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A GEORGIA MYSTERY
HAVE RE SPIRITS AMONG US?
A STARTLING STORY.
We print tbc following precisely as
wo have received it, suppressing at our
friend’s request, the name of the local
ity where the manifestations have
occurred. The story is, to say the
least of it, a startling one, and coming
from any but one whom we have long
known as a gentleman of unimpeach
able veracity, would challenge our
credulity:
C——County Ga., )
Not. ,J2,1872.
'CoL W. T. Thompson:
My Dear Friend : I know that
no excase is necessary for trespassing
‘upon your valuable time from an old
fnend as I am, but I must ask you to
bear patiently with me for indicting
this long letter upon you. The events
related are so astounding, so marvel
ous, that I cannot keep them to myself,
and know of no one more competent
than yourself to give me any reason
able opinion in regard thereto. ’Tis a
trite saying, but experience teaches me
that there is a deal of truth in it, that
“ it never rains but it pours.” Such
seems indeed to be the case. Disaster
follows disaster; mystery is succeeded
by mystery; fortune leads to fortune,
and misfortune doubles ere it is done.
The burning of a steamer at sea, fol
lowed by a Metis disaster on the sound;
the fidliug of a bridge at Richmond is
followed by the falling of the State
house door; the waste places of Chicago
. are not rebuilt when Boston is more
heavily scourged by the same element
' which made Chicago a city of ashes.
And now that the mysterious perform
ance which occurred at the Surrency
dwelling on the M. & B. R. R. have
ceased, come other, and if possible,
more startling developments in a quar
ter many miles removed from the
scene of the former.
Before laying before you the events
which have fallen under my own
observation within the last ten days, it
is necessary for you to know that I am
still a bachelor, and reside in the same
old out-of-the-way place, having built,
however, a new house since you last
visited me. As you are aware, I am
often two weeks without a mail, and
do not keep fully up with tho current
events of the day. Owing to this, it
Saturday, 2d of November, befoie
A heard of the Surrency affair. On
thatj duy I received ray mail, and'at
iri{gtit’was reading the account of it in
the Savannah Morning News, as con
densed from tho '« —,
sitting at the centre table in my sleep
ing room, not doubting hut it was got
ten vp for the special benefit of jour
nalism, as sucli things usually arc, or
as I thought they were. I was amus
ing myself by fancying how many
over credulous fools would be found
rushing to No. (>, M. and B. R. R.,
and returning sold. Being in this
frame of mind, you can easily imagiue
my immense consternation when the
lamp, by the light of which I was
reading, suddenly left my elbow,
traversed the room, and placed itself
ujvin the mantel without any visible
aid whatever.
JIear fiac7i Man's Censure, but Sfyserve Tour Judgment ”
VOL. 1.
ATHENS, GtEORGIA, NOVEMBER 32,1873.
I pulled it off
put on again,
agaii
and the left was
this way, pulling off
id then the other,
only to find the sleeve opposite the one
pulled, back on the arm. I spent
some minutes, when in trying again to
pull off the right sleeve, I found the
coat entirely on me, and all efforts to
remove either sleeve useless. It felt
as if unseen bauds held it firmly on
""" After tiring myself down trying
to pull my coat off, and finding it use
less, I walked to the fire-place and sat
down ujxm a chair, when, in the
twinkling of an eye, coat, pants, vest
and socks were stripped from me, leav
ing my slippers on, and conveyed to the
chair which I had placed for them,
some twelve feet distant.
After a few moments reflection upon
these astounding events, I concluded , ■ . , T -
—1_ a.7— i .» j •• ^ until luesqay morning, when I came
that the only thing I eoald do was
go to bed. and await further devdop-
ments. I went to my bed, turned
down the clothes, and was in the act of
getting in, when my clothing was as
Suddenly and miraculously transferred
upon me, as when taken off. I sat
down by the fireplace again, when
again I was instantaneously disrobed.
After that I sat for a long time wrap-
])ed in wonder at those strange mani
festations—determined not to endeavor
to go to bed that night, but |to sit all
the night, if possible, as 1 was. How
long I had sat there before the strange
act of the night was performed, I do
not know. It could not have been a
great while, however, for I remember
having heard the clock sound the hour
of eleven after having been put in bed.
While sitting in a chair at the opposite
side of the room from my bed, I dis
tinctly felt numberless unseen hands
take hold of me, and I was lifted bod
ily up and carried over the table to
the bed and placed in it, the covering
placed over and tucked around me.
During the whole time my presence of
mind had never left me, and I was as
composed as I am now. I waited
from east to west at the rate of about
twenty revolutions a minute, then stop
ped and commenced spinning the other
commenced spinning
way. Taking advantage of a second
stop, Mr. P. and myself had barely
time to step out when it again started.
We viewed this wonderful perform
ance for fully an hour. The house, L,
chimney, underpinning, and all would
spin rapidly around for three or four
minutes, then change and spin as rap
idly the other way. There were sev
eral trees within a few feet of the walls
or sides of the house, but they seemed
to offer no opposition whatever, but
appeared to go through such portions
of the house with which they came in
contact without opposition or injury.
We did not venture into the house
again, but went back to Mr. Pierce’s
about day-light, where I remained
A TREMENDOUS FISH,’
T
. NO. 9.
<;•
Or a Tremendous Story-Take It or
Leare It.
In 1783 a whaler assured Dr. Swedi-
aur that he had found in the mouth of
a whale a tentacle twenty-seven feet in
length. The report was inserted in a
scientific journal of the day, and there
read by Deny Montfort, who at once
determined to obtain more ample infor
mation on the subject. It so happened
that just then the French Government
had sent for a number of American
whalers, in order to consult with them
as to the best means by which the
French fisheries could be revived.
These men were staying at Dunkirk;
and here Montfort questioned them,
and upon inquiry it was found -that
to this place.' I havenot been to my f wo them had found feelers, or
— —- -i- t —j * A horns, of such monstrous animals.
patiently for further developments,
hut the spirits, or whatever the unseen
power was, seemed satisfied with their
work for the night and I at length fell
asleep.
I was aroused next morning as usual
by my cook knocking at the door for
admittance. I got up, opened the
door and went back to bed. She came
in, built a fire in the stove, put on a
boiler of water, and, as was her custom,
went out to do her milking.^ My
house is a four-roomed, single-story
building witii an L on the east of the
north-half. My sleeping room is the
northwest room ; the room immediate
ly east of that is my dining room, and
the L cast of that is my kitchen. A
short while alter the cook went out I
arose, put on my slippers and dress-
ing-gown, and it being Sunday morn-
ItUT ’_I_ vtrar\ptiki . n dmuA «, .X. LajL
everything 111 readiness except water.
My beard being very hard, it is with
great difficulty that 1 can shave myself
without warm water, so I took my
mug and went through the dining-room
into the kitchen to get some. There
was a hot fire in the stove, and I
place since, nor do I intend to go nntu
informed by my “ spirit” picture that
it will be safe for me to do so. Need
I say that I confidently look for Lydia
to come and tell me when to return.
This, my friend, is the whole story.
I have only to add, that from couriers
sent me every day I learn that mani
festations still continue at my house,
though less violent in character. I do
not attempt an explanation of these
things. I only give the facts, and I
submit these facts to you, because you,
above all men, know me, and will not
doubt my story. You have also seen
much of the world; have been
strange places and seen strange sights,
and I know of no one better able to
give me a theory which will account
for these strange performances. In
regard to publishing them, I have only
to say that you can do as seemeth best.
If you think they would be of any n
terest to the public you can use them,
aud have my consent to publish my
name in full. I conset to the publish
ing of my name because those who see
it and know me will not doubt that I
believe I saw these things at least. My
place of residence and the point from
which this is written you would, if you
desire to publish, oblige me by sup
pressing, as I have no desire to be
annoyed by “ reviewers,” or to have
my premises overrun by a curiosity
hunting public. Should this ever eiid
and you desire to know its termination,
you have only to make the request.
Sincerely your friend,
John W. Blackwell.
MIT AND HUMOR.
Why is a newspaper like an army ?
Because it has leaders, columns, and
reviews.
Some women have no memory.
When they want to remember a thing,
they should write it down, and.stick it
0U A' 1 —,—Ujattoerhig flesh, and holding* the two
P'T* 1
frankly says, 1
taken a bottle
If I was surprised at this perform
anee I was still more surprised when
the lamp returned. Not alone, how
ever, for with it came the picture of
Miss Lydia E. I*., to whom, if you
rememlier, I was engaged when she
died, a little over twenty-five years
-ago. The picture—an old-fashioned
sun picture—came from the mantel
and placed itself or was placed by
some unseen agency, open before me,
when it commenced to make signs to
me with its right hand, the left one in
the picture, however, which 1 perfectly
understood. I have since learned that
they are the identical signs used for
the letters of the alphabet by mutes,
ho knowledge of which I previously had,
nor have now, but which I then under
stood as : readily as I do the English
language. And I am confident that
the picture in life had no knowledge of
them. To one who did not know me
I would not make this statement.
But to you, who know me so well, I
do so without the fear of exciting even
an incredulous smile. ’Tis a plain,
unvarnished statement. The picture
made signs so rapidly that the eye
could follow them only with great diffi
culty. Yet my eyes did follow them,
aud, as before stated, although I had
no previous knowledge of their mean'
iug, I interpreted them without diffi
culty, nor lost their slighest meaning.
The substance of the information
imparted was that the iady, whose pic
ture has been making the signs, or
rather her spirit, was my guardian
angel, ami had watched over me from
e time ot her death. Her task, if
such it coul 1 bi called, had not been
w.thout its care., for she had to defend
me from the influence of certain evil
spirits, among them onr old school-boy
enemy, Tom B , who were deter-
umei, it possible, to accomplish my
, U1 ?' ^at time she had reasons
.? fY ~** r temporary supremacy, ai
i ltu |. tauguec] numerous other evL
Ini., 1 ( lcm am l were even then
f J "Jfhwg my house. She then
* . ,no that she would do her
» protect me, but told me if I
i > lHod too severely to go to the
muse of my friend Mr. It., from which
now \vritc, and to remain there until
". e 106 to return to my home.
noticed that the room was unpleasantly,
indeed, oppressively hot; I hurried to
the stove, took the lid from the boiler
and dipped the mug in to get the warp
water, when I found that the water in
the boiler, which was sitting on a stove
almost red-hot, and had been for some
time, was completely frozen. I went
from the kitchen, and after getting
some cold water, went through the
motion of shaving with my soap, brush
and mug perpetually bouncing up and
down before me, and books, chips,
bricks, brushes, combs, flitting through
the room in all conceivable directions.
After a while my cook, who had return
ed from the cow-lot to get breakfast,
came into the room with dilated eyes
and an expression of horror on her
face. Her tale was that although she
had a good fire in the stove nothing
would cook. She could not bake, fry
or broil, and to use her words, “the
water had all gone to ice over a blazing
fire.” I treated the matter as lightly
as possible, and told Aunt Peggy to
take the breakfast to her own house,
about thirty yards off, and prepare it.
She did so, and in due time I was
asked into the dining-room to break
fast. I never want such a meal again.
Nails, pin9, pebbles, sand, gravel and
every conceivable thing of the kind
"fell into my plate, as soon as I had put
food on it; and among other things
there fell into my plate a plain gold
ring, with the initials “ToL. E. P.
from J. W. B., 1840,” which I imme
diately recognized as the engagement
ring I had given the original of the
picture, and which had been lost for
twenty-five years, or since the lady's
death, she having died in October,
1847.
Ben. Johnson saw one in the mouth of
a whale, from which it hung to the
length of thirty-five feet; and Reyn
olds another, floating on the surface of
the sea, forty-five feet long, and of
reddish brown color. But of all re
ports which he heard, the following
was the most minute, and yet also the
most extraordinary:
Captain John Magnus Deus, a Dan
ish sailer of high character and estab
lished uprightness, deposed that, after
having made several voyages to China
in the service of the Gottenberg com
pany, he had once found himself be
calmed in the fifteenth degree of south
latitude, at some distance from the
coast of Africa, abreast of St. Helena
and Cape Nigra. Taking advantage
of his forced inactivity, he had determ
ined to have his ship cleaned and scrub
bed thoroughly, and for that purpose
a few plants were suspended on the
side of the vessel, on which the sailors
could stand while scrubbing and caulk
ing the ship.
They were busy with their work,
when suddenly an anchor roll—so the
Danes call the animal—rose from the
sea, threw one of its arms around two
of the men, tore them with a jerk from
the scaffolding, and sank out of sight
in a moment. Another feeler appear
ed, however, and tried to grasp a sailor
who was in the act of ascending the
mast. Fortunately, the man could
hold on to the rigging, and as the long
feeler became entangled in the ropes he
was enabled to escape, though not with
out utterly most fearful cries.
These brought the whole crew to his
assistance. They quickly snatched up
harpoons, cutlasses, and whatever they
could lay their hands on, and threw
them at the body of the animal, while
others set to work cutting the gigantic
feeler to pieces and carrying the poor
man to his berth, who had swooned
from T 4«*tmTpodhs tn
reunion
and enr”
IC.—It appears there
society organized in
The society had its annual
!W days ago, heard reports,
1 more members. Ladies;
to join this delectable or
ganization! and some of them joined.
After theiflair was over, the constitu
tion and tjr-laws were for the first time
made puilitf in the columns of the
newspaper.. It appears from these
that tho t jjects of the society are to
prevent he u-punching, and bring about
a general reform in the manner of con
ducting stx set fights. Biting is substi
tuted for bows as a reform.
recommended to be attack-
are the ears, noses and
is hoped that these tactics
' *ly carried out, finally do
*ms and fightings. The
proffldeoff »f the society, m his annual
address, gave much hope of success,
although he had not been able to do
much during the year by the way of
example. His record was one paltry
nose for a whole year. He had, how-
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into his family, and, as he himself
hailed from Tipperary, he was naturally
ith
bound to argue with the new comer
over the relative merits of Limerick
and Tipperary men, and there was no
telling what these discussions might
some day lead to,
He made no rash promises, as his
relative-in-law was a peaceable man;
but he had hopes, strong hopes, by the
next annual gathering he would pro
bably be able to give a better account
of himself. Strangely enough, the pro
ceedings of this meeting were through
out harmonious, and ended with a
feast, at which there was no distur
bance.
After the baby has
of it, will never cry
any more.”
A Leavenworth editor sat down in
a reserved seat already occupied by a
hornet He stands up when scissoring
his editorials, now.
A schollar in one of Danbury’s
schools being asked a rather difficult
question, hammered at it for a vyhile
without success, and then pettishly
inquired, “ Am I hot or cold ?” A
moment later, he was quite hot.
Shocking Waste of Money.—It
has been calculated by a Missouri leg
islator that the cost o'f supporting the
dogs in this country would—if applied
to that humane purpose—purchase
] ,343,000 cocktails annually.
A Connecticut paper says: “At
present, two-thirds of the population of
Peduenoc pass Sunday fishing for
muskrats with shot-guns. This is the
way the other third knows when Sun
day comes.
“ Here, waiter!” said a gentleman,
as he was about leaving a hotel, “ here
is twenty-five cents for you. I give it
to you beceuse you have attended to
fire so well.” “Thanks, your
And telhft^ foe never to scoff at spirit
I was tried so severely that morning
that I determined not to remain
another night under my own roof
alone. I rode over to my neighbor’s,
Mr. Cromwell W. Pierce, a bachelor
like myself, to dinner, and after telling
ray adventures and being laughed at
for having been drunk, crazy, and the
like, I bantered him to return and
spend the night with mo, which he
readily consented to do. We arrived
at my place a little after sunset, and
found the candles lighted and su
ready. Nothing unusual occurrec
about nine o’clock, when, as my friend
and I were sitting by the table reading,
our books were violently snatched from
bauds and thrown with great
my
honor ! may you live long, and may I
have the making of your fires here
after!”
A lady, who asserts that her opin
ion is based upon a close observance,
says that men, as a rule, regard their
wives as angels for just two months,
namely—a month before marrying
her, and a month after burying her.
A good many reasons have been
given why a ship is, by common con
sent, designated as of the feminine
gender. Another has just turned up.
No, it isn’t because she is in stays, nor
anything of the kind. It is because so
much attention has to be paid to her
rigging-
“Madame!” saida French priest
to a free-thinking lady, in a railway
carriage, who persisted in annoying
allusions, “ you assert to know the
Bible from cover to cover; I wish,
then, to imitate Balaam, who remain
ed silent when his traveling companion
spoke.”
A strong-minded woman in Detroit
made the following gentle reply to a
politician who had called at her house
to get her husband to go to the polls.
“ No sir, he can’t go! He’s washing
now, and he’s got to iron tomorrow;
and if he wasn’t doing anything he
couldn’t go. I run this ere house, I
do, and if anyone votes it 11 be this
same, Mary Jane.
men still in its hug^rms, endeavored
to sink; but the crew, encouraged by
their captain, did their utmost to hold
on to the lines to which the harpoons
were fastened.
Their strength was, however, not
sufficient to struggle with the marine
giant, anil all they could do was to
make fast the lines to the ship, and to
wait until the forces of the enemy
should be exhausted. Four of the
ropes snapped, one after the other, like
mere threads, and then the harpoon of
the fifth tore out of the body of the
monster with such violence that the
ship was shaken from end to end.
Thus the animal escaped, with its two
victims. The whole crew remained
overcome with amazement; they had
heard of these monsters, but never be
lieved in. their existence; and here,
before their own eyes, two of their
comrades had been torn from their side,
and the third, overcome with fright,
died the same night in delirium.
The feeler which had been separated
from the body, remained on board as
an evidence that the whole had not
been a frightful dream ; it measured
at the base as many inches as their
ill twenty-five feet
long, and at the end provided with a
number of suckers, each as large as a
ipoon. Its full size must have been
iar greater, however, as only port of it
had been cut off, the animal never even
raising its head above the surface. The
captain, who had witnessed the whole
scene, aud had himself thrown one of
the harpoons, ever afterward consider
ed this encounter the most remarkable
event of his checkered life, and calmly
asserted the existence of the kraken.—
“ Odd Fish,” in Dublin University
Magazine.
Killing Criminals Scientifical
ly.—Dr. Paul F. Eve, of Nashville,
has written a pamphlet to prove that
hanging is not only unpleasant but
positively inhuman asa means of death.
The doctor contends that it is an ex
ceedingly difficult matter to dislocate
the human neck, and that this event
rarely happens in ordinary hangings,
the victim dying gradually of strangu
lation. What is worse, the conscious
ness of the criminal is not suspended
by the fall, anil he suffers terribly
during the period—from seventeen to
twenty-seven minutes—he is engaged
in shuffling off his mortal coil. In
deed, the doctor thinks that, with the
exception of crucifixion, hanging is
the most painful of all deaths. Dr.
Eve is doubtless right in many or his
deductions. Hanging is a beastly way
of killing a criminal, even when artis
tically done by a sheriff who uuder-
tmitt, his business..anil .never loses big
But when the job is bungled, ns it is
three times out of five, banging is
horrible, inhuman and disgusting.
The object being simply to kill the pri
soner and get him out of the way, it
would seem that scienco ought to pro
vide some simpler, quicker and more
humane method than that of choking
him to death. Dr. Eve suggests as a
substitute for the lmlter a modification
of the Spanish garotte, fitted with a
spring so constructed as to drive a knife
into the neck, severing the spinal chord
and producing instantaneous death.
This would bo a decided improvement
on the halter, but a powerful galvanic
battery, producing a painless death
with the swiftness of a lightning stroke,
would be better still.
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Miscellaneous.
Legal Notices.
The Chicago Farm Pumps
i
udwm again, the picture closed and
went ^ iu aocustomoi^ place.
I meditated on this surpassingly
on my slippers. After sometime I
place my clothing 7 I pulled off
right sleeve of my coat.toen the
one, when the right one flew back on.
force against the opposite wall—then
commenced the most violent manifest
ation of the unseen presence. The
table spun swiftly around in the cen
tre of the loom, tLe sofa, chairs and
washstand were dancing around and
about it, while books, boots, shoes,
hats, garments of every description,
glassware and crockery were rushing
through the. air. Suddenly the lamp
started swiftly from its place, rushed
forcibly by us and was smashed against
the wall. This left us in the dark,
and catching Mr. P. by the hand I led
him to the door to go out, when to my
horror I found tho entire house’ spin
ning around on its centre at a -rate
which defied all exit It spun around this route.”
Sewing-machine agents are getting
to be as great pests as the life-insur
ance agents and lightning-rod men.
\y e read of a farmer, on the road be
tween Charlton and Wooster, Mass.,
who, having been terribly annoyed by
drummers, put up a sign. “No sew
ing-machines wanted here. Got one.
It was no use; the next drummer
wanted to see the machine, “ and pei-
bap3 he’d hitch up a trade.” So the
falrmer put up, “ Got the small-pox
here.” That worked well for a while;
but then came along a drummer
frightfully pitted with the small-pox,
who smilingly said, “ See’n you ve got
it bad around here, they’ve put me on
An Item fob Boys.—It is not nec
essary that a boy who learns a trade
should follow it all his life. Governor
Palmer, of Illinois, was a country
blacksmith once, and began his politi
cal career in Macoupin county. A
circuit judge in the central part of Illi
nois was a tailor. Thomas Hayn, a
rich and eminent lawyer of Illinois,
ivas once a book-binder, Erastus
Corning, of New York, too lame to do
hard labor, commenced as a shop L
Albany. When he applied
ployment first he was asked: “Why,
ray little boy, what can you do T
Can do what I am bid,” was the
answer, which secured him a place.
Senator Wilson, of Massachusetts, was
a shoemaker. Thurlow Weed, a canal-
boat driver. Ex-Gov. Stone, of Iowa,
a cabinet-maker, which trade the Hon.
Stephen A. Douglas also worked at in
his youth. Large numbers of men of
irominence now living have risen from
_mmble life, by dint of industry, with
out which talent is as a gold coin on a
barren island. Work alone makes
men bright, and it does not alone de
pend on the kind of work you have
whether you rise or not; it depends on
how you do it.
It is predicted that Lake Erie, now
the pathway of a mighty commerce,
Sill in time dry up and become the
home of a teeming’population. Careful
surveys have shown that, while Lake
Michigan has an average depth of
1,800 feet, Lake Superior of 900 feet,
and Lake Ontario of 500 feet, Lake
Erie has an average depth of 120 feet,
which is said to be constantly decreas
ing. The bottom of the lake is quite
level, and composed of soft clay. This
clay is constantly accumulating from
sediment carried down by tributary
streams. The south shore is composed
of easily disintegrating blue, gray and
olive shoals and gray sand stone. The
western aud northern coasts arc made
up of lime stone of the Heldorbeg
group, which quickly yields to the
action of the waves. Consequently
both shores constantly are contributing
to fill up the bed of the lake. The
work is uot rapid, but it is said to be
as certain as fate.
Ill tlie Superior Court-
O.EORGIA, MADISON CO.—
V_A Freaenl: His Honor Garnett Andrews,
Are Cheap, Durable and Efficient.
OVEB 100,000 SOLID.
EVERY PUMP WARRANTED
Izj resa Can Set Tien.
CHILDS, NICKERSON & CO.,
General Hardware Dealers,
novs-tr ace::ts.
GREENE &R0SSIGN0L,
Successors to Win. II. Tuu.
WHOLESALE DEALERS IN
Drugs, Medicines, Chemicals,
PERFUMERY,
DRUGGISTS’ SUNDRIES!
PAINTS, OILS,
VARNISHES,
GLASS, &c.,
264 Broad Street, Augusta, Oa.
The Cleveland police picked up
tan a few days ago, who appeared t
a
man a tes[ nays ago, who ujqwurcu to
be suffenngYrom great “ worrimentof
mind,” but, on applying soothing re
medies, he explained matters. When
he left his happy home in the morning,
his wife kissed him good-bye, as is her
custom when she wants any errand
performed,- and asked him to “ go to
the dress-maker and tell her she (the
wife) had changed her mind and won hi
have the watered silk made up instead
of the poplin, and be sure to tell her,
nr dear,” said tho wife, “ that if she
thinks I will look better with ten bias
flounces without puffing and box-plait
ed below the equator which should be
gathered in hem stitched gudgeons up
and down the seams, with a gusset
stitch between, she can make it up in
that way instead of fluting the Uobi-
nette insurtion, and piecing but with
point applique as I suggested yester,
day.”
The payment of absurd election bets
Is now the theme of frequent news
paper paragraphs. The Norwalk (Con-,
necticut) man who agreed to swallow
a dozen rotten eggs if Greeley was not
elected, has not been heard from..
SAMUEL G. STRICKLAND, Transferee, vs.
DAV ID WIMPLY. Mortgage in Madison Supe
rior Court, September Term, 1872.
It appearing to the Court, by the petition of
Samuel G. Strickland, accompanit *
. , accompanied, by the notes
and mortgage deeds that, on thettsth of June, 18C6,
thede.undaut made to and delivered his two prom
issory notes, bearing the dates aforesaid, whereby
he promised by the first day of October nekt, after
the date of said notes. t» [tay one John M. Carrol
r bearer. In one of sktd-n.oo., dlmi,i
.rn W lu-key, for value received, and on the dav
vori. uuisaey.ior vatue recetved, and on thiday
Slid year sfore.aid ibe defendant, the if...-- V
secure the payment said notes, wecuteiiina
tlcliveie l to tKiitlJohn M. Cufrol his deed ef mort-
gnee, whereby tho said David Whimpey Mortga
ged to the said John M. Carrol a certain tractor
1 of I*and in said county, adjoining lands of
* hors, l»egii
Strickland, Nash, Harris and othors, beginning at
a post-oak, running south 74, and west 33chuius
and 30 links to a post-oak, thenee north 3^ and
west 22 chairs* to the branch; thenoe down tho
crock to a dogwood, tfeeuce south 19 and east 17
chains HO links, to a piiie; thenoe south 46 amV
oast 9 chains to a nine ; thence north 17 and east
17 chains to a red-oak; thence sooth 34, east 8 s
chains to a red-ortk; thence south 7%, north 26
chains to a jost-oak, the. beginning—containing
one hundred and forty acres, more or loss. Which
mortgage have boon transferred toCthisplaintiir, and
it appear* that said notes remain unpaid. It is,
therefore, ordered that said defendant do pay into
court, on or before the first day of tho next term
of this court, the principal interest and costa due
on said notes, or show cause to the contrary, and
on failure of the defendant so to do, the Equity of
Redemption in untkto said mortgaged premises be
forever thereafter burred aiid foreclosed, and it is
further crJercd that this Rule be published in the
Northeast Georgian, (formerly Southern Ban
ner), once a month for four mouths previous to the
next term of this court, or served ou the de
fendant.
A true extract from the minutes of said court.
November 11th, 1872. J. M. SKIN NEK,
nov 15-lam 4m Clerk Superior Court.
VY7ILL BE SOLD before the Court
V Y House door, in the town of Feflferson, Jack-
»t>ii county, Ua., on the FIUST TUESDAY IN
DECEMBER NEXT, within the legal hours of
sale, the following property,to wit:
Four huudred acres of LAND, situate, lyingand
heingin said county,on the waters of Bu flalo creek,
five miles Southwest of Jefferson, on the Federal
I toad—the place where S. W. Stephens formerly
lived, and known as tho Stephens, place. Said
place is well improved.
Levied on by virtue of two tax fi. (as., against
E. J. Hamilton, for the years 1870and 1871. Levy
made and return ed to me by J. W. Doster, L C.
Written notice given tenant in possession,
September 2d. 1872. J. I>. JOHNSON,
nov 8 Deputy Sheriff.
pi EORGIA. HART COUNTY.
VT Ordinary’s Office, October 3lst. 1872.
THE NORTHEAST GEORGIAN
PUBLISHED EVERT FRIDAY,
BY T. W. & T. L. GANTT,
PROPRIETORS,
AT TWO DOLLARS PER ANMhlf,
INVARIABLY IN ADVANCE.
Office, Bread Street, 'Granite Bow
Georgia Railroad Sehedui o
NOTICE OF CHANGE OF SCHEDULE
GEORGIA and MACON and
AUGUSTA RAILRODS.
Snptrlntemlfnf, Offlrt, )
Georgia ud Haron * Angaata Railroad, 1
‘ “ " * ” “*• J
Augusta, Ga., Juno S, 1872.
OS AND AFTER WEDNE8-
DAY, June5th, 1872, the Passenger Trains
on the Georgia and Macon and Augusta Railroads
will run as follows:
GEORGIA RAILROAD.
Day Passenger Train will
Leave Augusta at g 20a.m.
Leave Atlautaat 8 15 a. -n.
Arrive at Atlanta ot 8 411p.m.
Arrive at Augusta at „_5 80 p.m.
t Augusta at..... „_S !
Night Passenger Train.
Leave Augusta at
I«ave Atlanta at
Arrive at Atlanta at
Arrive at Augusta at
—8 15 p. m.
...J onp. m.
._ fi 45 a. m.
— ( 00 a. m.
MACON AND A UG USTA R. R.
Day Passenger Train.
Leav. Augusta at.....
Leave Macon at
Arrive In Augusta at.......
Arrive Id Macon at
...~JI 00 a. m.
6 30 a.m.
2 45 p. m.
1 40 p.m.
Night Passenger Train.
Leave Augusta at 8 15 p. tn.
..10 00 p. m.
..0 00 a.m.
.. 4 IS a. m.
Passengers from Atlanta, Athena, Washington,
nndstatiuiis on Georgia Railroad, by taking tho
Day Passenger Train will make connection at Ce-
max with the Train for Macon.
I ' ulll “ a,1 ’''(t'l r »t-('lss«t Sleeping Cara on all
Night Passenger Trains on the Georgia Railroad:
and First-Glass sleeping Cars on all Night Train* oa
tho Macon and Augusta Railroad.
S. K. JOHNSON, Supl.
Leave Macon at..
Arrive in Augusta
Arrive in Macon at
Miscellaneous.
MANHOOD:
How Lost, How Bestorcd.
JUST pub
lished, a new
edition of I»r. 1'ULVER-
WELL’S CELEBRATED
E.SSAY oa the rod leal
cure (without medicine)
ofSpermatorrhiMlor Seiu-
npen
■tail weakness, Involuntary Seminal Lossos, Ini
potency. Mental and Physical Incapacity, Imped
iments to Marria-e, etc.; also, Consumption, Kpl-
lepsy and nts, induced by sell-indulgence or roxu*
nl extravagance.
Price, in a sealed envelope, only 6 rents.
The celebrate* author, in this admirable essay,
clearly demonsfrates, from a thirty years sucrexs-
aUl practice, that the alarming consequences of
self-abuse may be radically cured without the dan
gerous use of internal medicine or the application
of the knife: pointingoitt a ntudeof suv* st nas
simple, certain and * " * -
Mrs. Elizabeth Hilly has applied for exemption
of personality, and setting apart, and valuation of
Homestead, and I will (taK* upon the same at 2
o’clock, on the 16th day of November 1872, at my
office.
nov 8 F- C. .STEPHENSON, Ordinary.
Agents for Dr. WM. U. TUTT’S STANDARD
PREPARATIONS. oct23-tJanl
ATHENS
Foundry and Machine Works
ATHENS, GEORGIA.
COMMISSIONER’S S^LE.
r * PURSUANCE OF A DECREE
from Hart Superior Court, Septemlter Term,.
1872,1 '••ill sell in Hartwell, Hart county, on the
FIRST TUESDAY IN DECEMBER next, within
the legal hours of public sales, the Mire and Sew
ell tract of LAND, lying on Beaverdam Creek,
adjoining lauds of Fred Human, Gustavus Wynn
and others, aud containing Two Hunhred and
Twenty-five Acres, more or less. Terms cash.
JNO G. McCURUY, Commissioner.
October 21st, 1872. novl-U
Shoal Creek Factory and Mills
FOR SALE.
FOUNDERS
Machinists. Pattern Work, Smithing an
Beimlrlng. Having an extensive collection
Patterns, manufacture
Iron and Brass Castings,
Stokes, the taker-off of Fisk, and
Foster, the car-hook murderer, occupy
cells upon the same floor, and within
twenty feet of each other, at the Tombs
iu New York. A correspondent
writes: “Two men now stricken in
years, and both crushed by misfortune,
now visit the prison aeveral times a
week. Each has a son imprisoned for
murder. One of these men is toe
father of Foster, tlie other Is the father
of Stokes. What a spectacle to see
the old men meeting in the corridor,
cadi in seareh.of a blood-stained child.”
WM an* Gin Gaariog, Mining anil Mill Machine
ry, Steam Engines, S»» Mills, Hoisting Screws,
Lighter Screws, Sugar Mills, Cotton SeeS Cnish-
ers Shafting, Pulleys, Threshers, Ian Mills,
Smuttem, Bark Mills, Mill Spindles, Horse-Pow
ers. Rattle StatTs, Mill Cranke, Corn Shelters, Ac.
Also manufactnre. and are Agents tor, the most
approved Turbine Water Wheels, Brooks’ Patent
Involving Cotton Press, Iron Fencing, brave En
closures, Wonlce. Ac. j;
Agent and Superintendent.
j;.B.—Mill Findings furnished at manufactu
rer's prices.
JAY 0. DAILEY,
Auction & Commission Merchant
Broad Street, Athens, Ga..
Special Attention Given la thePurchs
ase, sale or Renting of Real Estate.
All Returns Mhde Promptly,
Octobetll, 1872.
simple, certain and eflertual, by means df which
every eiilferer, no matter what his condition roar
cafiv**’ curc MnO’Cl* cheaply, privately aud radf-
OifTh s Lecture should be in the hauds of
every youth and every man In the land.
Sent, under wal, iu a plaits rnvelopc, to any
address, postpaid, ou receipt of six ceulf, or two
jK*st stamps.
Also, Dr. Culverwell's “Marriage G uide." tirkw
8 cent.,. Address the Publishers.
- CHA.S. J. c. KUNE A CO., .
12. Bowery, New York, Post-Offlcc box, 4,58<L
octXMy
TONS OF
Dicksons
sold 'Mis season'.
This Shows what the Plan
ters Think of it.
MORE OF IT USED THAN ANY
FERTILIZER IN MARKET.
BSL. Planters who used a few sackff
this season have already pvt in their'
orders for a few TONS for next.
nt). Look to your own Interest, and buy a FEB-'
TILIZOt that is made in ydiir own State, and that
yon know Is good.
Every Sack is Warranfsri Genuine
: YT71LLBE SOLD before the Court
• w door, in Hartwell, on tho FIRST TUES-
* DAY IN DECEMBER NEXT, during the legal
A \ T H *nale hours, in accordance with a decree rendered
utta-ii.a* «•••—-’-r Court, at September term,
Knox a d A. Cornog, execu
tors. vs* Mary A. Knox and others, the SHOALS
CREEK FACTORY AND MILLS, together wljh
the tract of Land on which they are situated, con
tal ing seventy-five acress, more or less.
Tne Factory and Mill Houses is comparatively
oew.h ...
Th Mill is in splendid rupning order, with one
rock or wheat and one for corn.
Thef Factory has 6 9fi spindles, 408 in good run
ning order, with necessary preparations for the
some : also, a new line shaft. Tne above machine-
S is driven by a 2G-inch Double Turbine wheel.
nnected with the Factory are a SAW MILL,
TURNING LATHE and WOOL CARDS.
On the premises areg ood Dwellings and a neat
Star* House*
ThT.ns or Salk—One-third ca»h. the remain
der du, in two inatallmanta of on* and two reaia
Purchaaer will receive bond for t<tle«, and be re
quired to give two approved aecuritier _ For fur
ther particular! apply to the underaigned, on the
prcmiso.i. or addrea* them at Parkeri* Store, Hart
CO Sokfa* the property of A. Cornog, and eatateof
Samuel Knox, for dimivosnd distribution.
September 30th, 1872. WM^KNOX,
octlS-td Executors Sam.uel Knox, deceased.
ita-Ws hate now on hand, and will continue' to*
keep a GOOD STOCK, so that formers can haul it
away before the busy season*
'Payments On Time, Purchases
not due until Novem
ber 1st, /87S\
fA EORGIA, HART COUUTY.—
VJT Whareaa, R. T, Gaineaand John M. Brown
administrator* of Richard & Gaines, deceased,pe
tition. for a discharge from grid administration.
Therefore, all persona concerned are hereby re
required to ahQW cause, if any they have, why said
administrators should not. at the regular.teitu of
the Court of Ordinary of said county, WM held on
ue « oun ui wruimu > v»i muu wuuw-
the Unit Monday in January p»xt,; be dlacbarged
from said administration. ., . „. •.
Given under my! hand at *iyo41ee, thte the 7th
day of October, 1*72. F.C. STEPHENSON
octll-td
tar WE CAN ALSO SUPPLY
CHEMICALS
TO THOSE DESIRING TO
Make their Own Fertilizers
Those Buging Now will get on as Good
Terms as those who Buy in
the Spring.
England 4* Orr
•M.: AGENTS.
oct25-tf
GRIER’S ALMANAC
‘ T87S,
For sale by the Qros* or Down, at llaeon prtcea.
AT BURKE'S BOOK STORE.
oct2S-tG