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The Newnan Herald. PUBLISHED ETEKT TUESDAY. A. B. CATES, Editor and Poblisher. TERMS OK SCBSCRIPIOS : Ono copy onoyear, in advance 11.50 If not paid in advance, the terms are $2.00 a year. A club of six allowed an extra copy. Fifty-two numberacompletelhe volume. THE NEWNAN HERALD. WOOTTEK & CATES, Proprietors. -wisdom;, justice and moderation.— VOLUME XXH. NEWNAN, GEORGIA, TUESDAY, JANUARY IS, 1SS7. TERMS*1.50 per year in'Advauee. NUMBER 14. The Newnan Herald; PUBLISHED EYERY TUESDAY Itltj ) UP l!»V2:ttSm» One inch one year, $10; a colnm on* year, $100; less time than three moutus. $1.00per inch for first insertion, and 60 cents additional for each subsequent In- sertion . Notices in local column, ten cents per line for each insertion. Liberal arrange ments will be made with those advertis ing bv the quarter or year. All transient advertisements mnst o paid mr when handed in. Announcing candidates, Ac., $ 3 *°v strictly in advance. Address all communications to A. B. CATES, Newnan Ga Oar lives are albums, written through With good or ill, with fal.se or true. CHINESE PIRATES. In 1875, owing to the wreck of a Bos ton brig in the China rea, I was left in Ilong Kong in pretty bad shape. After I had carried a flag of distress, as you might say, for two weeks, an English man offered to let roe work my passage to Liverpool, but as I was about to accept it I ran across a countryman who had a berth for me. One of the largest trading houses in Canton at that time was com- *'ieed of three* Americans, and they owned two small steamers and three or four sail craft. These vessels were employed in collecting goods from the various islands to the southeast, and some of the voy ages extended up the Yellow sea jus far as Tong-chow. Just ut that time the firm hail como into possession of a now Btejimcr, ami she was about to make her first voyage. There had boon trouble with piratical craft, and the steamer hail been fitted out to take earn of herself. She carried two six pounders, twenty American cavalry carbines, a score of re volvers, and was fixed to throw hot water over boarders. Her compliment of men was fifteen, of whom the cook, steward and three firemen were natives. All others were Americans and English men. The supercargo was an American, who could rattle off the Chinese language ns well as the best of ’em, and the cap tain and some of the others could “smat- ter” more or less. Our first voyage was to le up the Yel low sea, and wo carried a load of Ameri can and English goods. The cargo well deserved the name of “miscellaneous.’’ There were muskets, fish spears, sole leather, tinware, looking glasses, calicoes, buttons, stoneware, lamps, fish nets, gro ceries, axes and almost everything else you can think of, and the supercargo also carried money to purchase what, wc could not traffic for. We were to pick up in cxcliange whatever foreign marketscalled for in Canton, which included teas, rice, several species of nuts, dye stuffs, roots, barks, skins, etc. I was in luck to secure tlu* place of mate, for ('apt. Talior was a splendid fel low and tho crew was one which could lie dejiendod on. We had three or four men who understood the handling of the six- pounders, which had lieen sent over from the United States, and with the supply of small arms at hand we felt ourselves a match for anything except a regular gun boat. Wc got away in good shape, ran up between the const and the island of Formosa, and then steered to the north- cast to fetch the Lioo-Ivioo islands, which are seven or eight in number and deal in ginseng, sarsaparilla and other medical roots. Wc slop]km 1 a day at Ke-Lung, which is at t lie northern end of Formosa, and almost opposite Foochow, on the mainland, and while here it was noticed that the native memliersof our crew were very thick with a lot of suspicious charac ters who were hanging about us the greater part of the day. The supercargo overheard them discussing our voyage and making many inquiries, and when he Bpoke of the matter to the steward that pigtailed gentleman explained that all our natives were related to the strangers who had been hanging about, and of course* the latter took an interest in them. I didn’t know Chinese characters as well as some of tho others, and was there fore' somewhat surprised to hear the cap tain and supercargo discussing the impu dence of tho natives aboard before we had left Ke-Lung by fifty miles. The fire men had given the engineer trouble, and tin* steward had a certain sort of impu dence in his obedience to commands. I did not know until now that a gang of twenty or more of the fellows at Ke- Lung had attempted to induce the cap tain to give them passage to the island of Tseeusan. which we meant to visit. They had offered big passage money and were willing to put up with any accommoda tions. but he mistrusted them, and firmly declined to have one of them aboard. The steward and firemen were soundly Ignited by the captain and threatened with irons if any more trouble occurred, and there the matter was dropped. At the close of the second day we dropped anchor off a small island to the south west of Tseeusan called Kung-Wah. There was no harbor, but the depth of the water enabled us to get within a cable’s length of the beach in a compara tively sheltered spot. Capt. Tabor hail traded at this island a year before, and he knew that the natives were all right as long as they were kept in awe by a superior force. There was a trader on the island who had a large stock of roots, and after a palaver lasting two days and nights the supercargo finally made a bargain with him. It was observed by the captain that some change lm<l come over the natives, for on his pre- ^Tous trip they had been eager to close a bargain at any figure named. The natives in our crew haul beeh permitted to go ashore, and a dozen or more of the lead-’ lug men of the island haul come aboard and inspected us. It was night of the 6econul day before a trade was agreed upon. On the following day we were to begin landing and receiving goods. There was a big crowd of natives on shore ojv po&ite the steamer, and they haul canoes, catamarans and dhows enough to have embarked 300 people. Just before night closed in we sighted a large junk coming down from the direction of Formosa, but gave her no particular attention. At about 0 o'clock she came jogging along at a tramp's gut. and dropped her mud hook within 200 feet of us. I gave her a looking over with the night glass, and as only five or six men could be made out on her decks, it was natural to conclude that she was a trader. Being in port, with fair weather for the night, the crew might expect that only an anchor watch would be maintained. The men must therefore have been some what surprised when Capt. Tabor in vited our five natives to go ashore, an 1 spend the night with their friends, and anounced to the rest of us that we should stand watch and watch. The cook was the only native who diui not go. He declared that he had enemies ashore who would kill him. and he was therefore al lowed to occupy his accustomed quarters. There were ten of us besides him. and soon after the junk anchored the guns were cast loose and loaded with grape, the firearms brought up and made ready, and the engineer was instructed to keep steam enough to permit us to move. The cable was arranged for slipping, and then firemen turned^in “all standing, and the other five of us stood watch. Before this occurred the captain said to me: “Mr. Graham, this may be going to a good deal of trouble for nothing, but the man who deals with these natives has got to Ik? prepared for any emergency. If they trouble us it will not lie until after midnight. I will therefore head the second watch. Keep your eye on i that junk, and permit no boat to come aboard under any circumstances. ’ ’ I distributed my men over the vessel to the best advantage and reserved to my self the right to act as a free lance. That is, I went from one part of the vessel to another, and kept one eye on the junk and the other on the bench. All was very quiet up to 11:30 o’clock, when I made ■ two discoveries in quick succession. The j cook hail prepared a large dish of coffee : for our use during the night. We had a j large urn on a stand in one comer of the dining room, and a lamp underneath kept the coffee hot. The same thing is in J general use in American hotels and res taurants. I was on tho point of entering the cabin to secure a drink of the bever- erage when, as I pass**! an open window*. I heard the cover of the urn rattle, and then caught tho footsteps of some one in retreat. It could be none other than the native cook, I argued, but I did not go to his quarters to verify or disprove my sus picions. I entered the cabin, turned np the light and carefully examined the urn. The rascal liad certainly “dosed” it. There was a grayish powder on the cover and on the edge of tho urn, and in his haste he had spilled some on the floor. A look inside showed numerous bubbles on the surface of the liqt&l, but the=e broke and disappeared while I was looking. The rascal could have but one object in his ac tions. T arranged the can so that no one could secure a drink and then started to notify tho captain. As I passed along the deck I looked for the junk, and in an instant saw that she haul decreased the distance between us. Tho tide was setting in. and she was either dragging her anchor or had purposely raised it and allowed herself to drift. The captain was up as soon as 1 touched his arm, and when I reported my suspicions of the cook and the junk he replied: “Call all the men at once, but make no noise. That junk lias got fifty men in her hold, and the natives on shore are in with a plot to capture us. Take a pair of handcuffs and have the cook secured in liis Ix'rth. After I had called the men I wont, to make a prisoner of the cook, but lie was nowhere to lx? found. HLs object in re maining alioard up to that hour was to drug our coffee and note wliat prepara tions we were making. When he got ready to go he probably swam to the shore with his news, lmt he could have reported little more than the fact that lie had drugged our coffee, which all who were awake at midnight would probably make use of. When t he men had received our orders we paid our attention to the junk, and one of the guns was quietly rolled across the deck and trained upon her. When the night glass was directed t<> the shore wo could make out that many of the natives were moving about and evi dently getting ready for some expedition. There was no qm rion now but what we were to lie attacked. We had a good pressure of steam, plenty of hot water, and the hose was attached and a man as signed to take charge of it. It was an hour and a half after mid night before there was any decided move, on the part of tho enemy. The Captain of the junk could not have had a night glass, and perhaps he* reasoned that we were as badly off. lie kepi paying out his cable foot by foot until he was so close on to us that I could have tossed a biscuit aboard of him. Owing to the set of the tide or to some cross cunvnfc ho dropped down to us stern first, while we lay broad side to the beach. The stem of the junk was pointed amidships of the steamer, and our gun would rake his whole deck at every discharge. At 1 o'clock two men left her in a small boat and went ashore, and then forty or fifty armed men came out of the hold and took their sta tions on deck. A few had muskets, but most of them carried knives or a sort of hand grenade, which lias lieen termed * ‘stink ] >ot. ’' These bombs are filled with a villainous compound which is let loose as they are broken, and the fumes are more,to lie dreaded than a bullet. Their plan, as we solved it, was- for an attack on Lath sides of us at once. A fleet would come out on us from the shore and the junk would drift down o:i us a: the same timo. We had the cable ready to slip, sent the engineer to liis post and then waited. At about 1:30. while the tide had yet half an hour to ran, we saw the shore boats make ready. At least 200 natives wore ready to come off. They knew that the cook had drugged or poisoned our coffee, and therefore sent a boat in ad vance of the fleet to see in wliat shape we were. The boat came up very softly and rowed twice around us before the captain hailed and let them know we were wide awake. Some sort of signal was given from the boat, an l the fight opened at ] once. Just the moment we saw the peo ple on the junk getting ready to drift her | down upon us we gave them the grape i from the six-pounder. They wore not a i pistol sliot away, with most of the men ! crowded aft. and I verily believe that the ! one discharge killed or wounded twenty i men. I was at that gun with two others, i and a man armed with a carbine was j near us. He fired six or seven shots j while we were reloading, and three or i four musket shots were fired at us. Our second shot drove a.ll who were loft alive j below hatches, and, believing that the j carbineer could keep them there, we ran ! the gun to the starboarul side to beat off ! the boats. i It was high time. "While the first j discharge of the gun had done for a ! score of them they were a reck- i less and ulesperate lot and would I not retreat. They were provided with ! bombs, spears, blow guns and muskets, : and the man who was to sprinkle them ' with hot water had been sliot dead at ; their first fire. As soon as we got our i gun over, some one picked up the nozzle ! of the hose pipe and turned it loose on ! every boat within reach. But for the ( hot water the fellows might have carried us by boaruling, for 200 to 10 is big odds, i Such screaming and shouting and shriek- ; ing as they indulged in when the boiling I hot water spattered over their half-naked bodies was pandemonium of itself, and all the time we kept playing on them with : the guns and tho carbines. The fight j^coold not have lasted over seven or eight minutes, and as soon as they began to draw off I ran my gun to the port side. , loaded with shell, and sent the missile ' right through the junk’s stem Half a dozen fellows rushed out of the held and jumped overboard, anul I garb her two ; more. When the third was fired there was an explosion, probably of a barrel of powder, which lifted her deck thirty feet ; high and split her wide open. She sank ! right there before our eyes, and the wails I of the wounded wretches who floated about for a minute or two were dreadful to hear. oapt. Tabor felt that such treachery as the natives had shown deserved the sever est punishment, and we turned both guns loose on the village and fired forty or fifty shells. When daylight came not a human 11 ing was in sight. Portions of the junk laid been driven on the bench, and the natives haul fled and left everything be hind them. The sharks were probably at tracted to the spot by the sounds of firing, and ^hey certainly had a rich feast. I never saw them so thick before nor since, and as they fished up the bodies from the bottom around us three or four would seize and tug at a single one and quickly tear it to pieces. I was sent ashore with a flag of truce, with four armOT men to make it respected, and on the sands I found the body of one of our firemen, and not far off that of our cook. After some hard work I induced the head man to come in out of the forest and talk to me. His name was NVung-Hang, and a more humble man I never met. lie laid it all to the people on the junk. The Tutrrco* tgaong- our crew had conspired with the fellows at Ke-Lung to secure ptssage aboard and overpower us. When this game could not be worked, owing to the refusal of the captain to take them, they followed on after us in the junk, 1 found a cheerful co-operator in old V. .ing-Hang, the trader. He supplied us with the best of pro visions, detailed natives to do all our work, and when we wefe ready to leave he supplied us with five natives, and gave Capt. Tabor full power to decapi-' t .to them at the first signs of disobedi- i*nce. During the next three years, or until I severed my connection with the steamer, we got around to the island alieni once in six months, and oldNVung- ! Jang always had a good bit of cargo ready for us, and would deal with no one else.—Now York Sun. A Practical Marino Engineer. The first steamboat built in Scotland • iid not venture out of the rivers and firths except in fine weather. David Napier, thinking that a steamer could lx? bulk to navigate the open sea in all weathers, determined to know the diffi culties it would encounter. At a stormy period of the year he took passage on a : ailing packet, which ran between Glas gow and Belfast. Standing for hours at the Ikjw Iiq watched the waves breaking. Now and then he would leave liis post to dc the captain if it was a rough sea. When told it was nothing unusual he went back to the bow with an air of dis appointment. lie did not mind being drenched with tho spray, but he was impatient with the ordinary weather. At hist it blew a gale and a wave, breaking over the bow, swept the packet from stem to stem. Making his way aft, dripping with salt water, lie asked: “Captain, do you con sider it rough now?” “I never faced a worse sea, sir,” an swered the master. “Well, if that’s all, I think I can man age it!” exclaimed Napier, as he went be low to meditate on wliat he had seen. On liis return to Glasgow, he experi mented to discover tho shape of bow which would go through water with the least resistance. HLs “sight seeing” on the bow of the packet hadswgested that the round bow of a saimigvSsel- was not die best form for a steamboat. His ex periments led him to adopt the fine wedge shape bow which now distin guishes steamers all over the world. When Napier made liis voyage days wore often required to sail between Glas gow and Belfast. It is now made in nine hours, because the marine engineer first raw what was to be done and then did it.—Kansas City Times. CORRESPONDENTS AT DONELSON. O MOST FAIR! “INSTANTANEOUS” PLATES. What One of the Journalistic Profession Saw After the Surrender of the Fort. About a mile from the landing I met a person dilapidated, demoralized, who, bent with fatigue, was limping and hob bling painfully in the direction of the boats. I recognized him as Andre Mat te-sen, a correspondent of his own paper in Chicago. He was worn out with hour; of tramping over the battle ground, and withal in a state of starvation. I di vided my rations with him and he ate like a ravenous wolf. I have always felt that my opportune meeting with him at that moment saved him from death through starvation, and thus preserved to the journalistic profession one of its most accomplished members. Knox was not at Donelson, being then on liis third march from St. Louis to Springfield, this time under the lead of Gen. Curtis. Richardson made a narrow escape from missing the battle. At Fort Henry I had managed to get my letter off on the first dispatch boat which left: he missed the boat, and there was no other to leave in ten hours. He was equal to the emergency. He went down the river on the first steamy, took the train for New York, writing on the cars as he went. Although ten hours behind at the start he made up the difference, so tliat our letters appeared on the same morning in New York, and by coming instantly back he was in time for the Donelson contest. Sunday morning, after the surrender, while going through the works, a man passed me on a lively trot who carried paper and pencil, and who halted a mo ment here and there to jot down a sentence. A glimpse of a jaundiced face and a solemn countenance re- veald the identity of Coffin, the Bos ton correspondent, who was doing the fortifications on the run. As far as I could see him he kept the pace, up Hill and down, over breastworks, parapets, rifle pits, rocks, fallen trees and all other obstacles. He ran with his head down, like an animal which trails by scent. If his report was at all commensurate in value with the speed developed in getting it up it must have been thrilling beyond estimate. Henry Lovie, the artist for Frank Les lie, was not on the ground. I met him a couple of days after at Cairo and fur nished liim material with which “our own correspondent on the spot” made a spirited drawing of the battlefield. Knowing personally many of the officers who were engaged in the charge against the Confederate right, I gave him such details of their appearance that he was able to present some very lifelike faces in his sketch of the assault; and in this way he gained a vast notoriety for the fidelity of liis pictures, thereby, in the estimate of the soldiers who followed Smith in liis gallant attack, proved himself to have done the work under the very fire of tho enemy.—“Polinto” in Chicago Times. Jlr.ve I found her? O rich finding: Goddess Eke for to behold. Her fair tresses’Fecmlj binding In a chain of pearl and gold. Chain me. chain me, O most fair. Chain me to thee with that hair I LIFE IN OLD SANTA FE. Danger in Sndden Changes. If a blizzard of unusual severity were coming from the northwest that would send the thermometer down 50 or 70 •legs, in tiiree hours, we should expect a ■-rent increase of pneumonia and other re_juratory diseases, resulting in many deaths. Now, instead of three hours, supjx*a3 the mercury were to drop three score (legs, in three minutes—or take an other step in fancy, and suppose this great change to take place in three seconds—what would likely be the effect on the health? Ami yet we bring about, artificially, changes in ourselves quite as sudden and ns severe ns this. We have an artificial climate in our houses. Wo live indoors in an atmos phere heated by stoves, furnaces, or steam pipes, to 70 or 80 degs.: and we pass from our parlor or hail so heated into the open air. At a step, literally in a breath, the temperature of the air has, for us. dropped 50 or 70 degs. We may put on an extra coat or shawl and shield the outside of the body and chest, but we cannot shield the delicate linings and membranes of ’ the air passages, the bronchial tubes, the lung cells. Naked, they receive the full force of the change —the last breath at 70 degs., the next at freezing or zero—and all unprepared. V» e have been sitting, perhaps for hours, in a tropical atmosphere: nay, worse, in an atmosphere deprived by hot iron sur faces of its ozone and natural refreshing and bracing qualities. Our lungs are all relaxed, debilitated, unstrung: anul in this condition the cold air strikes them perhaps GO degs. below what thqy are graduated to and prepared for. Is it strange if pneumonia and bronchitis are at hand?—Popular Science Monthly. A Paragraph About Great Possibiltic*. It seems that there is no end to the pos sibilities of instantaneous photography. The artists in this line have already pho tographed trains going a mile a minute, horses trotting a 2:2S gait, baseballs in mid air, and other flying tilings. Why should they not give us photographs of birds in flight, thereby aiding serial ex periments in constructing air ships mod eled upon the flying mechanism of the air's inhabitants? Perhaps they will also show ns negatives of bullets and cannon balls in flight, and, to return to baseball, of great pitchers’ puzzling curves. Dia grams of some of these curves would be worth looking at. This reminds me that Douglass, the photographic supply man on Wabash avenue, has constructed an electric lamp, having its own reservoir of electric energy, by which instantaneous photographs of all sorts' of things and places may be taken after night. It is bis idea that detectives and the police would find such an instrument of service in preserving a likeness of the scenes of night crimes and such tilings, and has asked Police Photographer Evans and j Detective Shea to give the apparatus a trial. Orr. the country genius, has made several very good street scenes by moon light. The time of exposure was twenty minutes.—Chicago Herald. I ' : America’s Most Ancient City—A Mexi can Interior—Ailotp IIou.es. ! Santa Fe is composed almost entirely j of adobe houses. They are built like the houses of Spain, one story in height, and with a hollow court in the centre called a placita, and on which all the rooms open. They are washed on tho outside with a white earth from the mountains called terra alba, and from the ground up about three feet with a shining yellow earth called terra maria so the general appearance is very singular. For heat ing rooms and cooking there are cute lit tle mud fireplaces, generally built in the corner of the room, also -over'd with the white or yellow earth, and they are re.uly quite pretty and ornamental. The wood is burned standing on end. as the fire place is not of such a shape as to permit laving it down. The walls of tho rooms are whitened also, and if there is any ceiling except the vagas (large logs) it is of white muslin sewed in strips and tacked to hold it in position. There is hardly a blade of grass, a tree or a flower in the whole town, except in the plaza and on the roofs, which last are made of earth, three or four feet thick, and in the rainy season are covered with sage brush and wild flowers, of which the prairie sunflower is the most luxurious. Boys fly their kites from the roofs, while dogs, goats, chickens and children sport over them with the greatest freedom. There are absolutely no mos quitoes nor rats; hut occasionally a tar antula, a large fierce kind of ant, and a poisonous lizard of which the Mexicans stand in great terror, arr often met with. The domestic arrangements of the poorer class of Mexicans is of the simplest. They have no furniture oscept a low, narrow, bed against the wall, which serves for bed at night and seats in the day. Their meals consist of “chilli con- camp” (mutton and red peppers boiled), tortillas (a cake made of commcal ground between two stones by hand), and coffee. They eat sitting on the floor, around one large dish, from which each hoi [is himself, using his tortillas as a spoon. The height of happiness for a Mexican is to sit in the sun and smoke cigarettes. These people excel in politeness, and when I see a poor, decrepit old man, | whose rags hardly cover his wasted lwdy, | hare his white locks with a courteous | bow and a “buenas dias, senora," I am I sure some of the pure old Castilian blood ' must course in those withered veins, and I long to hear some of the legends of his ancestors. They are full of traditions and superstitions, some of which are very beautiful and full of pathos.—Sante Fe Cor. Chicago News. Si-tting Some Satisfaction. “What’s the matter. Bobby?” inquired liis mother, as the boy flounced into the nursery. “Pa s-ent me out of the 1-library c-caus. I made too much n-n-oise.” “I li'ipe you didn't say anything to your papa?’' “N-no.” replied Bobby, who knows better than to lie rude to the old man. “but I s-slr.mmedthe door."—New York The Troper Way to Read. A gentleman who is proprietor of one of the largest and most popular hotels in one of our large cities must be a busy man. Yet I know such a one who is one of the best and most satisfactory talkers that I meet. I said to iiim one day. “Do let me ask you liow it is that you find time to be informed on all the news of the day and can talk intelli- I gently on new books, politics, etc.” He said: "When I was a poor boy, working hard all day. a kind old gentleman used to lend me his New York daily after he had read it. One night this occurred to me, ‘What can I remember of what I have read for the past three weeks? What has been going on in England, in Germany, in France? What new books have been published? What progress has been made, and in wliat direction?’ So putting aside my precious papers. I went all around the circle—politics, arts, news, literature, etc.—till I felt I was certain of some tilings. I have kept up that habit ever since. Wliat I read I make mine, and if I cant read a book I read a good renew of it and feel that I have perhaps the best of it.”—Kate Sanborn in At lanta Constitution. King Kalakaua’.s Birthday. The 50th birthday of King Kalakaua was celebrated with appropriate cere- j monies. lolani palace looked its very | best. Its exterior presented a brilliant ] aspect. Every pillar, swathed in bunting, ' showed the national tricolor. Between i each arc was a group of banners, and scarcely a square foot of ma sonry was visible. From the several l turrets were exhibited his majesty’s l private insignia, the royal stand ard. and the national ensign, float- j ing gayly in the breeze. At an early hour crowds of natives and foreigners flocked to the scene, having donned their holiday attire. As the day wore on the crowd thickened, outrivaling anything of the kind witnessed in the city for years past. His majesty liegan receiving visitors at!) o’clock, the first callers be ing the police force, headed by a band. After congratulations had been exchanged a hook, containing a money order for i $570, was presented to the king. This was followed by the arrival of the party and the ministers, with the other notables of the government. The diplo matic and consular corps then paid their j respects, and many of the visitors pre- j sented the royal celebrant with liand- j somely ornamental calabashes. The king's guard gave a check for $18.50. Tim list of presents made to the king I included almost every imaginable article j of ornament and use. There were about 150 calabashes in the collection. The of- j fleers and physicians of the hoard of l health presented a box containing fifty | $20 pieces. His majesty also received j many other presents in gold and silver coin; also cattle, sheep, pigs, chickens, ducks, sugar cane, sweet potatoes, poi, taro, etc.—San Francisco Chronicle. Sadly Afflicted. “Aw. pardon me. Edith. I've thutoh a cold in my head; and when I've a cold. I'm always stupid, don'tchewno. ” “Fair . ■ itliur. iiow sad! you seem always to have this affliction.” Queen Victoria's desert service cf old Sevres—the finest in the world—is val ued at $250,000. Poisoned by His Business. The man who earns $20,000 the hard est of any man I know is a celebrated tea taster down town. TtMay you see him and he looks like any other man, but if you meet him in a month hence lie will strike you as extraordinary. His hat will then appear to be four sizes too small and to he perched on liis head like a marking pot on a barrel. This is said to -Be because he lias been poisoned by his business, and the lower part of liis face and head has swelled out of all propor tion to his crown and his hat. He only washes liis tongue with the tea and then spits it out, but in the course of doing this a thousand times a day for several weeks the strong drug does its work and then he has to lie off for a few weeks and shrink liis head ready to begin again.— Providence Journal. Electric Light for the Eyes. Professor Chon, of Breslau, the emi nent oculist, lias recently touched upon the influence of electric lighting on the eyesight. He remarks that as diffused daylight is best for the eye, our artificial lighting should aim at a similar diffusion. Artificial light should' not dazzle nor flicker, and it should he abundant with out beating the eye. Glow lamps should never be looked at unless blurred by ground glass shades, because of the in tense concentration of light ontlie line of filament. The electric light was, accord ing to Professor Chon, greatly to lie pre ferred to any other for reading or writ ing by, if it lx? steady and abundant.— Boston Budget. Hydrophobia is unknown in Lajiland. Raising Potatoes by Electricity. An interesting experiment, showing the influence of electricity on the growth of roots, has been made in Germany. Flutes of coprer were thrust upright into the earth, and connected by wires with similarly placed zinc plates about 100 feet distant, an electric liattery being thus formal with the earth between the copper and zinc in the circuit. Both potatoes and beets planted between such plates give an increased yield—beets 15 per cent., potatoes 25 per cent., as com pared with other parts of the game noM_ —Dry Goods Chronicle. A Pennsylvania coal operator has em ployed a competent surgeon to lecture to his miners on the method of procedure in the many emergencies that arise from mine accidents. A new use for the tobacco plant has been discovered. Its stems and waste, it is claimed, are equal to linen rags in the maufacturc cf paper. Tobacco waste costs less than $10 a ton, linen rags $70 to $80. There is no expense in sorting the former and very little shrinkage, as against a loss of one third of rags The yearly tobacco waste is estimated by the census reports at from 3,000.000 to 4,000,- 000 of pounds.—Chicago Herald. Liver Maladies in Fashion. The kidneys liave. in th^ way of diag noses. nearly haul their run. which has lasted almost half a century. The liver is now having its turn, anul err* long no doubt most disorders will be attributed thereto. Tliis is moderately safe, because its condition is hard to determine, and theory will answer in the absence of facts. There are eras and fashions in maladies, as in other things, and at pres ent the liver may be said to lx? coming in.—New York Commercial Advertiser. In the Dead Letter Office. Defective addressss and insufficient postage are the main reasons why there is a constant flow of postage matter into the dead letter office. After reaching the office every means is employed to ascertain the senders or owners of the letters and packages, and the articles of fered at the annual sales represent the proportion of the entire matter for which no owner could be found. The catalogue this year will contain some 7,000 arti cles, a slight increase over the number offered for sale last year, but bearing about the same proportion to the entire bulk of the matter passing through the mails. All dead mail is retained in the dead letter office for two years, if not claimed sooner, before being finally dis posed of.—Chicago Herald. Some of tho Difficulties Which r.rc Yet to Be Overcome—Experiments. At a meeting of the Photographic so- cof Philadelphia the question was ;■ ke. 1: “What can he considered as the ‘iustantaneousness’ of gelatine plates and the well ascertained shortest exposure at tained?” Mr. David Pepper. Jr., stated tliat the picture of a bail falling liefore a screen had been taken with one of Mr. Muybridge’s fastest shutters in the 1-1000 of a second. Mr. David Cooper, who was present as a visitor, referred to a picture made by Mr. W. T. Gregg of a projectile being fired from a dynamite gun. The shell was shown a short dis tance in front of the muzzle of the gun, and was blurred about one-half its length. The velocity of the projectile stated to lie 1.200 feet per second. In front, of the shell could he seen what was claimed to lie a cushion of com pressed air. Tills cushion lia<l the ap pearance of a comet and was supposed tc he the cause of the difficulty or imjxissi- bility of hitting with a pistol bullet a sus pended eggshell or handkerchief. Capt. MacNutt of the Frankford ar senal stated that he had been trying for two years to devise a means to accom plish tliis. The difficulty seemed to lie in securing sufficient rapidity of ex;ins ure, at the same time having a position near enough to get a respectable sized picture. The projectile, moving at from 1.200 to 1,000 feet per second, would re quire a faster shutter than lie had yet seen. The liigh velocities of projectiles at the muzzle has led to the suggestion that they might be gotten at a point, say- 500 yards off. where the velocity is con siderably reduced, hut this lias placed other difficulties in the way. chief among which Is exposing while the projectiles are in the field of view. Mr. Bartlett ex pressed his doubts whether the most sen sitive film is capable of recording the presence of the cushion of air preceding the projectile, inasmuch as the atmos phere, even under the greatest pressure, would lie invisible. lie thought he might as well expect the photographic image of the temporary vacuum wliicb follows the liali.—Boston Transcript. When Ingersoll Was Slek. Col. Ingersoll told a story alxiut a time when lie was sick with fever many years ago, about the only sickness he ever knew. Climbing over a porch outside pf liis window were grape vines full of grapes just ripening. In bis fever he craved acids and cooling drinks, and those grapes made him wild with desire to reach them, hut he was sternly forbid den to think of them or of ice water, and ho was closely watched to see that he did not reach the forbidden fruit. One night when he pretended to lie asleep and was thought too weak to move, the nurse slipjied out, perhaps to get a drink or a smoke. Ingersolt crawled feebly from the lx.il. crawled out of the window upon tho roof of the porch ay id ate grapes till he feared the nurse would return. “Then,” said he. “I filled my shirt tail full of grapes and crawled back to bed ;md lay and ate them in the dark. Then,” said he, “I went to sleep, bidding the world good-by, and willing to do so after the exquisite enjoyment of tliat feast.” , In the morning the doctor came in, and, after examination, pronounced liim much improved, and evidently felt elated in his success in treating the case. In gersoll asked him what would he: the con sequence if he ate a lot of those grapes, and he was assured that he would not live an hour. After the grajie episode his improvement was so rapid that it amazed the physician, and when he told that physician about tho grapes the latter was probably more amazed than ever. Said the colonel: “These physicians run by old rules. If a man dares to do other wise he is denounced as a quack and pro fessionally ostracized. The only wisdom wo get in tho world which is correct comes from the natural laws and instinct and is the result of love.—Cincinnati Commercial Gazette. Literally Wiped Oat of Existence. George Doran was blown to pieces by a nitro-glycerine explosion at Keel Rock a few years ago. He was a man that weighed 200 pounds. All that the most thorough search ever recovered of that 200 pounds of flesh and bone was a part of one of the poor man’s feet—less than one pound. Charles Berridge, a well known oil man. was blown up by nitro glycerine one iv-inter in Allegheny county. Tho ground was covered with newly fallen snow. On either side was a liigh and abrupt hill only a few rods apart. Berridge was a very tall man. and liis weight was 180 pounds. The remains of the fioor fellow were searched for care fully, but less than fifteen pounds of them could be found. The most curious part of the case, and one showing how completely annihilation accompanies ;m explosion of nitro-glycerine. was this: The greatest force of the explosive is al ways expended upward. However in finitesimal the atoms to wh’ch Bcrridge’s body might have been reduced by this explosion, in failing back upon that spot less snow some trace of them must liave been seen, hut the snow remained as spotless as before. Besides human bodies, the iron frames of wagons, and even the ponderous nitro-glycerine safes, have lieen removed from human vision by an explosion as effectually as if they had never lieen formed, and the mystery of their utter annihilation cannot bo ex plained.—New York Times. The World** Largest Gold 3Iine. The famous Mulatos mine, regarded by many as the largest gold mine in the world, has been sold to a company of English capitalists. Tne mine is situ ated at Sonora, Mex., and was worked hundreds of years ago by the natives, hut was lost track of. In 1804 it was rediscovered and sold to French parties, who, after working it for nearly fifty years, resold it to a rich Mexican, and it has been in liis hands ever since. There are 100 chambers in the mine, some 150 feet high, yet not a stick of ;imber is used to support the roof, the support consisting of pillars left in dig ging out the ore. The ore is of low grade.—Chicago times. She Will Follow Directions. Physician (to young woman patient) —You have a severe cold, Miss Smith, and are threatened with pneumonia. You will have to remain very quiet for several days. Patient—Oh, Dr. Pellet, I must go out. I have so much shopping to do. Physician—I see, also, that your nose has a tendency to inflame at the tip— Patient—(thoroughly alarmed) —Oh, sir, I will do anything that you tell me to.—Puck. D. 1. DOUGHERTY k CO, ATLANTA, GA. No Introductory Chat with oar friends. There is no apol ogy to offer for this, either, because this isja BUSINESS ADVERTISEMENT! And Don’t You Forget It ! CLOAKS AND WRAPS! We can oj>en!y defy the whole state on these goods- We have an overwhelming stock and-will dose them out at wonderfully low prices. The winter has onhr be- •zim. The prophets and the “goose bone” all predict coM weather ahead. Come while we can afford to give you timely bargains. Jerseys at very “low cut” prices —away mu lei wliat they were earlier in the season. KNIT UNDERWEAR! Here* again we are defiant, because nobody can touch us. Knit Underwear for Ladies, Children and Men. We do all the business of the town in this line, and are not afraid of being touched by factory prices. We have bought out the facto ries and are underselling them. LOWER YET. On Flannels and Pant Stuff, we are ahead of the closest competitors. We have an immense stock, and everything is down to low rock prices. A new and extensive stock of handsome holiday goods, something useful and something to please everybody. Water Proofs and Repellants For ladies’ and childrens’ suits. We know we are underselling everybody bore, :ind we say it boldly. Cotton Flannels, from 5c to 20c, immense bargains, andtyon will not fail to say so when you get the goods. Nov Wool Hosiery. New Wool Mittens, for ladiesan<l children. New Silk Mufflers. New Silk Handkerchiefs, we have them from 25 to 50c, sold last season at from 50 to 75c. New Cotton, and Linen Handkerchiefs in great variety, very low. Let everybody blow their horns, bnt you will make a mistakejif you fail to come to us for any of these goods. Blankets from 85c to $15.00, 10 per cent, low er than any house in Georgia. Comforts from 50c to $3.50 and $4.00. Now these are big values, and we won’t deceive you when you come. DRESS GOODS. A fearful reduction in everything we have in the way of Dres3 Goods. We have a heavy stock, a superb selection, choice material, and we in tend to surprise everybody who will come and look at them. New Evening Silk in great variety. Now Silk Cord and Buttons to match for evening trimming. The handsomest line of Holiday Millinery ev6r brought to Atlanta. GLOVES. New Kid Gloves in all colors, 50, 65, 75, $1 and $1.50. Our $1 Gloves are guaranteed. TABLE LUVENB. We will save you 25 per cent, on these goods. New Ruohings. New Collars and Cuffs. Big drives in bleached and unbleached Domestics Good Prints at 3 and 3)£c. Prints at 5c, cheap at 7'Ac. SHOES. • We are ahead of our own purposes In Shoes. We run more men and have more Shoes and sell more Shoes than any house—than any two houses—in Atlanta. Shoes for everybody and Shoes cheap enough to open your eyes. 1.1 DOUGHERTY & CO. THOMPSON BROS. Bedroom, Parlor and Dining Room Fornitore Rig Stock and Low Prices. PAROR AND CHURCH ORGANS, WOOD AND METALLIC BURIAL CASES) eplfi- lv Orders attended to at any hour day or night. MfT" THOMPSON BROS Newnan. Ga. At a college examination: “What i. the best insulator?’’ asks the professor of physics. “Poverty.”—Tid-Bits. E. VAN WINKLE & CO Manufacturers and Dealers in Wind Mills, Pumps, TaDks,Etc. f ALSO Cotton Gins, Cotton Presses Oil Mills, Etc. CONSTRUCT Public and Private Water Works, ’Railroad Water Supplies, Steam Pumps, Pipe and Brass tioods. Seud for Catalogue and Prices. E. VAN WINKLE * CO-, 52-13 Box 83, ATLANTA, GA. G.O. McNAMABA NEWNAN MARBLE AND GRANITE WORKS. -:0:- ISON & McNAMARA. DEALERS IN MARBLE&GRANITE. MONUMENTS, TOMBS AND HEADSTONES, TAB- ' LETS, CURBING, ETC. jg^“Special Designs, and Estimates for anydesired work, furnished on application. NEWNAN, GEORGIA.