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PROPRIETOR. j
VOL. XVII.
■Um MM Company,
Office General Manager, Augusta, Ga., JULY Ist, 1882.
Commencing Sunday JULY 2d, 1881, Passenger Trains will run as follows:
N T o. J, West—la iy.
Augusta 10:30 a. m.
Leave Macon 7.10 a. m.
Leave Millcdgeville 9:05 a. in.
Leave Camak 12:25 a m.
Leave Washington 11:20 a. ni.
Leave Athens 9:45 a. m.
Arrive at Gieenesboro’ 2;IG p. m.
Arrive at Atlanta 5:15 p. m.
No. , West-laiy.
Augusta S:SO p m
At: ive Greenesboro’ 1:44 am
Leavo Macon, 7:10 p m
Leave Milledgeville 9-15 p m
Leave Athens 9:00 p m
Arrive Atlanta 0:40 am
RiSfPuperb Sleepers to Augusta ami Atlanta.
EJ FI. DORSEY,
General Passenger Agent.
J. W. Green, General Manager.
■ CITY OIOS STORE.
oo
J ALWAYS keep a Large and variedassortment of
Chentiraily Pure DRUGS anti
'•! new goods W 7 Medicines.
- Arri.ins v c rj Fllll , lock „ f
PAINTS, OILS, VARNISHES,
COLORS, BRUSHES, etc, '/
All Sizes WINDOW GLASS.
LAMP GOODS, CHIMNEYS, etc.
Buist’s Garden Seeds.
ONION SETS, POTATOES, etc.,
. Crep of 1579, warranted fresh and Genuine. I<> cents papers sold at n CiUtS
stricny, tho twit ara air rms cnmare.
Fine Cigars & Chewing Tobacco
l Toilet Soaps, Perfumery, Tomades. Tooth-bruslies, and Druggist's sundries.
Physicians’ prescriptions careful compounded and dispensed.
John A. Griffin*
J. L. BOWLES & do!,
Wholesale and Retail
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Augusta, - - - GA.
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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-
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Sept. 30, 1880-
No. , UQit-llniy.
, Leave Atlanta 8:20 a. m.
Leave Greenesboro’ 12;03 p m
Arrive Athens 8:45 p m
arrive Washington 2:55 p hi
Arrive Camak 1:57 p m
Arrive Milledgeville 4:49 p m
Arrive Macon 0:45 p m
Arrive Augusta 3.65 p m
No. 4, East—Dniy.
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| Airive at Athens, 8:30 a. m
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GREENESBORO’, GA., THURSDAY, AUGUST 31, 1882.
NOIELE TIEN.
SEI.BCTED HY r,. 1.. M W.
The noblest men I know on earth
Are men whose hands are brown with
toil ;
Who, backed by no ancestral graves,
Hew down the woods and till the soil,
And thereby win a prouder fame
Than folltfws a king’s or warrior’s name.
The workingmen wliate’er their task
To carve the stone or bear the hod,
They wear upon their honest brows
The royal stamp and seal of God !
And brighter are the drops of sweat
Than diamonds in a coronet.
God bless the nobit working men,
Who rear the cities of the plain ;
Who dig the mines and build the ships,
Who drive the commerce of the main,
God bless them for their swarthy hands
Have wrought the glory of all lands.
Tlie Wlississipiti ISiver Pro
blem.
[Harper's Magazine for Sept ]
Tbs whole valley is filled with silt at
least a thousand feet deep. In order
to have deposited this silt thus all over
the valley the river must have flowed
in different ages in all parts of the val
ley, doing for countless centuries just
what it is doing to*dav — building up
sand bats and uiud banks, breaking and
cutting them again, and tossing the
atoms from place to place, dropping
them at low water, and shifting then:
in floods, but always bringing down
more, and building the valley up highs
er and higher, and carrying the delta
out farther and farther to sea. If the
supply of material holds out, the Gulf
of Mexico must inevitably become dry
land, as the arm of the sea above it has
done.
The character of the silt which forms
this “made[ground” is an important
f.nior >•> tho pmb'em, It is ohiefly
mineral in its formation, and is of great
specific gravity; but there is a consid
able admixture of vegetable matter,
which doubtless is the cause of its ex*
caeding fertility. Being formed of
heterogeneous atoms brought in solu
tion by the water, and not having
amalgamated thoroughly, at least on
the surface, or where the water can
reach it, it remains soft soluble mud,
which is capable of resisting the action
of water only by means of gravity. It
has almost no cohesion, and offers no
proper foundation for.any work that is
of greater specific gravity than itself It
is used as material for the mud banks
called levees, which have been until
lately the only engineering works on
which reliance has been placed, for
there is no other material there no use,
but from the fact that it is soluble it is
poor material for such works.
These facts, thoughtfully considered,
present difficulties enough in the way
of engineering works, but the main dif.
ficulty is yet untouched. This lies first
in the magnitude of the river itself,
secondly in the variations in its volume*
and thirdly in its variations in altitude
and speed. This may seem like a va
riety of difficulties instead of one, but
that.o/ie all lies in the effort to control
a vast stream which constantly varies
in volume, altitude, lateral position,and
speed. It is evident enough that it
would be a comparatively simple thing
to control a smaller stream of as obsti
nate a nature, or one equally as large
that should not change from month to
month in its conditions. One can man
age a puddle, or protect himaelf from
the sea, but against a thing its a!
ternately puddle and sea it is difficult
to act.
The stretch of bottom lapd over
which the river rolls from St. Louis to
the sea is from twenty to two hundred
miles wide, and seveu hundred miles
long. Over this flat surface (for it is
almost flat, slopiog’gently to the sea)
the river meanders, cutting a shifting
groove in the soft mud, that is 11)00
miles long. Why it does not cut for
itself a straight line, thus securing a
fail of 58-100 of a foot per mile, in
stead of 31-100 of a foot, which it now
has, seems strange until wa stop to
consider that it carries its own obstruc
tions with it until they become too
heavy to carry. Then dropping them
in its own path-it hag to run around
them. It thus forever corrects its own
tendency to cut away the ground it has
made, for if it were straightened and
kept straight, as has been proposed by
Captain Eads, it would have a direct
tendenoy to do this, which tendency
would have to be counteracted by oth
er means. By the increased slope it
would acquire increased rapidity, and
would carry to the sea as great a bur'
den as it has at St. Louis, if not great*
er.
As to the variations in the river be
tween high and low water, they ure aL
most inconceivable to one who has not
witnessed them. They are as if the
Hudson River should once a year flood
the socond floor of the City Hall iu
New York city, and occasionally in a
‘ flood year" flow over the third floor;
and the problem before the Mississippi
engineers is to be compared with the
question how, with such floods, ser
viceablo piers could be constructed on
our river front if there were do rock
foundation less than one thousand feet
deep. One is no more difficult a ques
tion than the other, excepting that on
the Mississippi there are thirteen hun,
dred miles to look after.
During the fliods ’of last spring the
Mississippi River from Cairo to the
sea —1100 miles —had an average width
of not less than twenty miles, and an
average depth from shore to shore of
Dot less than (cd feet. Of course much
of this was slack water, or th o backset
caused by the overflow. All this vol
ume of water was not flowing to the
sea with the full force that comes of a
fall of 58-100 of a fool. If it had
been, there would have been little use
in asking to day what is to be done for
the valley, for there would havg been
very little valley left. But the volume
of water was there, and if it could have
escaped into the sea as raj idly as it
■flowed into the valley from above, it
I would still have been too large to lie
in its bed.
The problem in brief, then, Is to de
cide how to keep witliiu fixed bounds
a stream that flows in varying volume
over a bed of mud, without banks that
can be called banks.
A ISivul ol Mark Twain's
Frog.
A gentleman from Hartwoll sent
to the Great Western Gun Works
and purchased a small parlor rifle
with 1,000 cartridges of the small
est size, the bullets being about the
size of a duckshot. He went ovor
to Benson’s mill pond, frog hunt
ing, and found a very large frog
of the masculine gender sitting on
a stump just above the wator. lie
shot twenty-seven times at h-im,
when his frogship lost hfs balance
and dropped over into shallow wa
ter. Upon taking the frog out it
was found he had swallowed twonty
six of the bullets, catching them in
his mouth, supposing them to be
flies. When be went to more the
weight of tho lead carried him
overboard, and when taken out he
was not dead, but awful sullen.—
[Hartwell Sun.
litick.
Bad luck depends very largely
on the amount of downright lazi
ness which is packed away in our
system and good luck consists
greatly in that is properly called
your grip on affairs. Some people
have had bad luck because their
hands always slip when they take
hold of anything, and others have
good luck because they take hold
and keep hold.
‘All my crop of corn,’ said one
of the former ilk, Bulkily, ‘has
somehow failed me this season. ‘I
never do have that sort of luck.’—
A brisk thriving farmer who stood
by remarked, ‘Well, John, that's
very strange, for we haven’t had
such a good season for many a year.
What kind of corn did you plant,
pray V
‘Wall,’ was the reply, ‘I sup
pose it is partly to he acoounted
for by the fact that last spring I
was so awful busy about other
things that I forgot all about the
corn until it was too late, and then
I concluded not to plant it.’ —Ex
A FItOIELEU.
SELECTED BY L. 1.. Jl’W.
Sandy ami Ned were brothers;
Ned was older than Sandy ;
And they were busy dividing
A stick of peppermint candy.
Ned was earnestly trying
To make the division true,
And he marked the place with a fish-hook
Where the stick ought to break in two.
But, alas, for little Sandy
And his poor painstaking brother
’Twas a long and short division
One piece longer Ilian the other.
Ned gravely looked at the piooos
And their quite unequal length,
And he wrestled with the problem
With ail Bis mental strength.
And, at last, lie said : “Oil, Sandy !
I can make it come outrvht,
If l tike the piece that’s longest
And bite off just one bite.’’
Their four eyes beamed and brightened
At this plan, so very handy,
Of disposing nf the problem
And distributing the candy.
So Ned ate the pieces even—
’Twas the simplest way to do it ;
And he cheat .and little Sandy—
And they- neither of them knew it !
1 w
He Wanted to See llie Others
•Will you please pass the Shem ?’
asked a quiet man at the lunch
counter.
‘Haven’t any,” squeaked the girl
in attendance.
‘Some Jnphet,” queried the
quiet man again.
‘Don’t keep it,’ squeaked the
I damsel.
‘I say,’ chipped in a curious
j passenger, ‘what do you mean by
| Shem and Japhet V
‘Nothing,’ responded the little
man dolefully, ‘nothing only the
Ham is so old and musty that I
thought the rest of the tribe might
be around here somewhere, and I’d
like to see ’em.”—[Ex.
Utilizing Crows.
A Pennsylvania farmer has
turned the crows to a geod ac
count, lie makes them allies in
his work. Writing to the Ameri
can Agriculturist he says : “For
the past five seasons I have, just
before I expected my corn up,
sowed on the field about a quart of
corn to each acre, and repeated the
operation as often as necessary,
until the corn was so largo that the
erows could not pull it up. If the
corn is soked until tender, they
prefer picking what they want to
eat from the surface rather than to
pull the young plants to get it
The cost of the corn thus sown is
but a trifle; as a result I have a
great number of crows almost con
stantly on ray corn-fisld, and after
they have been satisfied with corn,
they will still pick up all the in
seots, grubs and cut-worms they
can find, as a dessert. In raising
fifty acres of corn since adopting
this plan, I have not lost a hun
dred stalks by crows and cut
worms combined.”—[Ex.
—
‘Are those stars which we see at
night suns?’ asked a little boy of
his father. ‘Yes, my. boy.’ ‘Are
the shooting stars suns, too ?’ ‘No;
the shooting stars are not suns;
they are darters.’
It is said that a pair of pretty
oyes are the best mirror for a man I
to shave by. ’Zackly so; and it is
unouestionably the case that many
a man has been shaved by them.
Marietta Journal ; On tfre even
ing before his vfeus D Gen.
Clement A. Evans, bis pastor,
called and prayed with him, Sena
tor Hill recognized the General
and, in audible voice, exclaimed,
“Almost Home.” The unlooked,
for words, uttered so distinctly and
almost joy fnlly, touched all pre
sent to tears. They were the last
spoken on earth by him.
Tli Itniii Tree.
Some travelers in South Ameri
ca, in traversing an arid and deso*
late tract of country were struck
with a strange contrast. On one
side there was a barren desert, on
the other a rich and luxuriant
vegetation. The French consul at
Loreto, Mexico, saya that this re*
markable contrast is due to the
presence of th# Tamai capsi. or the
rain tree. This tree grows to the
height of sixty fset, with a diame
ter of three feet at its base, and
possesses the power of strongly at
tracting, absorbing and condensing
tho humidity of the etmosphero.—
Water is always to be seen drip
ping from its trunk in such quanti
ty as to convert the surrounding
soil into a veritable marsh. It is
in summor, especially, when the
rivers are dried up, that the tree is
most active. If this admirable
quality of the rain tree were util*
ized in tho arid regions near the
equator, tho people there living in
misery on account of the unpro
ductive soil would derive great ad
vantages from its introduction, as
well as the people of more favored
countries whore the climate is dry
and droughts frequent. [Ex.
A Mtrnrgc (Coinnncc.
Piior to the battle of Chicamaugy
there lived in the northern part of
Georgia ay* ung couplo happy with
each other and more than comfortable
in circumstances. Some time after the
j call was issued for volunteers the young
man enlisted iu an Ohio regiment that
was in that part of the State. At the
b ittlo of Chicknmanga he was gtrael’
by a hull whigh resulted in bi* insani
ty. After the dose of the war he wsb
confined in the asylum, and about, a
year ago he was released. The young
wife awaited her husband's return, but
in vain. She mourned him as dead,,
Iu 1880 she removed to Chattanoogtq
and has been residing here since. ThE
young man, who had now grown old,
settled in Ohatranooga. These two, by
strange events, have boen thrown to
gether, both ignorant of having met
before. They learned to like each
other, and like ripened into love, so
much bo that last Thursday night ho
proposed to the lady and was accepted.
While conversing, the conversation
turned on war topic#, and while thus
engaged stories of the past time, the
long ago, were brought out and the
great secret of the past crept piece by
piece together until the two found the
old lovo leap through the years agone
and the husband, whose black looks
were silvered with the gray of time,
and the wife whose youth hsd gone
out, cried out the endearing names of
old. ’Twas then a neighbor visiting
became aware of some strange tvenl,
and from the few explanations, that it
seemed necessary, our “man about
town” was enabled to ostch a glimpse
of this domestic event. —[Ex.
“Wanted to buy a mule ?” queried a
farmer of a country editor. ‘No;
what the douce do I want of a mule ?
asked the astonished paste manipula
tor. ‘Wall/ replied the granger, ‘I
seed an item in your paper last week
which said that you wished folks
would’t talk to you so much through
your tellyfome, as you had only one
pair of ears ; so I thought I’d fetch
down another pair and then ysu'd have
a team.’ When the farmer got outside
and dug the paste out of hi* left ear be
fill thankful that he wasn’t a mule.
Albany Advertiser: In the fami
ly ef a gentleman 'in Leo county
lives a negro woman who does not
yet know she is free, though she
had been frequently told so. She
is deaf, but can articulate saveral
words. She believes that her mis
tress has sold all the other slaves
and retained her for a b<W ß * •®r*
vant. No amount of argument
can make her believe otherwise.—
She is well cared for, ji)(j ijj £
most valuable servant.
( 3r3:_ T
-1 EDITOR.
IVr.son of Clu-isf!
There has appeared in (his our' day
a man of virtue, named Jesus Christ,'
who is jet living among us, and with
(he Gentiles is accepted as a prophet
of truth but his own dccip'es call hitn
the Son of God. He r’aiseth the dead 5
and cureth all manner of diseases ; a
mail of stature some shat tall and come'
ly, with a very reverend countenaee,'
such as the beholder may both love and!
fear; his hair is the color of a filbert
full ripe, and plain down to his ear*,
but from his eats downward somewhat'
curled and more orient of color, wav
ing about bis shou’ders. In the midst
of his head goeth a scam for partition
of hair, after the manner of the Naza*
rites, his forehead is very srnedth and
plain; his face nose snd mouth *>
framed as nothing can be reprehended.'
his beard is somewhst thick, agreeable
to the hair of his head for color, not
of any great length, but forked in the
middle, of an innocent and Diaturu
look; his eyes gray, clear and quick.
In reproving he is terrible; in adtnon
ishing, courteous and fair spoken' pleas
ant in speech amidst gravity. It cari"
not be remembered that any have seen
hitn laugh, but many have seen him
weep. In proportion of body, well shap
ed and straight; his hands and arms
most beauteous to behold; in speaking
very temperate, modest and wise;*
man of singular virtue, surpassing the
children of men. Publius Lentulus.
IVnrls of Thought
' si. '
hsijP'pu you meet a heart that is true,
i-be afraid to trust it.
ft | w.
i who wants to do a good deal of
•,vod at ODce will never do any.
I'Flowers that come from a loved hand
:,ro more prized than diamonds.
To be really and truly independent
to support ourselves by our own ox*
Wi'ioßs.
A woman's friendship is, as a ra!#'.
the legacy of love or the alms of ins
difference.
Action will not alwaya bring happi*
!aess; but there is no happiness with*
i nut action.
ij) Old truths are always new to us if
uirsy come with the smell of heaven
upon them.
Out of the world men show us two
sides in their character; by their firs*
side, only one.
Ail nature i* a vast symbolism ;
every material fact has sheathed with*
in it a spiritual truth. We love beau
ty at first sight; and we cease to lov*
it if it is not accompanied by amaible
qualities.
If you intend to do a mean thing
wait till to-morrow. If you are to do
a noble thing, do it now.
Great ideas travel slowly, and, for a
time, uoiselcssly, as the gods whoi*'
feet were shod with wool.
lie who comes up to his own idea of
greatness must always have had a very
low standard of it in his mind.
A good deed is never lest; he wh
sows courtesy reaps friendship, and hs
who plauts kindness gathers love.
A little girl read a composition be-'
fore the minister. The subject waa “A
Cow.” She wove in this complimen
tary sentence; “A cow is the moat'
useful animal in the world except re-'
ligion.”
The longest line of fence in the world
will be the wire fence extending from
the Indian Territory west acrosa the
Texas I’anhaDdle, and thirty-five miles
into New Mexico. Wo are informad
that eighty-five miles of this fence is"
already under contract. Its course
will be in the line of the Canadian riv
er, and its purpose is to stop the drift’
of the Northern cattle. The fence wiU*
be over ”00 miles long.
Twenty women of lowa have woo re
pute by remaining together for ao hour
without speaking a word. Aa the wix- '
tieth minute drew nigh, all the men in”
the vicinity to fled escape the loosened
torrent that was so near at hand.
■ —. —
A colored politician, desirous of
a Baltimore offico, puts it thus : :
“We owe nothing to the Soulb, w#
owe nothing to the North. They
became embroiled and the negro’
slipped between and got his free
dom.” Volumes have been written 1
to express the same idea.
NO. 34.