North Georgia citizen. (Dalton, Ga.) 1868-1924, January 26, 1893, Image 1

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Newspaper Page TextDalton, Ga., Thursday, January 26,1893. Your Friend in Tens, Or the Great West I ARCTIC WEATHER. A Memorable Cold Time In Georgia. The Atlanta Constitution regards the recent cold NEWSY PARAGRAPHS LIFE AND DEATH. A ST. PATRICK’S DAY EPISODE. How a Degenerated Poet Managed to Se* care i Loan from C. M. Depew. Mr. Chauneey M. Depew attends the dinners of all the various na tional societies- -Scotch, English, Irish. Welsh. He always has an ap propriate story with which to gar nish his speech. He related the fol lowing eaqierience at a St Patrick’s Day dinner some years ago: 1 walked out of the New York ho tel and np Broadway today. When 1 tame oiipdsite the Old London Street building a middle aged man accosted me. He looked as if he bad seen better days. His clothes were very old fashioned and the top but ton of bis shiny coat answered for both necktie and scarfpm. In u Celtic accent he said: “Mr. Dejiew. that building over there, is a travesty on the old streets of London." “Is it?" said L looking straight ahead and quickening my pace. He quickened his pace. too. anti he kept np with me. 1 couldn’t get away from him. “They tried to represent the ould London streets." he went on. “and the places where Sam Johnson and t >li ver Goldsmith and Edmund Burke and all them byes used to spind But they were away JUST RETRIBUTION. How a Fat Man Was Constituted the Un willing Agent of Avenging Providence. There are some philosophers who cling to the belief that there is na fu ture of rewards and punishments, but that we get our just dues as we go along. Once in awhile there seems to be some slight justification for this doctrine. For instance, it happened that a day or two ago a A WEEK’S DOINGS IN THE EMPIRE STATE. The friends of Senator Colquitt throhghout the State, arid their name is Legion, will be rejoi, ed to learn that he 13 recovering from his recent Gathered From Sellable Sources for Har ried Senders. Artificial legs and arms were in us<- in Egypt as early as B. C. 700. The\ were made by the priests, who were the physicians of that early time. It is calculated that-the Mississippi annually deposits into the Gulf ol Mexico suffic.eut mud to covera square mile of surface to a height of 240 feet. Three hundred and twenty-eight thousand'divorces have been granted by the courts of this country during the past twenty years, 90 per cent oi 1 them to women. The city of St. Petersburg is prepar ing to bnild a bridge over the Neva to cost 814,000,000. The plans and specifications were drawn by M. Eiffel, the distinguished French architect and engineey. A coffee-bean is,now made of fioUr, and the imitation ij so perfect as to de ceive the eye of even expert coffee dealers. Of course the flavor exposes the fraud; but it is said that immense quanties are sold. Quail love potato bugs as an article of diet. One of these birds was re-- cently opened which had 101 of these farmers’ pets concealed in its crop, li will pay the average potato grower to have a flock of trained quail among hL- other lire stock. Mrs. Harris, of New Orleans, » sturdy temperance woman, recently refused $50,000 offered to her by a syndicate for a small piece of land, bt“ cause she learned; that the would-bc purchasers contemplated building seven saloons upon it. An.unusual kind of double weddihg came off at Newport a short time ago. The only occupants of the church were two curates, four young ladies and tit registrar. One of tlie curates married his friend to one of the ladies, and th4n he in turn was married to another. Lady Henry Somerset, the English temperance advocate, has sent to Lon don Truth an indignant letter wherein she explains she cannot help owning a number of liquor Baloons. She re ceived the properties as an inheritance , and the lease has not yet run out. , A farmer living ju3t oyer the Texas line, learning that his wife was in lov«- < with another man, called the couple | together, and, in his" wife!s presence, offered to trade her to her foyer for*'a trade was ulL ...iiapTCaU went merry What’s for the babe? Why, mother’s eyes, Twin patches of those summer skies That beamed on him in Paradise. What’s for the child ? With fays to skip, To taste the honeysuckles’ lip— The butterfly’s companionship. What’s for the boy ? The bauuied world, The squirrel’s nest in leafy hold, The rainbow’s fabled pot of gold. What’s for the youth ? To dream of fame, In shifting sand to write bis name, With sighs to fan a passion’s flame. What’s for the man ? Courage to bear The load of wisdom and of care, And some true heart its weight to share. And what’s for age ? Pain’s prison bare, Comfort that every trifle mars, Dimness and fear—and then the stars !— [Geo. Horton, in Harper’s Weekly.] weather in Georgia as unusual but not unprecedented. It says: It has rarely happened that a native Georgian has had Bucb an experience of arctic weather as has been felt dur ing the last two weeks. A few times only in the last half century have we I A ne lwo uni8holm hr cithers, of At lanta, have been found guilty of making counterfeit money and sent to the Co- umbia, Ohio, penitentiary, where they will serve three years each. The business of the Rome postoffice is said to be three times as large as it was ten years ago. The receipts from all sources then were $6,000. The re ceipts now aggregate nearly $18,000. There is a contest over the Constables’ election in the fourth district of Chat ham county, and among the grounds made by the contestant is that an old does such a thing. The cars were crowded, every seat being occupied, including the two occupied by thin particular sample of the gentler sex. Several gentlemen came in, took a longing look at the lady and at the small, fragile parcel at her side and politely seized the most convenient strap. Whatever their thoughts, they did not express them by word of mouth. Perhaps they were of that school of philosophers of whom I have just spoken. If they were they were waiting for the retribu tive justice to come along, and were possibly wondering what form it would take. They didn’t have to wait very long, for a sudden lurch of the car at theturn into Fifty-third street sent a man weighing some 200 pounds plump into the seat by the side of the astonished monopolist. That individual gave one plaintive scream and all was over. The thoroughly frightened gentleman. There are hundreds of Georgians in ,e gi eat and booming west who want Bt such a paper as It give* All the Local News 1 in McCall’s History of Georgia, of which a single volunie itoy be found in :a wonderful cave the state library. ■«. At that time nearly all tK6 creeks and some of our smaller rivers were Whare Skeletons, Old Masket* and Eyeless Darks Were Found. A recent dispatch from Galveston, Texas, gives the following account of the discovery of a wonderful cave in that State: Whi.e some small boys their tomie. off. • 1 know the streets of ould Lon don and l know all about them byes. Johnson and Goldsmith and Burke. Ah. rl^tt was a great-period in Brit ish history whin thini byes lived." - “You were not contemporaneous with them-. \ suppose." said L glanc ing at his clothes. “Oh. no. but 1 know all about them. In that ould London street they were represented as being ail the toime in the commercial part of the city. Now that’s all bush. Goldsmith knew nothing about com merce. He could not evbn sell his own manuscripts. Sam Johnson had i -lerreii county furnishes a curiosity I in the shape of a cow with only three teats, that gave birth a few days since to three heifer calves that are exactly alike. She is the property of a negro by the name of Orion Thomas, who values her very highly, having refused an offer of $100 for her. A cook stove exploded in Atlanta, one morning last week, which tore the kitchen walls and windows up generally, [ and severely wounded the man of the [ house and his daugter. The one who built the fire in that stove that morning must have gotten hold ef a loaded stick of wood from a neighboring wood pile. At Columbus, the handsome dia- It gives All the General News! were out hunting on the 6th instant, on Rock creek, about a mile above where it empties its waters into the Brazos And a vast amount of information jumped to his feet. as soon as pos-; sible—so quickly indeed that be liever could have been said to have been down but for the havoc he hgd innocently wrought. For there, smashed as flat as the traditional flounder, was—well, whatever it was or had been I Did the unfortunate lady turn and rend him with her tongue? Did she tell him what she thought of him? Not at all She simply gathered the miserable wreck unto her bosom and wept. No one saw what the wreck was and consequently could arrive at no idea of its awful awfulness. To fell the truth, the public sym pathy was with the miserable wretch thus made the blind instrument in the hands of Providence to adminis ter punishment to the guilty as the guilty go along. He was the most unhappy looking mortal 1 ever saw. What I wish to know is. When and how does he get his reward?—New York Herald. river, their dogs bayed something in a rock bluff. Upon examination they found a hole in the rock large enough to admit a man to crawl through. After going through the hole they found themselves in a large cave. They reported their discovery, and a company was organ ized to explore it. The company was led by Walter Hill, upoh whose land it was-found. After entering and going some thirty yards they discovered the skeleton of a man and an old musket of the flint lock make by his side, both in a good stale of preservation. contained in no other weekly pa- freezing were reported. Nor were these all amongst aged and decrepit persons—but two or more vigorous men, who for hours were without shel ter from the hyperborean blast, stored a similar fate. . There was a long , past- period when animhls Whifch Are hoW restricted to the polar regions were wandering at large through the broad savannahs of south ern Europe and America. SPECIAL FEATURES. This was followed by what is known in geology as the glacial period, which antedates the creation, or. if you prefer the scien tific term, the evolution of man. The icebergs that now drift down ward as far as Newfoundland and occa sionally to warmer latitudes are diminu tive samples of the immense glaciers that once plowed the frozen continents of the pre-Adamite worlds. It is a question often debated - in scientific circ’es whether this glacial period will not return some millions of years hence. It is at least pretty well “-ll “J-- ----- = — .-vf—• — - Some thirtv or forn yards further a group of five skeletons and guns of the same make were found They also f< uud near by several <11 -Spanish gold coins and medals, all in good state of preservation, the coins date back to 1754. Further on they found creek, but very deep, full of eye 1 ess ducks. HOUSEHOLD. SCIENCE. a narrow Its water wa- . They .wen •bout the size of our common dove. No,bird of the kiud fbouf a hall vimle from the entrance. They , tueied bac - at the creek, -riot -being prepared to cross. The\ r will g< better equipped next time and make : thorough exploration. Speculation is rife as to the race an. nationality of the men, the bones es lablishing the fact that all were males. One theory is that the men belonged t< au expedition of Spaniards making their way from the gulf to one of th< four centers of trade un ler Spanish domination in New Mexicor As far back as 1780 there exis’ed routes ol trade from points in the Florida posst s- sions to Santa Fc, Santa Cruz de la Canada and Albuquerque through Texas along the Arkansas river. When the Louisiana territory was ceded by Spain to Napoleon and pend ing its cession by Napoleon to tin United States, the rule of the Freud was very distasteful to the Spaniard- along the lower coast of the Mi.-ssissipj i river, great bodies emigrating to Florid; and other Spanish possessions. The remains found are supposed t. belong to a colony en route from Lou isiana to Albuquerque or Alameda, then a place of about 6,000 inhabitants devoted to Franciscan priests and monks who obtained a supremacy. The party was probably separated from the main body and driven by the Waco tribe of Indians from point to point, the Spaniards taking advantage of every break and stream, which finally led to the discovery of the cave in which they took refuge and were starved to death by the besieging In dians. Compass Plant*. Several different countries—Amer ica. Asia Minor, Tartary, Madagas car and Australia—have shrubs and this tune, having walked up Broad way to Eighth street, and through Eighth street. . 1 stopped - to wait for a Fourth avenue ear. and turning.to FASHIONS. flowers .which are, locally at least. losing its heat. Nbr can it be soberly, question d that this exhaustion of its store ot caloric Will go forward until it becomes, for all practical purposes, a dead world. the common “rosin weed" of our western prairies., which, has the long leaves near the grouhd' set - in a ver tical position in such a way as to al ways present the edges to the north and south. This peculiar propensity of the rosin weed is attributed to the fact that both the upper and lower surfaces of the leaves demand an equal share of light, something which can be said of but few known plants, the upper surfaces usually being much more sensitive to both light and heat than the lower. This demand for a share of old Sol’s attention causes the leaves to stand in the man ner mentioned above:—St. Louis Re public. FlintH on Social Call*. In the evening a young society man should don his best suit of clothes and most attractive bouton niere and go to call on some charm ing young lady friend; arriving at the house and making himself thor oughly comfortable upon a divan bolstered up by artistie cushions, and as the result of an active day of business life which he has left be hind he should yawn, ’twould be bet ter to so well disguise it as not to be seen. But having felt all the relief one can feel from having a “good old yawn,” and having been ob served by his hostess, then he should, with all the fortitude born of an emergency, yank himself from the too comfortable divan and re solve himself by all the gods not to yawn again. Not having done so, perhaps the aforesaid charming young hostess would conclude she had made a greater success at enter taining him. -^Galveston News. A Common Experience. The awe with which the small boy looks upon a retired mariner is prob ably due to the marvelous experiences the mariner remembers to have had. An example of this extreme marvel- ousness came up recently in the course of a conversation between a lad of six and an ex-sea eaptain. “Captain Skaggs, did you ever get He looked pained and said: “Well, 1 aui sorry you look at the matter in such a commercial spirit. But as 1 nave been out of work about two mouths, and there is no demand for jxietry just now, 1 think about fifty cents will do." “But this is St. Patrick’s.” said L “1 rememlier thaL but 1 don’t drink anything but «*offee." • Ob. well, if you don’t drink any thing rmt coffee twenty-five cents will do. ami there it is." 1 handed him a quarter and jumped on the car. and the last 1 saw of him be was standing m the same pjmt looking after the ear and worn deling. Two or three days later, when the story had l*eeu published, the man called ujtou Mr. Dejiewand borrowed five dollars on the plea that his acci dental encounter witb the orator bad supplied tbe incident which saved Mr. Dc|»ew s s|H‘ci*h. New York World. the garb of a convict, and no doubt will receive it if he remains long in this section of the country. He tried his hand in Savannah a few days ago, bflt failed to victimize anybody, and is supposed to haVe gone to some of the neighboring cities to try his swindling racket. Edward Pope is a prosperous fanner at Adams Park, near Macon, and for months had been thinking of the girl he left behind in the “Fatherland.” The franlien and he were engaged before he sought “The Land of the Free.” Two months ago he sold his cotton and- sent for her to come to im. She sailed Mr. ; r _of Mausfield, La., has two powder gourds that weiu through the revolutionary war. They have oeen well preserved, and were raised on thp eastern coast of Florida. Doubtless they have contained powder which caused many a redskin and Brit isher to bite the dust. A St. Petersburg dispatch, of receni date, says a railroad train filled with army recruits, going at full speed, took fire ami was entirely consumed. Some were burned to death, others were killed by jumping from the train—foty- nine iu all lost their lives, and many others were badly wounded. The eu- gineer for some reason did not stop the train. The whisky trust is probably the greatest money making organization in tbe country, and has completed ar rangeinents to still further increase its profits. At a meeting of directors held iu Peorie a few days ago, it was shown that the concern had made profits ap proximating $2,600,000 duriug the past mouth, aud that for the succeeding month the profits would aggregate still more. A strange fatality has pursued the Greer family, in Marshal county, Ky. On Saturday, December 24th, last, Christmas eve, Joe Greer was called to his door and shot by two unknown men. Twenty-seven years ago George Greer, an older brother, was killed on Christmas eve, which happened to fall on Saturday. Thirteen years before that, on Saturday, December 24th, James Greer,, father of George and Joe, fell a victim to an assassin's Then will come to paSs wbal o her scientists have predicted, that the planets, bereft of their supply will revolve in It is printed in clear, bold type and iia cheerful, easy-reading family pa per, containing no sensations to cor rupt the children of the household. of light and heat, “solemn silence” through the mighty void. Symme*’* Hole. From tbe New York World. It Was in 1818 that John Cleves Synnnes promulgated his startling theory concerning th- formation of the ••arth. SymmeS was born in New Jer sey in 1780. He was a soldier in the war of 1812 and was promoted to a cap taincy. After the war he became a resident of Newport, Ky., and, being a man of education, devoted his life to He gave spec- ONLY 75 CENTS four days the ship was in mid-ocean he was almost frantic. However, she arrived Thursday, and, as the story books say, “they were married at last.” Athens Banner: Policeman Rose has a deer hound that originally came from Jackson county and fully thirty years have passed over the head of that sagacious animal. Monday morning he distinguished himself on the lot of the city on College avenue. The dog was runuiug around in the yard when he suddenly ran to an old chimney that was being torn down aud scented an old brick that had been thrown to one side. He would not leave it until some men came to the place to examine it They found an old brick and xn it the clear imprint of a deers’ foot. The brick had been in that chimney over sixty years, and the deer had evidently trampled upon it while it was in a soft condition. Macon Telegraph: Receiver Sparks, of the Georgia Southern and Florida, will leave tomorrow for Cycloneta farm, where he goes to start off the Geoigia Southern’s tobacco factory at that place to begin operations at once. - The plant of course is a small one as yet, but it solves the serious difficulty of poor prices for the tobacco, with which the growers have to contend. They Were all very successful iu growiug the crop *hd met w ith bountiful yields, Cyclo- neta alone producing over 5,000 pounds on twenty-acres, but they were forced c^ll in Virginia aLfrom 5 to 12 cents. philosophical pursuits, ial attention to theories concerning tbe poles, and finally evolved the theory ■Symmes’s Hole.” We want one thousand new subscri bers within the next six months and have placed the price of subscription for 1893 within the reach of all. Exhilarating Sport. lcehoatiug is a glorious sport, bur to go -icing" with a -novice at tli.* tilIt*r would tie tbe maddest thiug'a butiiau t*c*ing ever could do. My tai-e soon grew accustomed to tbe stiugmg wind, to tbe blustering tem] tests of snow, and scum 1 was shouting aloud with Ralph. “Run os through another drift, cap’n; anoth er. another? Head us for the wind and let sget that terrific sweep again!” But out voices were lost in the roar oteleiueuts. though the "eap’n" knew -flow that he had two danger mad. venturesome spirits aiioard. so . he gave the old Reiudeer her will, and she dashed, plunged, flew, the swift est. wildest thing that ever chased aud distau<*ed time, just to make a holiday for two young “-Canucks" who loved nothing tietter than life aud laughter. EL Pauliue Johnson in t luting. popniarly known as Symmes held that the earth was open at the two extremeties, and that the north and the south pole were imineusc cavities in the earth for the adniissiou of light i ito the interior to make it habitable. These holes were of such dimensions that it gave the people, who inhabited the inner portion of the earth, as much light and heat from the sun’s rays as any of the exterior portions of the sphere. Svmmes’s theory was ridiculed, but ite originator presented his arguments so forcibly that he found many converts. In 1822, and again in 1823, Symmes pe titioned congress to fit out au expedi tion and test the truth of his theory, but congress refused to appropriate the mouey. Symmes died in Hamilton, O., in 1829. To the end he maintain! d his theory, and prophesied that some time in the near future its truth would be demonstrated aud it would be found that the world was a hollow sphere, open at the poles aud habitable in the interior. Iu 1876 Americas Vespusius Symmes, his son, revived his father’s theory and endeavored to start an expedition. A. Symmes, of Louisville, relative of the above, announces an Arctic expe- pition to make search for the hole to whichlhc animals annually retire. Everybody can afford to tako a pa per when it costs so Title, and now is tbe time for YOU and YCUR neighbor to subscribe. Help Namre. Nature is the great curative, if you give her but half a chance. But in many instances nature must he assisted. Very many valuable lives have be*-n sacrificed by expecting too much of nature. A li: tie medicine taken in time, will do nine times the good than if administered af rer the disease has got a strong hold on the system. Therefore, as the season ad vances when out people should rid theii systems of the accumulated secretions ot ooisotious humor in the blood im-ideutai r.o winter life, nature^should he assisted send a copy of this paper to jour end or relative in Texas, orthe West, be better than a letter from vour eg bit off by a shark?” asked ' ,arT1 > wunm our own l- ° n ' th hi ^ * trot. There are certain persons, for instance, who are veritable parasites «, We^ssr“I”” if-*; “ __ , you rejieatedly witb the same tale of J1JCC aD ^ e ‘ physical suffering or domestic trials, Samson’* strong h. and make such constant demands Little Dot That is a picture of u|k>d your sym»»athy that you ex- Samson. Hasn't he awful long hair? penem-e a distinct sense of exhaus- Little Dick That’s wot made him turn aud depression. Physicians tes- HtrcQg tify to many a case of nervous pros- Little Dot—Why? : truth si due to this very cause. -Con- Little Dick- 1 don’t know, but I gregatienalist. guess it’s iie- -au.se he never went to a barbershop. Papa says barbers talks th. v»i«. oi r«.imum. folks half to death. -Good News. ’Things never does go right in this world." said the jiessimistic hired A Gastronomic Feat. man “Bohwire fences didn't come Here is au extract from a recent in until after leather pants had gone novel .-“Husband and wife ate on to- out o' style.” Indianapolis JburaaL The Laziest Man. Harry—^Who’s that passing on the other side of the street? Charley—Dear boy, you’ll have to excuse me. I’m really too fatigued to look farther than the middle of the street today. -Texas Siftings. “I atwa *** ’e*- ac*>ld g-» if- com**-*”— one«avs; wliic’i m'wns that- h* ijverw. »rU s the system in.gi-f-ting rid of a cnlii r Uiin assi-ir. tt by using Dr. Jiibn Bills Cough syrup. the citizen Has been known as *m>t Fi mily Paper Cherokee Georgia. Two strange accidents occurred re- Mr. L. Kennc- ceutly in Kentucky brew went for a ride in a buggy with a -lady frii-nd. At a certain place in the road the team became fnghteued and ran away, throwing the lady i=ut on her head and killing h»-r instantly. A few days later Mr. Kennebrew again started to town with another lady; driving a different team. When near the place of the former accident the horses be came unmanageable and broke through the woods. The lady was thrown out, receiving injuries from which she sub sequently died. ,e past thirty-five years and has R welcome visitor to many house- • Luring the current year it will be Th>- Moon liinT.- During the rer.ible epidemic of mens -s among the United States prisoners in niton cunty jail, fearful coughs fol ded Dr. H. A. Gofer, the physician i charge, gave Taylor’s Ctierokee Reme- .* of Sweet Gum and Mullein with liap- The Village Pastor—“Johnny, you tell me you have been to Sunday School?” The Bad boy—Yes, sir.” But, Johnny, your hair is wet ” “Yes, sir; it’s a Baptist Sunday School.” H. B. Randolph, Brunswick, Ga., writes “I was under the care of nine different doctors, but not one did me the good that Botanic Blood Balm has done, h A Father'* Prat- ctlon. Father, it is as essential for you to pro vide a safeguard against that night.-fiend to your children, croup, as to their hun ger. Tavlor’s Cherokee Remedy of Sweet Gum and Mulleiu will cure croup, coughs and colds. lot m iss a single issue. Subscribe NoYr. esms—$1.00 per yew • in advance, *Venty-fiy, cents to dabs of five.

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North Georgia citizen. (Dalton, Ga.) 1868-1924, January 26, 1893, Image 1