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No. 4.1
A MAPI OF BUSY LIFE.
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Athens, Georgia, Saturday, October 2S, 1873.
SOL
<NE
I) SERIES—Volume LTI.
W SERIES—Volume II.
IMPENDING HORRORS.
I lie Terrible Predictions of the Amer
ican Srientillc Association.
('Hurting
about.
C,>m ilod.rrs—Sensible folks who
wt .»r bis boot*.
■\Vh it was the fir=t l>et matle ? the nl-
,.h.it"*t. The mouth of riv-1 d evt “l°P n ) ent of new horrors instore
Few know the terrible import of the
recent meeting of the American Seien-
S tific Association at Portland. In its
•rani'r. )
, t true :
i r- arc
;cr than their heads.
\ Tel-*- paper publishes marriage m>
for poor humanity it was awfully pro
lific. Its members vied with each
large onei being lessened and small
ones extinguished—there is cause for
fright. Lands will become unwater
ed, and consequently sterile; crops
will lessen in volume until the arid
and treeless plains refuse to respond to
the incitement of the farmer; univer
sal famine will ensue, and the world,
entirely depopulated by starvation,
will sink into uninhahitativencss, uii-
ti. some new change calls another form
tie
ndt . r Wu head ot “Lost.” ~ | ot,ler in predictions of coming convul- „f life into existence.
\ blundering Dulmque printer alludes 9lons °* "at'ire,- and sustained their
■ K 1 1 • ' arguments with truths brought to light
from the deepest and darkost walls of
science. That humanity is to he ob
literated was the gist of five papers
read bv five of the most scientific,
most last-
it is seldom worn
to «n Ate rney-at-jaw.
The dres-ing-gown is the
ins of all
OIK.
Why is achiukcn on the .fence like a
sllvi-i dollar? Because hea son one side
and tails on the other.
A great many words pass between one's
nose and chin, but we have never known
the n to fight.
When has a man a right to scold his
wife about coffee ? When he has more
than sufficient ground*.
Wlmt is that which ties two 'persons
and only ton -lies one ? A wedding-
ring.
A lady was dreadfully insulted because
a gentleman accosted her as an tld ac-
quaintam e.
Much is said in these days of woman's
sphere. Is it not true that her principal
fear i- that -lie will not get married 1
Bui k stores undergo incessant periodi
cal changes, and yet remain stationary cs-
tahlishnii nts.
bet all spinsters be happy; they arc
never without two good heanx at least,
provided they use them well—their el
bows
A S- Pan' woman uspd to keep three
girls n< tv does h-r own work cheerfully.
Sh • i'o i .1 her husband throwing kisses
at iii ■ *'.
A w o .me evening pulled down n
lnr ■ r -sign and put it over a lawyer's
• lour; i i the morning it read, “All sorts
off. :.ing and twisting done here.”
An Omaha woman committed suicide
the other dav because her husband re-
trusted and celebrated members ot the
Association. A terrible and total ex
tinction of animal life was foretold by
all, the only question being whlch'of
the five horrors shall first develop it
self and perform the work of universal
destruction. -
THE SITS TO HE EXTINGUISHED.
Professor Young, the most eminent
living student of solar physics, read a
paper on the sun. That body he ar
gued, is a gigantic bubble, whose crust
is gradually thickening and whose size
is diminishing. There is n constant
loss of heat, which will end fn its ex
tinction as a producer of warmth and
light. lie quoted Fraye, Seechi and
others to prove that these gases are re
tained by some kind of a crust.—
Through this surface the tumultuous
inner composition is constantly spurt
ing and outbreaking with great vio
lence. He thinks 'hat this crust “ may
consist of a sheet of descending rain—
not of water, of course, but of the ma
terials whose vapors are known to ex
ist in the solar atmosphere, and whose
condensation and combination are sup
posed to furnish the solar heat.” As
this peculiar rain meets the gaseous
s: bstanee of the sun it coalesces into a
continuous sheet, forming “a sort of
m n-ioited in prolane terms when he I bottomless ocean, resting upon thecon-
1',,und a ib nd horse-fly in a wheat cake. ) densed vapors underneath, and pierced
III r . erado the people have become so I by innumerable ascending jets and
fnv nhl v impressed with the utility of bubbles.” This action of the sun’s en
velope will lie a quenching of the great
orb upon which we depend for heat
and light. It will grow smaller, and
more compressed and surrrounded by
this crust, until it will be so hidden
and muffled as to he practically exclu
ded from the economy of the universe.
The result will he intense cold and
darkness, a cessation of all animal
life, and an immediate return to origi
nal chaos.
irrigation that a great many deem it nec-
issiry to irrigate their throats with whis
key.’
II i .re of a dog that exhibits any symp-
•..'•!i. .if hydrophobia. Ifyou are in doubt
as t<» the condition of the animal, the
safest plan is to let him bite your moth
er in-law, and then watch the result.
A Tennessee lady pre-ented her hus-
ban I wi ii twin-, and in due sea-on add-
nl triplets. -Dear me’.'' exclaimed an
astonished neighbor, "I s’pose Mrs. Steli-
hiiit. will ha quadrupeds next, and then
centipedes
A sentry challenged an Irishman for
intruding on the mcampment grounds.
"Who are y -u said Pat. “I'm the of-
fleer of the day.” was the reply “Then,
by the powers, what are you doing here
at night, at all, all (”
A youth stepped into a bookstore and
naked, "wlmt t 'm.l of |i. ns do you Sell
here, minister t" All kinds, answc.eil
one ot the clerks. Do you I” said the
little chap: “then give me ten cents worth
..I pig peas.”
An Iri-hman's Will—I will nnd bc-
q i a h to my beloved wile Bridget all my
prnpertv. without reserve, and to my
eldest son Pntiick one half of the remain-
(1, r. and to Dennis, my youngest son, the
r«—t. It anything is left it may go t"
Terence McCarty.
Mamma, why don’t you wear a hush ?
1 little Johnnie of his mother the
o-h'-r day. “A hush I” said the Indy,
what do you mean f "Why. I asked
minty what that was that made her back
s irk nut so, and she said, oh hush John-
11:-'.
Th- maddest man I ever saw was a
poor fellow who had paid nine dollars
and a quarter for an accident insurance
ticker, traveled three thousand miles, by
rii'roads ansi steamboats, and returned
(mine without being embraced by an ac-
cidi nt.
A gentleman in New Orleans was
agreeably surprised the other day to find
a plump turkey wived up for dinner, and
imputed of the servant how it was ol>-
t lined. “Why, sir,” replied Sambo, “d; t
turke. has b -en roostin onour fence three
ni Iks. so dis morning I seized him for dc
rent of do fence.
It is very wicked for small boys to en
danger their lives by climbing out on ft
weak branch of a tree for the. purpose of
tying a swing to it. Thu proper way is
ti> coax a large Boy to perform that ser
vice, and it the limb don't break down
with him, then the little fellow can swing
safely.
When there is not a breath of air stir
ring. and you are in danger of stilling,
attempt to* light a cigar out doors, and
you will be surprised at the breeze that
"will start up. We have seen n man try
this experiment in a dead calm, and liy
tin- time he had scratched thirteen match
es it was really so windy ns to lie uncom
fortable.
A paragraph is going the round of the
press to the effect that at Lafayette, Ind.,
the papers are complaining in right down
earnest because troops of girls go in
swimming in eonspie.uous places in the
r>m. It is a device of the new spapers to
'haw the attention of rest-seekers to
charms of Lafayette as a watering
V'aet.
Amo®,, the replies to an advertisement
’’ ” m *L'c committee for a candidate for
,,r 2»nnt, music teacher, etc., a vacancy
■aung occurred hv the resignation of the
“tgamstin 0 ;Tiec." was the following:
mratf 1 noticed your -advcHfse*
, n . , , &ri organist and music teacher,
J °t gentleman. Having been
^ sever ,\ j eMS| 1 offer yon iny ser-
INSECTS TO END THE HUMAN RACE.
Dr. Le Conte, the new President of
the Association, read a jwper on the
e lormous increase and destructiveness of
injurious insects. The present actual
annual damage done by insects to crops
in the United States is over three inil-
SCEXKSIN MEMPHIS.
The Horrors of the Epidemic.
We surrender some spaefr to the fol
lowing graphic account of the situation
in Memphis on the 11th iust :
Our once fair city is temporarily one
vast charnel depot. As vet there is no
apparent decrease of the fatal sickness,
and the situation daily seems more
and more •deplorable. Large stores in
business centres heretofore uninfected,
are closing up, and their desi>on lent
keepers leaving for healthier latitudes.
Nearly all the residences on our most
frequented streets are shut and their
occupants have fled from the pest.
As the disease appears in new neigh
borhoods, the few remaining families
Reaping Ruin—An lowa Farmer's Mel
ancholy Experience with the
Agent of a Reaping Machine.
[Dubuque Letter lb ihc NewJ^ork Tribune.]
OUR FIRST B\BY.
Married.—By tht Rev. Mr. Smith, J. W. C.
to MiaaC. E.O., only daughter of, etc. “No cards.”
No baby 1 Nairy time ; I didn’t say
a r i- , lit! I have one of those interesting
A tew years ago a farmer lived near , s
me, who, beingout of debt, was 0I1 I'ttle a„,„,al s at home. It came vyhen
the high road to prosperity. He had j 11 ra,ne . d hkc t! *° dev ‘ ' dark f l ,,tch - „ _ ...
the promise of a magnificent crop of | m . v umbreLat the-tore, and no cat (cotton, stocks, etc.,) shall be per mi t-
... i i <• r •running. The Doctor lived five miles - • - •• •
wheat, ootne weeks before it was , n r , ,
, due West, and the Nurse six miles
time to cut it. an agent came along one , T - . ’ . , T . ,
a \ T idue Last; and when I got home to
daysellmgnnprovedreapers. ‘A beau- •? , ,
the bosom ot my lamuy, the condensed
milk man was at the next door. It’s
a funny little chap, that baby; Solferi-
no color, aud tiie length of a bologna
sausage. Cross? I guess not. Cm,
urn; it commenced chasing me down
lay selling improved reaper;
tiful crop of wheat you’ve got there,”
he remarked to the farmer.
The latter reckoned ’twould turn out
pretty well.
“Now, you ought to have a good
reap
lions of dollars, yet these figures give i p:l{ . k a|1(1 doi , ;lrt at
once. At night
but an inkling ot what the increase t j le s t ree t^ are totally deserted, and a
promises for the future. “Just now,’
says Dr. Le Conte, “a jwirtion of the
insect tribe are sufficiently numerous
by nature to inflict injury upon inau
anil his jiosscssions; but civilization
destroys the balances, and permits in
the case of in-eets—those previously
insignificant in numbers—to become
prominent factors in a work ofdestruc
tion.” The only methods suggested by
this scientist to avert a calamitous
plague were “to abandon the crops
and.starve out the noxious insects,” or
to establish “a system of checks on
their increase equivalent to those ex
isting before civilization interfered.
Either of tiicse plans are, of course,
impracticable. The im[vending dile-
emna seems to be an increase of in
sects so vast that the plague of Egvpt
will be more than produced, and that
all vegation and finally starving and
helpless man lumsclL will lie eaten.
All of which argues on early drop
ping of the curtain upon the fleeting
show of life. We quote :
‘•I would not live always ; I ,-isk not to stay
Where storm after storm risjs dark o’er the
gloomy, death-like silence reigns,
while the dark, sombre-looking build
ings, with closed doors .ancLbliuds and
no signs of life, cause the scene to pre
sent a hopeless, melancholy aspest,
and the tales of distress and woe rela
ted by a wandering “Howard” or cleri
cal Samaritan afford no relief from the
general depression. Many of the
houses in the First ward have lost
all their occupants from death or de
sertion, and wheu the last inmate was
hauled out the police closed the prem
ises, leaving the infected bedding and
contents to emit a sickening odor.
Without the aid of the putrid and
foully-stained bed and wearing appall
of the sick, dying and dead, the un
pleasant effluvia of a hundred varie
ties of disinfectants is met i»t every
turn, and often exercises an overpow
ering effect on weak nerves and un
settled stomachs.
The new Board of Health are busy
with hundreds of hands and carts,
sweeping and clearing the streets, but
as yet the alleys and by-ways, which
arfr the filthiest entrepots, have not
laria mornlnz rth»t rtairn on us here ! been touched. The maladv lias spread
1 - beyond tho checkpower,ot human
skill or labor, and all such ellbrts will
prove futile. The only effective anti-
. . *. *.i ij *i*i . | uni * it uhiiuuiiriu Liiii&itiir me tiuwii
-ap-r to cut it with, said the agent. I.•
Jr „(v.i i ? .1 the pathway of hro just when muslin,
“Lnnt afford it; haven t got the I,- 1 , - ,. a J
„ „ . „ c ° i linen, and white flannel were the lugh-
money, repltiNi the farmer. i , ... - . , ,
_ .. . . est they had been since Adam built a
“I m selling a hrst-class machine— . - e q.-, , , . , ,,,,
. ,i * .1.1 i , 1 iiennerv for Mrs. Lves chickens. I he
hotter than any that have boon used \ , , • . . , „
, i „ j t • doctors charge two dollars a siiuint,
about here—and 1 can aive you one , , ,, h . , * ’
,i V-iI •» * our dollars a grunt, and on account
at abarrajirand wait until it has paid - - ° ■
for itsen: r I don’t want any money
pow,” cotitinned the agent, temptingly,
and with renffl and paper he shoiVeii! L 1! f'* ,ul,, 'T I " r L ’ lsl J .
first how much the firmer would have'^balance January 1st.
to pay for cutting his crop that year, I A ,1 U f r l,ttle 1 ‘ m - 19 tI,at b ? hy < *
how much grain'],e could cut for otl.e.-' ° f a hke , a ' ,tad . ™
people; and, in short, that before lie , baId ! ls a *l uash ’ and n0 P ,ace t( .’ h . ,t< ' h
1 - - - - ] a waterfall; a mouth just suited to
I come the gum game and chew milk.
Oh, crackee! you should hear her
of the scarcity ot raifl in the country,
take what is left in a man’s pocket—no
discount for cash—aud send bill l'or
...i it. 1 . . r ,• ! ie j a waterfall; a mouth just suited to
would have to pay for the muchiiie he !
would have saved and earned enough
with it to pay for it, and still have the
machine not half worn out. To make
a long story short, the farmer was per
suaded to purchase the reaper,, and
gave an “ironclad” note for it—that is,
a note accompanied with a statement l
of property, which in this State is j
equivalent to a mortgage.
Farmer’s Trading Association--.
Nothing is easier than for ten. or more
farmers to consult together at any meet
ing for the purpose and see what goods
they want for six months’supplies, unite
their orders, and authorize some one
of their number to purchase what is
needed, at whole-ale prices. Thou
sands of farmers and mechanics are
trading in this way, and save some 25
per cent, in the average cost of all they
consume. They are fast learning to dis
pense with the services of all persons
whose labor they do not require. Mid
dle men bet ween prolueers and consu
mers have i ncreased beyond all profit to
either consumer or producer. Sound
business ideas dictate the most direct
exchange passible of labor or its fruits,
bctwi en man and man, with as few
hands, as little handling and transpor
tatiou as is attainable.
Thero ur.» more who live on the toil,
of others, rather than their own pro
ductive indu-try, than the best interests
of the community demand. Corn at
fifteen cents a bushel in the West is
teaching corn-growers the wisdom of
dispensing with the labors of merchants,
lawyers, courts and every man who
does not give the farmer as much hone-t
hard work for fifteen cents as will raise
a bushel of corn. Such poorly paid
work is as comfortable ior the merchant,
judge on the bench, lawyer, doctor,
priest and banker, as for the tiller of
the ground who rapes bread for all.
Wise farming will compel every one to
pay tillage and husbandry the highest
fees of any profession for five or ten
hours’ labor. Do this and farming
will he not less honorable than profita
ble. Agriculture is coining to the front
of all professions.
the r.unitLK earth to hurst.
Gen. J. <i. Barnard described the
interior of the earth as a molten fluid.
Previous mu ons had given the earth,
however, a rigid exterior surface from
one to two thousand feet deep. lie
refuted this theory, and claimed for
the glohe upon which we live some
what the. construction of a ruhiv-r hall
filled with melted lead. The suvfaee
is, lie thinks, a pliable coating that
has lieon gradually formed over the
fiery mass inside. A globular form is
maintained bv rapid rotary motion,
the inner fluid sustaining the soft shell
in its position, so that the undulations
are imperceptible to us. Thus we are
Iteing whirled through space on a huge
globule, the surface of which floats
on an interior of liquid fire. Only
the rotary speed of this bubble keeps
it together, and any disarrangement or
change in terrestrial phenomena would
resolve itself into vapor. Gen. Barn
ard does not Itelieve that the surface is
of an essentially different composition
from the liquid interior—it has only
been condensed sufficiently to form a
sort of capsule. The tenure of the
world’s existence, therefore, is ex
ceedingly uncertain, and great disturb
ing influence—the breaking out of a
huge volcano, any change in the sur
face that would render it brittle, the
impact of a heavy meteor or comet—
may, it a moment, immolate it, leav
ing humanity to whirling death amid
the horrors of inoragnic space.
DARKNESS, SILENCE, AND DEATH.
Mr. F. 'Walling begnn an essay
on “The Dissipation of Energy ” by
saying: “Since the days of the anci
ents it has been known that all motion
is gradually developed by friction, and
must filially cease unless maintained by
external power ” The lu-at power of rinK , nts llpon raW)ils ; Theli(lllid
the sun, which he regarded as the } ^ of an ox that & e|)
motive power of the earth, is being
sing. 1 have bumjKid it, stuffed my
fur cap down its throat, given it the
smoothing iron to play with, but that
little red lump, that looks as it it
couldn’t hold blood enough to keep a
| mosquito from fainting, persists in yel
ling like thunder. It shows a great
desire to swallow its fists, nnd the oth
er day they dropped down its throat,
. u „ T and all that prevented their going clear
to cut Ins crop himself instead of ,, . * , , . .? ?,
• • • , vi through was the crook in its elbows,
hiring a reaper. 1 hen he did some I t. , B , . • , T ,
i c li. i It stopped its music, and 1 was happy
work with it for other people, hut as .. 11 , , . i>-
,„.i ,i. • ,i ‘mi iii for one and a half minutes. It s a
several others in the neighborhood had , .... , , . . . ,,
i i . i i • q ,• i ■ . „ pleasant thing to have a baby in -the
also purchased machines he did not go r ,. ... , • ,
----- house—one cl vour bcllv-uche kind.
it worked well, and mv neighbor
aid "
Poisonous Innoculation with
Dead Blood.—The Lint, in a recent
number, quotes M. Dav.iine’s experi
ments on this subject. It is well known
that medical men are often seriously
injured by accidentally citting them
selves with instruments tliat have liecn
reecutly used for dissecting purposes.
The wounded part swells, and mortifi
cation often ensues, necessitating am
putation ar.d sometimes catsing death.
In order to determine the poisonous
properties of this putrid blond, M. Da-
vaineconiniunicatesthere|uitof s^vqraf
tiler link
boiti
vic-.-s
edi
„, , Send it to the
im* ,a c C j . ,rge " ‘ But what are you go-
. ”° sem! " to the editor tor?" “’Cause
lie '* n | u *’°dy will sent] him a club
Tl„ ‘ ,,un > a copy of his paper.”
Jh ’? ot " -r ' !III1C near fainting, but “
. <- °nseiou»nes9 enough
|,e il"",®?: what do y
to ask
you 8Up)>ORC
know'- tS * r'".'' f " r “Well, I don’t
i.- '* the hopeful urchin, “un-
* d knock down subscriber! a»
1 P»y for their paper."
,
ir’s i, Verdicts.—A cor-
^ » ,r .'' "hp&naled to ascertain the
hr . tko ^ a notorious drunk-
. r, >ught m n verdict of “Death by
ior.,;. aroond a runt shop.* In
tnista^ ^’roner’s jury, under similar
verdict ■ *‘<A e,M -j red a raore courte-
king a K l^'' de, " al death while
exhausted hv the prodigious lavishness
of its expenditure. It is supposed, lie
said, that the satellite will fall into
plnnets, planets into suns, and suns
into a common centre, after which
darkness, silence, and death will
reign.” lie was not without a shadow
of hope, however. He saw two possi
ble chances for a postponement, at least,
of the dreadful catastrophe: First, a
series of natural chemical evolutions
attracting to the sun a vast amount of
combustible material; and, second, the
infiuite magnitude of the universe
being sufficient to permit a never end
ing concentration of masses. One
dreaded effect of a loss of sun power,
lie said, is a displacement of atmos
pheric forces. Tidal influence or plan
etary collisions may hasten the final
dreadful cataitrophe, which will be a.
glowing of the nwcljioorjf of the uni*
verse, until growing stagnation culmi
nates in a total extinction of life
forcci.
UNIVERSAL DBOUGHT AND STARVA
TION.
Professor Franklin B. Hough fore-
to'd a perpetual drought—the result of
clearing off of the forests. “The con
trast," he said, “between an open and
sunburnt pasture, and one interspersed
with clumps of trees, must have been
noticed by everv careful observer.
The foot-that furniture in houses, too
much shaded will mould is an instance
of the humid influence of trees, and
the result of wooden shade explain the
fullness of springs and streams in the
forest, which dry up and disappear
when the trees are removed. rhe
rapidity with which forests are disap-
peaaing lias already been a matter of
Harm ; but when we consider the effect
uppp streams—practical illustration of
ten days slaughtered. This, by sub- n&i '
dote will bo a cold snap ami several
successive frosts. This will hardly re
sult until the close of the present
month. The Gas Company notify
many customers to pay their hills
promptly or their supply will be cut off.
and then often find their late custo
mers dead or fled. Yesterday a saloon
keeper near the Overton Hotel, who
had aided in carrying twenty-one dead
boilies from tliefr beds to the hearse,
and after being worn down with watch
ing and nursing, was notified to pay or
lose his light. As his house has been
closed for weeks, and all around art-
dead, he returned a curt and appro
priate reply. It is pleasant to note,
amid hundreds of acts of inhumanity
there are thousands of unselfish sat ri-
fices that prove the performers to lie
heroes and benefactors to mankind.
Threat Catholic priests, five Sisters oi
MercV, omr tlBntster, four jnittr-m-n,
three physicians and some thirty or
more ot the Odd Fellows and Masons
have succumbed, and lie under the
sod.
A visit to. the Catholic cemetery
last evening to attend the funeral of a
beautiful maiden of eighteen, disclosed
a harrowing spectacle to your repor
ter’s eyes. Many hundreds of freshly
raised hillocks told a plain but silent
tale of death’s ravages, while at fre
quent intervals sorrowing mourners
were seen kneeling in supplication and
with tearful eyes praying to the Al
mighty for the souls of the departed
and comfort in their personal affliction.
Flowers and numerous ♦ mementoes
were strewn upon fresh made graves,
and half a dozen or more squads at the
work of interment told the story of the
pestilence; with the public highway
leading toward the city covered with
two continuous lines of vehicles, the
returning travellers moving rapidly,
and the other on a trot exhibited the
stolid indifference of the Jehus aud
their hurrying desire to hunt another
funeral.
The railroads are granting half fare
passes to the moneyless, and the re
lief committees labor incessantly to
help the distressed. An idea ofthe
prevailing want may lie inferred In
stating, that long before the relief offi
ces opened this morning several dozen
sufferers crowded the door waiting to
be aided with provisions and neeessa-
Thc Howard Society have nearly
out” with it as much as lie expected.
At length his note matured, but he had
no money with which to pay. He had
sickness in bis family, ami had not got
us much for his crop as he had expected.
The agent was sorry, and, after a good
deal of hesitation, “supposed” that if
the farmer could not pay, the time
would have to be extended, but in that
case he should have to charge twenty
per cent, interest! lie would much
rather have the money than that oven.
So the note was renewed on those terms
Fiie tanner paid the i terest once or
twice, hut, finally, as the quarterly day
came around, he saw that he was not
likely to have money to pay even that.
There was nothing then left for him to
do hut to mortgage his place, borrow
tlie n o ey and pay the note. And still
lie ran behind hand,' so that instead ot
redui-ing the mortgage he was obliged
to increase it fro.-n.tijije.to. time until
in the end he had to sell out, take new
land and begin again. Now do you
supp se that man thinks to-day that he
was ruined by a reaper? No, sir;
lie lavs it to sickness in bis family, bad
crops, -mail prices, railroad extortions,
a d ariir. But his firs'. ( e it wis for
i he reaper
IMPORTANT.
As a matter of general information,
and for the benefit of those interested,
we publish below the 4600th section of
the Code of Georgia, which says;
“No person, after having executed
a mortgage deed to personal property
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INSPECTING THE PANTALOONS.
ted to sell or otherwise dispose of the
same with intent to defraud the mort
gagee unless the consent of the mort
gagee be first obtained before the pay
ment ofthe indebtedness for which the
mortgage deed was executed; and if
any jierson shall violate the provisions
of this section, and loss thereby is sus
tained by the holder of the mortgage,
the offender shall be deemed guilty of
a misdemeanor, and upon convictiou
thereof shall be punished by a fina
double the sum or debt which said
mortgage was given to secure; and
upon failure to pay said fiue immedi
ately, the person so convicted shall be
imprisoned in the common jail for a
period of not less than six nor more
than twelve months.”
cutaneous injection,lie administered to
bis subjects, in varying quantities, ob
taining by successive dilutions with
water the most infinitesmal attenua
tions. Killing one animal, he would
take its infected blood and force the
same into the veins of another and so on
until he reached what he tc.-ms the
twenty-fifth generation. On this last
experiment lie says: “Four rabbits re
ceived respectively one trillionth, one
tcn-trilliont h, one hundred-trillionth,
and onequadrilionth of a drop ofbiood
from a rabbit belonging to the preceding
generation,that had died from the ef
fects of a one-trillionth dose. Of the
four, but one animal died— that which
rqqeivcd the one ten-tr'JliqnthD It ap-,
pears, then, that the limit of transmis-
sibility of the poison in the rabbit
reaches tho one-trillionth part (Fa drop
of decayed blood.” .
In the dead of night, I am frequent
ly awakened by a little hand stealing
out "from the crib by my side, with the
pleading cry : “ Please take my hand,
papa ! ” Instantly the little boy’s
hand is grasped, his fears vanish, aud,
soothed by the consciousness of his
father’s presence, he falls to sleep
again. In the same spirit of childlike
trust, the Christian may stretch out
his hand toward his heavenly Father,
and find pe.ace.
A Roomy Place.—A Dallas
two hundred nurses at work, and more
are coining from other cities. . Odd
Fellows, Masons and other orders also
have a numerous corps of nurses busy.
The aggregate deaths since the fever
broke out up to noon to-day is 962
persons, and the usual ratio of mor
tality would thus make over 4,000 suf
ferers. Reports made to-night place
the number of fever sufferers now un
der treatment at about fifteen hundred.
The total mortality to-day was fifty
one, of which forty-six were from fever.
Among others who died to-day was
Judge J. T. Swane, a prominent and
well known citizen. Joe Potts, an
Italian, died in a house No. 39
Main street, and his corpse, ufter being
unattended twenty-four hours, still lies
unburied. A Howard found it out too
late last evening to do any good. A
man in the old post office building
sent to the Howards for a nurse, and
when one reached there the patient
was dead.
A little girl in New Orleans has won,
after a patient labor of three months, a
prize of a silk dress, by successfully
accomplishing the feat of multiplying
nine by nine, and eighty-one by eighty-
one, and so on, using each succeeding
product as its own multiplier, until the
op( ration was performed nine times.
The prize has been offered for several
years, but never befifre earned. It is
said tho work comprises 262 numeral
(Texas) newspaper says there is room ^m|Wuodsand 90 ) OpO figures, and the
Exciting Scene in A Menag
erie.—A terrible scc:,e took place in
Mander’s menagerie, at Whitby, in
England, on September 13. There
were several hundred people in tho
show, when hoartrendering cries, as
from one in mortal agony, went through
[lie air. A panic ensued. The peo
ple, terribly excited, ran cn masse to
the narrow outlet, and endeavored to
escape by other means. A cry was
raised outside that one of the beasts had
burst through the bars of its cage, and
the excitement among the crowd with
out was scarcely less intense than that
within. In the rush to the door many
people, particularly the weaker sex,
were injured, and the coufusion was
increased from the circumstance of a
couple of camels blocking up the
doorway. Meanwhile the cries con
tinued, and it was discovered that a
poor bov named Langley was the vic
tim of the viciousness of a hig tiger,
placed alongside another next to the
cage containing the lion that worried
to death poor McCarthy, the lion-
tamer, at Bolton last year. The tiger
was infuriated, and was making stren
uous efforts to draw the lad through
the bars of the cage. The beast growl
ed frightfully, and what with the piti
ful cries of the boy, the shouts of the
men, and the screeches of half-fainting
women, the scene was one of the most
terrible description. Home men ran
for hot irons, while others n beat the
buist with theirs ticks and umbrellas,
and clidall they could to draw the
brute from its helpless victim. Tjlti-
mate’y, after a sev o mauling, the ani
mal relinquished its prey, and the boy,
helpless and faint through loss of blord
from the injuries,he had received, was
borne away through the crowd. His
wounds, upon being dressed, appeared
to be of a serious nature,, though they
are not likely to prove fatal. The
brute seems to have caught its victim
just below the elbow, and tore a deep
lump of flesh right down the forearm
to the wrist. There is also a deep gash
in the palm of, the left hand, from
which the hemorrhage is great. The
patient lie3 in great pain, aud it is fear
ed that he will not recover the perfect
use of his arm. One of the keepers
has also been' severely injured. He
was struck by one ofthe elephants, and
his ribs were smashed in. The man
was taken to tho workhouse in a help
less condition.
Think of the pleasures of a father in
dishabille, trembling in the midnight
hour, with his warm feet on a square
yard of cold oil-cloth, dropping pare
goric in a teaspoon by moonlight, with
the nurse knocking on the door, while
the wife of your bosom is shouting
hurry, and the baby yelling till the
plastering falls from the ceiling. It’s a
nice time to think of dress-coats, pants,
ties and white Iritis. Shades of depart
ed cocktails, what a picture for an ar
ticle in plaster paris.
I have to get up in the cold and
shiver while the milk warms; it uses
the bottle. I have a ciadlc with the
representation of a miraculous sooth
ing syrup-bottle on the dash-hoard.
I tried to stop its breath the other
night, it was no go; I rocked it so
hard it missed stays, and sent it slap
Clear across the room, upsetting a jar
of preserves. It didn’t make anv
noise, then ! Oh, no! its mother says
only wait till it gets bleached, (it’s be
ing vaccinated,) and old enough to
crawl about and feed on pins. Ye;
l am goiug to wait. Wont it be de
lightful. John, run for the doctor, sis
has fallen in the slop pail and is chok
ing with a potato skin; sis has fallen
down stairs ; sis has swallowed the tack-
hammer; shows signs of the mumps,
croup, whooping cough, small-pox, dy
sentery, colic, cholera infantum, or
some other darn thing to let the doc
tors take the money laid by for my
winter’s corned beef, and all'this conies
of my shampooing and curling my
hair, wearing nice clothes, and looking
handsome, going a courting and mak
ing ntv wife fall in love and marry me.
Lost oS Mont Blanc.—Mr.
Longfellow’s popular little ballad,
“Excelsior.” wa- illustrated airw in
the case of Professor Peditschrena, a
Russian gentleman from Moscow,
who attempted the ascent of of Mont
Blanc on Sunday, September 21,
with the intention of making a
scientific study of the great Tacit!
glacier, and feM down exhausted in a
snow storm. The Swiss Times thus
tells the story:
“They set out at three o’clock in
the morning. The wind was very
boisteroust all the forenoon and a
heavy rain set 'n about two o’clock i-i
the afternoon a d lasted i n ii : fter
midnight The Professor was a t d!
powerful man, an 1 trulting to his
strength was but slightly clad, and the
party, moreover, had only two bottles
of wine with them and a slender sup
ply of p;o.-’sion-; Toward live
o’clock they perceived that snow was
falling on the summits an 1 as fir
down as the Montanvert. They
stuggled forward in their atanpt to
desend, hut overcome w th the cold
and exhaustion, darkness overtook
them while they were amonc the in-
tracie-ofthe serans of the G1 icier du
Geant, anil finally the unfortunate
Professor sank down utterly powerless
and soon after d'ed, while his at
tendants were helpless to aid him.
They left the remains when the neces
sity became apparent for providing
for their own safety.”-
Mr. O’Clarence purchased a pew
i pair of pants Saturday, When hC got
: home his with was mixing btettd. She
wiped her hands on her!' apron atfd
made a careful examination of the ,
pants. First she pinched one leg of
them and asked him what he'paid for
them, and then pinched the other and '
asked him if .he dindn’t think it was too 1
much. After, that he stood off arways :
so she could get a look at the fit, so as
to form a right opinion of jt. She
.pinched them 1 Again, taking lip lus leg
ami eycin-z itl thoughtfully, while ho
clutched the table with hie hand nod
hopped around oti the other leg to .rest
hitiLdlf. She was uot quite confident
that they were all cotton—tliose cloth-
ing people do lie so—but she was not
quite sure. However, she could tell
better at the window;; und dpew him' '
over there, r tp the imminent'ranger of
tippling liinr over aud breaking his
spine. Hlw rubbed them again and
turned up the leg so as to see the other
side, aud all the while her. mind gath
ered doubts and forebodings. If ho
had only said lie was going to buy
a pair of pants, she would have
went with him herself and picked
them out. But tailors know that » .
man can’t tell one kind of cloth from
another, and will.put off anything on'
him. Then she abruptly dropped his
leg and went to the hack door and. Called
iM rs. Mugont. Mis. ALugent eaiue in,
and, being made acquainted with tho
particulars, pinched 'Mr. O’Clarence’s
leas herself and-Hsked ’him why he
didn’t buy tho cloth and hawhis pants
made at Home. Mrs. Mugent said an
uncle of Mr. Mugcut, whoi lived in
Bridgeport, got a pair of all-wool pants
last April for $5, and you would have
thought they cost 619, if a cent; th# 1
cloth was just as fine and firm an any
thing could be. Mr. Mugent would
sometimes get tho impression that be ■
pants, and If they "’ere Mr.' Mugent’s,
she would have ’theh’i taken hack. This
exactly what Mrs. O’Clarence
thought, and in spite of Mr. O’Clar
ence’s protestations, she took them back
and got another pair.—Danbury
Sews.
between plow handles in that country
for twenty thousand young men, and
not a square foot behind a counter or
in an office for those who want clerk
ships, or any other soft places. There
are many other counties, like Dallas,
Texas, aud '‘that’s what’s the matter.”
of paper.
covers four or five square yards
A Peusylvania girl went blackberry-
ing five weeks ago, and when heard
irorn the other day was house keej»' n
with' her husband fn Gfeorg^
A Boy Hero.—A boy hero has
been developed ut Nagy-Brenza, an
obscure Hungarian village, lately visi
ted by the plague. Among the vic
tims was a poor peasant woman, who
left behind a son aged fifteen, but no
property. In consequence of this latter
circumstance, the parish priest and
the rest of the villagers were in no
haste to make arrangements for her
interment, and, in spite of the prayers
and tears ofthe poor lad, the body re
mained in the but. Two days later a
peasant woman of property also died,
and a grave was immediately dug to
be ready for the funeral next day.
When, however, the body was carried
to the grave-yard it was found that her
rave was already filled in. The su
perstitious villagers fell on their knees
and crossed themselves, but the priest,
guessing bow the matter stood, sent
two of the peasants to the hut of his
poor parishioner to see whether the
corpse was there. They returned,
having found that the body bad been
removed, and bringing the boy with
them. Oubeingasked where the body
of his mother now was, lie pointed, sob
bing, to the newly, made grave, saying
that by exerting all his strength he’had
dragged the corpse to the grave yard,
placed it in the ground and shoveled
in the earth.
Nothing Like A Trade.—A re
turn to the old plan of apprenticing boys
is beingadvocated. The hosts of young
men in every largo city who apply for
employment and foil to get it, tor .the
reason they cannot truthfully affiwi'
that they are educated or specially fit
ted for any particular business, consti
tute a potent argument in favor ot re
form. Under tjic apprentice system we
should have fewer ignorant mechanics
and incompetent business men. A
trade is half a mail’s fortune.
A large sturgeon, weighing one hun
dred and fifteen pounds, was caught by
Mr. George Hall in Oconee River, on
, near Park’s bridge.
The Sand-Club is a weapon used
hy rowdies and criminals in Sin Fran
cisco, resembling in principle the sand
bag used by the same sort of scoundrels
in New York. The sand-club is
formed by fillin'? an ce! skin with sand.
When this instrument was first brought
into use, the authorities were greatly
puzzled by deaths, apparently from
violence, yef no marks could be found
on the outside of the body. A burglar
was finally captured with a sand-club
in bis possession, made out of an eel
skin stuffed with sand. Being closely
questioned, he explained its u<e.
When the victim is struck, for in
stance, on the head, he drops insensi
ble, and soon dies from congestion of
the brain. Often the skull suffers no
injury from the stroke; and if tiie
person struck recovers sensibility, lie
gradually relapses into a condition of
idiocy. Sometimes a man struck in
the body will be knocked down bv the
peculiar force of the blow, and feel no
immediate results from it. In a few
weeks however, the flesh will begin to
mortify under the line of the blow, and
rot down to the hone.
How a Methodist Preacher
was Sold—having a charge in the
southern portion of Giles county, Va.,
went to call upon one of his members
not long since, and was very cordially
greeted, and earnestly entreated to
make himself perfectly at home. Tlu‘
lady then stopped-out to* “wririg” the
chiokon,i and when she came hack,-
found the parson- in the act of taking-
the ashes from the fire-ploce and pot
ting them in tiie -scuttle, preparatory to
carrying them out. “Lor-ze-mo.
Brother , what are you doing that
for?” “You told me to makemyselfat
home mndame, and if IM been at home,
and found all these ashes in tho fire
place, I would certainly have taken them
up.” Wilted, did she? Don’t you bet on
a Giles county lady being thus msily
out-witted. She went straight to the
kitchen, stuck every feather hack in
that chicken, sewed its head on, and
the smart preacher didn’t get a bit of it.
Retribution.—There is . an old
lady now living in the city of Louisville
who, in 1825, succeeded in gaining the
affections ot a married man, who got a
divorce from his wife and manned the
lady aliove referrod to. By liis divor
ced wife he had one son, who is now
living in Cincinnati, and is wealthy.
By the preferred lady lie had seven
boys. The fat her died some time-ago,
and the first son hy his second mar
riage wn.« drowned at saa, being a sea
captain ; the second son was drowned
in the Ohio river, opposite this city ;
the third son was hung as a deserter
from tho United States artny; -ihe
forth was shot in Louisville while set
tling up some business with his part
ner; the fifth was struck by lightning;
the sixth had his neck broken hy a run
away horse, and the last died a natural
death after barely having escaped thi>
penitentiary for stealing.
The Uncertainty of Killing
Cats Demonstrated.—A certain in
dividual who chanced to he passing
through the streets a few evenings
since on his way hom’e, thought
that ho would do an act of kindness to
the neighborhood in which locality ha >
was, by depriving it of one cat. Observ*
ing, as lie thought, a huge species of
grimalkin, snugly ciiddl&F'ilp inside of
the bars of a window, he ntisCd his
stick gently nnd then, with tremendous
force, levelled a blow, when lo, instead
of a Thomas hopping out aud running
at a two forty gait, an old colored
auntie, with her head comlortably ban
daged in a neat'white ggnibric of some
kind, who had keen taking a nap,
sprang up and yelled .in a. vociferous
manner, murder, thief and robber.
The screams were sufficient to unnerve?
a man who was Conscious of having
done nothing, but here was our indi
vidual who had unintentionally t dp»e
something. Startled by the cries which
aroused the entire neighborhood he
made a rapid run for home, and tak-*
tug advantage of all the short cuts and
by-ways, as though his scalp depended
on gaining an entry, into his own do
micile. V»’c. predict that this gent
will hereafter think twice before he
strikes at imaginary cats perched iu
somebody else's window. ;
A Texas Family’s Fatb.-7-<Scu? :
Antonin, Texas, October A.—-.Captain
Cooney, of tHe flth CalCary, stiltloned
n*nr Ghtbp Colorado; : TexHs,' 1 i-eports
that tlivi girl riot Jong'sinCeiudnU by a --
surveying ivpjty gauging to; a tree aud
scalped,.was the daughter of Mr, Wil
liams', Who lives Yweive miles below
Crimp-Colorado,, on'Jimneds flrtek.' 1
The Indians attacked the hoiisaffluring
the absence, of . FjflkVts and Dis son,
nnd trjed tp force Mre.. Wiffians away,
but filially ‘thev'shot tier with an arrow
nnd pistol. ' llffr fcirl the Indians'took
ulong, and her infant son, about seven
months old, they throw, into the fire,
Mrs. Williams, whoiwas shot near the
house, crawled to her baby; and took
it out ot th£ tire. " Bhe died that night,
and the baby a worik riftCr: 'Her oldci*
son came jt st in time-to see his mother
dying, and toquetfeh her thirst.-
A woman in Cameron, Missouri, Who?
A II.vity Marriage Notice.— A
St. Louis local editor was recently
married, and his brother local of the
St. Louis Democrat gives him the flil-
lowing good notice ;
“Some people get married and some
don’t. Some men prefer maids and
some other men prefer widows—that
is a matter of taste. Each hprn of
the dileinna has its advantages. One
advantage possessed by a widow
that she has graduated, had her eye
teeth cut, and knows what’s what. A
Virgin has everything to Iearr, and it
requires patience and per evcrance
to instruct her. -Our gold-haired
friend, George Centre Broivn, the
sensational writer, preferred a widow.
He picked out the best one in the city
—Mrs. Jennie S. Jenkins—and on
Saturday the twain were made one.
The effections of the lovely and gush
ing widow have for some time centred
iu Centre, and she was his’n from cen
tre to circumference. Three exquisite
children, ready made, assist materially
in comenting the union. ’Tis sweet to
be called “papa” by cherub lips on
one’s wedding day. The evening went .
off smoothly—skies serene—friends in tures of extraordinary -interedH^One
good spirits and nobody hurt. We I of the most startling of its eccCntncitieb
congratulate our sensational friend up-; will bj the calculation which assigns to
on securing the monopoly of so hand-[ Jesus Christ the age of forty-nine Jyears
some an “item.” I at the time of liis crucifixion. • ‘
ought to liave becri married bfi't wasn’t,
left her baby op the stops of the Bap
tist church. Whcu the minister of that „
house of the jLprd got horae.be found
bis wife ready with a broomstick and
a gallon of warm water. W (th singu
lar perception he Jeft without asking
any explanation for the singular and
warlike attitude of the partner of his
bosom.
At a camp-meeting at 'Middletown,
Cal., recently, a pretty, delicate little
woman became greatly excited, and
while shouting and,-clapping her hands,
declared she wanted to diq . there.
Htr wisli was granted, for,she .pimust
instantly fell back and' died in a few
minutes. iC •• - : ‘ ■ -
Age of the .Savior.—The Lon
don correspondent of the Manchester
Guardian says that the forthcoming
volume, by Chevalier Ernst Bunsen,
on the “Chronology of the Bible,”
which is to bo issued simultaneously
not only on both sides of the Atlantic,
but in four of the leading languages of
Europe—English, French', _ Gefman,
and .Italian—will present some fea-
A large rattlesnake was killeding
Oglethorpe' county the other day. It
was four feet arid four inches in length
and nine and- three-quarter inches
around-, the body. , This has been
a remarkable year fur this species of
reptile* , ,,. .
The celebrated extracts of Buchir.
put tip Helmbold and ^tbef&ooqsisls of
molasses and . water* .resip, gwnphoff
and about jin ounce ofBuchu(leaved
lo a bai-rel qf water. is harmless,-
and useless as it is innocent.
A daughter Is generally right wherf
she end&tvors (o' frriitaffi. her mother f
but it does, not necessarily, follow that
a mother is equally right/wb**, at a
certain'period of herlife,she makes
every effort to imitate her da tighter.