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I HE CARROLL COUNTY TIMES. VOL. XIV. The Cotton-Gin; its Invention an/ Effects. J M hitney wtu a native of one of the “three Celestial empire*,” as Ed w aid Eggleston humorously • classifies China, Virginia, Massa chusetts. . having been born at We°tboroiigh, Massachusetts, De cember 8, 1765. His early childXood probably varied little from die average, but ere he had reached his teens he developed a most remarkable me chanical genius, and, to young Eli. in preference to the village cabinet maker, were carried the wrecked toy* of his companions, which be mended and improved with great good nature. His own playthings were never found in a-slovenly or broken state, and, Aside from Ids inventions in that direction, his skill in repairing enabled him to yearly add to his store; and so. with the largest collection of toys in his community, we may fairly infer that Eli was quite popular with the small fry! Ab he grew older, his talent, and invention took a more practical turn. He was especially devoted to the manufacture and repair of violins and other musical instill ments. But his precocity was even poorly appreciated by his parents; and the father, who one day pet-! ulantly remarked that he feared his boy “would never be fit for any thing but making fiddles,” little dreamed that the mechanical apti tude he thus ridiculed would one day revolutionize the industrial world. Principally.by the manufacture of the derided fiddle, but partly ! also by that mainstay of the talent-' cd and impecunious, teaching, Eli managed to work his way through Yale, from whence he graduated! in 1792, at the age of twenty-six.— He was immediately offered a pos- ' ition as tutor in a private family resident at Savannah- Although he started immediately for his. field of labor, those were not the days of palace steamers and exm'- ' ' trains, ana transit was any thing i but rapid; so. upon arriving at hie j destination, he ascertained that his employers had become impatieiF I at his delay, and had installed an other in his place. His perplexity was great. Far from home, in a strange land, with out friends, position was becoming serious, when, by good hick or the . rulings of providence, he formed ' the acquaintance of Mrs. Greene. By her he was offered a temporary home while he undertook the study of the law. But Chitty and Blackstone wore , not tor Whitney. lie had hardly , domiciled himself at Mulbcriy Grove before Mrs. Greene happen ed to break a peculiarly shaped needle used in crocheting or in some similar species of emproidery or fancy work. As the instrument was of foicign manufacture it could not readily be replaced. Whitney asked to see it, and in a short while, greatly to Mrs. Greene’s astonish ment, produced an exact counter*' part. Oilier contrivances followed, all of more or less importance in her household economy, until her faith in the mechanical powers of the young “celestial” “became as unbounded as we have f eon. Whitnev, before commencing - 7 .1 work, had but the vaguest idea of | what was required. Ho had! nevei even seen either seed-cotton or rhe growing plant. But rather, than disappoint bis kindly hostess, upon her i eqnest, though with lit-; tie hope of suecess, he undertook Lie task. Next day he started out on foot to Savannah, to procure, if possi ble, some seed-cotton. As this was early m the summer, it was difficult to find any, but he finally succeeded in obtaining a little ieft over from the previous year. His ; was to examine the “rol ler *gin” used for stjadsland cotton, *fid for this purpose a neighbor ing plantation Whs vished that of Mr. Phineas Miller. As V\ hitne* watched the revolution of the dou ble rollers, seizing the long Miken fiber and tearing it away from the yOeed with the vjselike grasp ,f ; their grooved perimeter, the ins i i ration flashed through hi* mini. * Why not, for the shorter lint . f nthe upland cotton, stud the surface of the rollers with wire 1 prongs, that moving between the • bars of a grating holding the seed cotton, would catch the line upon ’their points and tear it. from the seed, leaving the detached seed, too ! i large to pass between the bars of the grating, to slide by their own gravity down to a point'where the j wires flared and were farther apart to admit the seed falling All that was necessaiy was to al low a wider space between the rol lers. Back he went, under the full im pression that he bad solved the problem. Into Savannah again for wire and tools. But t<» his astonish ment he discovered that neither the kind of wire nor the tools he wanted could be purchased in the little city- Undismayed, he returned home and secured from Mrs. Greene, for a workshop and forge, the antiquated log cabin in which wo found him at the beginning of this sketek. There he made ready to fashion, with such rough tools as he could command, the pecu iar ones he needed for his I purpose, and devoted day after day | to the laborious task of hammering out his rods of iron, heating them in his primitive furnace, and little by little drawing them out into wire. M hen at last tools and material were prepared and he was ready to begin the construction of his mas chine, the startling intelligence was conveyed to him, that in upper Georgia, one Joseph Watkins had already a gin for upland cotton in successful operation. He was thunders.ruck ! And well he might be And so to-day will be many another who learns that Eli Whit ney, while none the less the legit imate inventor of the cotton-gin, as he iiad already developed indo pouHmitlv in his m’Ad it* - T ( features,"ami undoubtedly its improver and introducer, was neither its first inventor, construct or, nor operator. Truth is inevita ble and relentless; and, while the position of an iconoclast, is unenvi able, history must be preserved. — All that is nere slated regarding Joseph Watkins, can, upon demand, be thoroughly substantiated. The fact that the planters of the sea board were altogether unaeqamted with the existence of the gin at the time of the application to Whitney may be easily accounted for by ta king into consideration the isolated location of Mr. Watkins, his gicat ~ ) distance from the coast, and the difficulty of communication at that time. Moreover, Whitney is not in the least degree robbed of his well earned laurels. For he is the true inventor who succeeds in impress ing his invention upon civilization; and did we measure by abstrac tions, insomuch as “there is nothing new under the sun,” there could exist no absolute and original in ventions whatever. But in connection with Mr. Watkins, it may not be amiss to recall the fact that three of the most important innovations of tne a g e —the cotton-gin, the steam boat, and the sewing-machine — were originally the inventions of native Georgians, and neither of j them for their pains reaped ever ; j any thing, either in the way ■ 1 ; honor or emolument. It is probablv well know n tuat . ' some fiftee n years before he Oiei i moot paddled up the Hudson, Mr. Longstreet, Grandfat I er of Gene ral James Longstreet, had a steam boat in operation on the Savannah river, near Augusta, using it for some time as a ferry boat to trans port both freight and passengers. Not quite so well known, per haps, but equally true is the inven tion of the sewing-machine by the ; Reverend Mr. Goulding. As he was t; king his machine to Augus ta in mi open buggy, an unlucky accident overturned it in a creek, where it by for a considerable pe riod before it was fished up. In the meanwhile Howe had taken • CARROLLTON. GEORGIA, FRIDAY MORNING, DECEMBER 1, 1885. F out a patent based upon the sug gestions of Mr. Goulding’s ma- • chine, though Mr. Gonlding him • self frankly admits Hiat Howe had ’ so greatly improved, upon the orig. ma! machine as to'be morally as ‘ wed as legally entitled to the pat ent. * »*.' • If to the.-e inventions we add the discovery of anseslliesia, and its first application in surgery, by Dr. Crawford Long, of Athens, whose etatuc Georgia voted to place be side Oglethorpe’s as a contribution to the rotunda of the National Cap -1T"I, a list is made out of which any State might well be proud.- Hugh N. Starnes in Southern Biv* onac lor December. A Cure ior Consumption. 1 he roHowingcommnnication ap' peared lately in , {he Journal of Austrian Apothecaries at Vienna:— "I am, the owner and overseer of an ultramarine factory, which I have been running these forty years on a plap of my own. In tins sac tory a vast amount of sulphur is daily used .and consumed, whereby a large quantity of sulphuric acid (S. O. 2) is constantly produced. During all these years not one of my workmen has contracted con sumption or died of that disease. Even those who came tainted with the disease became healthy and strong after working merely a few weeks amid the vapors of the sul phurous acid. In like manner no cas# of cholera ever occurred among my employees. Ju fact, all diseases produced by microscopic animalcu la soon disappeared in my factory when exposed to action of sulphur. It is a well established fact that all ' catarrhal affections are soon cured i by simply inhaling sulphurous acid. ' The acid kills the parasites that have entered and caused the inffa mation, whereupon the pituitous i glands are opened and the phlegm is expelled without diticulty. In the same vjiy,tb« li- ** 1 .».<r-rrcu by rile action of the same acid. “ The discovery of bacteria in die - lungs of consumptives prove that I consumption, like the itch, is caused by microscopic animalcula, which infest and >-<msume the lungs. As the origin of both diseases is anal ogous, the remedy for each is nat urally the same—namely the action of sulphurous acid, which destroys i the bacteria of the lungs as well as ! the mites of the itch. “The treatment of consumptives should, therefore be the following : —Bring the patient to a room wherein small quantities of sulphur (about one or two drachms) are burned every hour on a warm stove or over a light flame. The inhal ing of the sulphur vapor will oon effect, the comfort of the parasites or bacteria in the lungs. As a con sequence, the patient will cough oftener and expectorate copiously. After eight to twelve days the ir-> citation and expectoration will en tirely cease, because the bacteria will die off gra lually. Thus the irritation on the lungs, membranes and serous fluids is effectually stopped, and the patient is put on the way vs complete recovery. As terwar Is it is well to remove the patient to a place where he can in hale the vapors of aromatic water. My only wish is that my observa tions and experiences of many years m ,y be ma le known, and that this often tried, and always successful remedy muv benefit suffering hn manity.” Julius Kirchbr. PRINCIPLES OF CHRISTIAN GIVING Giving, in the bread uf the re’ in, is certainly one of the ■ tnwt important of all religious du- I ties. It squarely antagonizes the native selfishness which is one of i the roots of sin. It severely te>ts the religious man's love of his ■ neighbor, to see whether this can j overcome the intense natural love of propertv. Accordingly, we are not surprised at John the Baptist’s answer, to the multitudes when i they a-ked, “What, then, must jwed' ?" His subsequent replies to ■ publicans and soldiers arc sharplv jspecific, and help us to understand tiiit this reply’ to the multitudes " is s Iso intended to be specific.— Ji r does not undertake to Isi de all the duties which wi|j give proof of repentance, but present one that forms a char?c tciLic and discriminating test:— “ '-c that hath two coats, let him 1 i'njfct to hi m f| )a t j lat ;, 11() . le . ~,,,1 s he Tpt bath food, let bim <‘o like— ■ (Luke iti. 11). To give to uecdy, even v. t’en or.lv alit— tie l<fa needy onrselvos, U a U e l<- > menttnythay „ f pietJ) and K 6harp i test of its reality. J lm*Qld Testam ni, wuicb gen s, erally deals in rules, being therein suited to the childhood and vouth of hurtianitv, laid down a definite . rule fur religious giving, namely j: JG °f the tenth. The New | designed to produce and maintain Christian maturity, does not percent any particular rule for giving, fbnt lays down general prin ciples, illustrated by striking exam pies. A most instructive example of Christian giving is afforded by the grand, contribution which Paul gatheredjamong the Gentile church es, lor tec relief of the Christian , poor at Jerusalem, as described in I the Epistles to the Corinthians.— The Jewish poor in the Holy City often received contributions from their prosperous brothreu. Let us select some of the less<ms which may be learned from this great collection. is right to give for the ben . efit of persons in foreign countries i and of alien race. Christianity has jso far softened the j .“alousies of , nationality and race, that the i duty of d isß’ga rd in g these in Chris tian giving has fortunately become a commonplace of our teaching, I though it still needs to lie often and earnestly enforced. 2 - R iß riglitLu: fl* - J gospel toispimd i.iurh time and labor in organizing and administering general religions contributions. They ought to have ; helpers, as the apostles wished the seven to help them (Acts vi.), and as Fan! was aided by Titus, Timo- thy and others. But Paul did not think it incompatible with his own zeal as a preacher to work person ally in gathering such a collection, and to make special instruction and i appeal as to giving a part of V •>, i inspired epistles. 3. It is right to observe system in religious giving. System is nec essary in every other depaitment in life, in business, in the house hold, in study, in all persona, hab its, and it certainly ought to be fully employed in a matter so im portant as giving. Paul, designa ted a system for the churches in Galatia and sAchaia, in regard to this great collection; which system becomes a tunable example for al! times s»n| undertakings. lie did not say, as i| often imagined, that a collection Lust be made in the the church .jrvice on the first day of the weel but (1 Cor. xvi. 2) that must lay by him in store, ’ whiA evidently means at home; thu Jack one should gradu ally gather! private fund from tnese weeky additions, and have it ready who the apostle cane.— |To regard |is as a law for literal observancejmong Christians of all ages, wouldbe out of the question; and, as a 1:», it would not be strict ly obeyed ft weekly contributions in church; pt it is a most suo res tive and fcpressive example of I systemiticeving on the fir-t ibtv of the \|ik. —Rev. ;o lv» a. Broadus, (D, in Indiana Bap tist. K.'»c» i cz3Es»sxik . T oa. Untamed Sir Artjur Wellesly, the con queror oftapolean, was, it is s id, once ntteJ' routed and put to flight by a scolding farm-wife, whose setpg hens his horse had disturbed! “I would rather face a park of aJillerv than lister, to her five minds longer,” he >nid. ?tladad de »Stael, who was able to charaill the wcrld by her bril -1 liant corersation, had, we are [ told, asi dur encounter with an | angry Berton peasant, and retro: t- ! led before the vehement abuse, ut- I terlv dismayed and silenced. I , com not use her weapon-. was I her excise. “Never argue with an angry wo ! | man." said an old ’French writer, . “or try to dam a foul flood. Stand j a : lc, and lot them pass." The effect and quality of n scol ding tongue were known rears! ago. ‘-Better to dwell in the cor- j i ner of a housetop,” said Solomon,, “than with a brawling woman in a ; wide house, ano agaim ‘T’leasnnt • , words are sweet to the soul.” Young girls are apt to devote a [g>»o'l deal of anxious consideration ian 1 ehori to the means of making i themselves attractive and beloved. | They Gudy thrnr looks, their gait, .the; Gt rive eagerly to present to i tue world tasteful costumes, white , hands, pretty feet, to sing wcl., to , play with skill, to dance with ; grace, and all the while they too often drive away friends and ad mirers by silly chatter, SLANG, or'ill-natured gossip. “I find it tasy, ’ said a well— j known instructress of girls, “to train a young woman’s mind, body and hands. But her tongue usu ally defies me. If they would but learn to keep silence, something would be gained. But that is the most difficult lesson of alb” “Never judge of a young wo man, ’ said a cynical student of hu man nature, “until you have heard her talk for an hour, apart from her mother, teacher, or any one of whom she stands in awe. The most stately Juno will relax;into a paltry dribbler,a gossiping SCAN DALMONGEB, oven sometimes, if provoked, a SHREW.” Remember, girls, the old Arab proverb—the word once spoken re turns -- *- ■* ‘ ‘ ° Tne earth. “The tongue can no man tame.” Because, pel haps, it always will ex presb the secret thoughts of the heart. But th heart can be tain ?d, and so brought into harmony with God and man that its spoken word shall iie helpful and dear to both. Ct Li VI UViH I<J UUIU. sasrsi3smsscsxt j IT IS WELL TO REMEMBER, , 1 hat every path hath a puddle. , That the fruit of success ripens 1 slowly. 7 hat lie is richest who wants the least. That a million dollars will not buy a ray of sunshine. That the greatest of faults is to be conscious of none. • that the brightest thoughts some times come from the dullest looking men. Fhat Methuselah, even, never complained of time hanging heavy on his hands. < That all of the good things of this world are of no further good than as they are of use. That a newspaper may be a sewer, or a source of pure water, according to its source. That what a man gets for noth ing ne is very apt to value at just about what it costs him. That we often unlock the door of fate with our own hands, and then throw the key away. That compliments and congrat ulations cost nothing but pens, ink and paper, or—words. That the easiest way to outwit the w« rid is to let it believe fliat it is smarter than you are. That t ;cre can be no g v-aterj mistake than the stopping to worrv ! over a mistake already mad**. That with contentment the low- , cst hov •] is more of a palace than ’ the loftiest mansion without it. That while few are qualified to ‘ shine in company, it is in power of 1 most people to be agreeable. That our homes are like instru- , 1 ments of music, of which a single • discordant st ring destroys the sweet-1 i ncss. That the path of life is beset with j thorns, and that they who are not! afrai I to encounter them may gath er the rare? flowers that grow, be- 1 tween. — Good Housekeeping. i NEWSY SLEANING . The population of th- I*> • • ' empire h 310,000,000: of 1? ' 100,000,000. A peculiar weed grows i .1- torn Oregon, which kill, sh ..t fc< d opon it. Four cities—New Yo: . i Detroit, -nd Atlanta— r • u'. di; . i crematories. • Cranberries said to le : .as plums are being pick; d it: i numbers in Indiana. The guard of (Tnitcd S’at > > •!« dims at Garfield’s tomb is to be, withdrawn in January next. Spi rulntor» are bu\ iug up nil the vacant land in Fiori !a an i bn I G j ing pr« s: crons tow. ?. There is lut one million re .’.i Nebraska and only ten poi sons who ' arc rated as high as :?500,0( '. A Montana batchelor, worth I $75,000, gives public notice that he will come East on the hunt for a wife. A State capitol that is a copy In | miniature of the great Federal cap itol at AN ashiiigton is bein- built for Georgia, in Atlanta. Pittsburg claims more rich men, in proportion to population, than any city in the Union. Seventy residents aggregate $189,000,000. The indications of the coming log crop on the several riv.rs of Lake Superior region, point to 000, 000,000 feet more than was cut last winter. The Victory, the war ship on which Nilson fought and id 1 Trafalgar, is still kept, as i m - monto of naval prowess, :<t Tor: . month, England. The flat head pin and ti chinery io make it wcri i veute ur. John llq'.'.e. who has juot rr-.Givd from tervicc in Bellevue hospitable, New York. The tot<»l number of parliai: e i taiy candidates in Great Brltmn i.. 1,106, of whom 907 are in Er.g-' land,the rest being divided beiwe i Ireland, Scotland and Wah ; -. When the new Croton dam m d aqueduct are finished 320,000,000 gallons of water will find th ir wav s to New York city each day. 7 .. thousand men are now employ-. J , on the work.* Near Eiyettville, Ark., two [■ men killed fifty large hawks ir. a few hours. One of the men says ( that they were as numerous as pig j eons, numbering thousands, flvinr in a southwestern direction. Thi' extraordinary migration has ; ivc:. local weather prophets the cue [ that the weMiter will be unusuall ,* » cold. Contents Southern Bivouac for December. frontispiece (Map of the Baltic field of Perryville). The Cotton-Gin; Its Invention and effects (Illustrated), by Huji N. Starnes. The Interpreters, by Algerm Swinburne. Lookout .Mountain mid ?Ii io* ’ ry Ridge. Chastelar, by Will L. Visscber. Oar last hunting grounds, by Fc lix Oswald. The education of the blind, by B. B. Huntoon. Yesterday, by Will W;dlac. II r ney. Liddell’s record of the Civil W ar. CarristoTs Gift—Bln trip cd, bv Hugh Cm way. Bragg’s invasion of Kent . -ky, v C C Gilbert. The first day at Gettysburg (with map), by Wm. 11. Swallow” Comment and criticism. The true story of Katherine Walton. The fight at luka. Editor's Table.— The IT LIO . craiic Sage. Salmagundi. —A Hero by c ., P pulsion. An introduction to Vaud rbilt. 82.00 a year. Address B. F. Avery ASons. Louisville, Ky. Slang destroys the effect of the best thought for good, no matter what the motive. Remember. fjjdf 1 ?===-MW v> G ? hils! 2 iW’Aj I !Hp I Mrfh i Q=| HBl ® I*^— THE # 3EST TONIC. - r.c Heir.', combining Iron with pnn» o t aic«, Quickly and ceinpleu'ly •'■>• •- '■ •”-*e*Wf|», Wriduir.*, -I ; • • ?u.luriu t ChilU&nd Ferens I ana Nctirniarin. .:i unfaili! »remedy for Diseases of the I vuduayn and Liver. it is invaluable (~? Diseases peanltar to v» onu n, I all who lead sedeatary lives. . t .e t< • (.cause hetulaeke/* i ' . .;• it <■■■ • r jren mevflcmn a«, ■■•sr.ndi rifles the blood, stinmlatwi ■ ■ ■ <■ -4 ;'ie n -in.ilalion of food. re- • s Hemtbnrn nnd Belching, and strength i.'i:s the mus ’os and nerves. 1 <ir l-‘ ’ ’' Hv< rs, ijtssitnde, Lack th* I Energy. die., it has no equal. ' rennino I.as above trade mark nwd ; «rcv.-«dica hues on wrapper. Take no other -’yl ’ ' « : UU AL <O.. n ILTIWOF.E. K? ■■■>■ ■—- *■— ■ - - t SON, t XaCL W - - QA. confided la I him, I 1! ’•■ ■ ■ of ■.i •■ of the City €Xmrt j ' 1 ■ -' " • h practice in ether 6-ts. 8. E?GROWi ATTORNEY -AT-LAW. AND REAL ESTATE AGENT. , j : ; o i ( ‘"iproved farms In ::<•«, at ' • 1 ■ • . e:; :• iu<\l and abstracts fni " .' ■■ ■ • 11 court house, Carrollton, Ga. J. W7 JONES. . - XCI-jT" Ctt. Juj£X' i imV JOEL, - - ga., 14-17-ly. U - tV •* -AL, W, P.COLE. - - & COLE, ii<]! V -CXt Ju-lZt’W. CARROLLTON, - GA. \V hi ifctive iu .qll t i<« oomts.— j*'' ’“ •* ■•■ iven to the business m. aJinmistration of 'in the court ot I oruiuarv. Cuhucii n. .ap'iy made. Ab < ‘ : Uii • • lining titles and on improved ’-Lui COLE. 47-if. . ct 1; J A- GA. IODNETT, AT-LAW, * J ; ~ - - GEORGIA Slaughter’® t attention giv ■ • riL'tud to him. w. u. FITTS, ’WSOOXI ’ - GEORGIA % • »v, drug 38-tt W. F. BEOWN. ROWAN, -T’i’O ; E i’S-AT-LA W CARROLLT' N, GA. ■ ioaa courts . counties, nite fcr terminated 1 ‘ e ®» the adminis- i, Lation of estates, Ac. L>R. D. F. KNOTT • y located in Car roaton aud enders his SERVICES izens of Carrollton and vicinity. - , J > Drug Store, m.l-tf. ITT p .ws.uia:; /.ndsubgeon E, GA. I c.Ter ■ ' of car ' tention" 1 i • • n i °«ce at Promptly a». ■ y DO YOU KNOW that D’S CLIMAX PI.D g "Tobacco 'fid red-Ti , R . r ■■ -.‘gne cut chtwing . ■ :• "; own , ar,d yellow eic..' ? -t quality COHnid- 133aiy. ■ xccutos‘s tale. kl ~ e - ‘till house door T. ,1: r -y-d v. on the first i tio legal . LPertyto-Wit: " * '* st -rict of i-erOpfW. H. . orius h,ir. . \ half cash, 8 pw cm. . hu B AbKIX. I Executors. 4t>—Bta J NO. 49.