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the: hawkinsyille dispatch.
VOL. 4.
|Hawkinsville Dispatch.
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I DENIS W. D. BOULLY,
|| EDITOR AND PROPKIKTOR.
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Business Cards-
Law Card.
/IHARLKS C. KIDBER will practice tn the conn
tie# of Dooly and lton.ton, or the V.con fV
■oi'; in the eonntle# of Pui*-kl. Wilcox, Teifalr.
twin and Coffee, oflho Southern Clreull »nd will
Jk end to any butlfieo entrn»tcd to him In other
loanties of the State, upon special contrsc-.
Office at Hawk nsville. Os. Jan 6-ts.
MACKENZIE BROTHERS,
Importers a»d Manufacturers of
COACH and SADDLERY
HARDWARE,
N0.322 Baltimore street, Baltimore.
established in 1825. sept 7-ly
Valuable Plantation for Sale.
The plantation belonging to the estate
of Daniel Rawls, containing 900 acres, is
offered for sale on very reasonable terms.
Situated five miles from Ilawkinsville.
Jun23-3m R. L. STAPLER, Adm’r.
NOTICE.
• The Ordinary’s advertising of Telfair
sounty will hereafter be published in die
Uawkinsville Dispatch.
W. P. CAMPBELL,
mar 10-ts Ordinary.
FALL ill filT£l lUFUTiTI
1870.
RIBBONS,
Millinery and Straw Goods.
ARMSTRONG. CATOR A C 0„
importers and jobbers or
Bonnet. Trimming and Velvet Ribbons,
Bonnet Silks, Satins and Velvets, Blonds,
Netta, Crapes, Ruches, Flowers, Feathers,
Ornaments, Straw Bonnets and Ladies'
Hats (trimmed and untrimmed). Shaker
Hoods, etc.,
037 and 239 Baltimore Street,
BALTIMORE, BSD ,
Offer the largest stock to be found in this
ountry, and unequalled in cboice variety
nd cheapness, com prising the latest Parls-
Orders solicited, tnd prompt attention
; ran. aug 11-It*
HAWKINSYILLE, GA., THURSDAY, AUGUST 25, 1870.
IPoxtrral.
IN HEAVEN IS REST.
Beyond the cares, the toil, the strife,
Beyond the fleeting joys of life,
In iieaven is rest
Beyond our fears, a galling chain;
Our earthly hopes, so false and vain;
Beyond what now we would concedl
Prom friends end-foes, the wrongs we feel;
In heaven is rest.
The angel band, the happy throng,
Around ihe'thrnne, with harp and song,
Are there at rest.
There -wearied ones, the conflict o’er,
‘A rest enjoy unknown before;
And there shall we, our sorrows done,
Our battle fought, our victory won,
Forever rest
jjliscellmm.
Written for the Uawkinsville Dispatch.
Letter from Texas.
Etna, Smith Cos., Texas, )
July 27, 1870. f
Mr. Editor:
Dear Sir—l thank you very kindly for
sending me your paper containing a letter,
written over the signature of Z. Clodhop
per, in reply to u private letter I wrote to
my brother-in-iaw, John W. Cone, Esq.
1 did not write the letter for publication,
but merely that lie and others oftny friends
might know what T. C. Cone and myself
thought of Texas. But as it contained
nothing Inst plain -facts, I am glad.you pub
lished it. 1 have not written a false word
in that or any other letter, in reference to
the productions or money-making resources
of this country, the state of society, etc.
My object is, and ever has been, to do all I
could to benefit the poor laboring class,
and 1 know I am too well known in Geor
gia for the fool, false letter of Clodhopper
to make any other impression ; and I shall
write but little more o:i the subject, but
simply repeat, that what I have already
written to olhors is true, os I shall be able
to .prove by men well known in Georgia,
whose names arc attached to this letter.
If any of my friends are stilt nffiicted
Willi Ihe Texas fever, I would beg of them
not to bring their families to this country
until they come out and look at it. Neither
Clodhopper, nor any one else, will tell
'them, when they get here, that they would
lie benefit ted by breaking up in Georgia
and moving to this country; and they
woif.aerity -have to travel over the road
from the tow terminus of the railroad to
tills far i« tlic interior, to be convinced of
that fuct, without tlic advice of Clodhopper
on the subject.
He labored very cunningly to leave the
impression with the laboring class of Geor
gia, as others have done, that this was the
place for them, and that I had written
falsehoods nlxrnt the price of lands, stock,
provisions, etc.; that lie hail thousands of
corn nnd bacon laid up for many years;
and one would imagine, from the way lie
wrote, that lie was in die condition of Hie
rlcii man you have read of in the good
Book, who had to tear down Ids barns and
build greater ones, and was requesting his
soul (if lie bus any, which the people of
this country doubt) to take-its ease.
die stated that there was hut one place
in ids knowledge that had sold for $lO jier
acre, and went on to give a very correct
description of tlic place, with one excep
tion. lie said it would make from 25 to 30
bushels of corn |icr acre. It will make but
little if any over liaif that much this ..year,
and I have no idea that it could be bought
for less than sls per acre. He also stated
that other places, with poorer improve
ments, could be bought for a great deal
less. There was a place sold last week, in
one mile of this fine place, for $9 $0 per
sere—improvements very common; and
there arc no improvements in this section
Oust can be liouglit for less than the prices
quoted to Cone—ss to $lO per acre.
Corn has sold nil this season, in this
neighborhood, at $1 50 per bushel; in our
county market at $1 75; on the public road
at $1 75 to $2 in gold. Clodhopper sold-a
few bimbed# of corn last winter, whicli was
two years old, for 75c. a bushel. If he has
sold any new com for $1 25 to any one,
except a few bushels to his hirelings, none
of his neighbors arc aware of tlic fact; and
I know lie has sold what little bacon he
had to spare, at IBc. in gold, at his own
mcat-liousc door. Bacon is now selling at
20 cents and upwards in Tyler, Etna, and
Canton.
He stated that com would not have
cashed 50c. per bushel, the past two years.
That, like a great many other fine reports
you have liad from this country, is a plain,
palpable falsehood, written, no doubt, for
the purpose of encouraging others to do as
wc have done—bankrupt themselves com
ing to this country in summit of the prom
ised land; and when they get here they
will find just as much excitement, selling
out wnd moving West, as you ever saw in
Georgia. Go West, and you will find die
same excitement prevailing there —some
going East, some North, some South, and
others still fbrther West; which proves
clearly the old saying, that the good coun
try is jnst ahead.
He also staled that I had not given cor
rectly the price of stock, which is another
falsehood I spoke, and now speak, of the
prices of stock and other things in this sec
tion of Texas. I have not been as for West
as the Rio Grande,on tbe Mexican border;
neither has Clodhopper. I don’t doubt
that stock may be cheaper 400 miles W**
of this.
The prlere of bore** Here from SSO
to S2OO. A No. 1 good horse will sell here
for $l5O. I quote the S2OO figure for the
benefit of Clodhopper, as lie asks that price
for one of Ids; and Ido it merely to show
you liow badly wc were swindled, when
wc left Georgia to come to this country to
get stock cheap; as wo were told we could
get good horses for $35 to S3O. Wc paid
from $l4O down to as low as S9O in gold
for tlic horses we now owu. James Ewing
bought a very fair pony for SBO. Horses
yon could get for less are not worth their
feed. I have not seen jior heard of any
cattle selling lor less than $6 25 per head'
in this section. These prices arc all in
gold.
Now, Mr. Editor, I will touch the gen
tleman on that portion of his letter which
referred to the character and industry of
the character of some sections 150 miles
Bonth and West of this jioint, that I had
slandered tlic good people of this country
(himself, for instance), and that he had no
doubt there were cut-throats and thieves
in this country, as a number of that class
had been run off from Georgia—seeking to
leave tlic Impression with the .people of
Texas nnd other States, that all tlic bad
men in Texas hailed from Georgia, and
that all the murders, rajics, thefts, ami vio
lations Os law, Were committed by Geor
gians
A number ol his neighbors have called
on me to sec his letter, and they every one
that I liave heard speak of it, say That the
whole letter Is a bundle of falsehoods; and
many of them expressed regret at his using
any such language about Georgians, as they
are looked on by good people in this coun
try as being among the most honest and
faithful laborers they have. I heard many
of tlic respectable class wish the country
was filled up with Georgia farmers.
Clodhopper has sold out, and expects to
leave this section next winter; and from
what I learn from ills neighbors, there will
be as few tears shed over his departure as
over any other man that could leave t ils
beat. I liave heard it remarked, that he
was of as little use to his country or to so
ciety as any one in it. He says he lived in
Georgia a numlier of years; ami one would
think, to hear him bilk, that lie knew all
about the status of the people and country
generally. Lfvid in Louisiana nine years,
and in Texas four. He did not tell you he
lived in Arkansas one year before he moved
to Louisiana. I don't pretend to say that
lie isn't a good, honest man. I’ve looked
on him as such. But ns he told you every
where else lie had lived, and seemed to
know so much about the had men of Geor
gia, it is reasonable to conclude that lie
might be one of Hint class, and possibly lie
might have been run off from Arkansas
for some of his meanness. He wants you
to know he lived ill Georgia and Louisiana,
but did not want you to know he lived in
Arkansas.
riiis same man, Clodhopper, said to mo,
wlien I wrote to J. W. Cone, tiiat I had
advised him right, and that if he was back
in Georgia, ucd knew & much übout this
country as he now knows, lie would not
leave there to come ,to this, or any other
country.
And that is what I hear nearly all the
people who arc here from Georgia, Alaba
ma and Mississippi, say, nnd hundreds say
they arc going back just as soon as they
get able.
Clodhopper wrote the same advice to his
brotlier-in-law in Florida that I wrote to
Cone—that it would not pay him to leave
Florida ami move to Texas. And I ssy—
not to my brother-in-law alone, but to ull
good, honest, laboring men, who expect to
make their living by honesty and industry—
stay irhere you are.
Now, Mr. Editor, I wind tip by saying,
all that I wrote to John IV. Cone is strictly
true; and not to him alone, but tlic state
ments I -liave made to others, In reference
to the productions of this country, prices
of lands, stock, provisions, its money-mak
ing resources, market facilities, bail roads,
etc., is “ the truth, the whole truth, and
nothing but the truth. So help me God.”
lam a Georgian, by birth and training. I
have spent a great deal of my life and
money in looking for a belter country; and
when I get back, though it may bankrubt
me to make the trip, I shall stM feel there
ns I do here —proud of tlic name of Geor
gia. It stands higher here than any other
State; and an honest Georgian is respected
here, or any wlierc else that I have ever
traveled, except by Clodhoppers. And
when I write to you, or any of my friends
in Georgia, I expect to write the truth, and
write it over my own signature, as will be
proven to you by the meu whose names
are attached to this sheet, who are well
known to the people of your coufity as
good, honest, truthful, industrious young
men! Respectfully, etc.,
J. O. Farhri.l.
We, the undersigned, fully concur in the
above statements.
Thos. C. Cose.
John F. Hbkdt.T.
Edward Ennis.
Wm. Sahostbb.
Mark Miller.
8. Smith.
HT If yo« travel East, VYest, North or
South, take a package of Simmons' Liver
Regulator. Prepared only by J. H. Zeilin
A Cos., Macon, Ga.
jgfHow did tbe bull look on
emerging fro® the china shop? A
little the worse for ware.
“JERSEY I.K.HIMAG.”
Josh Billings Tells Wluit Ho
-Knows About It.
Who it was that invented alcohol I
am tiuablc tew tell without iicing; but
it would Lav bin u fust klass blessing
for the rest of us if he and the lickor
had both ov them been spilt on the
ground and Diver keen sopped up
since.
The Devil himself, with all hiz ge
nius for a ten-strike, could not have
rolled a ball more serviceable for hiz
bizticss on cnfthj one more certain to
quarter on the head pin, and sweep
the valley every time. . Rnm iz the
Devil’s stool pigeon, hiz rigiit bower,
hiz high, low, jack and the game.
A grate menuy, with dyspeptic mo
nth** •»& £Uatiy«tf is iwliapeuaibie
for manufacturing and docktor pur-
j loses, and also for mckaniknl uses;
nnd they hold that yu kotildcni raize
a barn that would stand, without enny
good old Jamaka rum; and sutn say
that pudding sass, without any- speer
its in ft, i 7. uo healthier than common
goose grease. . •
llut awl ov those argys are furnished
free ov cost, by tlie Devil himself, and
enny man who advances tnem iz tell
ing (without knowing it, perhaps,)
lies that will weigh, at a ruff estimate,
at least a pound apiece. Hut my ob
jeckt in these fu prcliminus remarks
iz tew git a good chance to tell what I
know about “Jersey lightning,” (one
ov alcohol’s imps!) as a manufaktring
and metaphysical agent.
Jersey lightning iz cider brandy,
three hours old, still-born, and quicker
than a flash. This juice iz drunk raw
by all the old sports, and makes a pre
monitory and hissing noizc az it winds
down the thrut, like an old shc-goose
setting on eggs, or a hot iron stuck
into ice-water. Three horns a day ov
this lickkcr will tan a man’s interior
in six months, so that he kan swallow
a live, six-footed krab, feet fust, and
not waste a wink.
It don’t fat a man (cider brandy
don’t) like whiskee duz, ■ but puckers
bim tip like fried potatoze. If a man
kan survive the fust three years of
Jersey lightning, he iz safe then for
the nezt 75 years tew cum, and keeps
looking every day more like a three
year old red pepper pod, hotter and
hotter. An old cider brandy' drinker
will steam in a sudden shower of rain
like a pile ov stable manure, and biz
breath smells like the bungholc of a
rum cask lately emptyed.
When Jersey lightning iz fust born
it tastes like hilciug turpentine mul
cstyeno, half-and-half, and will raize a
blood blister on a pair ov old kowliide
brngans in 15 min its, and applied ex
ternally will cure the ruroatism or kill
the patient, I forget which. The fust
horn a man takes ov this lickor will
make him think ho has swallowed a
gas-light, and he will go out behind
the barn and try tew die but katit.
The eyes of an old ciderbrandist look
like deep gashes kut into a ripe toma
to, hiz noze is the komplexshun ova
half-luted -lobster, nnd the grizzle in
hiz gullet sticks out like an elbo in a
tin fender.
The more villainous the drink the
more inveterate are those who drink
it. I knnt tell ycr whether cider-bran- j
dee will shorten an old sucker's days
or not, for they generally outlive all
the rest ov the nabors, and die just as
soon as the old tavern stand changes
hands and iz opened on temperance
principals. One bottle of sassaparilla
or ginger popp iz az f.ital tew these
old fellers az a rifle ball iz to a bed
bugg.
1 would do almost ennythiug but
murder tew save a ynng man from
Jersey lightning, but tricing to save j
an did one iz like tricing tew put the
Arc out ova holler log; yu might az
well let it burn up, for the gshes iz
worth more than the logg.
532?” A good story is told of an
American traveling in Paris. Having
occasion to take a bath, his phy
sician recommended a wine bath.
In the employ of the establishment
there was a colored man whom he
had known in America, and of him
he inquired how they could give him j
a wine bath for seventy-five cents.'
“ Why, massa,” said the negro,
“that wine has been in the bath-room
for one week, and you is the thirty
eighth person that bathed in it.”
M WclI, I suppose they throw it
away when they are done with it.”
“Oh, no, master; they send it
down stairs for the poor people, who
bathe for twenty-live cents.”
“ And then what do they do with
it?” i
“ Bottle it up and send it to Amer
ica, where they sell it for French
wine.”
E3T A simple and effectual rem
edy for scurf in the head, is as
follows:
Into h pint of water drop a lump
of fresh quick lime, the size of a wal
nut ; let it stand all night, then pour
the water off clear from the sediment
i or deposit, add a quarter of a pint of
the best vinegar, and wash head with
the mixture. This is perfectly harm
less. Yott must wet the roots of the
hair. j
rtf* Equine Powdera make new Horae#.
A Fifteenth Amendment Kpcecb.
The editor of the Bainbridge Sun
says the following sjieech was made
by a negro, at the recent celebration,
in that place, of the passage of the
15th Amendment:*
Lady & Gempi.emum:
Wc hab resembled togeder pon die
mos sjiectable recasion; wc de citizens
ob dese Runitcd Stales to sul stain dc
fifteen commandment—dat what make
nigger ckal to buckrn, I liab cum
out fur to see yous all, for to sec how
you look sense yon beam de joyful
nuse. I hab blong to rich buckra
an I hab lib in ole Wirginny. Well,
you see, my ole marsc war gud to me
*— I hab what I want, go when I git
reddy, but dat did’at saterfy me—de
nigger'war still In bonds of’nlqrilty. ’
Dnr war a time in ole Wirginny
when if a buckra shod gtb a nigger
filly lashes, dose- udder buckras wud
call lum a mean man, but def riz to
100 lashefi, den to 200—to 500—to
5,000. (Great seenfsation). Golly,
bress de Lord*! dis chile ar free!
(applause.)
Now my belnbbod brnddors dis
fifteen deflafindment hab bolishcd nil
tlis stashin an lashin. Blit we muss
be brudders ob de white folks fore wc
kin git long togedder. -But am we
to go to dem or dey to kura to us ?
1 wud like to ax dat, in dc n«mc of
dat sinead eagle what flops an flut
ters ober dis Runitcd States. No,
dey must kuin to us. Wc hab made
dem an dis county; so dey mus meet
us an we’ll be brudders—Kali kies!
Klar fore God, my frees, I wonoc
tonght dat de colored folks shod be
kok nized, but seuse dc fudders of dis
glorious Unicorn hab spoke different,’
1 hub konkluded dat I war rong. Ex
pose fur a minnet dat wc had hab
left! Why de white folks wud had
| starbed to doth—de country wud hab
; bin gone up de spout, (applause.)
Well 1 blelie dat I hab sed my say
—but lem memay somflng else: Dose
white fonks what say dey stay home
during dc war cause dey lub dc Uui
: corn hab lied to you. Dey staid way
kase dey kudu’t stud dc bullets. Dat’s
what’s dc matter 1 (Great shouting,
and seen/salion among some of the
scailies.)
I hab saw de time during ob dc
war dat five hundred niggers cud hab
wont troo Georgy and lake possession
i ob it, nn -fleir. stay-tcr-hums would hab
rcsei ted agin. Don’t truss em—day
ar had nigs, (cheers.)
Well, 1 blebe I hab sed enuff, but
fore I klose I will niouish you to stick
jup fur de Ratickles—dey lub de nig
i <ror—lie was broke nn dey mended
him wid de fifteen ineudment—de ole
nigger am young agin—bress dc Lord,
For now we’# dun will de rake an de hoe,
Dis are dc jupilec—
De rains may come, de wind limy blow,
But liress de Lord I'so free.
(Terrific applause.)
Now we hab redopted de ineudment
an bein berry horugry I will klose dis
i spoke by witen yon all down ter de
table whar wc will ex fresh by -cittiiig
of dc plesurs ob de kasion. (Awful
paws 1)
How Mr. Goupher Broke His Pony.—
“ Chon, you reckcrraetnber dat leetle pluck
pony, 1 pyed mit de bcddler next week 1"
“Yah, votes him*”
•' Nothings, only 1 gets shcatcd burty
bad
*• How 80 ?"
“ Yatii. You see, in dc fust place, he is
plint mit both legs, unt ferry lame in von
eye. Den ven you gits on him to ride, lie
rears up behintunt kick up peforcso vursur
as a clmck mule 1 dinks I brake him a
little ride yesterday, unt so see I gits strad
dle his pack he gomin dat vay sboost so
like a vaken pcant or. a poatstcam; unt
ven lie gets down, l vas so mixed up mil
everydinga 1 vtols niinsclf vilten around
in de packyard, mit iiis dail in mine bants
for de pridle.”
“ Vel, vot you going to do mid bim ?”
“O, I vixeil him better as clmm up I
hitch him in de curt mit bis dail vere his
heat out to be—den I give him about tozen
cuts mit a hide cow : lie starts to go put so
soon so see tc cart Iwfore bim lie inakos
packvarts, Burty soon he stumbles bchint,
unt sits down on is haunches, unt looks
like, lie velt purtv shamed mit himself.
Den I drages him de right way, unt he
goes righl-oIT sliusts so good as anybody’s
pony.’
Deorapation op S'veartxo.—lt is no
mark of a gentleman to swear. Tlic most
worthless ami vile, the refuse of mankind,
■the drunkard nnd the prostitute, “wear as
welLas tlie best dressed and educated gen
tlemen. No particular endowments are
requisite to give a finish to the art of curs
ing. The basest and meanest of mankind
swear with as much tact and skill as the
most refined; and he tiiat wishes to degrade
iiimseif to tlie very lowest level of pollution
and shame, should iuorn to-be a common
swearer. Any mnn lias talent enough to
learn to curse God, and imprecate perdition
on themselves and their fellow men. Pro
fane swearing never did any man any
good. No mas is the richer, or wiser, or
happier for it It liel|w no one’s education
or manners. It commends no one to any
society. It is disgusting to the refined;
abominable to the good ; degrading to the
mind ; unprofitable, needless, and injurious
to Miciety; and wantonly to profane His
name, to’ call His vengeance down, to curse
Him, and to invoke ltis vengeance, is. per
haps, of all offences, the most awful in tlie
sight of God.— Louth.
For a bruise or blow, apply
hot water a long time with wet cloths.
Beef brine is an excellent lotion for
both sprains and bruises. A veteran
among horses, claims, that it will al
most set a joint or heal a fracture.
Worm wood or tansy lotion are also
NO. 33.
Cbossino the Line.— Between Stras
burg, Fiance, and the German rail
way running north and south throng).
Baden, there is a short line of rai' way
which crosses tlie Rhine, the town (m
rather railway station) on the German
side being known as Kehl. This rail
way crossed the Rhine on a bridge
which had a draw, fortifications and
custom house ou cither end. Th<
French held one end; the Prussian!
the other, and the boundary ling
crossed the middle. Sentries, cannot
and all the paraphernalia of war,
guarded both ends before the war, b»l
--this state of affairs, it was evident
could not long continue after the war
began. The Prussians a few days
ago blew up the bridge, and according
to the Pall Mall Gazette, put an end
to a very amusing spectacle. - Tht
sentries each used to pace up and dowr
their own share of the bridge. A line
traced across showed the precise spot
which neither might pass; and so the
two marched along, nnd often met II
the middle of the bridge; the French
man looked at the Prussian, and tlx.
Prussian looked at the Frenchman,
and cacli, without saying a word, re
traced his steps. One evening las:
year the Prussian sentinel was sud
denly heard calling “To Arms 1” Thf
frightened bystanders ran up, and
found that the French sentinel had
accidently placed his foot beyond the
line of demarcation, and thus inra
ded Prussian territory.
Eff-Tlic burning well, some 14 miles
from Oil City, is one of the greatest curios*
ities of tlie oil region. It was bored ir,
1860, and since then lias yielded a stream
Os gas large enough to supply a clty oChaU
n million. A wen !; now bring put dow 1 *
by its side. Tlic engine that pnmpa At
well dry is run'by gas from the old one bt
means of nn ordinary two-inch pipe, and
tlic connection made to the engine fry 8*
ordinary steam-pipe. No steam or ftiel is
necessary. Tlie gas, ns it comes from tb<
well, is extremely cold —chilling to fif*
hand. Tlic pressure exerted is rally tw*
hundred pounds to the square inch.
Amendment to the Bankrupt Act.—
Congress, at Its last session, passed ar.
amendment to the bankrupt act providing
tiiat what is called Hie fifty tier cent cliur 1
“shall not apply to tiiose debts from whlri
the bankrupt seeks a discharge which Wer<
contracted prior to Ist of January; 1889.
This enables a petitioner in bankruptcy to
get a discharge from all debts contracted
prior to January 1, 1869, without paying
his creditors fifty cents on the dollar.
CouoniNo a Bullet out of ms Head.—
The Greenville (8. C.) Mountaineer sari
Mr Wm Beattie was shot in the eye duitffig
the war, tlic bullet lodging fr* dm lifead—-
internally. Tlie wieSt eminent surgical
skill laifed to extract this ball, ana Mr
Beattie lias from time to time suffered
much from it. A few nights ago, Mr. B
was seized with a violent fit of coughing,
during whicli lie felt something fall intohtf
mouth. It proved to be the bullet
rtT Equine Remedies speak for them
selves.
jCgr" A dispatch of the 16th from
New Orleans reports the arrival then
of tlie schooner Jcannet, from Port
an Prince, via St. Marie, Hayti, with
ciglity-ninc negroes for the planta
tions : and- adds that the schoone:
would go back for another cargo.
WT The Macon & Augusta Railroad, it j*
thrmglrt will Tie Completed 'rh the cebrse c''
two months. The eonstruclldfi iriim (rms*
six or eight miles on the Macon end, cam>
ing toward tiiat near Milledgvllle, whiei
runs over a still larger portion of newly
luid track.
/■#*“ And Satan smote Job with
boils,” is now rendered: “ And Satan
smote Job with circumscribed subcu
taneous inflammations, characterized
by pointed tumors, and suppurating
with central cores.”- -
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HT Everybody praises Equine Reme
dies.
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Z3T It is said tiiat there are no fewer
than 1000 boys end girls froth Vhe UaHw
States in Hie various universities and
schools of Germany. Boston probably fur
nishes the greater portion of this number
t3T“ Dexter” takes Equine Powders.
|Cgr* Gov. Holden has ten compa.
nice of Regulars at his dispoaal,
eight of them being Artillery and
two Infantry, and all of them armed
with Springfield breech-loading rifles.
rerCohimlui.H has a sensation in the way
of a gigantic wild hog, ten to twelve feet
long, who roauis the streets at night- is
said to have had sixty to eighty halls fired
into his huge carcass without effect
Farmers use Equine Remedies.
Fifty thousand watermelons
have been brought to Jacksonville,
Fla., realizing $5,000.
Lightning recently Btruok a
cotton patch near Columbus, Georgia,
killing cotton, grass aud everything
ou a space of ground as large as a
house.
The Supreme Court of Geor
gia has made a decision virtually,
aunuliing the statute of limitations,
made between 1861 and 1865.
tgf- The eight-hour system does not
work successfully in San Francisco, sad
employers and laborers are amicably chang
ing to the nine-hour plan.
Coal oil is said to cure bald#
ness.
Os The Mormon women voted la tbs
late election in Utah