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PROPRIETOR. j
VOL. XVIII.
A Finnish mateorologist. PfeL
Lemstrom, announces that he has
made a remarkable experiment, in
which he placed on the apex of a
hill a galvanic battery with con
ductors covering an area of about
10,000 square feet. The cone be
came surrounded by a halo which
faintly but perfectly yielded the
spectrum of the aurora, end the
experimenter regards this result,
with some subsequent ones, as di
rect proof of the electrical nature
of the mysterious light which so
often dances in northern skies.
Mons. Sanson has investigated
the excitant property of oats, and
finds it to be due to a nitrogenized
substance which he names “avon
ine.” This principle exists, in
varying proportion, in all oats,
but, as a rule, it is contained in
greater quantity by the dark-col
ored than by the white varieties.
Crushing or grinding tho grain
weakens considerably its excitant
action upon horses, probably by
altering the exciting substance.
No excitant action is suro to be
produced by oats containing less
than nine-tenths of one per cent of
avenine, but with a greater propor
tion of the latter tbs effect is cer
-l# n.
A prize of SISOO has been offer
by the Prussian Society for Encour
agement of Industry for the best
account and estimation of the meth
ods of working coal mines, includ
ing modes of ventilation and pre
cautions to ensure the safety ol
miners.
European observations seem to
indicate that the condition of the
foil and the atmosphere has much
to do with the development of can
cer, the disease being extremely
prevalent in dry uplands.
It is reported that the Italian
explorin'® party lately returned
from the South Pacific found many
human bones of great size in Pat
agonia, indicating the former exis
tence of a race ol giants in that
country.
From a report given by Dr. D.
E. Salmon, of the Department of
Agriculture, in reply to enquiries
fxm abroad, it appears that char
■ ~p. lever is not known to he verv
, - tractive t<> the domestic animals
oi tbo United States, its ravages
being most severe in the lower
Mississippi valley, where it causes
heavy losses of stock nt times, es
pecially after great inundations.
Dr. Salmon dees not believe that
the introduction of Pasteur’s meth
od of protective vaccination could
ho made a success as a business
venture. Experience in Europe
has shown that the susceptibility
of animals to the virus varies great
ly in different countries, and before
the plan of vaccination can be
adopted here expensive experiments
must he made to determine the
proper strength of vaccine for
American animals. A govern
ment laboratory forthe preparation
and froe distribution of vaccines
of charbon and other contagious
diseases of animals would, it is
suggested, he desirable.
Esquimaux are said to he able
to see objects at a much greater
distance than Americans or Europ
eans, and this remarkable keenness
of vision enables them to spread
intelligence by means of sign tele
graphy over hundreds of miles in
a single day.
According to Mr. J. K. Laugh
ton, of the London Meteorological,
Society, measurements now made
of the forco and velocity of the
wind are very unsatisfactory on
account ©f the lack of a standard
anemometer.
By welding together iron and
steel Mons. Kiel has obtained a
product which is stated to possess
the characters of both metal*.
This so-called steel-iriuu has
prepared in five w.ivs, viz: steel /by
the side of iron, steel between two
layers of iron, iron between two
layers of ateel, a core of steel sur
rounded by iron, and a core of iron
surrounded by ateel.
Messrs. Tissandier have con
structed an electro magnetic en
gine, an aerial screw propeller and
a bichromate battery which they
propose to use for directing a large
elongated balloon. By a trial of
this apparatus in their work-shop
at Point du Tour, France, the con
structors havo shows that it will
yield the work of twelve to fifteen
men for a period of three hours,
"hile its weight does not exceed
that of three men. The Messrs.
Tissandier propose to use their bal
loon for rational experiments in the
air, and they do not expect to pro
pel it against strong winds.
At a point between forty-threo
and fifiy fathoms beneath the sur
face of the sea, Seccbi, Pourtales
and Bouguer have found that all
traces of light cease, the most deli
cate chemical tests remaining un
affected when sunk lower in the
water. Prof. T. Fuchs finds in
ibis limit of light-penetration a
division line which separates all
oceanic life into two great classes,
one of which seeks the light, while
the other remains in a region of
total darkness. The fauna of light
inhabits tho shallow water near
coasts, and is not abundant at a
greater depth than thirty fathoms;
while tho species of darkness live
in the deep sea, and are never
found much nearer the surface
than forty fathems during daylight,
although some of them rise to tho
surface at nigh;.
———
A Street tar Incident. J
Not long ago ao incident took place
in one of the Sixth avenue cars in New
York, which is worth mentioning.
The car contained a dozen passen
gers, all of whom were men, with the
exception of one, who was a boy. Im
mediately opposite the boy, who occu
pied one corner, sat a man whose coun
tenance was a compendium of tualigni
<y
He looked as though all the worm
wood of existence had flowed ttirmijjli
a tunnel into the crick- and crannii
of his faoe Suddenly, the boy, whose
Dovoieu to ine Cause of I noli and Justice, and Hie Interests of l!ie People,
GREENESBORO’, GA., THURSDAY, MARCH 8, 1883.
face was a bright contrast to that of his
opposite neighbor, began whistling
‘ Shoo, fly. 1 ’
It has been said that the first Napo
leon foamed at tho mouth at the sound
,of church bells in the country. Pre
'monitory symptoms of such a crisis
came over thq man I have been de
scribing as the first notes of this pnpu
lar classic.
“Shut up !" he screamed. ‘‘Wbat
do you mean? Shut up !”
This was said in tone of indescri
bable malignity, and loud enough to Tie
heard by all the passengers.
The poor boy, completely abashed,
‘6hut up.” But one of the nearest
passengers, seeing how matters stood,
fixed his eyes upon the man, and with
a firm, even flow of the breath, com
menced whistling the obnoxious air.
The joke seemed to spread. One
after another the passengers, fixing
their eyes on the wretched ehnr!,join.ed
in the melody, until, when the refrain.
‘ Shoo, fly, don't bodder me," came in,
the boy who bad been rebuked ventur
ed to lift up bis voice aDd whistle to
his heart’s content.
*■
And the car went rattling along the
avenue, the atmosphere around it ring
ing with whistles of nearly a dozen
manly mouths,
To describe the rage and bewilder
ment that succeeded each other over
the countenance of the victim would be
a difficult task. At length, unable to
bear it any longer, he jumped up, took
the number of the eonductor, and,
swearing he would have him discharged
for allowing his car to be filled with pub
lic nuisances, plunged off while the ve
hicle was in full motion.—[Ex.
iv onwniKK v vix s
LATEST,
f .
Mark Twain responded to the
toast on “ Woman God BlessIIer!”
at the Forefathers’ day celebration
of the New Eogland Society of
New Ycrk, recently, as follows :
The toast includes tho sex uni
versally. It is to woman, compre
hensively, wheresoever she may be
found. Let us consider her ways.
First comes the matter of dress.
This is a most important consider*
ation, in a subject of this nature,
and must be disposed of before we
can intelligently proceed to exam
ine the profounder depth of the
theme. For text, let ua take tho
dress of two antipodal types the
savage and the cultivated daughter
of our high modern civilization.
Among the Fans, a great negro
tribe, a woman, when dressed for
home, or to go to market, or to go
out calling, does not wear anything
stall but just her complexion.—
That is all. That is her entire
outfit. It is the legitimate outfit
of tho world, hut it is mad 6 of the
darkest material. It has ofteD
been taken for mourning It is
tho trimmest and neatest and graco
fulest costume that was ever in
fashion; it wears well; it doesn'
show dirt. You don’t have to
send it down town to wash, and
have some of it come hack scorch
ed with the flatiron, and some of it
with the buttons ironed off, and
some of it petrified with starch,
and some of it chewed by the ca’lf.
and some of it rotted with aoide,
and some of it changed for other
customers’ things that haven't any
viituo but holiness, and ten-twelf! s
of the pieces overcharged for,
and the rest of the dozen mislaid.
And it always fits ; it is th: perfec
tion of a fit. And it is the hand
iest dress in the whole realm of
fashion. It is always done up.
When you call on a Fan lady and
send up your card, the hired girl
never says, ‘'Please take a Boat;
madam is dressing; she will be
down in three-quarters ofan hour.”
No ; mad.nne is always dressed, al
ways ready to receive, and before
you can get the door-mat before
your eves, she is in your midst
Tnen again, he Fan li lies dori I
g. to church t'> sea ah i to- nth
have on, and they don't go
I home and describe and slander'it.
such i9 tho dirk child of niv
! agery as to every-day toilet; # nnd
thus, curiously, curiously enough,
she finds a point of contact with
tho fair daughter of civilization ami
high fashion, who often has “noth
ing to wear;” and thus these wide
ly separated types of tho sex meet
upon common ground. Yes, such
is the Fan woman as she appears
in her simple, unostentatious every
day toilet. But on state occasion*
she is more dressy. At a banquet
she wears bracelets ; at a lecture
sho wears ear rings and a belt; at
a hall she wears stockings, and
with a truo feminine fondness for
display, she wears them on her
ar ns. At a funeral she wears a
jacket of tar and ashes ;at a ved-,
ding, the bride who can afford it
puts on pantaloons. There the
dark child of savagery and the fair
daughter of civilization meet once
more upon common ground ; and
these two touches of nature make
the whole world kin.
Now we will the dress
of our other type. A largo part
of the daughter of sivil'zation is
her dress, as it should he. Some
civilized women would lose half
their charm without dress, and
some would lose all ef it. The
daughter of modern civilization,
dressed at bor utmost best, is a
marvel of exquisite and beautiful
art and expense. AW the lands,
all the climes and all the'arts are
laid under tribute to furnish her
forth.- Her liben if Belfast;
her robe is from Tarin; her face is
from Venice or Spain or France;
her feathers are from the remote
regions of Southern Africa; her
furs are from the remoter home of
tho iceberg and the aurora; her fan
from Japan; her diamonds from
Brazil; her bracelets from Cali*
fornia; her pearls from Ceylon;
her cameos from Rome. She lias
gems {[and trinkets from buried
Pompeii, and others that graced
comely Egyptian forms, that have
been dust and ashes now for forty
centuries; her watch is from Ge
neva ; hqr card case is from China;
her hair from, from, from I don’t \
know where her hair is from—l
never could find out. That is her
other hair—her public hair—her
Sunday hair. I don’t mean the
hair she goes to bed with. Why.
you ought to know the hair I mean;
it’s that thing which she calls a
switch, and which resembles a
switch as much as it resembles a !
brick-bat or a shot gun, or any;
other thing which you correct peo
ple with. It’s that thing which
she twists and then coils round and
round her head bee-bive fashion,
and then tucks the end in under
the hive, and harpoons it with a
hair pin. An'l that reminds me of
a trifle. Any time you want to,
you glance around the carpet of a
Pullman car and go and pick up a
hair pin ; hut, not to save your
life, can you get any woman in
that car to acknowledge that hair
pin. Now. isn’t that strange? But
it’s true. The woman who has
never swerved from cast-iron ver
acity and fidelity in all her life
will, when confronted with this
crucial test, deny her hair-pin.
She will deny that hair pin before
a hundred witnesses I have stu
pidly got into more trouble and
more hot water trying to hunt up
the owner of a hair pin in a Pull
man car than by any other indis
cretion of my life.
Well, vou see what the daughter
of civilization i9 when she is dress
ed, and you havo seen what the
daughter of savagery is when she
isn t. Such i3 woman—as fto cos
tume 1 came. now. to consider
her in her higher and nobler as
pects—as mother, wife, widow,
grass widow, mother-iu-law, hired
girl, telephone holloer, queen,
book agent, wet-nurse, stepmother
hoes, professional fat woman, pro
fessional beauty, and so forth, and
so on. We will simply discuss
these few let tho rest of the sex
tarry in Jericho till we come again.
First on the list, and first in our
gratitude, comes a woman who
who—[looking at his watch ] Dear
me, I am opposed to this ten min
ute rule, which supposes all men
have equal powers and infirmities.
It takes rue as long to get out fifiy
words as it does some of these glib
fellows to say five hundred ; and
when I’ve done I haven’t said any
thing, and they haven’t either
But you see, I have had time to
introduce my subject. I took a
large contract, and if I had had un
til next Forefathers’ Day, I am
satisfied that 1 could discuss it as
adequately and as appreciatively
as so gracious and noble a theme
deserves. But as the matter stands
now, let us finish as we began, and
say without jesting but wifh all
sincerity; “Woman God bless
her.”
IT WAS COM*.
Some years ago, my father occupied
an office in New York, while an old
gentleman had on#; in the rear. I say,
gentleman, for he was one, after tHe
“old school’'—with a ruffled-shirt-
bosom-style.
He was a man of culture, but rheu
matism had bent his tall figure —leftj
the strung lines of distress on his taoc j
i and urads him slow of step and iuor ;
ment These, added to a natural bcei-j
talion of speech, para him an appear-j
acce of extreme old ago.
We called him “old orook.”
Perhaps the old man’s penuriousn<*s
made us likely to extend to him that
courteous, kirjd treatment which age or
illness should always receive; but eve
ry one who knew “old crook respected
his scrupulous integrity and his brains.
In the winter months (hs old gentle
man had a habit of- letting hi* fire go
out early io the afternoon and then
coming into our office would sit by the
lire till it was time to “close up.” We
were pretty well satisfied that he knew
we kept a better fire than lie did, and
the two hours a day of coal saved
that was an item! But never would he
take a seat by our fire without first pr
litsly asking leave to do so; to which
he always received my father’s cheery
response: “Certainly, Mr. Crook; you
are ever welcome,’’
Hut —I had an uncle! and lie had
evidently been aontemplating an attack
on the old man. His sallies were al
ways keen and sharp, and we scarcely
knew of one failing to stay where he put
it, but, alas! this lime. Well, I will tell
how it happened. One very cold after
noon, the old gentleman came in a*
usual, and after his eustomiry request,
drew a chair to the stove. Tho cold
had stiffened him more than ever and
it was some time before he got himself
fixed, but finally seated, he remarked.
“This is a bitin; cold day, and this fire
feels good. Indeed, uiy hands and feel
are very cold.”
The lime had come! That uncle of
mine turned at his desk and with a
guttural voice said:
“Mr. Crook, it is an alarming symp
tom, when one’s extremities grow cold!’
The old man slowly bent forward
and spat in the grate. Every ear was
strsined to hear what he would soy
In a few moments, slowly, but in gen
tle tones, came the following:
“Yes, John! but still more alarm
ing when oua s heart grows cold
Again the old man bent forward tod
spat, but, oh! bow still we all were.
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