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-,T.-y«afr i-;.; w H Percent The Newsan herald.! PUBLISHED ETEKY TUESDAY. A ’ B - CATES, Editor and PnblUher. **** or SCBSCRiPIOJ : One copy one year, in advance $1.50 If not paid in advance, the terms :;re $2.00 a year. A club of six allowed an extra co; v. Fifty-two numbers complete the voloi THE NEWNAN HERALD. WOOTTEN A CATES, Proprietors. -WISDOM, JUSTICE AND MODERATION. TERMS:—>1.40 per year In Aivaare. VOLUME XXI. NEWNAN, GEORGIA, TUESDAY, OCTOBER 5, 1886. NUMBER 51 The Newrah Herald. PUBLISHED ETEBT TUESBAT. E1T" l OF ilTUBW® Oneinchoneyear, *10; ' stime l . CIA* A COI*» I* 1 ° ne .iSS?l«« tfme ’tb« thr»e meute. year, $100; less time in jon anil oO S^dHtonStor^-hsuoseqneiii to ^“c M in local ^lamjntonce^per those «lvertie- in lX h nsi q eS^dr»menta must b ‘ AddreS "cSaewn-. Ga', 1 n ' Po ® t of * h ® Sierra. Wrltl. of Half- j Wild Cattle and Rattlesnake*. or lives aro albums, written througn ' My‘present letter is from Eugene City, >V ith good or ill, with false or true, i Ore., where my father settled down JOAQUIN AS A STORY-TELLER. THE LATEST JOURNALISTIC IDEA. DENTISTRY AND ITS SECRETS. AN ACTRESS’ MAKE-UP. Spain. These cows had been brought up from Mexico for the Missouris. Their long —~ nearly forty years ago, and where I have ; done more work with the hand that pens these lines than any man I know— What Is Used to Beautify the Skin and wor ^ e< ^ like a man while Still a lad. Blaeken the Eyelids. I Lord! those da 7 8 when m T brotl 9 ' “Nothing is so exaggerated or myste- aud 11196(1 to ™° with tbe sun and «° rious to the outside world as the ‘make- 001 and m,lk the h * lf ' wlld Spanish up’ process of actors,” said a prominent cows! What ba,tles we P°° r barefooted member of the profession yesterday to a lade did haTe! The96 s P anisb cow3 were reporter. J , terribly vicious brutes. They had long, “Well, I suppose actresses adopt the eharp borns ‘ and would figbt ' like buU3 - same process as fashionable women?” S In fact ’ 1 baTe 36611 ray P° or brother “Not a bit of it. Actresses have to bave mucb more l >erilous fi K bte in the follow simple and quick methods to corral witb tbe36 sleek ’ Ion ?- Ie <?K ed . make up for a stare appearance The 3ha T- h °rned and vicious cows than ever access who wishes to make a good ap- 1 saw in aI1 tbe bll,I ' fi " hts of 1Iexico or pearance usually washes her face in water and then in bay rum. Oriental cream or whitish liquid is next applied - ,, with a sponge. When the face is dry battles for tbelr youn =’ S <?neratl0n after •“ is then powdered with the softest generation with wild beasts, had made chamois skin. Then the background as them tnm - 1,mbed and sharp-horned as it were, is ready, and ermine is deli- antelo P e ‘ almost. No wise or well-regu- cately distributed with a tine velvet *»ted people ever attempted to milk them sponge over the features. The lips next bef,,r6 nor after ’ But we W6r< \ isolated receive attention by the homrepathic ap- ™>mgrants, and no one came by to tell plication of a red liquid. All this is done i us be 1161- - Besides that, butter was $1 with incredible swiftness and without a P° und - ^ nd we .,^ ere v , ery P°° r - Y ™ any apparent effort to obtain artistic ef- 366 ' vc X 0 } tbe3e w,Id cattle fr °™ tbe old feet. The particular part of the toilet Bettlera fo1 ; ta ™ ,n g them - We tamed now begins—penciling the eyebrows. | them - bnt tbey bored a B ood , maay boI f 3 A small camel's hair brush, of the best. m “ 3 tiefore w f got them subdued. Kicx? quality, is moistened with the finest In- ' 1 have ^ lio,lble<l U P ln ,. tbe fanc6 - dia ink, and work on the eyebrows is corn6r for an hour at a tlme llke a J ack ‘ fairly inaugurated. A delicate line is knile! But 33 for ba “ er > y6u mi S ht as also drawn under the lashes on the lower wel1 m,lk a stra P- Tbe , mllk was tbm - lid. This is the way the actress prepares a " d watery > wbat llttle we 6 ot away to make her appearance uopn the stage i W1 £, a t , when she is personating a character that ! ° b ‘, tb " se cows! 1 .J* Uyou ’ f and,dly ‘ does not require her to look older than a " old blu6 cow „' r,tb bl S wblt f 6y< ? she really is. In that case, of co»se, ; whlch 1 bad *° nulk ’ 1136(1 to watcb wlth slie uses cosmetics and paints to produce wrinkles and the necessary aged appear ance. Lead pencils No. 1 are frequently used instead of India ink to pencil the eyebrows. “The enamelling process, which origi nated in France, is very rarely resorted to on account of its baneful effects. It gives the face a ghost-like, waxy look, and is far from being beautiful. It is a perfect art, though, and, frequently, her big eyes till I got the dipper full. And then, just as I would let go of her to go and pour the milk away in the pail, she would hoist her right hind leg, and—whack! On my honor, that whole spring through, we three boys, were none of us without a skinned nose, a peeled shin, or a broken rib. But, after all, the worst part of the whole business was the hunting up of those wild cattle twice a day and driving them very old actresses can build' a new and int ° “le coreal. They would run for . . . . . mime nm milpR avprv riav I hav wnillfl miles and miles every day. They would let their little caves starve and never youthful face for the stage w ith enamel. Used to a great extent it fills the pores of .. j ,, , come near them. And run! They would the skin, and poisons the muscular ... , - , , . J glands, producing disease. Some of the ™ n 1,ke d66r ’ , ° aly de f , nm flom you ’ great and successful actresses, however, ™ ps6 wlld - bl e bb f adad . and ahar P- ^ «f; * *1 *. i e ■ .j homed cows would nm toward you. have outfits that a harem of Oriental . , .. . . ., ,, . ... ^ . And this is the way we would get them women might envy. To enumerate a . , i • t i • • i .. home—run like whiteheads toward home, few articles: glycerine, India ink, t>ow- , -it i and the cows after us! ders, carmine, lead pencils, sponges, ; . . . .. . . .. . ... \ 4T • r • , ! And yet this was not really the ternble powder puffs, crimpers, frizzers, chamois ; J /. .. .. J , , fi . /r i ll - • * I Dart of hunting them up. The whole skin, puffs, braids, hairpins, piece of ; , ... ... . mi . lf * . . , ’ K ‘ , md was alive with rattlesnakes. Hie steel for short curls, tooth paste, bay i . .. . ... . . j-,. . . . ’ r I / grass was tall and thick, and we poor rum, Flonda water, arsenic, nail-brush, ° r . e ... . . , boys were on foot, and barefooted. No tweezers for pulling out gray hairs,card- J . , . . , , monev had our parents to buy either amon seeds, dyes, aromatic pills for the . * . \ , , . . .. . ! J . , shoes or horses. And such rattlesnakes! breath, mvigorators, sheet of zinc for ... , 4 ,, ., . T . . , , , Were 1 tell you that I have seen knots curling the hair, two hand-glasses, be- . „ , .* . - , , .| •, .. . m, „ . e i _ of rattlesnakes as big as a barrel roll sides other articles. The effect of long . ..... _ oa f f t • m down the little rocky hill known as ears of painting a face is quite visible and noticeable by the generally dead ap pearance of the skin. I would advise ‘Rattlesnake Butte” you would hardly care to believe me without the solemn assurance that the fact is not a jest. every actor and actress to pay a great Y ,s, the truth U, we used in spring to go deal of attention to scrubbing their face. fa ■ Indians and ^ to M1 after the performance. They do wash ra £ 1( . sna k es . But now snakes, wild the paint off, hut oftentimes being in a C0W3( mil grass, and all are no more, hurry they do not wash hard enough. ^.j ie cows could never be tamed, and as There is an art in ‘making u P ; as weU as ti|m , went by aU the old “Spanish” stock in acting.”—New York Mail and Ex press. A Better Mental Dlge8tI(r\ve(Ied. of cattle was driven to California and butchered, and what was called “Amer ican cattle” took their placa As for the „ ... e ii • ... rattlesnakes, strange to tell, they began If you will carefully mqune among * , J to disappear as soon as hogs were intro- young men whose spare hours are spent Vote the county. A rattlesnake on cards and loafing (I mean our c erhs, for hia life from a hog . 1 doub t apprentices, and otherwise reputable fel- ; snake ^ , tnke at a h under lows), you Will find that they- ^ circumstanceg , for I never saw one try know how to get r,dot spare tone .a Bu t I have seen hogs profitable manner They have no taste 8 and eat rattlesnake3 for reading formed, above that very ^ens of times.-Joaquin Mfiler in Chi- readmg which encourages a waste of Times leisure. The salvation of our boys and <= J girls lies in awakening an interest in j The Worst Not Told, some intellectual and manual study that ; There really are many things which they can easily indulge when not held can not be portrayed in the public by work. By manual study I mean one prints, and though there is a widespread that occupies the hands as well as the howl about the evil effects of the publi- brain. One of the best saved fellows I cation of the debasing “sensational ex- know is this boy John. He is busy at a aggerations,” which are the leading desk as accountant for ten hours a day. feature of some journals, they do not, But when not there he is absorbed with appalling as they are, tell the whole ornithology. He shoots his own speci- truth. 1 will confsss that there is much mens; he has made himself master of that is untrue that finds its way into the taxidermy; can sketch admirably; has newspapers of the present day, but there his portable photographic apparatus, is much that must necessarily be sup- His room is a museum. Damn that boy pressed from public view. Newspapers you can not. His tastes aro up. His are not, as has often been asserted, books aro associated with his work. YVe mirrors of the worst forms of life. They must think how to have more Johns of may not be mirrors of the best, but they this sort. We must, if possible, have certainly do not present it in its lowest created a higher average capacity to aspect. read—that is, a better mental digestion. 1 There is no question but that for a city I have before me a pile of recent issues containing 1,000,000 of inhabitants of novels, mostly in a cheap, popular Philadelphia is comparatively free from form. I can not help thinking that, the order of crimes that never reach the taking the pile as a whole, it cot ' not public ear; that is, there are fewer improve the mental action of Tom - -.nes, hidden crimes in this city than others of who is just now spending his highest in- large population—a fact due to its wide tellectual efforts in getting a fat sow expanse of territory. Still, I am con- with her litter ready for the county fair. v i nc ed that there has been many a foul Tom talks pig with enthusiasm. 1 should deed committed within her boundaries not like to see him give over his present tbat bas no t yet and never will become tastes for the average culture of this kn own. You have little idea of the stack of stuff.—Cor. Globe-Democrat. crime that occurs without detection. A police official, who has been in service Good for the Boy. f ur years, and who is a very close ob- At one of the north-shore resorts thj gerver, told me that the world had but a people in the town will tell you some f^ble conception of what was transpir- very funny tales of the—to speak ^po- uig in it in this line.—Philadelphia CalL litelr—piggishness of a family noted in —— — paths of literature and wealth in the - Hi s hto, the Snow tan. Society of this city. They tell, for in- On the northern slope of the Alps the imnee—one of manv-that though their zone of perpetual snow reaches down to nature lands are covered with berries about ?,000 feet above sea-level, and on tot no one picks they put a sign up the smith side to abc 8,800 feet In “No berries picked on these lands.” One the Pyrene^ the snow-line is at a h.gbt dav some poor children of the town of about 8,950 feet: in the Caucasus picked some berries, and in selUng them about 10 000 to 11.000 feet, on the south went to the house on the estate where side of the Himalayas, 1_,9m> feet and to Lrries were picked. The lady came on the north, 16,620; at the equator, m £ to d£r <Sd being asked to buy re- the Andes. 15,980 feet; m Bolivia, 18 - plied tartly "Give those berries to me. 520 feet m the western Cordillera^ and Buv them; indeed ! They belong to us.” ' ^'920 m the eastern: m Mexico. 14. .60 She put out her hand to take them, but 2*et; m Chili, near Santiago. 12 .80feet. f he w was too quick for her. He in Norvrey 5 OiX) feet m the middle por- turned" the berries out iuto the dust, re- tion, and 2,3W feet m the north^m ex- marking as he did so. “Pick them the-.; tremity; ^ Kamchatka, O.200 feet in ™did!"—Home Journal. j Alaska, 5,o00 feet.-Arkansaw Traveler. Very TWn Sheet-Iron. 4 jr ew York Chinaman sells birds’ A piece of iron rolled in the new Fal- nest sou p at $2 a plate. con mUls at Niles to other day is as thin as a sheet Of ordinary paper. It The Cornfield, of the Country, would take 150 sheets to constitute one Figuros, which proverbially can not Inch in thickness. The mill made this ij e , show that the cornfields of the sheet just to see how thin they could tjnited States cover a territory as large roll —Boston Budget. as England, Scotland and Belgium : ;—: , . _ united, while the grain fields surpass “La Nature” claims that a mac m - > Spain territorial extent. The acreage one-horse power would keep 7, , ^ our farm lands under cultivation is watches running. equal in extent to all of the United ITT „ Kingdom of Great Britain and Ireland, Junes Parton says: None of to Belgium, Portugal, Germany haw balk* Patting Pictures In the Newspapers— Difficulties To Be Overcome. The latest modem idea is illustrated in journalism. I was connected from the start with the first illustrated daily in the United States; and saw that the difficulty in the way of success was the effort to pour the old wine of politics and the police court into the new picture bottles. They could not stand it. It took to pencil of Hogarth to make the rum-shop interesting, and even he could not make it so to-day. Dogs, prize fights, police news, are bad enough in type, but how much worse, spread over whole pages in a coarse picture! Had the editors set aside their traditions; had they been trained to a knowledge of the requirements of the new field; had they cultivated the picturesque, the emotional, the romantic, and the social in other; words, presented the “inner” side or sub jective transfer of life; made a bright, beautiful family paper, that every man would have wanted to carry home with him, the story of to first ten years of the first illustrated daffy paper would have been different The second great difficulty was of a mechanical character. No good picture can be produced upon the “turtle,” that is the rounded press. If the lithographic stone is ever rounded, so that pictures can be printed directly from it instead of the printing press, it will cause A FruleMion in Which Big Incomes Are Realised—Women Dentists. One afternoon, not long ago, I met a friend, a dentist, who, being in a confi dential mood, consented to talk of the profession of which he is a shining ornament. He said: “Dentistry is not what it is cracked up to be, and, although it pays big profits many bills for work done are not collect able. For this reason honest men and women are compelled to suffer for the transgression of ‘dead beats.’ I have a friend who recently sold a set of teeth for $95 which cost him exactly $16.20. By a set of teeth I mean upper and lower sets. The teeth mentioned above were set on aluminum. Teeth set on rubber cost the patient $50 and the dentist $10. The prices given are average ones. Some dentists who serve the ‘best people’ ask even higher rates. AU dentists claim -o do their mechanical work on their prem ises. This is not so. Less than one-half of the dentists in Brooklyn do their own work or employ mechanical men by the week. A larger part of the work claimed to be done by local dentists is performed by a half dozen mechanical dentists who make a specialty of that branch of the business.” “What are mechanical dentists paid for their services?” I asked. “Eight dollars per set, which includes upper and lower. The dentist so con- revolution in the newspaper. It would j tracting for the work is obliged to fum- abolish the compositor, and bring to artist and scribe into direct relations with the reader. The London Graphic and Illustrated News are a prophecy of what our daily papers may be, if the lithographic stone becomes a well- rounded fact. It is said that a process has been in vented, and is now being developed, by which pictures in color, as weU as in black and white, can be printed without the intervention of the stone. If this is true, the day is not distant when we shall have the beautiful and picturesque journal, one that will arouse the sym pathies, stimulate the imagination, and satisfy the taste; as yet, they are little more than sensation-mongers, or tails to some ambitious politician’s kite. The exceptional facts, that is, the crime and the scandal, will be relegated to a corner and put in small close type; the discov ery, its relation to existing circumstances and conditions, the noble act, the great piece' of work will, it is to be hoped, be put in colors and occupy the places of honor.—Jennie June. Causes of Typold- Fever. The most important lesson to be learned by the public in reference to ty phoid fever is that it is a “filth disease” —not sometimes, not generally, but al ways. And perhaps the next in impor tance is that while the production of the disease probably requires that the mor bific agent shall be brought into contact with the alimentary mucous membrane, as in food or drink, it is possible for the salivary fluids in the mouth and threat to absorb the poison from the atmosphere and thus become the medium of its transmission to the stomach. There is also a third lesson of no less value to us, viz.: That various articles of food, and especially milk, water and other fluid food, possess the same property of ab sorbing the fever poison from the atmos phere and thus becoming the vehicles of its introduction into the system. My own observations are fully in keep ing with the view that the absorption of the poisonous emanations by the sali vary secretions, and by food stored in pantries and kitchens, but especially the latter, furnishes the explanation of nearly all the so-called “sporadic” cases of true typhoid fever occurring in this city. In a large proportion of cases it will be discovered on examination that odorous emanations from kitchen drains, but more frequently from privy vaults, are easily perceptible to the senses in the rooms where food is stored and where it is being prepared for the table. In most of the observations I have made on this subject, it has appeared to be the privy vault rather than the drain that has been responsible for the evil.—Annals of Hy giene. “Animal Spirits." The fox terrier is always readier for a walk than his master, and generally en joys himself more thoroughly on the way. His natural gait is swifter than man's, and all animals of whom that can be said have a great advantage in the amount of pleasure which they derive, or ought to derive, from the use of their limbs. The glory of rapid motion which we can only begin to realize on ish the teeth, which usually cost from $4 to f6 per double set. Plain teeth are worth 10 cents and gum teeth 15 cents each. The best teeth are made in Phila delphia and are sol* l at a branch of the manufacturing firm in this city. Den tists try to convince their patients that teeth are very expensive, and that to make an upper and lower set takes two or three days. This is all humbug. A mechanical dentist who is a good work man can make three sets in twenty-four hours. You can see by the foregoing figures that patients pay good round prices for a man's name or reputation. Dentists who employ mechanical men make a plaster paris cast of their pa tient’s jaw so as to get the articulation, or fitting of the teeth, correct. These casts cost about 5 cents each, and when made are sent to the dental laboratories where the remainder of the work is done. Until the middle of September dentists might as well close their offices and go in the country, as little or no work is being done. The months of August and September are the dullest in the year for the dental profession. “Suavity of manner is the great draw ing card of many’ dentists. Ladies pre fer to patronize pleasant and agreeable dentists to mei? who are surly and un couth in manners. Dentists who are personally popular have the largest in comes. Women dentists? Oh, yes. To my knowledge there is one in Brooklyn. This lady attends almost exclusively to women and children. Occasionally she has a male patient, but not often.” “Do women make a success of dent istry?” “Not alway’s. The feminine mind is sometimes unable to grasp its intricacies. Many women dentists practice their pro fession in New York. They are usually discouraged in their attempts to study dentistry, as close association with male students lias often unpleasant results. The only* plan which I think would work satisfactorily would be to separate the sexes in dental colleges. This plan has shown good results in medical schools. More women dentists practice their pro fession in Europe than in America.” “How are $12 a set teeth, ‘made while you wait,’ manufactured?” “In almost the same manner that $50 sets are made. A mechanical dentist would charge the same price ($8) for making a $12 set of teeth as he would for a higher priced set. Dentists, how ever, who make teeth at the rate named always do their own work. In cheap upper and lower sets of teeth the teeth cost $2, while in the higher priced sets the teeth are worth but $2 more. In cheap sets Xlie oniy additional expense is for rubber and plaster. The latter is worth, possibly, 5 cents and the rubber 25. The materials used in dentistry cost but little. It is the work and skill for which the patient is obliged to pay.”—Brooklyn Eagle. Care in Sponge Bathing. Care should be taken, in all operations of sponging, washing, and cleansing the skin, not to - expose too great a surface of the body at once, so as to check the per spiration, which might retard recovery from the disease, or renew the trouble the box-seat of a coach, or in the move- j some other form. In several varieties ment of skating, must be something | diarrhoea, dysentery, etc., when the much more intense to the chamois or j *kin is hard and harsh, the relief to the the white-headed eagle. Constantly, | sick person from washing with water throughout the animal world, we notice ■ and using a good deal of soap, is almost that delight in the use of muscle and ■ beyond calculation. limb which in man scarcely survives his j other cases, sponging with tepid majority, but which in them lasts far | wa ter and soap will be ordered, then into maturity. We are accustomed un- j tepid water alone, and afterward prop- consciously to recognize their preroga- j er ly drying the skin with a soft warm tive in this respect when we apply the j toweL Sometimes when water alone is phrase “animal spirits” to a boy who is ! to be used, a little vinegar added to it full of life and engery, and who enjoys j makes the sponging more refreshing. Of i nm over the hills on a breezy day. — ’ ’ ^ Nineteenth Century. Saturated with Morphine. Nothing exhilarates the mind and the body like morphine. Liquor thickens the utterance and stupefies the brain. Morphine, on the contrary, frees the tongue, and makes its accents as dis tinct as the notes of a well played banjo. It makes the brain bright but insouciant. A veteran morphine taker is proof against all other stimulants. Whisky and brandy do not intoxicate him. He defies all drunkenness except the in toxication produced by the drug. course no one would think of using vine gar at the same time soap is used. Bay rum is very acceptable, also, to the face, neck, and hands of sick people, when used after sponging or bathing. If not convenient, some common spirits diluted with water may be substituted.—Hall’s Journal of Health “Readers" for the Magazines. Readers for magazines and storv papers have an endless task. The “reader” em ployed upon a leading American maga zine, peruses on an average fifteen original contribution a day, and on the , > * | average rejects twelve of them. In Hi, mv. cles gradually become filled with ‘ twelve montha a single New York pub . p-,3on. Frequen y pms and house received the manuscripts the needles can be thrust into his flesh without producing pain. When thoroughly saturated with morphine the victim either dies or attains an extra ordinary size. No matter how thin he may be, he begins to grow fat, and In of a thousand novels. The late Henry J. Raymond was perhaps one of the best “readers” this country has ever pro duced. ; All the large publishing houses employ ux*> ucuc ^ ^w ^ xu a “reader”—a man or woman who p^- some cases is said to die of suffocation. . , . ... ,, . _ . . t* ruses all manuscripts offered and either The mute is v»mtUy shattered .n«l- te or reject / tijem . From to de- vance of the body—Philadelphia Press. ; cisio £ of ^ monster there L , no Society does not --ble souls. appeal. Ambitious authors complain _ that it is unjust to be compelled to sub- Sims of the Olden Time. j mit to the decision of one person. It is The Romans sifted their flour through the writer’s desire to make an appeal to two kinds of sieves, called respectively the public and not to one man. That excussorta and pollenaria, the latter of can not be made without the types, and which gave the finest flour, termed pol- the barren honors of the types can be len. Sieves of horsehair were first mnd. had only by the judgment and decision by the Gauls, those of linen by the Spaa* ; of the “reader,” who in most cases is ao iards, and of papyrus by thg Egyptians; . curate and impartial—Will M. Clemens —Boston Budget j to Detroit Free Press. GENERAL NEWS- Mark Twain’s mother says of him “Ho was always a good boy” Sa - uel was, though prone to be m!-- ehievous. He’s always t! « same t<> ine, the best son a niotli- r ever Lad.” A dispatch from Winfield, low asserts that tive distinct shocks earthquake were felt at that place at about It o’clock Septembei -3. No special damage was done, but considerable alarm was felt. An engine specially construct! d to use petroleum as fuel is success fully drawing trains on the railway between Alexandria and Cairo, it is estimated that a yearly saving of $250,000 in cost of fuel would be ef fected by this railway by substitu tion of petroleum for coal. Some imaginative person writes to the World to say that Gen. Booth has come over to this country to throw the votes of the Salvation Army to Henry George in his con test for the Maycrality. If Mr. George has no greater dependence than this his political salvation is certainly a matter of grave doubt. William E. Gould, the defaulting cashier of the First National Bank, of Portland, Me., was arrested Sep tember 25th by the United States Marshal and brought before United States Commissioner F.>rd, who committed him to the county jail in default of $50,000 bond, to await the action of the grand jury. A distinguished party of Russians arrived in Chicago, Sept. 23rd, from San Francisco. The party included the Russian Minister of Marine, Vice Admiral-Sbe8tokoff and wi e, his aide, Lieut. Eberhard; Prince Povotinsky-Galitizine. and Capt Res2n,aide on the staff of the Gov ernor-General of Siberia. The par ty left this evening for the East.' As a strict constructionist the President can find no authority to issue invitations to distinguished French citizens to take part in the ceremonies attending the inaugura tion of the Statue of Liberty nex b month. The Committee will have to attend to that, but the President will lend his countenance, strictly within the lines of the law. Mrs. Mitre Hopkius is building a $3,000,000 palace atGreat Barrington, Mass., although she is nearly seven ty years old, and has neither hu-- band nor child. Mark Hopkins made his millions out of the Pacific Railroad contract with the Govern! ment. His mind weakened, and when he saw his-own splendid mansion building on Nob Hill, San Francisco, he used to mumble, ■‘What fool is doing that?” On the first of October nearly three hundred mechanics will be dischar ged trom the navy yard at Wash ington as a result of a recently is sued order of Secretary Whitney turning over the yard to the Ordi nance Bureau. Nearly all the heavy plant now in ’ place will be removed to other yards, and the buildings vacated will be used to accommodate improved machinery for the fabrication of heavy ordi nance. The equinoctial storm set in at Galveston, September 23rd, and the wind blew a gale at points on the lower coast. Galveston seems to have been on the outer edge of the storm circuit, as the highest, veinci- ity here was tnirty-two miles at 3 o’clock this morning, while at Indi- anola il recorded fifty miles. As the morning advanced the wind de creased. Torrents ot rain felt dur ing the night, and is still falling. The storm lias resulted in no dam age here. Communication with In- dianola was off this morning. Henry Marshall (so-called on tie passenger list of the Cunarder Pa- vonia), but whose right name is probably Henry Forshaw, and who was connected with a silk house in Paterson, N. J., committed suicide by cutting his«throat in mid-ocean Saturday, 18th ult. He was buried at sea Sunday. We has a wife and four children in Paterson and rela tives in Pennsylvania and New York. Five minutes before the sui cide he was chatting pleasantly with his fellow-passengers and seemed to be perfectly happy. Unusually heavy rains have fall en in Galv.ston since 21st ult., but no disastrous results are apprehend ed, as low tides have prevailed. Further down the gulf coast, how ever, heavy storms seem to be ra - ing, as indicated by the following telegram to the iVeir* received late last night: “Victoria,Tex., Sept. 23.—Tele grams from Indianola are to the ef fect that a heavy storm is raging there. The wind is reported to be blowing at the rate of fifty miles a hour. The streets are three feet under water; Eftoris are being made to remove the few inhabi tants still there to higher ground. The telegraph operator has remov ed his office to a box car four miles this side o f Indianola. No loss of life is anticipated, and as bnt little remain* there in the way of proper ty, no serious damage is likely to occur.” Nine or ten mission.iries will s: ii for Africa, Oct. 2. Thevjgo in ic- sponse to the cad of Birtiiop V liain Taylor, who is establislii’-g “elf-supporting mi-sions on t!.e Dark V mtinent. There have be ■ . fifty five missionaries station I there already. Oftlie.se three have died,but the remainder are doi- g well. Bishop Taylor t ports ■ f Africa that it is a healthy place ter acclimatization. Pome of the missions are already self-sustaining. The Bishop’s plan is to obtain grants of land and to open farms while establishing schools and churches. He is now moving up the Congo and is probably at Stanley Pool. He took with him eleven missionaries, one of whom died at the head of navigation on the Congo. The movement is considered a re markably heroic and successful enterprise. The missionaries who answer the Bishop’s call are expected in New York by next Saturday', and a series of services will take place in special relation to their departure. Very few people know of a re markable enterprise that is being undertaken in New Jersey in tie shape of a female revision of the Bible. The work is being carried on in this manner: In a richly fur nished drawing-room about a broad table sit naif a dozen women with intelligent faces and busy pen- 1 . Each one has a cheap copy of the Bible which she reads carefully and occasionally clips out a verse and pastes it at the top of a long shei t of white pap2r. The others then cut out the same vers* from their Bibles and dispose of it in the setue manner. With this belore them they begin to discuss it in turn. One of these commentators is an excelled Greek and Hebrtw scholar. Another is profoundly learned in current Bible criticism, while still another has gone through with care and has at her fingeis’ ends, all the great commentaries i f Henry, Scott, Dr. Adam Clark and others. After each verse has been thoroughly discussed, each woman writes under it what she has to say, and the sheets are then passed in to a secretary, a recent graduate from Vassar. She cuts out (his mu< h-taiked-of verse from still another Bible, puts it at the top of a larger sheet of paper and then appends under it the notes ot all the learned lady commentators. When asked what was the object of this revision, one ot the ladies, who inspires and carries on this tremen dous labor, explained that they were doing what might Do called a feminine revision of the Scriptures. “We found,” she said “in going over the Old and New Testaments, that about one-tenth of the Bible touch es, in one way or another, upon women. We wish to know whether the male readings, translations and interpretations have been strictly fair to us, and in a spirit friendly to our sex. We and a great may other women have our doubts on the sub ject, and so we propose issuing what may be called “The Woman’s Bible,” On our revising committee sit able women from England and Ameri ca.” A well-known publisher has agreed to issue the revision when it is completed, and by next summi r the “Woman’s Bible” will be given he public. Mr. Geo. C. Morgan, the hydrau lic enginter, who has returned to Chicago from inspecting the arte, sian well at Belle Plains, Iowa, say-: ‘‘The reports sent out from the town at first were greatly exaggerate'!. The story about the stream from the well hurling large rocks and bags of sand high in the air is a fairy tale. The stream simply bubbles up about ten incites over the surface. The flow has decreased from 9,000, 000 gallons the first twenty-four hours, to about 0,000,000 at the pres ent time- In the town and around it, there are four artesian wells, whose depth average about 230 feet, and of course, they have gone out of the business of furnishing water, temporarily. The obstrepe rous well is 192 feet deep, and it was ordered to be sunk by the authorities of the city of Belle Plains. The contractors were to make it a three inch tube well, but not having a bore of that size, they utilized a two-inch auger, anticipa ting that the wash of the water would furnish the other inch, into which they would then insert the three-inch tube. The weii being on a lower surface level, the pressure became greater, arid the hole at the top is now oval shape and about six feet one way and three feet another. tun is to be sunk and sand and stones to be thrown in, and if that does not stop the flow, a .veil is to be built on a lower plateau, and that will stop the flow of troublesome water, and it can be filled up with stones. The damage uccuringis by iosing the water from other wells.” A di-patch from Belle Plains says; Yesterday afternoon the big cone wa3 loaded with sand and lowered. It went down slowly n.nd hard, having to be forced at times. A« yet there is no perceptible dimi nution in the flow, though the cone is down sixty feet. 1 THOMPSON BROS. Bedroo®, Parlor and Dining Room Fnrnitnra Rig Stock and Low Prices. PAROR AND CHURCH ORGANS WOOD AND METALLIC BURIAL CASES /^Orders attended to at any hoar day or nighty? epia-iv ‘ THOMPSON BROS. Nevnan. Ga. W. S. "Wintera ESTABLISHED 1873. 6, W. 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