflake, the other Eureka)
from Messrs. Hooper and Cos., of Convent
Garden, liondon. One pound of each
was weighed and planted on the 13th of
April in the presence of Mr. T. Holmes,
schoolmaster, Siddington, and Mr. Pirie,
gardener to Lord Stanley of Alderley.
Snowflake being the earliest potato of the
two, was lifted on the 13th of August, in
the presence of the above mentioned
Messrs. Pirie and Holmes and a number
of tenants on Mr. Davenport's estate,
among whom was Messrs. Shufliebottom,
Walker, Edwin, and James Jesson, who
also assisted at the weighing of the pota
toes, when it was found that one pound
of Snowflake had produced the surpri
sing weight of G3B lbs. This was con
sidered by all present a most wonderful
crop, and unless a sufficient number of
trustworthy witnesses bad been present
no doubt it would scarcely have been be
lieved ; but what followed was still more
wonderful, for on lifting Eureka in the
following week, in the presence of nearly
all of the above mentioned gentlmen,and
also of Mr. Knight, gardener to Captain
Dixon, of Artie, it was ascertained that
pound of Eureka, had produced 1,0821
lbs. This is the greatest weight recor
ded as having been grown from otie
pound of seed, and exceeds by 641 lbs.
the greatest weight raised by the Ameri
cans in their potato trial last year, when
H. C. Pearson, of Pitcairn, N. Y., head
ed the list with 1,018 lbs. Snowflake is
a very handsome potato, but appears to
suffer severely from the disease which is
so prevalent just now. Eureka is not
so good-looking as the above, but produ
ces immense potatoes—3oo tubers selec
ted from the 10821 lbs. weighs 3691 lbs.
The Wrong Kind of Shirt.
It was a respectable looking colored
mau who brought his washing home.
“Your wife is a good washerwoman,
isn’t she ?” said the young bachelor to
the polite and obsequious man.
“ Yaas, sir; she commonly always
gives satisfaction,” replied the husband
of laundress.
“ Well,” resumed the young bachelor,
in his blandest and most insinuating
manner, “you can tell your wife that I
esteem her very highly as one possessing
womanly and Christian qualities—a do
mestic household ornament —an exem
plary Christian—a gentle, loving wife —
a washerwoman among 10,000 and alto
gether lovely ; but there’s one objection.”
“ What’sdat, sar,” inquired the smil
ing African who had been showing two
rows of spotless ivory and a cavernous
opening of the head while his wife was
being so extravagantly eulogized.
“ What dat’s boss ?”
“She puts all the starch in my socks,
and none in my shirts; she washes or
irons all the buttons off, and forgets to
replace them ; exchanges my clothes for
those of some other patron, and if you’ll
look at this (holding up a garment,) you
will see how inconvenient it would be to
wear either pantaloons, cuffs or collars
with such as she sends me. It may be
that site cuts off the arms and collar
to make the tail longer, but I can’t see
why the deuce she should want to ruf
fle the edges!”
The darkey looked a little disgusted
as he wrapped the garment up to take
home, and he only said: “ Idea sendin’
a man dat kind o’ shirt.— Vicksburg
Herald.
A WONDEREULi PIECE OF WORK BY
an Old Lady. —Among the many
works of art and skill on exhibition at
the Washington County Fair, last week,
was one which is worthy of more than
a passing notice. It consisted of a mag
nificent piece of worsted work, repre
senting the death of George Douglass,
in the battlefield, after aiding Mary
Queen of Scots to escape from Lochle
vin Castle. Its dimensions were six by
four feet, and it was the handiwork of
Mrs. Reach, an old lady of Sandy
Hill, aged seventy, whose husband was
killed in the war of 1812. She was
eighteen months, working ten hours
per day, in performing the labor upon
the above scene. It contains twenty
figures of men, women and horses, and
1,857,000 stitches. The whole is mount
ed in a beautiful frame which cost $l4O,
and, at a short distance, can hardly be
distinguished from an oil painting. The
value of the picture, considering the
amount of material used and labor tan
ployed upon it, it is estimated at over sl,-
500, and Mrs. Reach expdfcts to realize
that amount for it. — Troy Prats.
A Snake with Ears. —S. R. T.
writes to the Eagle as follows from
Robeson township : “On Friday last
a large black snake known as the swamp
species was killed about one mile and
a half from Beckersville, seven miles
below Reading, by Elharmon Hauser,
who was cutting wood on the hill. Mr.
Hauser was told by a bov that a snake
was in the road near him, when Mr.
H. took a large pole and killed the
reptile. It measured four feet four
inches. When the snake was examin
ed, it was found to have two ears,
about two inches apart, three inches
and a half from the back part of the
mouth. The ears are about a half inch
in length, and the shape of a rabbit’s.
Mr. Hauser skinned the snake, and
will have the skin stuffed, as it is the
first that we have ever heard of
having ears. It will be taken to Read
ing.”
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points iD Tennessee, Arkansas, Missouri, Mift
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address Albert B. Weesx, General Kail
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No one should go West without first getting
in communication with the General li. R.
Agent, and become informed as to superior
advantages, cheap and quick transportation of
families, household goods, stock, and farming
implements generally. All information cheer
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For Bargains in Checks, Stripes, Shar
ings, Ticking, and anything else in his line,
all on R S. Martin. Remember the place.
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MISCELLANEOUS.
WM. WALSMAN,
Fashionable Tailor,
Would respectfully inform the public, and
his old friends of Oglethorpe and Elbert, thajt
he is now located on Olavton street, Athens, ‘
Ga., and is fully prepared to do work in his
usual satisfactory manner. scp3-tf
T. R. & W. CHILDERS,
Carpanters and Builders,
ATHENS, - - - - GEORGIA,
Are prepared to do all manner of work in
their line in the best manner. Parties in
Oglethorpe wishing building done will save
money by addressing them. " nov27-ly
Fine Boots & Shoes
HENRY LUTHI,
ptRAWFOIU), GA., IS NOW PREPARED
V ' to make, at short notice, the FINEST
HOOT’S and SHOES. 1 use only the best
material, and warrant my work to give entire
satisfaction, both as to finish and wear.
REPAIRING AND COARSE WORK also
attented to. oetS-ly
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HERE THE CITIZENS OF OGLETHORPE
will alway find the Cheapest and
Best Stock of
FANCY GOODS, LIQUORS,
GROCERIES, LAMPS, OIL, Etc.
J. M. BARRY. Broad Str., Athens, 6a.
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ROAN HOUSE,
LEXINGTON, GA.
rnilK UNDERSIGNED HAS OPENED A
1 Hotel in Lexington, Ga., and is now pre
pared to entertain the traveling public in a
hospitable manner. The beds are comforta
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market affords. />.'*' A No. l STABLE in
connection with the Hotel, where stoek wilt
receive good attention.
Don’t forget to stop at the Roan House, on
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In the United States.
Buy your Tickets in Athens, and get all
information from
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Go to Davis’ Gallery,
IN ATHENS,
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PRICES. Also, a large stock of
SMOKING AND CHEWING 1
TOBACCO,
SNUFF, GENUINE MEERCHAUM PIPES
AND ALL SMOKERS’ ARTICLES.
A liberal discount allowed to Jobbers buy
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Under Newton House, Athens, Ga.
JOHN T. M. BAll
Lexington, Ga.,
DEALER IN ALL KINDS OF MER
CHANDISE. Will sell CHEAP as the
CHEAPEST. He has the QCCX of goods
in every line. Be certain DCw I to call,
and examine before purchasing elsewhere.
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Of Clothing.
“Old Ladies’ ” Shoes
A SPECIALTY.
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