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PROPRIETOR. J
VOL. XVII-
I , JULY’S WEATHEK.
We give below the predictions of
Vetinor for July. Preserve them
for reference. The first six days,
it will be observed, he has struck
prwtty well:
Set. I.—Very warm and sultry. l
Sun. 2.—4th Sunday after Trini -
ty. Hot and sultry.
3.—Rather dry weather in
Provinces Quebec atnd
eastward.
4. —Rains and thunderstorms
in western sections.
5. Generally pretty warm;
evenings cooler.
6. —lndications of rain and
more cloud.
7 ) Cloudy and cooler with
8 ) rains.
Sun. 9. Fifth Sunday after Trin
ity.
10—Weather becoming cool
er and cloudy with rains
or indications of rain.
11 ) Decided cooler in most
12 i sections, with cool to
cold evenings and win
dy weather,
13 4 Weather still dry in Can
-14 > ada. Rain much nee
-15 ) ded in many sections in
Northern areas. Smo
ky showers becoming
more frequent. Hea
vy rains West and
South.
Sun. 16.— Sixth Sunday after
Trinity. Muggy, hot
and stormy.
17 j A heated term generally.
13 ! with thunder storms and
ID f hail storms in Northern
20J States. Very oppressive.
Daily reports of damag
ing storms of wind and
lightnings. Avery mug
gy period, with hot winds.
21 > Showers, cloudy and coo
22 ses at night. Windy and
cooler, a decided change
m weather.
Son. 23.—Seventh Sunday after
Trinity. Fair and
warm, coo! nights.
24. —Cooler and moist winds.
Rains West and South.
25. —Oppressive and windy,
storms brewing, [ cool
nights.
26. Frequent rains and much
cooler. Windy weath
er.
27. Continues cooler, with
cool to cold nights.
28. —Very fine and pleasant
in majority of sections.
29—Warmer again with storm
clouds.
Sun. 29, —Eighth Sunday after
Trinity. Unsettled and
showery. Stormy.
31.—Cloudy and showery.—
Periods of storms, cool
nights, much more rain
latter part than fore
part of month in north
ern and middle sections.
Note—Tbelltb and 13th days
and the neighborhood of the 26th
27th, are likely to be the cool*
eet portions of the month. Be
tween the 15th and 20th general
beat and storm.— [Ex.
Him niscoTEiciE!) i.\
GGOKUI.4.
A Wonderful \nv Sort of
Cot ton--All Immcuse
Silver nine.
[New York San.]
Atlanta, Jane 30.—Attention is
bow attracted to anew sort of cot
ton plant which bids fair to prove
immensely valuable. For many
years Mr. A. A. Subers, of Macon,
has been carefully experimenting
to hybridize the co'ton plant that
grows wild in Florida with the
common okra. The cotton plant
used is of that species which is
found on the lowlands of the Ca
loosshctcbie river, The new plant
retains the okra stalk and the foli
age of the cotton. Its flower and
fruit, however, is strikingly unlike
either cotton or okra. The plant
has an average height of two feet,
and each plant has only one bloom. !
This is a magnificent flower, very
much like the great magnolia fra
grance and equally as Urge. Like
the cotton bloom, the flower is
white for several days after it
opens, after which it is pale piuk,
and gradually assumes darker
shades of this until it becomes red,
when it drops, disclosing a won
derful boll. For about ten days
this boll resembles the cotton boll.
and then its growth suddenly in
creases as if by magic until it final
ly reaches the size of a big cocoa
nut. Not until it roaches this sizo
does the lint appear. Then its
snowy threads begin to burst from
the boll, but are held securely in
placo by the okra-like thorns or
points that line the boll.
One [inexperienced picker can
easily gather 800 pounds a day,
and fast hands much more. Were
the only saving that of labor in
gathering the lint, the result of
experiment would en
title him to the lasting gratitude
of the Southern former. But this
is not all there are no seeds in
the lint. Each boll produces about
two pounds of very fine long sta
pie, superior to the sea island, and
at the bottom of the boll there are
from four to six seeds, resembling
persimmon seed. This new cotton
fhnrft£crA. no ginntwg
Our earliest settlers used to hear
strange and marvelous stories from
the Indians of a wonderful silver
mine on the Chatorga liver, in
Cherokee county, Alabama. The
Indians would exhibit roughly
carved ornaments of silver that
they said were made of ore taken
from this mine in solid blocks.—
They could not be induced to point
out the locality of the mine, and
few believed their story. Sevoral
years ago Colonel James Callen
heard that tho Indians said the
mine ran through his farm, and he
has spent much time, labor aod
money in a vain search for it.—
These facts came to the notice of
Colonel Alfred Shorter, of Rome,
who sent to the Indian nation for
an Indian named Holland, who
knew about the mine and its local
ity. The Indian came and visited
Colonel Callen’s farm. After ex
amining the ground, Holland point
ed out the locality of the tnino, and
said it was a vein three feet in di
ameter, and several miles in length.
At the lowest computation it is
said to be worth ten million dol
lars. 8.0.
Stock Importation, its lte
gimiing.
[lrish Farmer’s Gazette.]
In 1610, four cows and a bull
were, after a long and dangerous
passage by sailing vessel, landed
in Virginia from Ireland. These
were the first domestic cattle seen
in America. In 1625, eighteen
ewes and two ram* were introduced
as a noveltv into New York by the
Dutch West India Company. The
first horses landed in any part of
North America were carried over
to Florida by Cabeca de Yaca, in
1527; they all perished. The
wild horses found on the plains of
Texas and the western prairie are
probably descendants of the Span
ish horses abandoned by De Soto.
In 1625, part of the trade of the
Dutch West India Company was
the carrying of horses from Flan
ders to New York, and that year
six mares and a horse were trans
ported from France to America.—
The London company were the first
exporters of swine from Britain to
America; aud in the year 1621
Devoted to the Cause of Truth and Justice, and the Interests of the People.
GREENESBORO’, GA., THURSDAY, JULY 20, 1882.
they carried on their vessels not!
less than eighty-four, which were!
all, on landing, allowed to roam at
large, and feet! and fatten on the
mass, which was very abundant in
the woods. They increased so fast
that in 1627 the colony was in dan
ger of being overrun with them;
but the Indians acquiring a taste
for fresh pork, and the novelty of
hunting hogs, that calamity was
averted. So important was it con
sidered at that time that the cattle,
horses and sheep introduced into
the infant colony should be allow
ed to increase, that the Governor
issued an order prohibiting tha kill
ing of domestic animals of any kind
on pain of death to principal, and
to the aider, abetter or accessory.
In 1839 horned cattle, horses and
sheep had increased to 30,000. —
In 1879 there were over 40,000,
000 sheep, 30,000,000 cattle, of
which over 12,000,000 were milch
cows, 15,000.000 horses, 2,000,-
000 mules, and 30,000,000 swine
in the United States.
llw Jesse James sliovtcd
His Gratitude.
Six years ago the James broth
ers, who sacked the express car,
and went through the passengers
on the Chicago, Rock Island and
Pacific, at Gad's Hill, stole the
money box at the Kansas State
Fair. They rode into Kansas City
on horseback, and when tho cash
ier was walking to the bank with
the receipts of the day,’about §2,-
000. they pointed their pistols at
his head, seized the box, and gal
loped off. This was done in broad
daylight, in the reidsfof a graet
crowd.
Some time afterwards one of the
Kansas City reporters wrote an
article about these highwaymen,
saying some kind things. Ho call
ed them brave, and said they had
done the most daring deed in the
highway mans record. A few nights
afterwards one of the James broth
ers rode into Kansas City, went to
the newspaper office, and, calling
the reporter out, presented him
with a handsome watch and chain.
He said the article in question
touched them in a tender spot, and
they desired to show their grati
tude.
But I don’t feel at-liberty to take
this watch, said the reporter.
But do it togratify us. We did
not steal this watch; we bought
and paid for it with our own mo
ney, continued the desperado.
No; you must excuse me, con*
tioued the reporter.
Well, then, if you can’t take this
watch, replied he. regretfully, what
can we do for you? Perhaps you
can name some man around here
you want killed !—[Ex.
Woman Suffrage.
Io California women over 21 are
eligible to all educational offices ex
cept those from which they are exolud
ed by the, constitution; in Colorado
women may vote at sehoohdistrict
elections, and may serve as school-dis
trict officers; in Connecticut they hold
the position of school visitors; in I!!i
nois they are eligible to any office un
der general or special school laws ; in
.lndiana those women not married nor
minors, who pay taxes and are listed
as parents, guardians or heads of
families, may vote at school meetings;
in lowa no person is ineligible by rea
son of sex to any school office; iu Kan
sas women are allowed to vote at school
meetings, and are eligible by election
as school officers; in Kentucky widows
having children of school age, or own
ing taxable property, may vote at
school meetings; in Louisiana women
over 21 are eligible to school offices;
Maine limits the eligibility of woman
to certaiu school offices; Massachusetts
allows voting at school meetings for
members of school committees and the
holding of school pffices; Michigan al-
lows women to hold school office!, and
when they are taxpayers to vote at
school meetings; Minnesota entitles
women to vote at school-district meet
ings and to bold school offices; Ne
braska allows them to vote at school
meetings on the same grounds os men;
in New Hampshire they may vote at
school-district meetings and be elected
ou school committees- in New Jersey,
when over 21 years of age and resi
dents of the school district, they may
become school trustees therein ; New
York authorizes the voting at school
meetings by woman residents and hold
ing taxable property in the district;
Oregon limits the voting at district
meetings to widows with' taxable
! property and children to educate;
Pennsylvania gives women over 21
years of age the privilege of holding
school offices; Rhode Island places
women in the school committee; Ver
mont allows them to vote on school
matters and to hold the office of Town
Clerk and Town Superintendent; Wis
consin considers them eligible to any
school office except State Superinten
dent; Dakota women may vote at
school meetings; in Idaho widows, or
unmarried women of 21 years of age,
residents of a district and holding tax
able property therein, may vote ns to
especial district taxes; in Washington
Territory women over 21, residents of
the district for three months preceding
district meetings and liable to taxation,
may vote at school meetings; in Wyom
ing Territory women have a full right
to the elective franchise and to hold
office. —[Lx.
I*iler Supplant tug Iron.
Paper car wheels are composed en
tirely of paper rings pressed ' "collier
under a weight of six tons, and then
fastened by means of bolts and steel
tire put on them, when they are ready
for use. Laid loosely, the rings stack
as high as the shoulders of an ordinary
man. Under treatment they sink to
the thickness required. If the tire
should wear or fall off the wheel, or
the train run from the track, there
would be no danger of their breakingj
as they are very flexible, and would
spring. A paper ball can be render
ed so solid that nothing but a diamond
tool can cause an indentation in it. At
the mill is a square block of compress
ed paper fastened ou a turning lathe,
and so hard that, if a fine steel chisel is
held against it when moving, instead
of cutting the paper, it will break the
chisel in a hundred pieces. The
strength is astonishing. You can take
a£s note of the Bank of England,
twist it into a rope, suspend 339 pouuds
upon one end of it, and not injure it
in the slightest degree. Bath tubs and
pots are formed by compressing paper
made out of linen fibres and annealed
—that is painted over with a composi
tion which becomes a part thereof, and
is fireproof. The tubs last indefinitely,
never leak, and put in the Sre, will not
burn up. You can beat on them with
a hammer and not injure them, Plates
compressed and annealed are very dur
able; you can not only wash them, but
drop them upon the floor and stand
upon them. The fork can be used for
any practical purpose, and can always
be kept sham. Paper can be substi
tuted for wood, converted into picture
frames and colored like walnut, cherry
and the like. Bedsteads are fashioned
the same as car wheels, only of long
strips instead of rings. They are very
beautiful and lasting. Cooking or
heating stoves are also annealed, and
it is impossible to burn them out; they
are less costly than iron. A house
can be literally constructed of, and
furnished with every convenience, iD
paper. The printing press, type and
all the fixtures of the office could he
concocted of this material, and more
cheaply than the ordinary kind. A
complete steam engine can be thus
manufactured and do all the required
duty. Clothes and shoes will come in
the future. Twenty-nine heurs are
needed to transfer linen fibre into a
car wheel.—[Ex.
turious Patents.
Some investigating person has furr
nished the New York Times with a
brief list of patents on small things
such as any man or boy might have
thought of, tut didn't, and which io
many instances have proved mines of
wealth to the lucky discoverer.
Among these trifles is the favorite
toy —the “return ball"—a*wooden ball
with an elastic siring attached, selling
for the sum of 10 cents each, but yield
ing to its patentee an income equal to
fair returns on a capital of $500,000
flie rubber tip on the end of lead pen
oils affords the owner of the royalty an
independent fortuno. Tho inventor of
the gummed newspaper wrapper is also
a rich man. The gimlet-pointed screw
has evolved more wealth than most sil
ver mines, and the man who first
thought ef putting copper tips to
children’s shoes is as well off as it his
father had left him $2,000,000 in
United States bonds. Although roller
skates are not so much used in coun
tries where ice is abundant, in South
Amerioa, especially in Brazil, they are
very highly esteemed and have yielded
over $1,000,000 to their inventor. But
he had to spend $125,000 in England
alone fighting infringements. The
“dancing Jim Crow," a toy, provides
an annual income of $30,000 to its in
ventor, and the common needle thread
er is worth SIO,OOO a year to the uisn
who thought of it. The “drive well
was an idea of Col- Green, whose troops,
during the war, were in want of water.
He conceived the notion of driving a
two-inch tube into the ground until
water was reached and then attaching
a pump. This simple contrivance was
patented after the war, and the teas of
thousands of farmers who have adopt
od it have been obliged to pay him a
royalty, a moderate estimate of which
is placed at §2,000,000. The spring
window shade yields an income equal
to an investment of $1,000,000; the
stylographie pon, with which this am
ijo Is written, also §1,000,000; the
marking pen for shading in different
colors, 5100,000; rubber stamps, the
same. A large fortuno has been reap
ed by a Western miner who, leu years
sinco, invented a metal ri j et or eyelet
at each end of the mouth of breeches
and coat pockets to resist the strain
caused by the carriage of pieces of <>te
and heavy tools. Fortunes have been
made out of the dead as well as the
liviDg. The torpedo grave, which will
explode when body-snatchers meddle
with it. is one bonanza; another odd,
but probably net lucrative one. is an
open tube, running from the top of the
ground to the coffin-lid, just over the
face of the corpse. If the person is in
a trance and has been buried alive, he
draws himself up through the hole and
returns to tho surface by means ol a
rope-ladder in the tube. If he prefers,
however, to send for assistance, he
pulls a cord which rings a hell near
'hr top of the tube. After lying there
long enough to assure his friends that
he has no intention of coming back
the tube is pulled up, drawing as it
eouies a glass plate over the face of the
inmate of the coffin.
Every time a woman pricks the shell
of an egg preparatory to boilin'; it she
violates a patent right, this Laving
been secured by some genius who dis
covered that it would prevent their
breaking during tho boiling. It hav
ing been said that chickens hatched bv
artiQcial heat do not thrive as well as
others because thoy miss the maternal
affection expressed in the 1 cluck,cluck”
of the natural hen, an inventor has
taken out a patent which imitates that
sound, soothing and charming the ten*
der-hearted but bereaved offspring
with its artificial croon aod consoling
the young orphan with its mechanical
solicitude. This is based evidently
upon another patent for babies of a
machine operated by clock work and
prodsing a low and melancholy mur
mur which no child, however wakeful,
can successfully resist, but to which it
succumbs in profound slumber. There
is also the false-bott jilted nest which
deludes the hen into the belief that she
has not laid an egg, and combined
with her own conscientious devotion to
duty, persuades her to continuance of
her work until she is exhausted or un
deceived. A wire frame strung above
a horse's head is also patented. It is
meant to persuade the animal that it
is the top #f a fence too high for him
to overleap. This, of course, presume*
that the horse is an ass. —[Ex.
of Musqueto Nettisg, all col
ors, cheap,—C A llama & Cos. t
top Railroad Com,
Office Gerleral Manager, Augusts, Ga., JULY lit, 1882.
Commencing Sunday JULY 2d, 1-881, Passenger Trains Will run as follows:
Vo. |, Wcsf- 1>511.V.
Leave Augusta 10:80 a. m.
Leave Macon 7.10 a. in.
Leave MiUodgeville 9:05 a. tn.
Leave Camak 12:25 a m.
Leave Washington 11:20 a. n:‘.
Leave AtliChs d.do ft. m.
Arrive nt Gieenesboro’ 2;IG p. m.
Arrive at Atlanta 5:45 p. m.
Yo. , WeS*— Httily.
Leave Augusta $-'SO p m
Arrive GreenesboM’ 1:44 a m
Leave Macon, 7:10 p h>
Leave Milledgeville 9:15 pin
Leave Athens 0:00 p m
Arrive Atlanta OttOa-nv
BgyPuperh Sleepers to Augusta and Atlanta.
EJ R. 3DORS.ESY,
General I’assenger Agent.
J. \V. GuitEN, General Manager.
CITY DRUG STORE.
O'O
J ALWAYS keep a Large and'varied assortment of
C'lieinieally Pure DRUtKS and
KKW OOODS 17 Medicines.
Arriving every week. Je&' v.
J 95*Zl%£?;2S* Full slock of
PAINTS, OILS, VARNISHES,
COLORS, BRUSHES, etc.
AH Sizes WINDOW GLASS.
LAMP GOODS, CHIMNEYS, etc.
Buist’s Garden Seeds.
ONION -SI 4, POTATOES, etc.,
Crop of 187t*, warranted fresh and Genuine; Irt entfs p,hh J 1 ai.,5 UMto
strictly. The best Seed for this climate.
Fine Cigars & Chewing Tobacco
Toilet Snaps, Perfumery, Pomades, Twoth-brushes, and Druggist’s sundria*.
Physicians’ prescriptions careful compounded and dispensed.
John A* Griffin.
Greenesboro’, Ga., Janunrj 29,1880.
.1. L BOWLES & €.,
Wholesale and Retail t
No. 717 Broad Street,
Augusta, - - - GA.
OUU Stock is complete in every particular. Chamber Sets from s'>oo down to $?•
Parlor Sets from S4O up to $250. Come and see us, or write for prices. W*
have all the Latest Styles and Novelties in our line. We are Agents for the Woven
Wire Mattress Company,and the National Wire Improved. The best two springs in the
market We have a full line of cheap Spring and Mattresses; also fine Feathers-
J. L. BOWLES & CO.
Jan. 20, 1881— No. 717 broad Street, Augusta, ®
ROBINM, CAMPBELL & CO.
DEALERS IN
Paper, Paper Boxes, Books
And Stationery,
Office and Salesroom No. 29, Whitehall Street,
ATLANTA, - - - GA.
PLAIN WRITING TAPER, | WRAPPING PAPER.
FANuY do do PAPER BAGS of all sizes and
BLANK BOOKS. weight at
>ujci'lage, Bottomfigurcs
SCHOOLund^UscclUneo*!Book! f)Pf]PPC MjpjtP(]
of every description U 1 ILUI U UUIIUIIUU.
October 14, 1880—
Central Hotel.
Mrs W M THOMAS,
PROPRIETRESS.
Centrally located near Confederate Monument,
Broad Street, AUGUSTA, Ga.
Comfortable Rooms. Eicellvnt Fax* Courteou* Clerks and attentive Servant*
Sept. 30, 1880
JH.T. laE-W"IS,
( 111) IT OR.
Wo. 3, East-Unily.
Leave Atlanta 8:20 a. m.
Leave Greenesboro’ 12;03 p m
Arrive Athens 8:45 p ffl
Arrive Washington 2:56 p ta
Arrivo Carnal: 1:57 pm
Arrive Milledgeville 4:49 p m
Arrive Macon 6:45 p m
Arrive Augusta 8.65 p m
Yo. 4, East-ltnily.
Leave Atlanta 8:45 p in
Leave Greenesboro’ 1 ;47 a m
Arrive Milledgeville 4:27 a in
Arrive Mscon 6:40 a m
Atrive at Athens, 8:30 a. m
Arrive Augusta 0:30 a m
NO. 28.