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MARIETTA, GA.
THURSDAY MORNING, FEBRUARY 12, 1885.
The Governor of Michigan gets $l,-
000 a year while his private secreta
ry gets $1,600. The Governor takes
honor in part payment for his servi-
Ces.
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While praying during a recent
storm at Natchez, Miss., old Katie
Hightower, who has been blind for
fifteen years, had her sight suddenly
restored, and can now see as well as
when a child.
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An insurance company in New
Hampshire has decided to resist pay
ment on a policy of $5,000 on a house
that was blown up by dynamite in
Stratford, N. H., contending that the
policy does not cover such a case.
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A Canadian widow of great wealth,
aged 74, has married her handsome
coachman aged 19. It does not seem
to be too cold for Cupid to do some
of his tanciest shooting in the Do
minion. Golden arrows are not easi
ly frozen to the bowstring.
The dynamiters seem to never to
have taken into consideration the
probaility that they themselves may
become the victims of dynamite. Itis
to be hoped that their own favorite
tactics will not be employed against
their innocent women and children.
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Nine convicts were whipped last
Saturday at New Castle, Delaware,
for larceny and one for burglary.
The latter was s negro, who received
twenty lashes and was stood up for
one hour in the pillory. The ethers
received ten lashes each.
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West Virginia is in an uproar be
cause a Hd-year old man married an
11-year old girl. It is stated that the
bride was bought from her father,
and that the marriage is not only void,
but the father and husband can be
imprisoned, or even hanged under
the laws of that State.
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Up in Brockton, Mass., a manufac
turer “docked the wages of all his
employesd per cent. One of his larg
est customers heard of it, and concel
led his orders for shoes, reducing the
sales of the factory from 45 cases
per day. The shoe dealers say short
pay means poor work.
The Philadelphia Record comes up
to the defense of Nero, and says he
did not fiddle while Rome was burn
ing, for the reason that fiddles were
not invented until long after Nero's
time. The Record man is evidently
not a fiddler, or he would own at least
one instrument dating away back
yonder in the B. C.’s.
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TeN years ago Calvin Fletcher,
when on a visit to Orange, Los An
geles county, Cal., stuck his stick
into the ground. The cane took root
and is now a stately sycamore tree
fifty feet high, with wide-spreading
branches, and its base 3% fect in cir
cumference.
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A MinNEsorA farmer states that
he can “keep one stove going” dur
ing six months with the sun-flower
stalks produced on an acre of land.
The seed produced and fed to fowls
pays for all the work ot cultivation.
He burns the smaller heads with the
stalks, which are cut in the fall to
the required length.
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A dog in Wanaqua, N. J., who for
some time had been noticed to take
his breakfast in his mouth and run
away with it uneaten, was followed,
when it was discovered that he took
his meal to a decrepit and emaciated
old dog in a covert in the field, who
eagerly devoured the food thus pro
vided for him.
The Bayard family has been well
represented in the senate of the Uni
ted States. The grandfather, father
and uncle of the present senator cred
itably served their respective terms,
and the present Senator Bayard and
his father were both members of the
senate at the same time._ This is the
only instance on record where father
and son represented the same state
at the same time in the senate. |
A Pennsylvania Judge sentenced
one wife-beater the other day to two
and a half years in the penitentiary
and another to one year,and regretted
that he could not order that the cul
prits be whipped within an inch of
their worthless lives. The Delaware
idea has taken a deep hold in the
Kevstone State.
The horrible details of the buryingl
alive of a prominent farmer of Hen-!
dersonville, N. C., have just been re
ceived. John Jenkins, the unfortu
nate in question, fell ill, and after a
prolonged illness assumed the appear
ance of death and was buried. Yes
terday his brother exhumed the re
mains and was horrified to discover
that the body had turned in the
grave. Both hands were full of hair
which the deceased had torn from
his head and beard in his frantic ef
forts to escape from his awful doom.
" BETRAYED AND MURDERED.
The fall of Khatorum was due to
the treachery of trusted Pshas, who
opened the gates and let in the Mah
di’s troops. As General Gordon was
leaving the government house he was
stricken down and murdered by an
assassin’sdagger. England is certain
ly aroused over this defeat and mas
sacre of her brave General. Now
that the French and Italian govern
ments, as English allies, with armed
fleets, going to occupy certain prom
inent points, Cario, Alexandria,
Suakim, Suez, Port Said and Ismalia,
this will enable the British troops in
Egypt to proceed forthwith to the
Soudan,
The Arabs, under their black lead
er, Mahdi, are fighting with a hero
ism and desperation that excites ad
miration ; yet, at the same time there
is no credit due them in taking
Khatorum. Any fanatical leader
could avail himself the assistance of
traitors.
GEORGIA GLEANINGS.
While J. T. Shiners,a bailiff of
Worth county, was attempting to ar
rest T. B. Boatwright, near Albany,
the latter resisted. Pistols were
drawn and used, both men were killed.
The track of the Augusta and Knox
ville road spread, last Monday, owing
to the heavy rains. A freight train
was wrecked, and Conductor J. G.
Davis killed and Judson Walling
seriously hurt.
President Estill has called a meet
ing of the Georgia Press Association
at Bainbridge on the 18th of March.
The Louisville and Nashville railroad
company have tendered the members
of the Association and theit ladies an
excursion to New Orleans.
There were at least 10,000 wild
ducks in Brunswick sound Tuesday
evening. One flock alone wasstretch
ed along for a full mile. They were
very tame indeed. Numbers could
have been killed from a steamer’s
deck with a shortgun.
Maj. R. A. Mathews, is the “Fur
man” of west Cieorgia. On his one
horse farm in Talbotton he says he
packed twent-five bales of cotton last
year bad crop year asit was. He
farms only on the intensive plan and
ihc is one of the most successful plan
ters in the State.
H. €. DeLong walked all the way
from Hall county to Cumming, Ga.,
after a small yellow fice dog. The
dog had taken up with William Dud
ly, of Forsyth county, who refused to
give it up, but Delong swore out a
possessory warrant,in which he alleg
ed that the dog was ten years old and
worth $lO. The case was finally set
tled by Dudly paying the cost and
giving up the dog. DeLong took the
gravel train back to Hall, lead
ing his dog, perfectly happy.
WepnNespay Judge Pilsbury, of
Sumter county, rendered a decision
in a criminal case that is a very im
portant one. When the case of the
State vs. Webb, Solomon and Shep
Fletcher for simple larceny came up,
Col. John Albritton enteréd the plea
that the indictment of the grand jury
should be quashed on the ground
that the jury contained men over
sixty years of age, and contended
that the law held a man to be ineligi
ble as a grand juror when he reach
ed that age. Judge Pilsbury decid
ed that such was the case, and quash
ed the indictment. This will throw
out several cases transferred from
the superior to the county court, as
the indictments were found by the
same grand jury.
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Tur Republicans in Providence, R.
L., appear to have been hard pressed
in the recent muunicipal election.
Under the constitution of that State
no one is entitled to vote unless he
is assessed and pays taxes on preper
ty of the value of $134. Just prior
to the election a Republican official
placed a large number of names of
persons who were not property own
ers.on the personal tax list, and paid
the assessments of cach one of them.
The Rhode Island Republicans are a
shrewd and unserpulous set, and un
der their manipulation they will
probably be able to carry the State
for many years to come.
The St. Louis Republican gives an
account of a farmer named Samuel
MeGregor, living in East St. Louis,
who cured himself of Bright's discase,
after the doctors had pronounced
him incurable, by a diet of dog’s flesh.
He ate fifteen dogs inall, says that he
found the meat palatable, and not
only cured the discase, but made him
self a stout and entirely healthy man
again. le liked the meat so well
that he stopped eating it only when
his neighbors threatened him on ac
count of the loss of their dogs. Now
who will say that dogs arc of no val
ue?
There are in America at the pres
ent time 30,000 locomotives. Tokeep
up the standard and supply new de
mands 1,200 must be built each year.
Locomotives cost on an average $lO,-
000 each, which would indicate an
expenditure of £12,000,000 this year.
There are sixteen locomotive works in
the United States, among which this
work and money will be more or less
evenlyydistributed.
PRESIDENT CLEVELAND.
During the three months just pass
ed Mr. Cleveland has devoted all the
time he could spare from his unfin
ished public duties as Governor to
the task of ascertaining the views and
policies of the leading men of his par
ty. He has confined himself to no
factions. e has heard all sides, and
the statesmen he has consulted are
precisely those to whose suggestions
it is conceded he ought to listen. ‘
Yet with all this consultation and
interchanging of views, what is the
fact? Within a short month of the
inauguration no living soul, except
Mr. Cleveland himself, knows of
whom his Cabinet is to'be formed, or
whether he has yet finally determin
ed on a single one of its members.
This may look like political cun
ning. Itis not. Itis simply hones
ty of purpose—the result of a settled
principle to hold the Presidential of
fice not as a personal honor, not as a
political power, but as a sacred pub
lic trust. It is an evidence of the
judicial cast of Mr. Cleveland’s mind.
He hears all that can be said on all
sides. He weighs words, measures
opinions, examines reasons, sifts ar
guments, and will finally decide when
his clear judgment and honest con
victiors make plain to him the wisest
policy to pursue.—New York World.
HEIR TO TWO MILLIONS.
William Icliffe, the villaze black
smith of Stockton, Worcester county,
Maryland, has fallen heir to an Earl
dom in England and an estate, the
value of which is estimated at $2,000,-
000. He is now forty-five years of
age and a respected citizen of the
town. He came to this country when |
a lad. His father married a black
smith’s daughter and was refused re
cognition by his parents. The fath
er went to London and there learned
the trade of blacksmithing of his
wife’s father. He had some trouble
with the trade union and came to
America, leaving his wife and little
son behind. They followed soon af
ter and tried to find him, but tailing
‘in this, settled in New Jersey. There
the son grew up, and meeting a young
lady of Worcester county, fell in love
with her. They were married and
settled at Stockton, where they have
lived ever since. The news of his
good fortune reached him a short
time ago when his signature was ask
ed to a suspicious looking document.
He refused to sign it, and found out
afterward that the document was a
transfer of all his rights to the Icliffe
property in England. He now has
the proper papers in his possession,
and will soon be in undisputed pos
session of the property. It was all
left him by his grandfather’s will.
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LEGLESS AND WITH ONLY ONE ARM.
The Sheriff of Kendall county ar
rived in Joliet, 111, on the 2d inst.,
‘with four prisoners. Among them is
William Russell, aged 24, whom the
Sheriff had to earry into the prison
on his back, as the conviet has no
legs and but one arm. Both legs had
been amputated close to the trunk and
the left arm at the shoulder-joint on
account of a railroad accident. This
remnant of a man was deposited up
on the stone floor of the guardroom
and the Sherift produced his mitimus,
showing that Russell was sentenced
by Judge Charles Kellum, of York
ville, to be confined in the penitenti
ary for the term of one year at hard
labor. e was convieted of stealing
a row boat from a man in Plano and
selling it at Peoria. The services of
an able-bodied convict will be needed
to take care of him while in prison.
ELOPED WITH A FARM HAND.
A somewhat new thing in the elope
ment line is reported from Darling
ton, Montgomery county, Indiana.
On last Wednesday a fellow from
Virginia, known as Maj. Tomlinson,
left with the wife of Harvey Shauver,
a prosperous young farmer, living five
miles north of that place. Mr. Shau
ver and wife were thought to be liv
ing happily, with three beautiful lit
tle children. Mr. Shauver’s suspic
ions were aroused by one of the lit
tle fellows telling him that the Ma
jor, who was a farm hand, “kissed ma
and ma kissed Major.” Mvr. Shauver
‘took his wife to task for suech action.
She did not deny it, and also stated
that she would kiss him just when
she pleased. Mr. Shauver chastised
her for her conduet, and paid the
Major off, telling him that he would'
give him until Wednesday to leave.
This seemed to raise the ire of Mrs. |
Shauver, and she quickly gave ]mr}
husband to understand that she
would go with the discharged man.
Mr. Shauver knelt in prayer, :md‘
prayed long and fervently that such |
thoughts should not be entertained
by his wife, but his prayers would
not soften or change her heart. Mr.
Shauver gave her all her belongings,
and the baby, a beautiful boy two
vears old: he helped her into the
sleigh, tucked the wraps close around
her, and, with tears in his eyes, kiss
ed her and the child good-bye, tell
ing her that he hoped and prayed
she would be satisfied with her ill
judged undertaking. The couple
stated that they were going to Ore
gon.
Small pox in Thomson Ga., is be
coming serious. Several new cases,
among thew Mayor Durham.
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Winters & ILege.
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Low as the Lowest
And on reasonable terms. We are selling
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and Winters & Legg Ammoniated Guanos.
ORCHILLA (a Pure Bird Guano).
Also Acid Phosphate, Kainit and, last but
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We can furnish you anything you need to
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Notwithstanding the short crop we have bought 6,498 bales since Sept. Ist.
WINTERS & LEGG.
MARIETTA, February 4th, 1885.
THE MISSION IN THE SOUDBAN.
The Soudan, about which so much
has been published oflateis a vast re
gion in the south of Egypt. It is
mostly a desert and in area exceeding
that of India, its population is said to
be not greater than ten million.
Along the Nile, which bovders it, are
strips of verdure, and in the southern
part thesoil is very rich. Khartoum,
situated at the junction of the two
Niles, isan important commercial cen
tre, but its population is not more
than 10,000 people. Itis the com
manding frontier point of Egypt, and
it is at the place that the Mahdi’s flag
is now flying, and where the palace of
the English commander, General Gor-
DAN, has probably been reduced to
ashes.
The Egyptain goverment in the Sou
dan has been defined by Mr. W. T\
STEAD; in the Century, to have been
a more matter of periodical pillage.
The soverecignty under the Khedive
was Turkish in fashion, and the Sul
tan’s poliey of civil bashi bazouks al
ternated in petty wars, marked by the
torture of men and the ravishing of
women. The present internecine
strife in the Soudan is essentially a
rebellion of the Arabs under the
M:ahdi against the dominion of Egypt.
He has been struggling for three years
against the supremacy ot Egypt, and
the Arabs of the Soudan are better
people than the Egyptains themselves,
the symprthy of civilization must in
the end be with them.
England’s part in this purely local
controversy has been dramatic and
delicate and is now full of the direst
danger. The Soudan and the freedom
of the Nile command the entrance to
the heart of Africa whence England
must hope to push her line of explo
ration and conquest. With the Sou
‘dan in perpetual turmoil the British
‘engineers and tradesman cannot hope
to travel undisturbed. England
therefore, hag attemped to dictate to
Egypt entire evacuation of the prov
ince and to hand the country over to
its original owners. The plan was a
difficult one. To provide for the safe
removal of Egyptain employes and
troops, as well as native Christians,
women and children who could well
not remain ; to guarantee the safety
of 25,000 soldiers in the Egyptian gar
risons against the Arabian hordes ea
ger to massacre them, wus pluusil»lc!
and humane, but its uccnmplishmcm!
will cost England millions of pounds
stealing, two or three armies, and
present problems which may dissolve
GLADSTONE'S goverment and compli-|
cate many ministries to come. |
It is the absorbing British <|uostion;
to-day, next to the Irish problem at|
home, and is engrossing the attention
of the civilized world. ltis taxing|
the nerve of Wolseley, :lggm\'uting}
the pride of the people of the realm|
and adding gray hairs to the great|
premier, who may find his fate in i
the siege of Khartoum as completely |
as GORDAN has met his final if not|
his fatal, reverse.—dugusta Chronicle. |
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Yellow fever is reported as m:xkingi
ereat inroads at Panama, and itis|
further stated that there is a dispo-|
sition to keep the truth, as to the ex- |
tent of the ravagesofthe discase, even |
from the inhabitants of the isthmus it- |
self. i
Ostrich farming in south Africa has
advanced with such strides that the
number of tame birds there is estima
ted to have inereased from eighty in
1865 to at least 70,000 in 1884, pro
ducing feathers for export of the val
ue of about $3,000,000 per annum,
Tue richest silver mine at Lead
ville was sold by the discoverer for
£40,000, and during the following
year the two purchasers made a mil
lion each from it. In the meantime
the discoverer squandered his $40,000
in prospecting, and the other day, a
homeless tramp, sought a - night’s
lodging in a Leadville station house.
When the news of the death of Eli
zabeth Berry, in Derry, Pa, was tele
graphed to her father in Olio, he
dropped dead without a word.
The news of this, following on her
daughter’s unexpected death, was too
much for the mother. The three
were buried togegher.
A Farmer in West Virginia has
discovered a new use for dynamite,
that of protecting hen coops. e
tried his plan the other night, and
while his hens were scattered to the
tour winds he found a dead negro.
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When a Greek immigrant was
searched in New York recently, he
was found to be armed with a weapon
which looked like a large ivory-han
dled jack-kuife. When examined a
pistol hammer was discovered on one
side. This, when pulled up, threw
out a dagger on the other side. As
soon as the pistol was discharged, a
four-inch blade ran out ready for
The Beauty of Youth.
No matter how handsome or stalwart a
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thing else, yet Parker's Hair Balsam will
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growth of glossy and soft hair so quickly as
to surprise you—restoring the original color
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ing.
| T'wo boys eame to their death by
aleohol Thursday, one in Philadelphia
and the other in North Carolina. In
‘each case the victim was filled with
liquor in order to decide a bet as to
how much he coull drink. Each one
died within a very short time after
gulping down about a quart of the
stuff. The officers of the law now
propose to turn the joke on the sports
who were the cause of the deaths.
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GEORGIA—COBB COUNTY:
Charles W. Pyron, ¢uardian of John 1.
Chastain, applies to me for letters of dis
mission from said guardianship and I will
pass upon his application on the first Mon
day in March next at my office in Marietta,
in said county. This Japuary 28th, 1885,
H. M. HAMMMETT, Ordinary.
Sessions, Hamby & Co.
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MARIETTA, - - GEORGIA,
IN THE BEGINNING OF THE
Newr Year, 1885,
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HAVING BOUGHT OUT THE ENTIRE DRUG BUSINESS OF MESSRS. COF
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Compounding and Putting Up Prescriptions,
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W. K. ROOT, PHARMACIST,
IS NOW WITH MAHER & FLOWER.
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trusted to our care.
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PROPRIETORS, MARIETTA, GEORGIA.
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GCGROCERIES.
Pure Spices, Bacon, Flour, Meal, Lard, Hams, Kerosene,
Canned Goods, &c.
[ respectfully solicit a share of the trade of my old customers, as well as
new ones, in my new business, I have moved into the store between R,
Hirsch and Wade \\-hi!(‘.
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