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{ESTABLISHED IX THE YE ill 1865). • , 1 O. HEARD, \ PROPRIETOR. J VOL. XIX. ff ylro|li<tl>ia's Terrors. A Frightful Affair at Reading, Pa., — -Haw Mr. Grow wns \Vrued of Approaching Spasms, and How He Begged to be Shaekled and Bou-d. [Reading (Pa.) Special ] Cyrus Grow, aged thirty-five, a night watchman at the Reading Railroad's eteaui-forge, came home to-day, cam plaiiing of feeling unwol). Io the presence of his wife he was seized with a violeot apaim, and weuld have fallen en the stove had she not caught hint. The spasms increased in severity, and be frothed at the mouth and bark ed like a deg. Tho neighborhood yru* aroused, but it required seveo man to hold the sufferer down, Ihe horrible spasui lasting one hour. Then Mr. Grow requested Aider man Deem to have hiip shackled and bound down in bed, saying: "I know what is coming, Oh 1 that horrible hydrophobia ! I was bitten years ago by a mad dng I don’t want to do any one any harm wheu I get into one of those fits ” Hi. instructions were full}' carried out, and all the afternoon he was writh ing in a terrible fit, finally succeeded in forcing off one cf'the handeuus. It required five men to hold him. Short ly after three o'clock lie became euiin, and again begged his friends nut to forsake him. About five o'clock he was again seized with a spasm, arid by violent movement succeeded in wrench ing off tho iron cuffs entirely, lie then jumped from th3 bed and leapod to the second story window, where he sat on the outer sill. Two polieemsu saw the piau’s frightful antics, hurried up stairs, and crept in the room be hind him. Just as they were about to seize him lie jumped, with an awful shriek. An officer caught him by the wrist, pnd a violent struggle ensued, the of ficer inside and the “n an wiggling jn the air. Grow finally worked him self loose, and tumbled to tha icy pave ment below, where he quickly pulled a pocket-knife and stabbed himself iu the throat and cut both his wrists. By this time fully th.rea hundred peonle had gathered, and the bleeding ■victim was carried to the Central Po lice Station, whence he was taken to .tha Country Hospital. He is suppos ed to be in a dying condition. Mr Grow is a very respeotabU man, the father ol five childron, and has (been a watchman for five years. He has been suffering from malarial fever, and opinion is divided us to the cause of his mania. Ait Sti(or< s£in& Anal.ysN- The following analysis ot (he Old ah .New Testament will be interesting: Book in the Old Testament, 37; chapters 929; verses, 23,214; words, 592,439; letters, 2 728.100. Books in the New Testament, 27; chapters, 200, ver es, 7,4)59, words, 181,253, letters, £38,350 The Apocrypha has 183 chapters, 9,081 verses, 152,185 words. Whole number of words in the Bi ble,-3,718.055 The middle chapter, and tire least in the Bible, is Psalui 217. The .middle verse is the Bth of Psalm 117. The word “and 1 ' occurs in the Qld Testament 25,543 times. The same in the New Testament also occurs 10,G84 times. The word ‘'Jehovah'’ occurs 6,855 times. The middle Book of the Old Testa-* aisnt is Proverb? The middle chapter is Job, 2S. The middle uerse is 2d Chronicles, chapter 20, 17th verae. The least verse is Ist Chronicles, chapter 1, and lat verse. The middle book in the New Lesta rnent is 2d Thcssslonians- The middle dialers are Itomais, 13 and 14. The middle verse is Acts 17, 47th verse. The least verse is Acts 9, 35th verse The 21st verse, chapter 1, of Ezra, has all the letters of the alphabet. The 16th chapter ef 2d Kings and. chapter 37 of Isaiah are both alike. A ISOM IVITC STOISI. A Vermont Girl whe was made a Canadian Peer’s wife by a Duel. The recent death in London of Lady Rose, wife of Sir John Hose of London, and formerly of Mon treal, brings to mind some roman tic incidents of her early life. La dy Rose was a daughter of Robert Emmett Temple, of Rutland, Yt., who held the position of Pension Agent of the United States Gov ernment for the Revolutionary War. lit was a geutleaian of dis tinguished appearance and elegant manners, and had Fraught up his daughters in all the courtly graces and accomplishments which mark ed the higher classes at the begin ning of this century. The young er ladies paid a visit to Montreal, and the younger married a Mon treal gentleman Robert Sweeney —a Protestant Irishman, who at that time held the position of In* specter of Potashes, and was a partner of o<d. Dyde. Her sister married Mr, Chapman. The Swee neys moved much in military cir cles, arc .Mis. Sweeney, from her fascinating maoner and snvoir faire becaaie a general faverita. An unfortunate affair took place which caused much comment iu fashianshle circles in those early days. Muj. Ward, of the First Royals, was an intimate friend and companion of Mr, Sweeney, and one afternoon the two friend* stroll ed up town tegetber. That ever, ing Mr. Sweeney had friends to dinner, and during the repast a note was brought into Mrs. Swee nsv, which she immediately hand ed to her husband. He jumped from the table and proceeded to tho mess rooms of the First Ilayal*. M*y Ward, hearing Mr. Swee ney’s voice, called out to him to come in and have a 'glass of wins This was sternly and os the Major ®aking his appearance, Mr. Sweeney handed him the uoie with the demand. -‘Did you write this, sit?” Maj. Ward took the aiisiive, and after glaucjng at it contemptuously tore it late frag ments. Mot words ensued and a challenge ivas given and accepted About sunrise the next morning the two friends, who had left Col. Dydo in a very friendly mood the night before stood confronting each other with pistols at the St. Pierre race course on the Laohine road. The word was giveu and Mr, Swee ney, who was an accomplished du elist, having had several affairs be fore. shot hie antagonist through tke heart before the latter had ttuse to explode his weapon He and his vtifa returned to cha States urn til. at the rapuest of the officers of Muj. Ward's regiment, a nolle pro sequi was entered and he was aL lowed to return to find that the let ter was the heedless practical joke of a flighty girl who had imitated Maj. IFard’s handwriting. The circumstances so preyed on Mr. Sweeney's mind that he died liter ally heart broken. A short time afterward his young widow, with her son, went to beard at a house r>n Victoria Square, and thero she met James Rose, a youth from Huntington, who was study ing law in the office of Judge Day. A mutual attachment between the fascinating and accomplished wid ow and the talented young law student ensued, and shortly after hie admission to the bar they were married. Her wonderful tact and suavity of manner made her a lead er in society, where she was ever on the alert to advance her hus band’s interests. As Lady Bea censfiald was te her husband, so was Lady Rose’s success, and her diplomacy and ambition spurred Devoted to the Cause of Truth and Justice, and the Interests of the People, GREENESBORO’, GA., FRIDAY, FEBRUARY 15, 1884 h*r husband en to higher aims, which made him one of the fore most Canadians of his time. Sir John entered political life early a;ul advanced rapidly, working ia connection with Sir Johd A. Mac Donald, lie was at one time the minister of Finance, which position ho retired to enter tho firm of Mor ton Rose & Cos., bankers of Lon don and New York. The CJrowill of Cotton Facto ries in the Mouth. The Manufacturers’ lice ud, which has given exhaustive attention to this movement, presents the following facts and figures: The figures show that at the present lima there are 1,270,422 spindles and 24,873 looms in Southern cotton mills, as against 713,989 spindles aud 13.222 loom son J/ay 1, 1880, or an inerease of 502,433 spindles and 9,651 loom* in just threo years and a half, or ta increase in that time of about 80 per cent in spindles and GO per cent in the number of looms. It must be retnema bared that these figures do not repre sent the entire number of new spindles aud looms placed in Sent hern mills since 1880, but only the iuoieuse in tha present aggregate number as com pared with the total on May 1, 1880 ; for thousands cf old spindles bays been taken out during the past three years, and been replaced by new ones, so that could we obtain th* exact number of new spindles and■ looms purchased by Southern mills since the eeasus report was gathered, it would probably bu not less than 800,000 o! the ' former and 15 000 of the latter. Moreover thers are a large rd u;bcr of new mills under construction, and quite a number of old oues that- Lave either very lately been enlarged or are now undergoing that change, ail of whioh will require considerable number of spindles and looms/ snd eouid tin total taqui re in loti of these mills be obtained, they would still farther troll the foregoing figures. Georgia heads the list with 340 130 ipiedies and 7,843 looms ; while Maryland, which in 1880 was second, has dropped baek to the fourth in position, permitted North Carolina to take th* ssoond place, with 213,302 spindles and 3,543 looms, and South Carolina third, with 190,048 spindles sad 3,389 looms. Alabama coats in fifth, after Maryland, though she has only about one half as many spindles as the latter State, followed closely by Tennessee, and then Virginia. Tho aggregate number of oottofi mills now in the South is 314, against 180 in 1880—a gain of 134. According t tho census, tha value of the products #f all Southern cottan mills for tho year ending May 31, 18ffO, was a littia over 321,000,000, and, while the exact figures fer the past year are not obtainable, yet it is believed that tha valuo for 1883 was between $35,000,000 and 840,000,- 000, Sheejt or Dogs, Which? Paris (Tenn.) Intelligencer. The question as to whether dogs er sheep are tho most valuable te Tennessee farmers, is still an un settled proposition. The last issue of the Gallatin Tennesseean says there is a great deal of complaint throughout that esunty about the depredations of worthless curs on geese, sheep and lambs, and ad vises the shotgun policy. We be lieve that every farmer should have a good, well bred, well fed, well trained “dorg,” the noblest aud most faithful of all animals, to guard his heme and its inmates,and protect the property. But one dog is sufficient for all the needs of auy one home. It is the multiplication of dogs, that are permitted to rove at will, the untrained, unkept, hungry, starving dogs that hold conventions and plot for food, and pass resolutions, that would, if the peer brute comprehended them, make the wool stand on the poor defenseless sheep’s back; these are the dogs that ought to be get rid of. We would not object to the law that j would allow one dog to the household as a protection to homo and property, but more than this should be prohibited, by law. There are thousand; of valuable sheep destroyed annutlly fc dogs that are not of the least valuo to any ane, while thousands of farmers have been deterred ff*m attempting i . or have abandoned sheep husband y. because ef the damagesjto that interest. It ia time for the inauguration if a system by which sheep raisers can bo protect ed in their property, a -d impor tant branch of husbandry encouraged and promoted. Berrien County News : There are many farmers in Rerrier and Irwin counties who have not yt rinned any ef their cotton crop, owing to the lack of water to run the gins —~s-- —..-.®-..—< gfe^Tlcruember, we arc headquarters for fresh Garden Seed, Robert Bui-ts and Landreth’s. All kind af Garden Implements, lloes , llakcs. Pulverizers, Garden Lines. Copelan, Reals & Ar mor. 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Ad Jress HARPER & BROTHERS. New York. B@k,When a farmer uses Universal once, he uses it forever afterwards. It pays. For sale by, W. M. Weaver. W. Garrett. ty. A. Latimer. “GARRETT & L ATI MIR Cotton gp§gg|k Factors AND COMMISSION MERCHANTS, No. 8 Mclntosh Street, AUG ISI A, GA. Liberal Cash advances made on Consignments in Store. Lagging and Tie at lowest market Prices. Sept. 14, J Will. tyUJordan. Fred. 15. I*o|v. Formerly of Sibley V Jordan Of Washington Ga JORDAN & POPE, Colton Merchants, No. 729 Reynolds Street, AUGUSTA, GEORGIA, WE arc General Agents for Gullett’g latent Steel Brush GIN, Light Draft <Vtiou Rloom GIN, 1 umrnus or lm'hroved Taylor GIN, with feeders ami condensers for all of them. Write for terms and circulars. We wilt give our personal attention to weighing and selling Cot ten, and guarantee quick sales and prompt returns. We hope by close attention to business to merit a libera! shares of the shipment of cotton. Sept 1 I, ’SJS-tgH WHELESS Be. Cos., Cotton Factors and Commission Merchants, L%MW AUG WSTA 9 GEORGIA , ay Prompt compliance with instructions relative to disposition of Consignments. Liberal Advances on Produce in Store. Sept.l4, 4 JOHN W. WALLACE, c OTTON iSfli FACTOR An J Agent for -.-.a; the Celebrated ME AIM* Mi "JfT WITH OR WITHOUT FEEDER AND CONDENSER- At Old Stand 'of Warren, Wallace* Co-, 729 and 782 Reynolds Street, Augusta, Georgia. Ample facilities for doing a Cotton business. Satisfaction guaranteed. SPARTA, Ga.. July 14, 1883. Mi. John W, Wallace: Dear Sir—Yours received, asking my opinion of the Hull Gin l bought of you last year. The Gin is all the maker promised it to be and lam very well satisfied with the Giu and Feeder. Should 1 need another 1 would purchase the Hall Gin. Respectfully, DAVID DICKSON. CULYERTON, Ga , May 81, 1581. Messrs. Warren, Wallace &Cos ,—ln answer to your inquiry as to my opinion of the Hall Gin, I think I can safely say, that I have never used a belter Giu than the Hall. 1 have never soen anything to equal it. in cleansing the seed of lint. 1 have ginned about 40 hales of cotton on the Gin, and have saved half enough to pay for it. in th way of cleaning tge seed. It. makes a good sample, equal le the best—as to durabil ity it has no superior. I think the feeder is a goed thing. 1 have never used the con denser, therefore 1 cannot say anything as to its use, but it is highly recommended by those that have used it. There is no (jin better than the Ilall, its capacity is good enough. On a4O saw Gin I can gin 6 bales of cotton a day, making a good soinple, with a four horse engine. Yours most respectfully, J W. MOORE. Sept. 14, 1883 F. E. PEARCE N. L WILLETT. C. 11. BALL ALL PEARCE, WILLETT & BALLARD COTTON ftgji FACTORS AND Commission Merchants, No 19 JacksDn Street, AUGUST A, - - GEORGIA, JigyStrict persenal ntttr.ir.tion given lo business ii.trusted to ns. Liberal advances on Consignments. sept. It, 1883 W. I-I. HOWARD, C. li. tIOWARD, S. P. WEISIGER. j W. 11. HOWARD & SONS, i Cotton Coiiiiiiis-RSgpp§|jS).sloii Merchants; ....... -=* JYo. 20 [JMcintosk] Street , AUGUSTA, GEORGIA. INSTRUCTIONS implicitly obeyed. Consignments of Cotton unit other Produce os lioited. Orders for Bagging and Ties filled at lowest prices. septli ( I-T. T. LEWIS. ( 1.1)1 TO It The Best Parer! 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SMITH, Lexinctnn, R. /i Eimiai-G reeae Couniy. \ii Elijah M. Philips, Administrator o{ the Estate of Maty A. 1! Philips, applies lor Letters of l'isniission, and such Le,ttfs will he granted on the first Mon jay in April, 1884, unless good objections are fil ed- if JOEL F. THORNTON, Ordinary December IS, 1883. list Monday, April W*l nfp<) I witit fifteen of vT cilllt. 1| twenty young bift ets, from 1 to 3 vears old. JAS. L. BROW*?, January 11, 18S4.—2ts. NO 7