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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. Wi ■ 'Wi 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. - 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. .w ■ 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. ■ ■— 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. 1 ** 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 * . ■>■'■' , ■ o—- —— 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. o 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 ( ~ W WAS®. 1 ■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*