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CjjpJjmirilton Visitor
BY D. W. . BOULLY.
FRIDAY MORNING. APRIL 3,1874
A Walk for life.
In Baltimore, * few days since, a
young man named George Falk swal
lowed, as he stated, three ounces of
laudanum and five grains of ittorphia,
in order to end his life. There was
but one way of saving him, and that
wai to keep him in motion. After
relieving him as far as possible, his
physician ordered that he be walked
until be was out of danger.
At half past two o’clock he wasj
put tfpon his tramp for life, and was
forced to walk in the open air as fast
as he could. Ilia father kept by him
for a long time, and a friend or a po~.
Uceman assisted. After some hours
the father gave out, and finally offi
cers hnd friends grew tired. At last
officers had to be taken from, their
beats and made to do duty in saving
the life of the would-be suicide.
When tho walk began it was with
groat difficulty that he could he kept
going, and so great was his stupor
that at times he would almost fall like
a stick. Frequently it was necessary
to catch him and move him on. lie
reeled at times like a drunken man,
and then, again, he would revive con
siderably.
The dreary, monotonous walk was
kept up without intermission until
half-post six o’clock next morning—
a duration of sixteen hours—when
his physician consented that he should
bo allowed to rest.
The life of the young man was
saved, but tho struggle for freedom
from the effects of the drugs was a
severe one. To have stopped three
minutes would have been fatal.
Prosperity.— The New York Her
ald is the most prosperous as well as
the most enterprising newspaper in
the world I
A Sunday or two ago it issued a
quadruple sheet, and rather apolo
gized for the want of reading space—
Baying the advertising season had be
gun a little sooner than was anticipa
ted, but that it would be prepared in
future. Accordingly, its issue of Sun
day, March 20th, was a quintuple
sheet of twenty pages, twelve of which
consisted of advertisements.
This is the largest daily paper we
ever saw, and probably the largest
ever issued in any country; and shows
how enterprise is appreciated and re
warded.
Although the Herald is the best
paper in the land, it confers upon us,
without charge, the valued favor of a
daily exchange, which is the more
highly appreciated from the fact that
we would rather have the Herald for
nows than any other two New York
papers.
fcSJ’ The Macon Telegraph tells of
Mr. T. G. Hill, a farmer of Twiggs
county, who has determined to be a
Granger on his own hook. He says
he has made up his mind to reduce
his cotton acreage one-half, and quit
buying meat. He has seventy-five
hogs, and will raise enough corn to
do him besides.
Mr. Hill is tho most sensible man
we bavo road of yet; for while other
farmers have resolved to raise their
own oorn, he is the first one we have
heard of who has determined to quit
buying both corn aod meat. The
latter is aa great a necessity as the
former, and can just as easily be pro
duced at hoipo— to say nothing of
the satisfaction afforded by knowing
what you aro eating.
Another Mountain Snaky.—
Lookout Mountain, determined not
to be outdone by Bald Mountain,
has got up a sensation. The Athens
of the 20th ult., says:
A heavy shook of earthquake oc
curred at Chattanooga between one
and two o’clock \Vednesday morning.
The disturbance was sufficient to
shake the walls of the taller build
ings and startle the people from their
slumbers. The commotion along
Lookout is said to have been fearful.
MT*The right sort of a crib: John
Crib, the one-legged ex-Confederate
soldier in Twiggs county. This orib
differs from the most of our Georgia
cribs, for it holds plenty of corn. It
has also another valuable feature jkw
sessed by but few in this State—it is
lien-prooi! In plain Kngiish, John
1 lib raises his owu oorn, aud gives
no lieus.
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Enterfblrk.— The New York Her
ald was the first to publish tho nows
of the defeat of the Ashantces by the
British troops and the first account
received of it in England was that
copied into tho London papers from
the Herald.
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W* The Columbus Euquirer of
the Ist, says that from dial date the
pajier will btysent only to those who
pay m advance. And this is no April
aool either.
Matters in Georgia.
The penitentiary cobvicts have all
been leased out to parties following
different pursuits in various parts of
the State. They nnmber six hundred
and thirty, and the prices paid will
average over ten dollars a head per
annum.
The number of chartered Masonic
lodges in Georgia is 280, with a mem
bership of 15,402,
Mr. John Triplett has bought the
interest of his partner, Mr. John R.
Christian, in the Thomaßville Times.
The new Catholic chnrch at Mil
legcville will cost about #4,000, and
will be finished this month.
K The ship Pocahontas lately cleared
ffom Savannah with 3,550 bales of
cdtton averaging 480$ pounds—the
largest average carried by any one
-vessel from that port this season.
Some negroes recently stole a lot
of bedding, which had been used by
small-pox patients, from the hospital
near Forsyth, and it is feared the dis
ease will be communicated to others.
The bedding bad been hung out, with
the intention of burning it next day,
but these cantankerous Africans stole
it that night.
The Constitution says that Mrs.
Ellen Lynch, of Atlanta, has brought
suit against the Central Railroad for
$50,000 damages, for the killing of
her husband by an engine on that
road, some months since, which kill
ing, as she alleges, was the result of
criminal negligence upon the part of
the Company.
Only about four hundred and fifty
Western mules have been sold in Co
lumbus this season, against a thous
and or mot e last year.
The. military companies of Savan
nah arc making active preparations
for a grand celebration on the Ist of
May.
j Some of the corn planted early has
rotted in the ground. Wo hope this
will not tempt the farmers to plant
cotton in its place. Better put more
com in the land you had prepared
for cotton.
Mr. Gilbert, living near the line of
Henry and Clayton counties, attemp
ted to commit suicide, last week, by
hanging. He was discovered and
cut down, but died the second day
afterwards.
Newnan has an egg with a tail to
it, having the shape nnd form of the
head and neck of a snake.
As Mr. Shaw, of Coweta county,
was burning off some new ground,
the top of a tree on fire, under which
ho was packing brush, fell upon and
killed him.
A convention of Confederate sur
geons has been called to meet in At
lanta on the 20th of May.
Col. F. M. Harper, a prominent
lawyer of Dawson, and once a mem
ber of tho Georgia Legislature, died
last Friday.
At a meeting held in Atlanta on
Saturday to form a stock company to
build a cotton factory in tlmt city,
the sum of SB,OOO was subscribed by
six gentlemen.
Tho Dollar Savings Bank of Atlanta
is adjudged bankrupt.
The Fort Gaines Messenger has re
ports of some cotton up and growing
in Henry county, Ala.
Four beavers have been captured
near Columbus.
The Granitcville Factory, near Au
gusta, is shipping goods to Marys
ville, Cal.
An intelligent and observant far
mer of Thomas county assures the
Euterprise tiiat there will be no cat
erpillars to injure the cotton tbis
summer, for the reason that the win
ter lias been so mild, and the spring
so early aud warm, tiiat the dies are
all hatched out now, and will run
their course before there is any cot
ton for them to destroy.
Mrs. R. J. Screven, of Liberty coun
ty, Ga., lias sent to tho editor of the
Albany News a package of black tea
of her own raising and curing. In
her letter she describes the inode of
manipulating and drying the leaves,
aud how to raise and protect the
plants; and says that the tea plant
grows beautifully as high up the
couutry as Athens, and is more sens
itive to heat than to cold. She says
that a grove of tea plants, once start
ed, will last a lifetime, aud, after the
roots are well established in the
ground, tho plants require no more
attention than any of our fruit trees
or garden shrubs.
Dr. DeSaussure Ford, of Augnsta,
has skilfully and successfully per
formed the surgical operation of tre
panning the skull of Lieut. Benj. IL
Holt, who was suffering from press
ure on the brain caused by a fracture
of his skull during the war. Tlws
fragment which pressed upon the
brain was removed, and the patient
was doing well.
In the counties adjoining Columbns
a very heavy area in small grain has
been planted, aud cotton reduced one
fourih to oue-tkiid.
Mattel's in General.
The Order of the Knights of
Pythias numbers 200 lodges and
100,000 members in the United
States. * “
Mrs. Carrie jessnp is the New
Haven lady who has invented a com
partment pot in which potatoes,
corned beef, codfish and plum pud
ding can be simultaneously boiled.
Tlie Mobile Graphic say# that an
illustration of the low price of Ala
bama lands may be found in the fact
that the owner of a plantation is
willing to sell to anybody who will
make a crop to the extent of its ca
pacity this year, and give him the
plantation for the crop.
A milk-pcddler at Glen Falls
lately glided giacefully down a fifty
feet embankment, horse, cart, cans,
milk and water and all. He was
unhart, and there was nothing to
cry for except the spilled milk, for
which, of course, it would have been
contrary to the proverb to cry ;.
Out of the five children which
composed the family of John Jacob
Astor, one only remains. This is
William E., who is now upwards of
eighty. He is now one of the old
est native-born resident# of New
York, and has seen a wonderful
series of changes. He can remember
the first steamboat which greeted his
boyish eyes when he was a boy of
fourteen, and he has seen the city
increase from 30,000 to a population
of more than a million. He has also
seen bis father's estate expand from
$200,000 to $50,000,000, and be has
beheld all the associates of his youth
pass away, as well as his parents and
their children.
Two of the edible dogs of China
are now on exhibition at the Zoologi
cal Gardens in Paris. If it be found
easy to acclimatize them, it is pro
posed to introduce this new article
of food. The dogs in queston are
smalt and hairless, and enormously
fat. They are fed solely on vegeta
ble food, a regimen which imparts a
rare delicacy to their flesh.
The original patent for mctalic tips
for shoes was sold for SIOO, and the
company which bought it became
wealthy. Now, upon its expiration,
the inventor has obtained its renewal,
and compels the company to pay him
$60,000.
A lady in Lake City, Fla., has
ing in her garden a genuine cork tree
thirty feet high, the bark of which
is thick enough to make bottle corks.
There is also in the same garden a
genuine black pepper bush, which
yields regularly a full crop of pepper
berries.
Some boiler makers at Dubuque
put a boy in a boiler to bold a ham
mer head to the rivets as they were
driven in, and when all were finished,
he was found too big to come out of
the holo. He stripped, and greased
his. skin, but it was no use, and it
took six men three hours to cut solid
boiler iron before he could be got
out. >
Mr. Meredith, living near Cussefa,
Ala., owing to poverty, attempted to
commit suicide a few days ago. lie
carried his gun behind the house, and
putting tho muzzle to his head, was
about to pull the trigger, when his
little child ran up and knocked the
gun aside. Both loads exploded, but
the man escaped with no other hurt
than a badly-burnt face.
Masked robbers entered a honse in
Jersey City, on a receut n’ght, bouud
and gagged the watchman of a jew
elry factory whom they found there,
and because he would not give them
the factory keys (he did not have
them), they piled about him bedding
saturated with oil, and set fire to it.
The watchman freed himself and es
caped, but the house was burnt.
As some twenty persons were re
turning from church near Carbondale,
111., last Saturday night, they were
fired Upon from ambush, and two of
them wore badly wounded. The as
sailants are unknown, but the affair
is thought to have grown out of an
old grudge existing between the fnm
ily of one of the parties shot aud
some of thoir neighbors.
A few years ago Hangman Foote
offered a reward of SIO,OOO for the
scalp of an Abolitionist. One night
recently this ferocious individual went
to a negro restaurant and dined With
Wendell Phillips; aud not a hair of
Phillips’ head was harmed.
A clerk in the Mare Island navy
yard, California, had the rashness to
tell the commandant how SIO,OOO
could be saved in purchasing supplies
for his department. The command
ant immediately began to retrench by
dispensing with tho services of that
clerk.
Gen. Washington’s private' seal is
now in the possession of Mr. Bnshrod
D. Washington, of Illinois. It is of
white cornelian in the form of a shield,
surmounted by a cornet upon which
is spread a raven with spread wings.
On the shield is the motto, “ Existt
atc'o probat.'*
Poisoning in Columbus.
The Enquirer of Tuesday last
says:
A good deal of excitement was
created uptown Sunday morning, by
the statement that some twelve or
fourteen persons bad been poisoned
in' the Coweta and Eagle & Phenix
Manufactory boarding houses. All
exhibited sy mptoms of poison. Both
Dr*. Flewellen and Colzey, who
were called in by various patients, re
ported that they were suffering from
this canse. Several were affected
very severely. Proper remedies were
applied, and all are now fairly well.
Inquiry developed the fact that all
had eaten very heartily of souse and
sausage which had beeu bought on
Saturday from Ramsey & Brother.
They procured it from Mr. Stephen
Diamond, and he in turn bad made
it of hogs bought chiefly of Mr.
O’Brien.’The doctors think the
composition of the souse, Ac., was
tainted meat. In such warm weather
as we arc now having pork is quckly
spoiled. Mr. Diamond is represented
as oild of the nittst careful buyers of
meat, and equally so in its prepara
tion.
Tbere were several cases of this
kind last yPar. Parties should avoid
speh things in warm weather.
Yesterday Rumsey & Brother is
sued a warrant against Mr. Diamond,
who was carried before Justiee Chap
pell, where be waived an examination
and gave a bond of fifty dollars to
appear before the County Court,
which meets week. Mr. O’Brien,
from whom be bought tlie hogs, be
came bis bondsman.
We hear that both Rumsey and
Diamond ate some of the same souse
which hurt the others, without injury.
Horrible Mcrner.—A few days
ago the body of Mr, Walter E. Cole,
a young merchant of Blackshear, was
found on the ground near the store
with bis throat cut nnd his head bat
tered in a most fia ful manner. On
turning the body over it was found
that lie had been shot in the back.
A gun belonging to Mr. li. W. Car
penter, uncle of the deceased, was
found with the stock broken and the
barrel, nc ar h broei h, cover,d with
clotted blood and hair. Upon this
the jury ordered the arrest of Mr
Carpenter, and he has since been
carried tp Savannah in irons, and
placed in the jail at that c'ty for safe
keeping.
On Sunday evening Mr. Cole had
been to visit a young lady to whom
he was betrothed, and was evidently
waylaid and murdered on his way
back to the store.
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iw* Three quilled petticoats were
lately found by the custom-house offi
cers in the trunk of a steerage pas
senger on board the “America,”
the wadding of which consisted of
hair-switches quilted in. Three hnn
dred and fifty switches were found,
weighing 86 pounds.
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2®” In Vicksburg, Miss., on the
26th nit., Thomas Calkin, an ex-po
liceman, attacked J. W. Lavins, local
editor of the Yicksbnrger—cutting
him in the neck with a knife. Lavins
then shot Calkin twice—killing him
instantly.
I®" A gentleman at Notasulga,
Ala., sends the Columbus Enquirer
the names of thirty-one subscribers
and the cash, in appreciation of the
stand taken by that paper in de
nouncing lawlessness in Alabama.
Ai i in
A great Newfoundland dog
got rabid in Boston and.ran into a
house, where he was at once left to
himself. Before he was shot he
broke mirrors and furniture worth
SSOO.
w ■ i m
ty Dr. Livingstone’s remains left
Aden for England on the 23d ult., on
the mail steamer. The body was fully
recognized at Zanzibar. It is pre
served in salt, and laid in a coffin of
lead.
Gold Sales. —The United States
Treasurer has directed tbo Assistant
Treasurer in New York to sell one
million of gold each Thursday during
April—five millions altogether.
83?” From what information has
been received it is pretty certain
that no large prizes (if any) have
been drawn by any one in Columbns
in the Louisville lottery.
ISiF” During a recent performance
in New York, James Sylvester fell
while performing a trapeze act, and
fractured his skull so that he died in
loss than an hour.
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Strawberries and new pota
toes made their appearance in Mont
gomery’, Ala., last Saturday,
Upson county has twenty-one
bridges, and none of them were de
stroyed by the late freshet.
tw Mr. Stephens is still too fee
ble to oucupy his seat in Congress.
SOLUBLE PACIFIC GUANO
John S. Reese & Go-, Baltimore, General Agents
cash Price, *56 66 per Toil.
ALSO, ON TIME, FOR COTTON OR CURRENCY
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The use of this Guano for the past elgiit years has established its characi
ter for excellence and reliability! I need only assure consumers . that tkd
Guano brought into market this season is precisely the same in composition
and quality as that heretofore sold. ....
The large fixed capital invested by this Company m this business fnruislie,
the best guarantee of continued excellence. The Company has a grsatcr
interest in maintaining its standard of quality than any number of eonsuinen
can have. .
Orders received, and information furnished, on application to my 'Agetllt
at various local markets.
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COMPOUND ACID PHOSPHATE OF LIME,
VOSt WITH COTYOK 3K3P.
PERUVIAN GUANO, DISSOLVED ASMONIATED BONES, LAND PLASTER, it., it,
W. H. YOUNC, 12 Broad St- Columbus, 6a.
W. C. JOHNSTON, Agent at Kingsboro. feb2o-lm
J. W. PEASE & NORMAN,
COLOMBGS, GA,
WHOLESALE AND RETAIL DEALERS IN
siUmes mrsnflfc s®
Rosewood seven octave Pianos from S3OO to SSOO. Get). Woods' its Cos,,
Mason & Hamlin, and other Organs. Violins, Guitars, Flutes, Banjo*,
mouth harps, sheet music, etc. We moke orders for sheet music aud music
books every few days, and anything wanted and not in stock, will b
ordered and furnished at publisher’s prices. nov <-lj
BLOW THE WHISTLE, SING THE BELL,
STOP THE EMGIMB, WE’YE GDODS T© SELL.
THORNTON & ACER,
78 BROAD ST-i COLUMBUS. GA,
Have just received anew lot of Men’s and Boys’
CLOTHING,
At a reduction of 20 to 25 per cent on foiroer wholesale cost pricer, which will rrinbte
to fell at less than cost prices for the same class of coeds purchased earlier in the swon.
As we were able to fret a still further reduction of from sto 6 per c< nt for the cni>h, w
will sell at corropondinu low piices. Now is the time to buy good Clothing at loaef pri
ces than ever sold in this section. Call and see for you nclvcs.
W. J. CHAFFIN,
BOOKSSLIIiER cto STATION EB
AND DEALER IN
MUSICAL INSTRUMENTS,
CHEOMOS, SBASK£S AH© MOULDINGS,
NO. 92 BROAD STREET, COLUMBUS, GEORGIA.
A- WITTICH. C- M- KISSEL
WITTICH & KINSEL,
PRACTICAL WATCHMAKERS,
JEWELERS 111 illllWlßSp
NO. 67 BROAD STREET, COLUMBUS, GEORGIA.
AND ( ~
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■All oftlxe Latest Manufactures
An entirely new stock of the best goods and the latest styles has been recently bouglt W
New York, and is hereby offered at the Lowest Cask Pricks
Diamonds, gold and silver Spectacles and Eve-Glasses, gold and silver Thimbles ladles’ k>
gents’ Chains, plain and fancy Gold Rings of beautiful workmanship and every
.. ™ variety of article found in a First-class Jewelry Store.
Stencil Plates of every description cut at short notice.
Sole Agents for the celebrated Diamond Pebbled Spectacles and Eve-glasses and AyfliU
for the Arundel Pebble Specks, which are slightly colored, and in high favor with every
body using specks or eve-glusees. .... ■
Watch, Clock and Jewelry repairing In all Its branches. Hair Jewelry, Society Badg*-
Diamond setting, or any new work made to order at reasonable charges
Engraving prom ply executed ' oct2<-lf
FALL AND WINTER GOODS'
1870. 1870-
CHAPMAN & VERSTILLE
Announce to their friends and patrons that (heir stock will be kept ° n '
stantly replenished with Seasonable Goods at Lowest Market Prices.
receive in jnyment Eagle & Phcnlx money and Cotton at highest market rat*