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THE BAINBRIBGE WEEKLY SUN
V rER ANNUM.
VOL- VII.
the weeiuysun.
PUBLISHED
jjverv Sat \tra.a.y
It. M Johnston, Proprietor.
Terms of Subcriptios.
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(w Copy. Three Months 75
Invariably in Advance
Among tlie.Georfcla Press.
Business is brightening Al
bany.
X), O colored people of Albany gave
iconcert last week.
\\, H. Gilbert and Thomas R.
I,von have been nominated for the
Legislature from Dougherty.
Oen. John 13. Gordon will speak
in Washington this week.
A city wag remarked of » certain
vonng man in Griffin a day or so ago,
thut “he was once a printer’s devil”
sn<l now he wrw a “devii”.of a nice
voung fellow ?
Filch has seen a pumpkin weigh
ing seventy pounds.
John Templeton with his English
(>|H'ra Troupe, will ho iu Atlanta on
the night of the 23d, and open at
p,.Giro's for the season.
Mr. John H. Brooks killed a Mr.
Hightower in burly county last week.
Mr. J. Divine has retired from the
Savannah Evening Mirror. Just as
we predicted while we thought there
were too much red-headed Radical
ism about it
The health of Lumpkin is improv
ing.
Thomas county has had a big
nullity picnic.
JntncH McDonald and J. O. H.
Mmson havo been nominated for
the Legislature from Thomas county.
Cuthbert is going to fix up her
Court-house.
Thus. Callahan, an Augusta police
man, was shot on Wednesday night
in that city by Thomas Costello. It
i" thought Callahan’s wounds are
fatal. Costello and an accomplice
named George Rutledge, they have
been arrested.
Capt. J. R. Johnson, the former
representative in the Legislature
front Clav county, he was nominated
i'D list Saturday for another term.
There is a very deceptive cotlnter
f«tss United currency afioat. It is
'm much like the original, and can
rtljhc detected by comparing the
* nis “United States.” In the good
Me they urn delicately shaded and
nearly defined, and in the bad one
heavily shaded and rather crowded.
Sniggles want to know if you can
Like a blind man liable for a bill, if
■t payable at sight.
A Radical paper, to be called the
V’oal, is to commence publication
a Atlanta, on the 26th.
The Savannah News says that never
* x 'f°re in the history of Georgia has
tin tv been so much dissatisfaction
K !u 'ug the friends of candidates for
1 tfWe, and says this is no time for
Mitical broils.
TlioSav. News justly complains be
r.vuso the tax-books for Chatham
bounty have been submitted to the
i " 'tom House officials for inspection,
Mi, l left in their sole charge for sev
tral hours.
The Cherokee, Georgia and Ala-
f ma Agricultural and Mechanical
IMr tor 1872. will l>e held at Rome,
c ';' m mencing October Bth and con
tuiuing four days.
av ’ News says one of the men
M tucked to the Great Eastern Circus
* v -1 '.ting i n that city, has along as
. * one of the greatest eurosities
"'e have seen in many a day.
%r I* Was a six months old black
i ttr rier pup, with only two
« v> . un ‘“g 8 - The breast is per-
MiJof U1 °' n \ I ’- tilere^being 110 n PP ear *
The rescm bling forefeet
i'onnt^ ow ,>nn Like tremendous
H « slriies
the gn he touches
curious u', \. ,^ n^e a crowd of the
0 f ' . ’ t( t to the carsto see this
feature.
A correspondent of the Atlanta
Constitution writes from Dalton that
if the rest of the State will do as well
for Gov. Smith as North Georgia he
will be re-elected by 60,000 majority.
The Telegraph adds that Dauso Wal
ker is the deadliest cock in the pit
that ever tried to crow in that section.
The people of Griffin are attending
strictly to cotton picking and leaving
politics and politicians to take care
of themselves. Every negro ablejto
get to a cotton field has gone to work
to raise a little money to carry them
through the winter. Sensible.
The fire company of Americus have
about being tired of the idea of work
ing for the benefit of citizens and
paying all their own expenses, and if
the City Council don’t make an ap
propriation, most of the members
will be forced to resign.
A shooting affair occurred on
Wednesday last at Cochrane, on the
Macon and Brunswick Railroad, be
tween Jacob Watson, Mayor of
Hawkinsville, and a Mr. Head. Head
got one ball in his head and one in his
brest but the Mayor was only wound
ed in his hat. An express rgent receiv
ed an accidental but painful wound in
the back by one of the wild shots.
Mr. Daniel A. Johnson, of Griffin,
is dead.
The Savannah News of Tuesday
says :
The Hon. Tittlebat Timouse Aker
man made himself heard in this city
yesterday, and his speech was a good
Democratic campaign document. His
bitter denunciations of the Southern
people and his fulsome laudation of
Grant’s corrupt administration
should have been heard by every
Democrat who has proposed to him.
self to remain idle in this campaign.
The efforts of Tittlebat will do more
to unite the white people of Georgia
on one common platform, than any
other conceivable tiling. His deter
mination to canvass the entire State
is a providential occurrence. No
Democrat who listens to one of Tin
kerman’s Harangues can fail to per
ceive the duty he owes to his people.
Truth Htrantfdr than Fiction.
Two of the leading dressmakers of a
neighboring city, says an exchange, took
it into their heads about a month ago to
go over to Europe, and make arrange
ments for getting the fashions at the ear
liest possible moment. Each had an eye
on the other ; each intended to get clear
ahead of the other. Neither of them
knew that the other was intending to go
aboard. As rivals sometimes do, even if
they are women, these two hated each
other. They had not spoken to each other
for years, though they now and then spoke
of each other. They engaged passage by
a first-class steamer that sailed about two
weeks ago. Each knew that she was to
have a companion in her state room, but
did not know who she would be, end was
probably somewhat anxious on this point.
Truth is stranger than fiction. The steam*
er sailed proudly down the bay. One of
our dressmakers was on the deck enjoying
the scene, which was novel to her. She
was delighted that she had outwitted her
rival up in Troy. Presently she went
down to her state room to see what sort of
room-mate she had. On entering the
room she found her rival. Both ladies
threw up their hands, exclaiming; “You
here!” and both fainted. A passenger
saw two number three gaiteos projecting
through the doorway. This excited sus
picion and the matter was investigated.
Both ladies were found insensible. The
captain was heard to remark to the second
officer an hour afterward, that he’d be
blest if he ever saw anybody get sea-sick
so quick as those two women did. Our
reporter, from whom we learn these facts
by a special cable dispatch, says it was the
most comical sight he ever saw to see how
these two studied to avoid each other dur
ing the trip. They tried to trade state
rooms with somebody, but could not Fi
nally after living together for nearly ten
days, each began to appreciate the fact
that her rival was a most estimable lady,
and very sharp at business. Gradually
they began to talk to each other,
coldly at first, but at last they fell into
each other’s arms, wept and asked forgn
ness. The result was, that they formed a
co-partnership, and when they return will
set up the most extensive dressmaking es
tablishment ever known in this part of
the State. If you believe this is a yam.
just make a few inquiries and satisfy your
1 self.
SPEECH
OF
COL E. HULBERT,
Before the Georgia Press Asso
elation, Atlanta, Ga., Sept. 5,
1872, oa the Ralhvtt? System
of Georgia.
Mr. President and Gentlemen of (he
Press:
The extension of otlf railway sys
tem is one of deep and vital impor
tance to Georgia, important as the
means of development, important as
the means of staying the exodus of
our citizens from the State, and as
the means of enabling us to hold our
position as the Empire State of the
South, and especially to enable us to
keep pace with our sister States in
the advancement of our material in
terests,
The war left ns prostrate, and al
though ouf general condition has
greatly improved, it has not reached
that point which we had hoped, and
which we have striven to attain. Va
rious causes may be assigned for this
failure, but the most prominent of
all is the want of the extension of
our railway system to that extent
demanded by the absolute wants and
imperative demands of the people.
A large portion of our territory is
still without railway facilities. Our
planters and farmers who are dis
tant from one to three days’ travel
from railway and telegraph facilities,
cannot be expected to remain con-
tent with their lot. Their isolated
situation is attended with many se
rious drawbacks to their prosperity,
and it is unreasonable tp expect them
to remain content with the depriva
tion of advantages which their more
fortunate fellow-citizens possess.
The want of these facilities has
compelled thousands of our people
to emigrate to sections where they
could command them, and it Will
force thousands of others to follow
their example unless we extend our
railway system so as to cover the
entire State. When we compare the
progress of our State with those
who are making use of the railway
and telegraph as the means of peo
pling their waste places, and increas
ing their commercial and political
power, we are struck with amaze
ment that the great State of Geor
gia, to whom nature has been so
bountiful, should not strive with all
her greatjpowers to at least retain
her own sons upon her own soil.
"What are the facts ? In place of
an immigration of planters and farm
ers, occupying and bringing under
cultivation our wild lands and man
ufacturers to improve our water pow
ers, converting the raw material into
gold, and of mechanics supplying
our wants, and of laborers with their
strong arms to uphold and strength
en the general interests ; we find
thousands of our planters and farm
ers leaving the State to get within
the wealth-creating influences of rail
ways in more progressive States,
leaving their Georgia homes to grow
up in briars and pine thickets, our
water powers remain unimproved,
the few mechanics we have, either
comparatively idle, or seeking other
localities where a diversity of inter
ests and pursuits are acknowledged
as true political economy, our labor
ers drawn off to supply the demand
in sections whose lands have not
been impoverished by our murder
ous system of cultivation, or rather,
scarification ; all rapidly and surely
driving us into a self-elected bank
ruptcy.
It is estimated that within the last
year that from ten to twelve thou
sand emigrants have gone out of the
State, and that during that period
not over six hundred imigrants have
come into the State. "What a com
ment upon our boasted enterprise!
A careful examination of the sub
ject develops the fact that in nine
cases in ten the emigrants are from
sections in Georgia without railway
facilities, and that in the section of
their new homes they have located
on or contiguous to some line of rail
way already completed or in course
of rapid construction.
The political economy that per
mits such a deplorable condition of
affairs to exist is radically wrong,
destructive to aU progress, entirely
FOR THE RIGHT—JVSTICE TO ALE
BAINBUIDGE GA., SEPTEMBER 28th,
devoid of the first principles of states
manship, and utterly wanting in com
mon business sense.
With this existing State of affaiis
it is high time we had ceased prating
about out enterprise, our superior
and even remarkable natural advan
tages, and take such steps as will at
least retain our present population.
We have on our statute books 32
railway charters that have the State’s
indorsement for an average of about
$12,000 per mile, making a total oi
about $30,000,000 conditional, pro
spective liability on the part of the
State. In each of the localities cov
ered by these charters railway facil
ities are imperatively demanded, but
they cannot be built bocause the peo
ple are too poor to subscribe and
pay the amount subscribed by law,
and hence the emigration referred to.
It is undeniably true that if these
proposed railways were constructed
the standard guage of five feet, cost
ing from $20,000 to $30,000 per mile,
that they would have a capacity
greatly in excess of the wants of the
sections in which they are located.
In this case then, we will invest
an unnecessary amount, thereby en
tailing high rates of transportation
upon all interests with which they
come in contact.
We will have invested an amount
entirely disproportioned to the ob
ject sought to be attained, and would
be Utterly wanting inutile common
sense which we use in our daily bus"
iness transactions.
With two or three exceptions, the
thirty-two proposed roads, if con
structed broad guage, could not
command sufficient business to pay
operating expenses and interest ac
count, or if so, it would be at such
extreme high rates as would retard,
rather than stimulate development.
We cannot construct them then,
with any reasonable hope or expec
tation of their being self-sustaining.
But fortunately for us, experiments
within the last six or eight years have
practically demonstrated the entire
practicability of a cheaper class of
railways, exactly adapted to our
wants, and especially our means.
The three feet guage railway, cost
ing only about one-half that of the
broad or five feet guage, has a ca
pacity greater even than would be
required for the sections under dis
cussion. They are also operated
from twenty to twenty-five per cent
cheaper, while their interest account
will only be one-half that of the more
costly and unnecessarily ponderous
broad guage, which is comparatively
idle one-half the time for want of
business.
It is a self-evident fact that it is very
much easier to raise SIO,OOO per mile
than it is $30,000.
The excessive cost of the broad
guage, entirely disproportioned to
the business, would necessarily com
pel them to charge very high rates
in order to pay operating expenses
and interest account I am unable
to see the good sense of thus unnec
essarily taxing the industries of our
people, especially when the required
facilities may be obtained by the
adoption of the narrow guage at one
half the cost, thereby placing it with
in the means of the localities refer
red to, not only to provide them
selves with railways, but with low
rates.
Admitting that SIO,OOO to $15,000
per mile will accomplish the desired
object, I am unable to see the econ
my of investing $20,000 to $30,000
per mile, and thereby incur the en
tailment of high rates for all time.
Rome has set us an example wor
thy of imitation. For years she has
had on hand her proposed Memphis
Branch Railway, but unable to com
mand the means to construct it broad
gauge, she wisely determined to
make it narrow guage in order to
place it within her own means, and
especially, when done, that she might
be able to control it in her own in
terest. Since the war Rome has en
gaged quite extensively m the man
ufacture of iron, but she finds that
in consequence of the very hig ra
of freight on coal and coke.trans
construct her narrow gauge road to
the Alabama coal fields, 35 miles
distant, and there rest the enterprise
until she is able to push it fnrther
with her own means. With this
cheap railway, with its low fates,
Rome will be able to deliver coal,
coke and iron ore at such rates as
will enable her to establish smelting
furnaces along side of her rolling
mills, foundries and machine shops,
thus concentrating these wealth-cre
ating powers within her corporate
limits. By this common-sense enter
prise she brings to her aid the most
powerful of all modern creators of
values—cheap coal, cheap coke, and
cheap iron. With their development
aud manufacture of concentrated in
her midst, she will receive an impet
us that will make her the first inte
rior city of the South, because she
has invoked and brought to her aid
the greatest wealth-producing pow-
es known to man.
She will be able to offer such in
ducements to the manufacturers of
neighboring cities as to compel them
to remove to her midst, and the only
remedy they can apply to prevent
it, will be the narrow guage road
with its small coast and cheap rates.
Adopt the narrow gauge, and every
county town in the State can have
its railway, and if economically con
structed, and closely managed, they
will pay. With the narrow gauge,
we need have no dead capital locked
up in railways. With our State cov
ered with a system of cheap railways,
who can estimate the good that
would flow therefrom? Our cities
would rapidly increase in population,
commerce and wealth, our county
towns would build up, our water
powers would be improved, our min
eral interests would be developed,
manufactures would be established,
our planters and farmers provided
with railway facilities would be vast
ly benefitted, emigration would cease,
and immigration would commence,
alxd the Press would have a vast
new field for the display of its intel
ligence and power.
Let our people once fully under
stand the great importance of this
new creator and developer of wealth,
that is entirely practicable and with
in their means, and they will adopt
it without hesitation.
It rests with you, gentlemen of the
Press, to give them the necessary
information upon this Very import
ant subject; and in doing so you
will perform a service for your State
that will redound to your credit for
all time.
Somnambulism.
Recently in Alton, Illinois, a man, while
under thejinfluence of a dream, nearly
killed his wife. Edwafd Halkins, a brakes
man on the Chicago, Alton and St. Louis
Railroad, who was newly married, had
been doing extra duty, taking a sick friend’s
train in addition to hi* own, and so had no
sleep for forty-eight hours. Naturally he
was very tired when he went home, and
after going to bed soon fell asleep. The
dreams he had, and their almost tragic
termination, are graphically described by
a local newspaper:
“Again his foot was on his native plat
form. and he heard the warning toot of the
whistle for brakes. The shadowy train
bore him swiftly on ; the telegraph poles
fleeted past quicker and quicker; the whole
country fled by like a panorama mounted
on sheet-lightning rollers.
“In his dream he heard far off another
roaF and swinging out by the railings he
saw another train coming at lightning
speed around the curve. Both trains
were crowded with passengers; in another
moment they would rush together, and
from the piles of ruin a cry of agony
would shiver to the tingling stars from the
lips of the maimed and dying. The engi
neer had seen their danger, for at that mo
ment, in bis dream, he heard tbs whistle
calling for brakes, sound kmd and unearth
ly. With the strength of desperation he
gripped the brake and turned it down.
There was a yell of pain, and ‘Ed.’ woke
to find himself sitting up in bed. and hold
ing his wife by the ears, having almcet
twisted off her head.
“That's how ‘Ed's wife came to wear a
piece of red flannel round her throat and
complain of a wry neck.
Asmentab like physical diaeaa®, are in
fectious, we may confidently expect a sad
increase of mortality among brakesmen’s
wives, occasioned by husbands decapita
ting them under the impression that they
are brakes. It is likely that life insurance
companies will increase their rates to such
pereons. and eventually brakesmen may
find it difficult to get married until after
they have attained conductorships.
B«d«ction of Two Sisters.
In the autumn of 1870 a young French
artist, named Victor Pail lard became ac
quainted in Versailles with two yowng
ladies named Pauline and Marie Chattier,
the daughters of Count Chartier, The
Count had held a leading position fit tbs
government of Louis Phillippe, but having
held aloof from the government of Louis
Xapolean, he had lost a great portion of
his fortune. At the time that Pillard
became acquainted with the Count's
daughter’s, Pauline was twenty-two yean
of age and Marie was three yean younger.
Pillard was a rising young artist, extreme
ly handsome, and of most winning manners.
After a short time he became extremely
infatuated with Pauline, and she was
equally infatuated with hitn. During the
seige of Paris, he was a resident of Ver
sailles and had constant
OPPORTUNITIES OF VISITING HER.
Owing to the unsettled state of affairs
in franco, subsequent to the treaty of
peace with Germany, which rendered it
impossible for him to practice hi* profes
sion with any lucrative advantages, he de
voted his time to the society of the
Count’s daughters, hut more particularly
to that of Paulino. Marriage seemed
impossible, and in an unhappy hour she
surrendered her person to his seductive
charms. A few months rolled on, and
the gratification of his passions cooled his
ardent attachment. She was stung to the
quick by bis coldness, and with the consent
of her father, went on a visit to her aunt
in Rouen. She kept the secret of her
seduction hidden in her own breast. Pail
lard continued to reside at Versailles, and
no sooner had Pauline quitted it for Rouen
than he began to pay marked attentions to
her sister. Marie Chartief was posessed
of charms, and in December last fell a prey
to the passions of Paillafd, in fact had
turned a cool-blooded libertine, and no
sooner had he accomplished his base de
signs, then he went to reside at Boulogne.—
The two sisters visited a perternal uncle
in Paris, the father remained in Versailles.
He was in good practice as an advocate*
living in the Rue Vichy. After a few
months residence in Paris Pauline suspected
that her sister was enceiate. She confessed
the fact, and stated that Pillard was her
seducer. Pauline could scarcely controol
her fealings. so unbound was her passions
for the man that had seduced her, that she
told her sister she would destroy herself.—
The elder sister was not enciente, but she
considered the honor of the family tarnish
ed. Poor Marie, who was expecting in a
short time to become a mother, had been
for some time.
CONTEMPLATING BUICID*.
The sisters decided to die together. The
evening before they committed suicide
they wrote to their father the story of
their wrongs, and urged on him to have
reveDge on Paillard, who had ruined them,
and who was living in Boulogne. In the
bed room in their uncle's house, in which
they slept together, they resolved to try
the effects of charcoal. In the bed room
was a stove that was used in the winter
months. The chimney they boarded up ;
they nailed a narrow lath to their bed
room door ; the key hole they plugged np
with tow, and nailed over it a piece of
sailcloth; the windows they examined,
and introduced narrow strip* of leather to
prevent the ingress of air< Lighting a
large charcoal fire, they retired to rest,and
in each others arms they slumbered. They
woke no more in this world. The char
coal did its deadly work. The father, who
had repaired to Paris, on receipt of his
daughter's letter, found that he was child
less. Immediately after the funeral, he
went to Boulogne, where he soon discov
ered the residence of Paillard. On the
20th of last month, on the Rue Perir, at
12 o'clock at night, Count Chartier met
Paillard, and with a sword, which he car
ried in a cane, Chartier stabbed Paillard
to the heart. He [died in a few minutes.
Chartier escaped, but his friends have de
clared that he will surrender to his trial
for the vengeance that be exercised on
the villain that seduced and deserted his
two daughters, and through whose con
duct his family name has been dishonored,
and he is left a childless old man.
President for Life#
Wendell Phillips has made anoth
er speech, in which he advocates
Grant as President lor life- The
following is the closing paragraph :
“ The reason why I support the Repub
lican party is that, to my utter surprise, to
my unutterable surprise, to my indescrib
able delight, to my relief, I have at last
found a party that is willing to execute the
laws that are given them. It is for that
reason that I say ‘ Long live Ulysses Grant!
May he continue to be President of the
United States until every white man over
40 years of age who lives south of Mason
and Dixon’s line has been forever put into
the ground.' ”
A planter of Baker county suggests
as an antidote for the caterpillar the
planting of early prolific cotton so ae to
secure a crop before these destruc
tive pests make their appearanc.
IN ADVANCE*
A Contract Not Accepted,
A wag named Low, employed m engi
uoer in Buchanan & I.rall's tobacco muv
•foctury. South Brooklyn, while in ttktdh
ae't lager-beer saloon, met an enterpf king
painter, with Whom ho was acquainted.
The painter stated that huahms was t etf
dull, and that he would soon hate to dip
charge moat of hie employes.
“I think I can get you a big Job at the
tobacco factory.’’ said Low, who Seamed
vary anxious to assist his friend.
“If you can I’ll be very grateful,” re
turned the painter, his eyee sparkling at
the prosjHx-t of getting a contract from
IHichanan A Lyall,
“Yes,’’ continued tjuw, reflectively, “I
am sure I tun threw some work in your
way. You know the firm has been short
of workmen lately, and hnd to Import one
hundred darkey* from Virginia.”
”Oh. yes, 1 hoard of that,” interrupted
the painter impatiently ; “but drop the
darkey subject, ami tell me of the job you
exi>ect to get for me. I need work Iwd
ly.”
“Well,” resumed the engineer, “the firm
feel disgraced at the ragged condition of
their new Workmen. In fact, it is report
ed that they impart n strange odor to the
tobacco they handle, in consequence id
their being infested with bed-bugs and
other Binall game.”
“Out I can’t see what connection there
is between the darkeys ami the work that
you promised to obtuiu for me,” broke in
the painter, irritably.
“As 1 have intimated,” continued Low,
deliberately, “the darkeys have spoiled
some of the tobacco. The firm want to
prevent this ; and as green paint is poi
sonous to bed-bugs, they want to engage &
painter to paint green breeches and shirks
on the darkeys.”
The painter has not yet accepted that
contract,
The Newspaper*
Some one has said of the newspaper, that
it is the “rich man’s luxury and the poor
man’s library.” The observation is happy
but it does not state the whole case. The
newspaper is more than a luxury to every
class of men, and its utility i* but partiail/
represented in the comparison with a libra
ry. To every man who would keep abreast
of his time, who would be familliar with
the world of to day, who would know the
victories of science, the achievements of
art, the ways of commerce, and the drift
of popular thought and feeling, the news
paper is a positive necessity, no more to bo
dispensed with than the most pressing ro
puiremetii* of our being. The politician,
the merchant, the lawyer, the physiciau
who should fail to consult his newspaper
with daily regularity, must inevitably fall
to the rear, and no library, however ample
and Well selected, could supply the material
to fill the hiatus consequent upon the ab
scence of the newspaper. A man might
possess a collection of books which the As
tor librars would be small, and he might
make the most of his opportunity in using
them, but wanting bis daily newspaper,
that “map of busy life,” wit Ich brings Ms
face to face with the words and deeds, ut*
tered only yesterday, of Emperors and
Presidents, which acquaints us with the
plans and counter-plans, of nations and of
politicians, and which in short holds up
in abstract the world, with all the multi
farious events and circumstances Incident
to the daily round of existence—*w anting
we say, this great desideratum, a man will
find himself continually behind in iiis in
telligence, however abundant may be bis
means otherwise for acquiriug knowledge*
The Natural Brldge-A New
Feature*
We have the following feet* from a gen
tleman who recently visited the Natural
Bridge. On passing iuto the gorge below
the bridge by the usual route* he was sur
prised to find the bed of the stream (Ce
dar creek) dry and unsightly. The keep
er of the hotel stated that about two week*
before the creek suddenly disappeared
from under the bridge, and our informant,
on following up the gorge, found the
stream pouring down into the earth and
seeking some unknown channel beneath.
On a careful examination three leaks were
found—the largest being through e fissure,
or “fault” in tbe limestone bed of the
stream.
There the visitor partially stopped up in
a few minutes, sent a scanty stream on ito
way to the bridge. Similar facta were re
vealed by a further examination, and the
conclusion is inevitable, that the rocky
substratum of these limestone hills is
thoroughly honeycombed by the action of
water. This conclusion is further sus
tained by tbe fresh discovery of cave*,
some of them of considerable extent, in
the immediate vicinity of the bridge. Some
fine stalactites from one of these caret are
exhibited at tbe hotel.
Gen. Phil Cook, of Amefiette h&s
been nominated a candidate for Con
gress from the 3<l District A good
nomination.
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