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Newspaper Page Textthe bainbridge weekly democrat. V I. BAINBRIDGB, GEORGIA, THURSDAY, JULY 18, 1872 NUMBER 57 flie Weekly Democrat, PUBLISHED EVERY THURSDAY MORNING. SUBSCRIPTION TERMS: One Copy one year - - - $3 00 one Copy six months * idling Matter on Every Page. Oiir New York Letter. New York, July, 14, 1872. For a week the heat has been positively awlul. There is no adjec tive indeed, superlatively descrip tive enough to set forth the situa tion. Of sun strokes there have been 100 a day. The rays seem to come straight dowr. like barbed arrows. The air is hot and dry, and the mar ble walls between which we have to walk only serve to collect and refract the intensified temperature. The rage for business is gone, and men are content to sit in thc-ir shirt sleeves ami jiant and lan. Lager bier, ginger pop and sioda water have become the beverages of the hour, and you cannot find a place in the city where these refreshments arc sold that is not thronged. Cars and steamers are carrying every body out of town who can get away, and the Stay-at-home clubs resort for change to the parks and excur sions on ferry boats. The churches consequently make a poor Sunday show. The fashionable preachers are engaged in fishing for souls at the sea-side, and their flocks are going to country churches in Paris made clothes, as a compromise with their consciences. Life here is full of sad incidents. ] heard one related the other day. A young girl returning from Europe, two or three years ago, met among her rompagnons du voyage, a hand some fellow of thirty,was fascinated, and in spite of the protestations of her family, married him. She was worth eighty or a hundred thousand dollars in her own name, and a por tion of the property consisted of bonds, jewelry and plate. In a few months the husband obtained posses sion of a greater part of it. He tlien compelled her to live in cheap hoarding houses, and to receive the attentions of men of his own ilk, and subjected her to the most petty cruel ties. Eventually she became a mother. His persecutions now com menced in earnest. He seemed to hate her. He treated her like a brute, beat and cursed her during illness, refused the ordinary comforts of life, and finally believing that he l a 1 secured the last dollar she own ed, abandoned her. One day a lady called to sec the poor woman and in the conversation that followed, it turned out that the • visitor had likewise been married, robbed and abandoned in the same manner by the same villian. The revelation so cflected the mind of th# young mother that she became almost a maniac. Her family then for the first time learned of the cruel ty which she had endured. They carried her to Europo again for a change of scene and air, and she re mained for several months. She re turned wit h her child not long ago. When about to land ft-oin the steam er, she was accosted by a gentleman who said he was a friend of her brother, and had been sent by him to eseort her in his carriage to his house. Taking the arm of the stran ger the lady accompanied him to the vehicle, but there to her amazement and consternation sat her husband. She divined his purpose in an instant. It was to steal the little girl. Faint w ith fear, she turned to escape. The fiend sprang fi om the carriage and was about to lay his hand on her when a well directed blow knock ed him down, and the lady in a mo ment afterwards was folded in the embrace of her brother. It appears that the villian had in- tefetpted dispatches and letters be- ‘"een uis wife ami her lamily, and arranged under her brother’s name to mcct her on the arrival of the ^earner, and but for a happy, acci- ' ent that carried her brother to the °ck, she and her little one would probably have been abducted by the tafamous husband. The fellow was allowed to escape, mcause he had comiited no overt or four wives, from all of whom he obtained money, in the same manner and then deserted them. He has been traced to Europe, and it is be lieved will be caught and proved to lie one of the mo3t adroit bigamists of the age. The trial of Stokes now in. progress adduces no new facts. No one be lieves, however, that if found guilty, lie will be hung. The general suppo sition is that the jury will disagree. They have been permitted to sepa rate", and a bundled or two thousand dollars may possibly have some influ ence in determining the verdict. . New York is destined to catch the drippings of the Boston jubilee. We may not have the colosseum or the chorus, but crack bands have been captured and will perform here be fore their departure lor Europe. The Prussian band plays at Jones’ Wood in a few days, and the Grena diers will follow. Strauss will proba bly remain through the summer. Policemen are killing dogs right and left. In Hoboken, last week, a poor German having drank too much lager, was taking a nap on the curb stone. An ordinary black and tail dog slept or rather watched by his side. One of the knights of the star and baton attempted to arouse the man for .the purpose of taking him to the station house, when the little fellow showed fight in his master's defence. The policeman thereupon drew his revolver and shot the ani mal several times. He did not die instantly, but with an expression almost human, crept up to his .now half awakened friend and owner, laid his little head upon, and kissed the drunken face, and with a long pitiful, almost human look, breathed his last. The incident was witness cd by a dozen persons to whom that lead dog has been made more pre cious than a brigade of brutal po licemen. The Ahlinc makes its usual artis tic appearance this month. No periodical in New York is watched by the public with more interest, or treasured in the household so long. Its illustrations constitute a superb picture gallery. The Loss of ti’ie Filibuster Fan- nth.—A dispatch from Nassau, July 1st, via Key West, Fla., July 5th, says: Capt. Speed, General Ryan, Capt. Geo. Brown, the agent of the steamer Fannie, and twenty-two of the crew of the Fannie have arrived here. They make the following re port: The steamer Fannie struck on a reef on the coast of Cuba, and after remaining there between thirty and forty hours, during which time the coal on the steamer was thrown overboard to lighten her, the party on board succeeded in safely land ing two pieces of cannon and sever al thousand stands ot .arms. As the Fannie could not. be floated she was set on fire and totally destroyed. The party then launched the ship’s boats and started for the Bahamas, and succeeded in leaching Long Island after a sail of three days. The whole party were brought to Nassau by the. schooner Charles, arriving here on the 29th ult., and will sail for New York to-day. Gen. Ryan reports that he recieved a knife wound, but as the knife struck on a piece of metal on his person but slight injury was done. The perpe trator oCthe deed was one of the ex peditionists. . aci, but measures were taken at once u> secure a divorce, ami the £*>r woman has finally been freed rom his persecutions. It has since transpired that the vilhan has three A Fortune made by a Hat. We have all heard of the lad who stopped to pick up a pin as he was sadly leaving the presence of the rich banker, of whom he had asked for employment in vain, and was thereupon recalled, given a stool in the office, afterward taken into part nership, and died immensely rich. It may well have been true, as many fortunes have turned upon as slight points as .that. The other day Hoit Muhle died at Colmar, Tate of France, but now ot Germany, twice over a millionaire, who owed all his fortune to his hat. He had been appren-. ticed to a turner, and, in the course of his Wanderjahr, or travelling year of the German journeyman, he found himself in Colmar, and ap plied to Messrs. Well & Boutron, who had a great machine sqop, for work. The ragged and barefoot boy, with his knapsack on his back, did not commend himself to the mas ters; and he was told to go about his business. As he was going, the master machinist called after him. ‘I say, man, what kind of a hat is that you have on?’ *A wooden one, sir,’ ' ‘A wooden one ! And where did you get it?’ ‘I made it, sir.’ ‘How ?’ ‘With my lathe. I had a long way to go, aud needed a hat that would keep out the rain; and as I had no money to buy o»c, I made this out of wood.’ ‘But this is an oval, and an oval form Cannot be made with a lathe.’ ‘That is true, sir; but nevertheless I did it. I took my central point and worked away till I had made my hat.’ The poor apprentice had instinctively hit upon the principle of the eccentric lathe. The keen-sighted turner at'once en gaged him, and found him to be. a mechanical genius as well a good workman. He became a partner, and afterward sole proprietor, un der the Gallicized name of M. Mou lin, and died the richest man of the whole countryside. Dreadful Story of a Diamond King. Among the victims of the recent railroad smah-op at Metuchen, New Jersey, was a Danish couple named Potasscn, but two months married, Mr. Potassen being the son of a Danish nobleman. They were on their bridal tour, and were en route to San Francisco, where Pbtassen's brother is Danish Consul. When the terrible crash came all was darkness aud confusion for a few moments; but the gentleman soon recovered consciousness, and his first, thought was of »his " bride. An immediate search was made for the lady, and she was at last found beneath a heap of debris, senseless and cover ed with blood.. Upon, raising her up her husband .was horrified to find that one of her ami's had been completely torn olf. The unt'ortu-. nate lady was removed to shelter, and the hushand began the sicken ing task if seeking his wife’s missing arm. He proclaimed that upon one of the fingers was the diamond wedding-ring, a jewel worth many hundred dollars, and instantly a general search was begun. •' Among the prowlers about the wreck was a train hand, who was observed to se crete something under his coat and walk away. He was soon over hauled, and, on perceiving that lie had been detected, lie threw down his burden, which prQVPd tobe-thei lost arm. It was picked up by the nobleman, who removed the ring and caused the am to be taken care of. One ol the extraordinary facts re vealed to us by Dr. Livingston’s ex plorations in Africa is that the high table land of the interior, with its rich agricultural resources, its noble flora, its fine temperature, broad inland seas, and inexhausti ble stores of mineral wealth, is ren dered all but impenetrable to civil ized man, certainly beyond all reach of colonization, by one of the most apparently insignificant causes, a fly. This terrible insect is a little brown, yellow-striped fly called the tsetze, scarcely larger than our common household pests, but whose sting is absolutely fatal.> So deadly is its poison that it is said three or four flics will kill the largest ox. Soon after the bite, which gives little or no pain, staggering and blindness come on; the body swells to an enomous size; the coat turns rough, and in a few hours follow convulsions and death* And yet this deadly poison under the effect of which the horse and ox, the sheep and the dog fall as is - plague-strick en, is perfectly harmless to man. to wild animals, to the pig, mule, ass, and goat. Here is an achievement of science that would bring glory to the discoverer—the discovery of some antidote to the sting of this venomous fly, which would open the treasures of Central Afirica to the use of the world. A Georgia Boy in Virginia.— It is pleasant to see the young men ot 4 Georgia winning applauses for themselves, either at home or abroad. Among those abroad at school from whom favorable reports are sent home, is Idus L. Fielder, son of Hon. Herbert Fielder, who has just completed hi< school course at the University of- Virginia. The Charlottesville (Ya.) Chronicle pays him a very handsome compliment as to his personal and intellectural worth, and sends him home with the good wishes of the many friends he has made in the Old Dominion. During the last quarter of hi3 University course, Mr. Fielder, in connection with Mr. John S. Wil liams, -of Tennessee, has edited the University Magazine with di.f n- guished ability. A Column ofMragglers. The height of a young lady’s, am bition—Two little feet. ^ “No cows, no cream,” was* the way an intelligent compositor set.up the words, “No cross, no crown.” An enterprising butcher's motto— “First in gore, first in grease, and first in the stomachs of my country men.” . A bore, meeting Douglas Jerroid, said* '‘Well, what’s going oh to day?” “Iam,” exclaimed Jerroid, •darting past the inquirer. • “What,” asked an exchange, ‘.‘will be Col. Claflin’s uniform?’ And yet, thepapers-announced,some time ago that she had purchased a pair of spurs. A sweet “girl- graduate” a Massachusetts school recently an examiner that “EsOjfP was author of the Latin fables, covered with hair, sold his birth right for a mess of potash.” A California obituary: “The de ceased was a talented man of ro mantic nature. He placed the butt of his gun in the fire, while he looked down the muzzle and depart ed hence spontaneously.” Walter, a five year-old, was sur prised at breakfast by the presence of a diminutive egg, served ioi his special delectation. lie thus ac counted for the egg’s smallness: “Mamma, I think the chicken was learning to lay.” A gentleman who had missed his umbrella for some time, a day or two ago found it in a conspicuous place on his premises with the foL following inscription pinned upon it: “This umbrallar, as prade on my •konshens ever sin I stole him.’-’ A young lady who had been great ly annoyed by a lot ot young simple tons who stop under her windpw at night .to sing‘“If Ever I Cease to Love,’’-wishes us to say that if they will cease their foolishness, come in, and talk “business/’ they will con fer a favor. _ A poor little Sunday-school schol ar in Wisconsin was^deluded into learning 3,730 verses in the Bible in four weeks by the promise of a book They gave him “Hitchcock’s analy sis of-the Bible.” He swapped it for a three bladed knife and a peck of hickory nuts. An Irishman went into a_(’hicago store, and says he, “Did you put it in the paper you wanted a man sur?” “Yes,” said the storekeeper; “aud I distinctly state., all applica tions must be made by mail.” “An faith, an’ it’s myself that is a male, sure,” said Pat; and he was hired. * “Death,”’said a Santa Fe paper, •“with tieshiess knudilcs, rapped.at the door of Mrs. J. N. B’s soul, and obedient to the inexorable call, the spirit of that loved woman floated up to its Creator, leaving her bus* bund, children and friends ter mourn over her mortal casket.” " ’ The Fort Wayne Sentinel ' mak03 the following cheerful announcement: ‘ ‘A coffin room has been established on-Wayne Street, in the rear of the Sentinel building. Ay one feeling like attacking .the editor will save his relatives trouble by coming around that way and selecting his bosr” •■■■*.. -c- . 1 ‘I came for the saw sir. ” ‘ ‘What saucer!” “Why, the saw sir, that you borrowed,” “I borrowed no saucer.” “Sure you -did sir; you borrowed a saw; sir.” “I never saw your saucer,” “But you did; there’s the saw' now, sir.” “Oh, you want the saw; why didn’t* you say so,” A patient complained to his phy sician that he was prursued by a ghost the night before as he was going home from the tavern. -What shape was it ?’ asked the doctor. ‘In the shape of an ass,’ replied the man. ‘Go home,’ said the doctor ‘and keep sober. You were drunk last night and frightened l>y y°u r own shadow.’ A young lady at an evening party, some time ago, found it apropos to use the expression “Jordan is a hard road to travel:” but, thinking it too vulgar, substituted the follow ing:—“Perambulating progression in pedestrian excursions along the fer-famed thoroughfare of fortune cast up by the banks of the spark, ling river of Palestine is indeed aU tended with a heterogeneous com glomeration of unforeseen difficul ties.” Strengtli of Gibraltar. .Until you set foot on Gibraltar, you can form no idea of its impreg nability. Very properly its real strength cannot be seen from a ship in the bay; only when you land do you find that the sea wall bristles with heavy guns, and groans be neath piles of ball; only as you tra verse its flank do you see how form idable breech-loaders peep from every available chink, and powerful mortars lurk behind every conven ient embankment. And not till you peuetrate the rock do you get any just notion of the marvellous piece of military engineering exhibited in the “galleries.” These are tunnels excavated from the solid rock, par allel to its outer side, but some .thirty feet therefrom, and large enough to drive a carriage through. An Eye to Business, or Seeking after the Truth.—Several years ago a boy walked into,—six miles in the blazing sun, for the purpose of procuring a Bible. He Lad been told, he said, that there was a place hey are 1n twoviers, and comprise* -whe^e they gave them away to the a total lengthy of nearly three miles. At every thirty feet or so along them, spacious embrasures are out- hewn, that terminate in command ing portholes, which look to a spec tator outside the rock like swallows’ nest-holes in a sand cliff. These em brasures contain heavy guns always standing ready, for action, with powder magazines hard by. From the portholes a beautiful peep of the bay and i he Spanish continent are obtained; out of these, on the North side, you look down upon A half-sandy, half-grassy flat, perhaps half a mile long, and as wide, con necting the rock with the main land, and separating the bay from the Mediterranean. Two lines of sentry boxes, one at the rock ctid, the other at the distant end, mark the boundaries of British’ and Spanish land, and between these lines is the neutral ground. The guns of the quarried embrasures and those hitF den cannon that stud the Western and. Souffiern slopes of the rock, cover the neighboring ^Spanish land, the -whole of the bay, and the straits; and the strengthing work is ever going on hy the fortification of new points that from time to time appear vulnerable. The Eastern side of the rock requires no protec tion; it is a" forbidding wall, with a great sand slope in one place, but with no foothold for anything *more than a fewfisliecmeu’s huts near the water’s edge.—St. James Maga zine. • Neatness. In its essence, purely for its own sake, neatness is found in few. Many a man is neat for appearance sake; there is an instinctive feeling that there is power in it. When a man consults a physieign or a law yer for the first time, or comes to rent a house, or borrow money, he will come in his best dress; a lady will call in her carriage. A man who means business and honesty comes, as ho is, just as you will find him in his store, his shop, Ins count- ing-house. The most aocomplished gamblers dresi well; the most enter prising swindlers are faultlessly, clothed; but countless multitudes are but whitewashed . sepulchers. Too many ‘don't care, as long as it will not be seen. 1 Washington v AUs- ton, the great artist, the accom plished gentleman, suddenly left his friend standing at the door of a splendid Boston mansion as they were about entering for' a party, be cause he had just remembered that he had^. liolqin his stocking. It could mot be seen or known, but the very knowledge of its existence made him feel that lie was less a man than he ought to be, gave him a feeling of inferiority. As persons are less careless of personal cleanliness and tidy ap parel, they are infalibly and neces sarily less of the angel, more of the animal; more under the domination of influence, of principle. Said a- poor servant girl:. ‘I can’t explain what change religion has made in me,-bat I look more closely under the door-mat, when I sweep, than I used to,’ • Intelligence, culture, ele vation, give purity of body as well as pnrity of sense aqd sentiment. Where you see a neat, tidy, eleanly, cheerful dwelling, there you will find a joyus loving, happy family. But if filth and squalor, and a disregard for the refining delicacies of life prevail in any house- hold, there will be found in the moral character of the inmates much that is low, degrading, unprincipled, vicipus and disgusting. Therefore, as we grow in years, we ought to watch eagerly against neglect of cleanliness in person, and tidyness in dress. Oranges.—One of our most scien tific gentleman agriculturalists, says the WilJiagton (Del.) Republican, recently visited Florida. He was there offered a tract of land for fifty dollars. He purchased it. It was woodland. He grafted orange trees upon the growing wood, and it will now, it is alleged, yield him five thousand dollars a year from his crop of oranges. A good investment. D. McGill. M. OKiu, MCGILL, tt-O%£aL. - ATTORNEYS AT Bainbridge, Ga. Law Office up stain near the Post Office. NOTICE. Thin is to forewarn all parties not to al low Mrs. MatUe'R. Retch who has Uft mj bed and board, u> contract any debts on my account, as I shall in no case be feaponai-* ble for them A.T. Reid. Bairbridge, Os., April 11th. 1872. people who had no money* he said he had no money, and was very anx ious to get one of the good books, and happening to fall in with a piou3 man, aSked hiin-to go with him to the place where they were kept.— Anxious to encourage him in his early piety, the man took him over to. the stand of an old Presbyterian deacon who had the -much-coveted books in charge. He introduced him to the deacon, telling him the cir cumstances. He praised the boy very highly; was delighted to see a young man so early seeking after the truth, etc., and presented him with the best. bound Bible in his collec tion. Bubby put it in his pocket, and wa6 starting ofl^ when the dea con said.- “Now, my son, that you possess what you so much desired, I suppose you feel perfectly happy ?” “Wall, I do, old hoss; for between you and I, I know where I can trade it for a plaguey good fiddle!” Gardening for Ladies.—Make up your beds early in tho morning; sew buttons on your husband’s shirts; do not rake up any grievances; pro tect the young and tender branches of your family; plant a smile of good temper in your face, and carefully root out all angry feelings—and ex pect a good crop of happiness. When Mr. Harper brought .his stud of horses North he had a white jockey, Tim boy soon became inti mate with many patrons of the turf, and drank and smoke with them.— He was*a general favorite. As soon as the old roan found out that the sports and knowing ones, particu larly the Tammany politicians knew the boy. he te’egraphed for his color ed jockey, John Sample, who rode Longfellow at Lexington. When the bell rang for the riders to mount the white boy came out. Apparently not noticing him, Uncle John told the darkey to step on the scales.— Finding he weighed one pound too much, he made him run round the track and sweat the extra pound away. The experiment was success ful and the darkey won the race.— It is said that while the white boy is richer by several hundred dollars, some politicians are of the opinion that they threw some money away very carelessly. They think Uncle John Harper is too smart for the New York boys. A colored orator of North Caroli na wished his “voice could be heard from the Colantic to the Exsific ocean.”. •- PROPERTIED 5 PlEASANTTIDRIM These Bitten era positively invmlumhl, ta ALLSKIN DISEASES/ERUPT NS They purify the system, and will e DYSPEPSIA A CLIMERAL DEL! -s’ 1 V. Remittent End Intermittent Seven, NERVOUS DI SEASES.LIVER COMPLAINT and are a pctventiva of Chin* and fever. PI SEASESOFTHF. KIDNEYA BLADDER All yield to their powerful efficacy. \RtC00D FORTHE MENTAL ORGANIZATION Are an antidote to change of Water and Diet. THEY WILL REST ORE YOUTHFUL VIGOR to the waited frame, usd coiieet all IRREGULARITY 0FTHE BOWELS. The Mari mSICUB THERE, - . , v PRESCRIBE IT H BIT ? ER ' JJ&iSK mu GURUS! PRACTICE. Fg"For sale, by the Case or Bottla, by BABBIT A WARFIELD. Bainbridge, Ga. I. The modern woman when she has a nail to drive dosen’t wait for her husband to come home. She catches hold of the-nail as she would tbe.hair of a recreant soil, swings the ham- mar over her head and plunges downward. . Then she ties up her fingers as well as she can, puts on her best bonnet, and goes right o T er to her mother’s tor a-good cry, and some tea. • WITH FOWLER & SLOCUM, - 76 A 78 FRANKLIN STREET, NEW YORK, M. nm povte at* m OF s* WHITE GOODS, LINENS, HOSIERY, NOTIONS, BLACK SILKS, ALPACAS, DRESS GOODS, Laces, Embroideries, Woolens, Italians, Flannels, april6 Cm il'SpCN & ORNAMEiYTiL PAINTER. 1 wish to inform the readers of the Saoat- Weekly Argue, that I am now prepared to do all kinds of HOUSE AND SIGN PAINTING, GRAINING, MARBLING, PAPER HAN6* ING, GLAZING, CALSOM1NING In all colors. I am prepared to do work in the country or neignboring towns. Have on hand a fine assortment of Paints. My prices are moderate and I guarantee my work ta stand. Call on or address JAS. F VAN HORN, ocN3 ly Bainbridge, Ga. JEWELRY, ETC. Can for a State Democratic ~ Convention. Atlanta, Ga., June 26, 1872. At a meeting of the Executive Committee of the State, held this day, it was resolved that a Conven tion of the Democratic party be held in the city of Atlanta, on Wed nesday, the 24th day of July next, at 12 o’cloek m., in the capital bqih ding, iq Atlanta, for the purpose of nominating an Electoral Ticket, and a candidate for Governor, Coun ties will be entitled to the usual rep resentation. Julian Habtridge, Chairman. z. l. xo»o*x, w. MORGAN A HARRELL, PRACTICING PHYSICIANS, BA INBRIDGE, ga. O FFICE in their Drag Store, North side of Court Honse Sqnare, on Water Street W. O. SUBURflf. Broar Street, BAINBRIDGE, - - GEORGIA, Keeps constantly on hand- WATCSE8* Clocks, . Jewelry, Diamonds/ Silver-Was*, Farcy Goods, Cutlery, MUSICAL INSTRUMENTS. TOYS, Ac., Ac., In great variety, which for style, quality price cannot be excelled. A foil line of HOLIDAY and BRIDAL PRE»ENTB in Sjtoye, JBB* WATCHES and JEWELRY at short notice, and waxr&ateA oeUl iwp a. wBrrxna T.,.., rom* a. soasuo* WHITELEY * DONAISOH* ATTORNEYS AT L*AW V BAINBRIDGE, GA. ******** op stairs, la Sanborn's saw build , '”*• april 17 99-tttt