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PROPRIETOR. j
VOL. XVII.
tap Railroad Cijh,
Office General Manager, Augusta, Ga., JULY Ist, 1882.
Commencing Sunday JULY' 2d, 1881, Passenger Trains will run ns follows:
So. I, West—lft iy. So. 2, Knst-Dai y.
Leave Augusta 10:30 a. m. Leave Atlanta 8:20 a. m.
Leave Macon 7.10 a. m. Leave Greenesboro’ 12;03 pin
Leave Milledgeville 9:05 a. m. Arrive Athens 3:45 p m
Leave Oaniak 12:25 am. Arrive Washington 2:55 p m
Leave Washington 11:20 a. m. Arrive C’amak 1:67 p m
Leave Athens 9:45 a. m. j Arrive Milledgeville 4:49 p m
Arrive ai Greenesboro’ 2;16 p. m. Arrive Macon 6:45 p m
Arrive at Atlanta 5:45 p.m. [Arrive Augusta 3.55 pm
So. , West— I>alyi 4, Enst-I>tiiy.
Leave Augusta 8:50 p m Leave Atlanta 8:45 p m
Arrive Greenesboro’ 1:44 am Leave Greenesboro’ l;47am
Leave Macon, 7:10 p m Arrive Milledgeville 4:27 a m
Leave Milledgeville 9:15 p m Arrive Macon 6:40 a m
Leave Athens 6:00 p m jAi rive at Athens, 8:30 a. m
Arrive Atlanta 6:40 a m j Arrive Augusta 6:30 a m
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MSyFuperb Sleepers to Augusta and Atlanta.
TU R. DORSEY,
General Passenger Agent.
J. W. G reen, Genoral Manager.
CITY DRUG STORE.
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J ALWAY’S keep a Large and variedassortment of
Chemically Pure DRTOS and
NEW goods Wf Medicines.
Arriving every week. iH V,
° Full stock of
PAINTS, OILS, VARNISHES,
COLORS, BRUSHES, etc.
All Sizes WINDOW GLASS.
LAMP GOODS, CHIMNEYS, etc.
Buist’s Garden Seeds.
ONION 3ETQ, POTATOBB,
Crap of 1879, warranted fresh and Genuine. lO cents papers sold at 5 CAlllS
strictly, The best. Seed for tins climate.
Fine Cigars & Chewing Tobacco
Toilet Soaps, Perfumery, Pomades, Tooth-brushes, and Druggist’s sundries.
B&- Physicians’ prescriptions careful compounded and dispensed.
John A. Griffin.
G reen esboro’, Gn.„ Jftmi an 29,1880.
J. L. BOWLES & to.,
Wholesale and Retail
No. 717 Broad Street,
Augusta, - - - GA.
OUR Slock is complete in every particular. Chamber Sets from SSOO down to $25
Parlor Sets from S4O up to $250. Come and see us, or write for prices. We
have all the Latest Styles and Novelties in our line. We are Agents for the "oven
Wire Mattress Company, and the National Wire Improved. The best two springs in the
market We have a full Hue of cheap Spring and Mattresses; also fine Feathers-
J. L. BOWLES & CO.
Jan. 20, 1881 ' No. 717 Broad Street, Augusta, G
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GREENESBORO’, GA., THURSDAY, AUGUST 24, 1882.
THE It AIA V DAY.
BELKCTKD 11Y L. 1,, m'w.
The day is cold, and dark, and dreary;
It rains', and the wind is never weary ;
The vine still clings to (lie inoldering wall
Dut. at every gust the dead leaves fall,
And the clay is dark and dreary.
My life is cold ami dark, and dreary ;
It rams, and tlie wind is never weary ;
My thoughts still cling to the inoldering
past,
Dut the hopes of youth fall thick in (he
blast,
And the days are dark and dreary.
Be still, sad heart, and cease repining ;
Behind the clouds is the sun still shining;
Thy fate is the common fate of all;
Into each life some rain must fall:
Some days must bo dark and dreary.
EI tO .71 ALASKA.
Extract from a Letter from
Dr. W. R. Dußose, to his
Father.
Wears permitted to make the
following extract from a letter
written by W. R Dußose, Assist
ant surgeon, U. S. Navy, to his
father, lion. C. W. Dußose. It
will be read with interest by many
of our readers, especially those
who are acquainted with the
writer.
U. S. 3. “WACIIUSETT,”
Fort Wrangel, Alaska, July 16 'B2
Believing my presence in Alaska
will arouse your interest in matters
appertaining to this territory I
have decided to indulge in some
crude, and general statements re
garding it. Beyond the fact that
in 1807.. the United States acquir
ed by right of purchase from the
Czar of Russia, a vast tract of
wild land extending from the Brit
ish possessions in the south, to the
frozen sea in the north, but little
is known generally, of this section;
and even to the studious geogra
pher a great portion of it is a seal*
cd volume. The roason for the
purchase, in view of the immense
stretches of public lands in the
south, west, and great northwest,
then owned and unoccupied, even
for the nominal sura of eight mil
lions of dollars, was not apparent
to the tax-payer jealous of un
necessary public expenditures. We
alroady owned more than enough
land to furnish homes for many
scores of years to the army of im
migrants who, driven from thoir
homes in the old world by want,
oppression, and overcrowding were
coming, anl are now coining in
increasing numbers, in search of
liberty and food among us. Why
add to our possessions a territory,
separated from us by the province
of a foreign power, and reputed to
be unfitted by the barrenness of its
soil, and vigorous climate for little
else than a home for its native
Indians, Esquimaux and wild ani
mals ? The “Russian American
Company,” who had been for many
years in absolute control of the
territory, had concealed the suc
cess of thoir management, as they
hid from the outside world the
grinding tyranny and irresponsible
cheating, perpetrated on the na
tives and their employes The
propriety of the purchase, however,
has been abundantly proven, view*
ing it simply as a financial invest
ment. From the lease of the Seal
Islands—two of the many hun„
dreds of islands lying off the main
land—to the “Alaska Fur Seal
Cos,” the Government receives an
nually about 8325,000, nearly four
per cent, on the purchase money.
True these two Islands are the on
ly habitual resorts of the fur seal,
but in other ways the property can
be made most valuable, and in the
remote future the coast of Alaska
may become populous and pros
perous. The time may come when
the vast cities aDd populous coun
tiy of China will furnish a grand
market for our increasing produc
tions, and it may he that then the
ports of Alaska will assume great
importance. The completion of
the Canada Pacific Rail lload. the
Northern Pacific and other roads
will bring Alaska much nearer the
manufacturers. At present the
“Fur Seal Company” furnishes the
only revneue to the public exche
quer hut this company has grown
very wealthy and there aro possi
bilities of increase, which should
enable enterprising, careful settlers
to realize handsomely of judicious
ly conducted enterprises. The
“Northwest Trading Cos.” with a
capital stock of SIOO,OOO, and
headquarters at Portland, 0., has
established posts at four or five
places, and is making an effort to
get a firm hold and control of tl ei
Indian trade, but recent unusual
expenditures and a poor fishing
season have probably embarrassed
it seriously.
The general features of Alaska
are forbidding; consisting of an
unending succession of high hills,
mountains and narrow canons, for
most of the year snow covered,and
arising along the coast abruptly
from the sea. Pleteaus are not
found of any extent south of the
peninsula of Alaska, and as an ag
ricultural section the country
promises nothing. The heavy
snow fall, and it.r prolonged stay
on the ground which would neces
aitate the use of dry food for cattle
for many months will nlwy s r*-
vent its becoming a stock jaising
section. Now the horses and cows
in the territory can lie counted on
one's fingers. At the mining town
of Juneaux I recently saw the only
mule resident in the territory, fie
had become a public institution,
and the ward of the town. Brought
up by a speculator last summer he
was abandoned as winter approach
ed, as a useless and expensive
possession. Ilis case appealed to
the charitable instincts of tbo mi
ners, who had a town meeting,
adopted the mule, and by subscrip
tion raised money enough to secure
a scanty supply of hay during the
past winter. The mule narrowly
oscaped the honor of adding one
more to the number of casualties
among bold explorers in these and
more frigid regions I would em
phasize the case of this mule as
proof cf the astonishing testimony
of a witness recently before a con
gressional “Sub committee on
Territories,” that Alaska offered
every facility for cattle raising,
and would grow important as such.
This witness in his apparent eager®
ness to secure a civil government
and desire to help thereby an as
pirant for a delegates billet was a
victim of a willful hallucination. It
is reported that the two corpora
tions of Alaska are urgent for a
civil form of government; but it is
singular, and suggestive of a job,
that the limits of this civil govern
ment are to fall short of the locali
ty from which the present revenue
to the treasury comes. If the
authorities permit whites to settle
in the territory it would seem only
right that gome meansof securing
property, inducing development
and protecting life should be sup
plied. A vessel of war is \opt in
the limits of the territory and
doubtless exercises a healthy re
straint oveUwhites and Indians.—
The noval authority is limited to
tho functions of a police officer,
however, and can only be exercis
ed when the peace is disturbed.—
The climate is surprisingly mild
for the northern latitude all along
the southeastern coast. In winter
Sitka is no colder than New York
city. This unexpected mildness is
due to the warm Japan current!
the Kuro Siwa the analogue of
our eastern gulf stream, which
sweeps down the western edge of
North America, laden with warmth
and moisture, modifying and miti
gating what otherwise would he in
winter, an extremely col 1 climate.
In the interior,where the influence
of this ocoan current is not felt,the
climate is very different and much
colder. To this warm stream is
due the abundant snow fall in win
ter and rain, fall in summer, which
detracts groatly from the very few
comforts to be found in a residence
here, summer season begins in
June, ends in September, and
throughout is very mild the ther
mometer rarely going above 55
degrees, and then for only a few
hours. One would expect immu
nity from mosquitos in such a cli
mate; hut it is not secured. A
m're vicious and venomous growth
of these pests can be nowhere
found, nor in greater abundance. In
some portions of the territory deers,
bears and other ariiina's are forced to
seek relief from them by taking them
selves into a convenient stream or lake
On the water they are rarely very an
noying. The trade of the country is in
furs, fish and oil principally, and iu
each particular the extent and possi
bilities of the trade are great. The
country is densely wooded with a
splendid virgin growth of spruce, yel
low cedar etc., and in this timber the
country has a possession which ulti
mately will prove of immense value. —
The yellow cedar is rat Iter light, takes
a very high polish and is said to be
invulnerable to attack- of the forredo
Til bRC Itic in to (lie Ynn-ftWißo .n4
loog been used to make ihe camphor!
wood chests (so called) imported from j
Chin’. The mineral we.lib ol Alaska |
is still unsettled. At Junean ciiy, fir.-t |
called Harrisburg, a number of mining
claims have been located, and a rich
yield is hoped for. Careful inquiry
and personal examination of a few nf
the locations convince me that there is
great uncertainty about the presence of
gold and silver there, in large enough
quantities to pay for working the quartz
and placer locations. Tiiere was an
apparent air of depression among the
min;rs aod manifest dullness among
the traders in the cauip, very different
from the appearance of a prosperous
mining camp. The white residents in,
south eastern Alaska are few in num
ber— probably three hundred at Ju-
nesn, one hundred and fifty of Sitka,
forty at Fort wrangel, and fifty more
scattered at various points. The In
dians seem so be as a rule quiet, indus
trious, hardworking and intelligent.—
Their habits are peculiar in many
re-pects, and their associations with
! the whites while beneficial in some
respects has not tended towards decid
ed elevation or improvement. Presby
terian utissioo stations at Wrangel,
Sitka, Hoonah, Ileida and Junean are
well established and doing good slowly
and steadily. My letter has assured
larger proportions than I intended, but
perhaps it may iutercst you. I feel a
good deal of interest io our local paper,
and are pleased to get it in my month
ly mail. Perhaps it would entertain
some of my old Hancock acquaintances
to hear a word from me in this far ofl
land. [Sparta Ishmaelite.
RATS AND 71 ILK.
[Harper's Young People.]
It’s queer that girls arc so dreadful
ly afraid of rats and mice. Men are
never afraid of them, and I should not
uiind if there were more than a million
mice in my bedroom every night.
Mr. Travers told Sue and me a ter
rible story one day about a woman
'who walking through a lonely field,
when she suddenly saw a field mouße
right in front of her, She wa.® a brave
woman; so after she had said, Oh my !
savo me, somebody ! she determined to
save herself if she could, for there was
nobody within miles of her. There
was a tree not very far off, and she had
just time to climb up the tree and seat
herself in the braoches, when the mouse
reached its foot. There that animal
>
staid for six days and nights, squeak,
ing io a way that made the woman s
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blood run cold, and waiting for her to
come down. On the seventh day,when
she was nearly exhausted, a man with
a gun cuute along and shot the mouse,
aod saved her life. I don’t believe
this story, and I told Mp. Travers so;
for a woman couldn't climb a tree, and
even if she could, what would hinder
the mouse front climbing up after her?
Sue has anew young man, who comes
every Tuesday and Thursday night.—
One day he said, Jimmy, if yvuTl get
uia a lock of your sister’s hair I’ll give
you a nice dog. I told him he was
awfully kind, but l didu’t think it
would be honest for me to take Susie's
best hair, but that I’d try to got him
some of Iter every day It air. And he
said. What on earth do you mean.
Jimmy? And l said that Sue hatrgot
some new back hair a little while ago,
for I was with her when she bought
it, aud I knew she wouldn't like me to ,
take any ol that. So he said it was no I
matter and he’d give me the dog any
way.
I told Sue afterward all about it just
to show her how honest I was, and in
stead of telling me I was a good boy,
she said: Oh, you little torment,
g’way and never let me see you again,
and threw herself down on the sofa
and howled dreadfully, and mother i
came and said, Jimmy, if you want to ;
kill your dear sister, you can just, keep !
doing as you do. Such is the grati
ttide of grown up folks.
Mr. Wit hers—that’s the new young
man—brought the dog, as he said he
would He’s a beautiful Scotch ter
rier, and he said he would kill rats like
anything, an:! was two years old, and
had the distemper; that is, Mr, With
ers said the dog would kill rats, and of
course Mr Withers himself never had
i the distcmocr. ....
Of course I wanted to see the dog
kill rats, and so I took him to a rat
hole in the kitchen, but he barked at
it so loud that no rat would think of
coining out.
If you want to catch rats you must
not begin by barking and scratching at
rat holes, but you must sit down and
kind of wink with one eye aud lay for
them, ju-t as cats do. I told Mr. With
ers that the dog wouldn’t catch any
rats, aod he said he would bring me
some in a box, and I could let thorn out
and the dog would kill every -ingle one
of them.
The next evening Sue sent me down
to the milliner's to bring her new bon
not home itnd don’t you be long about
it either you idle, worthlc-B boy. Well,
I went to the millinery shop, but the
bonnet wasn’t done yet; and as I pass
ed Mr. Wither's office, lie said, Come
here Jimmy; I've got those rats for
you." He gave me a wooden box, like
a tea-chest, and told me there were a
dnzrn rats in it, aud I’d better have
the dogs kill them at once, or else they
would gnaw out before morning. Sue
met me at the door, and said, give me
that hand box"*this instant; you've b< < n
more than an hour about it. I tried to
tell her that it wasn't her box, but she
wouldn’t listen, and just snatched it
and went into the parlor, where there
were three young ladies who had come
to see her, and slammed the door; but
the dog slipped iu with her
In about a minute l hearu fho most
awful yells that anybody ever heard.—
It sounded as if all the furniture in tie
parlor was being smashed into kindling
wood, and the dog kept barking like
mad The next minute a girl came
flying out of the front window, and
another girl jumped right on her be
fore she had time to get out of the way,
and they never stopped crying, Help 1
murder ! let me out! oil my !
I knew, of course, that Sue had open
ed the box and let the rats out, and
though I wanted ever so muoh to know
if the dog had killed them all, l thought
| she would like it better if I went back
to the milliners and waited a few houis
for bonnet.
I brought it home about nine o’clock;
but Sue had gone to bed, aud the rer
vaot had just swept up the parlor, and
piled the pieces of furniture on the pi
azza. Father won’t he home till next
week, and by that time Sue will get
over it I wish I did kr.ov if the dog
killed all those rats, and how long it
took him
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{ 3HI- T- LEWIS,
\ EDITOR.
<olil<-u rclilins(Tf <>rn|H'.
For the benefit of our patrons who
may contemplate planting 2rape vines
during the coming seasons, we copy
the following from Cu/einaii’s Rural
World, of St. Lours, Mo., in relation to
this white grape, which is of especial
interest, coining, as it. docs frmr> the
originator ofthe “Martha” grape
Friend Coi.bman : —We have heird
so much about the two New White
Grapes of the North,Niagara and Pock
lington, that our curiosity was greatly
aroused. The latter we have growing,
hut the former can’t be had for love
or money. Now, however, since read'
l'ng Campbell’s comparison made at
Boston, we feel as well without the
Niagara. He says Bunches fftrgrr
than the illustrations, and weighing
ißore than a pound Much the largest
and most attractive white grape of
| native origin yet introduced, throwing
| the Niagara, which was exhibited be
side it, entirely in the shade ”
Last Friday I received from Roches
ter, a small basket of Poeklioglon in
most excellent condition, and nothing
for a tong time afforded us more pleas
ure. Although the fruit was taken
from vines planted only twenty-nine
months ago. and the vines left to over
bear, for the purpose of ascertaining
what they could do, some of the bnDch
es weighed over half a pound, and
some of the berries measured almost
one inch in diameter. In quality, it
is, to my taste, just about )d enough*
It is somewhat like the Martha, bit
less foxy and better.
We learn that the originator, sent
four shoots to an exhibition, with three
bunches * n each, and tho twelve bunch
lea weighed eleven pounds. This has
j probably never been done before by an
American grape. A peculiarity about
it is that many of the smaller berries
have but a single seed, while the aver
age is but two, the largest berries usu
ally three, anti in one I found four.—
The seeds are small for so large a grape.
Here is nearly all rich, sweet, buttery
matter, instead of good ptrl of berry
being composed of seed. If my judge
ment is correct, fourteen pounds of
those grapes will make a gallon of wine
and it will make good wine without
doubt. It will, however, be some year*
before much wine will be made out of
it, for it will be in too great demand
for the table.
While the Martha has dono nobly
and I need not be ashamed of having
originated it I now resign and give
the palm to Mr. Pock lington. It is
a strong grower, and looks as healthy
as aDy vine I ever saw I havo no
vines for sale, therefore no ax to g ind
but simply write this so those who in
tend to plant should not fail to plant it.
It is a most beautiful fruit. The seed
can be seen if the berry be held be
tween the light and ones eye.
I have had ihc fruit since last Fri
day, (Oct. 28th.) anil this evening a
bunch of it is fresh and sound This,
after traveling a thousand miles by ex
press, tells what its keeping qualities
arc. SAMUEL MILLER.
Bluffion, Mo., Nov. 2nd, 1881.
RICHMOND and DANVILLE B. B.
PASSENGER DEPARTMENT
OX and after SUNDAY, February 26,
1882, Passenger Train Service on the
Atlanta and Charlotte Air-Line Pivisien
vill be as follows;
Mail and Evprkss. Mail
Eastward—No. 51. No. 58,
Leave Atlanta. 2.15 p m ft.oo a m
Arrive Gainesville, 4 54|p m 7.55 a m
do Lula, 5.20 pm 830 a m
do Rabun Gap J’n 02g p m 0.13 a m
do Toccoa. 7.06 p m 10.06 a m
do Seneca, 8.24 pin 11.20 a m
do dGreenville, 10.07 p m 1.25 p m
do Spartanburg, 11.40 p m 2.58 p m
do Aiastonin, 2,06 a 'll 6 10 p -a
do Charlotte, 3.15 a m 6.00 p m
Mail and Exrio-s. Mail.
Westivard~No. 50. No. 52.
Leave Charlotte, 12.40 am 11.05 am
Arrive Gastonia, 1.15 ain 11.05 am,
di Spantant urg, 4.04 ain 2.35 ymi
do
do Seneca. 7.15 a ni 5 55 p m
do Toccoa, 8.28 a in 7.05 p m
do Rabun Gap J'n 9.32 a in 8 00 p m
do Lula, 10.18 am 843 pm
do Gainesville, 10.51 a m 9.15 p m
do Atlanta, t.lOpm 12.00 a w
T. M. R. TALCOTT,
General Manage®..
J, V. SAGE, Superintendent.
A. POPE,
General Passenger and Ticket Agent,
“ —Examine the Cheap Tables df C. A.
Davis A Cos. Great Rarg lin-s t<> R® had
there.
NO. 33.