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PERUy, HOUSTON COUNTY, GA.
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Special attention gjtam tojbuainrss in tlie Supe-
Cards. I The Bachelor'sSriipris?.’ ' ■ J Aten’i those toses beautiful?' My j Old Hardy Newsom. J XJie Eucalyptus as a Mis«i 'nar^£J|5®| Fires in Chl .a
A chill December eneving, with the | goodness gracions, how astonished ( The following reiniiiscence of the; The Australian gum tree with the! All the vear round has tlic follow*
j rain and snow forming a disagreeable | be!” j first handbill ever printed in Macon, j long latin name, like the cuckoo, ’ is ing amnsiug acconrtofthc
sort, of conglomeration on the side-j “She can’t be more so than I am, ; G a; j s taken from an old copy of the j bound to make its journey round the which the Chinese regard
j world. A letter to the Pall Malt Ga-
SotHe people ret remain in Macon,, “ e ‘^ c Encalyptns was intro-
lor and County Conrts of Houston County.
fob 21,. • . Iy.
WARREN D. NOTlIttGHAM.
A-ttorncy at Ijaw,
FLUKY, 5EOBGIA.
Particular olt< ntion given tp the collec-
iion of clams ia Houston and adjoining
• emuties.
I walks, the gas-lamps at the corners j Mr. B*rkdale, sinking into the Telegraph:
flickering sullenly through the mist, | Sleepy Hollow chair, and passing his - ^
Jandtho wind taking one viciously as j handkerchief -rigorously across l“s j ^ ^ teeognize the name and char-j 3?®ed Australia into Algeria
one came round the corner. Not a J forehead. “Well, it’s a mere matter; p peculiar fndividnalJ al ’' ,0;,t eleven years.ago. It was not,
pleasant evening to assmne possession | °* fate; X can’t see liow I ftm to ex '! His profess! hi was that of a boatman' Il0wever > until within the last seven
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. MACON GEORGIA. ;
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il, A. EDWARDS,
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lue WOrV IvwNTt n-ffo-r Vmcf jmrl rfirft- Loifa/I c *1AT*Pi G*Tl 11S TTIOVOC
of a nen borne; but necessity knows
no law, and Mr. Barkdale put up bis
night- key into the red-brick bocse in
tbe middle of tbe block, sinconly ho
ping that his new landlady would have
common sense to light a fire in tbe
grate.
“Is it you sir? ’Mrs. Hinman qnotb,
beamingly. There’s a good fire, and
it’s all right.’ 1
“All right eh?” said tbe bachelor,
feeling tbe blue tip of bis frosted
nose, to.see whether it bad escaped
being frozen off entirely.
“Well,I am glad to bear that. Have
the- trunks come?”
“Oh, yes, sir! and the other
things.”
“What other things?” demanded
Mr. Barkdale.
But Mrs. Hinman pnr3cd her bps
up. “Bather an eccentric old lady,”
thought Mr, Barkdale, pushing: past
her to lire third story front room,
which he had solemnly engaged the'
day before.
It had been rather a dark and dingy
little den by the light of the moon,
bhtnow, softened by the weil-fille'd
grate; it wore quite another and a
brighter aspect.
“Velvet paper on the walls, gilt
paneling, red carpet, and a Sleepy-
Hollow chair, ” thought Mr. Barkdale,
glancing aronud.
“Not so uncomfortable, after all.—
When I get my things unpacked, it
will seem quite homelike.”
He sat his valise down in t'19 cor
ner, deliberately opened it, took out
a pair of slippers, and invested liis
tired feet therein. Next, he laid of!
his overcoat:
“Now for a c'gu - ,” though., he.
But the brown-layered weed was yet
in his hand, when there was a bus
tle, and a flutter, and a whisper,and
whisper, and a merry noise on the
landiug outside, nnq the door flew
open as if by magic, to admit half a
dozen blooming laughing girls.
Mr. Barkdiite.-dropped his cigar, an .1
retreated a step or two,
Don’t be alarmed,” said the tallest
and prettiest, of the bevy; “it’s only a
surprise.
“A very agreeable one, I’m sure,”
said our friend, recovering
degree his presence- of mind.
There's no mistake,!' hope,” said
yellow-tressed blonde. “Your
name is not GreeufieldT-.
No mistake at ail, I assure you,”
said Mr, IJarUale. “Of course it i-
not Greenfield. Sit down, ladies.”
And lie pushed forward the Sleepy-
Hollow chair, a camp-stool, and two
rheumatic reception .chains,' which
were all theaccommodatipasypresen-ed
by his apartment. But, instead of ac
cepting this comtesy. the girls all
fluttered out again, giggling, audio a
second, before he could realize this
strange condition of affairs,- they wt-iv
-ack again, bouquets, a pyramid of
maccaroons, piled up plates of sand
wiches, frosted cake, and a mysteri
ous something like unto an ice-cream
freezer.
The golden tressed girl clapped her
bauds.
You needn’t tliiuk we are doing-all
this for you, sir,” she said.
“Oh!” said Mr Barkdale, bashfully.
T—I r —hadn’t any such impres
sion.”
■It’s all a surprise designed for
Kate’s cousin.”
‘Is it?’’ said Mr. Barkdale, more in
the dark than ever.
‘And how do yon suppose we found
it out?” demanded the tall girl with
toe black eyes and scarlet feather in
her hat.
‘I haven’t the least idea,” said Mr.
Barkdale.
‘We found your letter .to Kate, and
we girls read it, and we resalved to
take you and her both - by surprise.—
She is to be here in half an hour —
Earbary—that is Barbara Morris, ia
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Laired girl, “pretends sliebas moved
bere, and Kate is to come and spend
tbe evening witb ber. Won’t it be a
joke?”
“Stupendous!” said our bero, grad
ually beginning to comprehend the
fact that he was mistaken for some
one else.
“What will Kate say when she sees
you here?” ejaculated another maid,
merrily.
“Ah! what indeed?” said Mr. Bark-
dale, wondering in what words be
could best expain mutters-
“Of course we shall all look tbe oth
er way whili you are kissing and Rug
ging ber,” said Miss Barbara,demure
ly-
Vei j’considerate of you; I nrn sure” ^
observed Mr. Barkdale.
“She’s; the sweetest girl iu New
York)” exclaimed tbe tall damsel en
thusiastically. “lam one of ber dear
est friends,- We work oar sewing ma --
chine side by side at Madame Gril-
lard’s. Has sbe never written to yon
about Alice Moore??’
“I—I—I don’t just this moment re
call that she has.”
“Ob, well, it doesn’t matter,” said
Alice. “Just you sit down, and be a
good boy, while we fix- the tables:-
plain myself; and yet, perhaps
ought to explain. Ladies—”
‘ ‘Hnsh-sh .sh-sb, ’* cried the six pret
ty girls, all in a hissing chorus: “Kate’s
coming; Bessie has brought her.—
Hush-sh-sh! Don’t say a word, Mr.
Greenfield.” The golden-haired girl
hand was clapped promptly over his
month. Alice Moore grasped liis arm
spasmodically, and r the other four
danced a sort of bewitching little fern
inine war dance about him, while,
seventh girl entered—a pretty, Ma
donna-faced creature, like a cfove.
“Come and kiss him, Kate,” cried
all the others. “Now don’t be ridicu
lous, far we- shan’t take any notice.
Here he is.”
• “Kiss who:’ cried Kate, standing
still and staring all around her.
J Girls, whut on earth do you
mean?’
“You provoking thing!” exclaimed
Barbara, stamping her little foot.;—
‘Do-yon suppose we are all fools?
Why,' of course, we know all about
him! . Its Mr. Greenfield—your cous
in, Kate—the young M. D,
Kate looked arouad in bewilder-
mffut,
“Where?”
“Why, here,
“Nothing of the sort,” said Miss
Kate, demurely,
Our hero stood up, feeling himself
growing uncomfortably warm and
red.
“Ladies,” he said, “there’s some
m stake here. I said at the outset
that my name w.ia not Greenfield.”
“There!” cried the girls at once.
“There!” echoed Kate, defiantly.
“Didu’t we tell you?” cried the
girls.
“Didn’t I tell you?” retorted Kat,
“Be kind enough to let us know
what your name is, sir?”
“Cephas Barkdale,” said the
wretched; victim of a misunderstand
ing.
“But,” said Miss Moore, “you said
yotu name was Nqtt Greenfield.
“Of course I‘ flidt” Said' the. 1 puz
zled bachelor,- “it isn’t Greenfield,
and never will be unless I have il
changed by an act of the Legisla
ture.” .£ .
“O-h-Ji!” exclaimed the girls “Dear,
dear, to be sure! And we'thought
you were Kate’s lover—and liis name
is N-b-doubie-t-'Noit Greenfield.
“Do hold your longues, you ridicu
lous tilings!” said Kate, half vexed
half laughing.
- “What must Mr. Barkdale think of
us all.”
‘ I think you are very nice,” said
Mr. Barkdale, gallantly.
Miss Bifrbara in the mean time had
taken ft .slip iff piper out of her pock-
. t, She uttered u hysterical shriek.
“It’s all -my fault!” she exclaimed,
lit was No. 39 instead of No. 3G—
and the tail of the horrid figure’s
turned the wrong eud up—that’s all
And the cake, and the flowers, and
everything.”
“Stop, ladies, if yon please,” said
Mr. Barkdale, courteously. “Because
the surprise has come to the wrong
place is no reason why the right per-
s in should not enjoy it Allow me
to give up this room, ’to your use this
evening. I will just step across the
street and send Mr. Nott Greenfield
over.”
“But you must return with him;”
said the girls.
And Mr. Barkdale was not allowed
to depart until lie had promised.
Mi. Nott Greenfield—a good-look
ing medical student, who had the
“sky parlor” directly opposite—came
promptly on the mention of the’name
of Kate Keliford, and did the polite
thing in introducing Mr: Barkdale;
and Barkdale ate of the sandwitches,
and enjoyed the cake and cream,, and
coaxed Miss Barbara to pin a little
pink rosebud in the bntton-hole of his
coat, and enjoyed himself prodigious
ly-
‘I’d like to, be . surprised like thjs
every night'in the year,” said he.
“Oh, yon greedy creature I” said
Miss Barbara.
“But there was one time I seriously
meditated throwing myself out of the
window,” said he, “when you told me
I was to kiss Kate.”
“Dear, dear!” said Barbara, ironi
cally; “that would have been dread
ful, wouldn’t it?”
“Bat tbe awkwardness of the thing.”
“I dare say you never kissed a
“pretty girl,” ponk-d the blonde.
“I never did,” said the bachelor,
growing boH; .“but I wifi now, if yon
say so.”
“But I don’t say so,” said Barbara,
coloring and langhmg. “Behave yonr-
New Process Flour.”
t A new flour is making its appear- j
way iu ; ance in Eastern markets, made away
and man- ; in the interior of Minnesota by wb t
are firm believers in the ‘inevitable,’
and oho very disastrous consequence
r ... of this is-their reckless carelessness
J ‘ on the Ocmnlgec: Oue of liis sayiugs , Years that any extensive plan tations with regard to’fire; they let off cracb-
which has often been, re’ated, and ' To10 m at.e. The writer made an ex- 1 ers <>u the slightest provocation in t!;c:r
which was/apervading priueiple.yf life j ^ those op the estates of
mind ever afterwards, was, “Hang on j Grottier, M. Kamal, and M. Gor-
to the willows.”; This was occasioned | < ^ er ’ aU( l sa J s that the trees average
by the smking.of liis boat, when lie ; feet “ height at seven .' years
age their fires: “Like many other ( is styled the “hl w process for pnrif -
people, the great mass of the Chinese j ing middlings’’—a process thus far!
k-ejit secret. This flour is hea. y-bod- (
leaped into the branches of a willow
rold.
on which he rose and and sank like a 1.’ In this evergreen wood all round
Mississippi sawyer. In this, situation j.P® were tall reddish smooth stems,
with the bark hanging down iu-a rag-
lie made a mose fervent prayer—'that
he had not troubled the Lord, often,
but wanted Him to help him now,and
that d——d quick,' or he would be
drowned.” A battcan came to his ies
cue, and he never' forgot “sticking to
the willows” in all cases.. of emergen
cy.
He liad grievionsly offended one
Dr. L N. Morris,then living at ‘Gamp
Hope’ on the Milledgeville road,
three miles from -the city—then quite
village—now nearly obliterated.—
Dr. Morris, to relieve liis character of
a slander perpetrated upon him by
Newsom, published ' the . following
hand-bill, which was the first ever
printed in Macon. A-copy of this
was found in the recent removal of
this office, which is republished belpw
according to the original as written by
the doctor. -He was admonished by
this Writer that it could not be cor
rected or changed) in consequence of
ts being ‘swom to.' It is nnnecessa'
ry to say that it created considerable
amusement at the time. A copy was
presented to Judge Shorther, on the
Bunch, and so far disturbed his dig-'
nity that lie was unable to proceed
with the business of tue Court for sev
eral minutes. ...
A duel being then 'brewing be* weeu
two of our iirominent,citizens, this
was taken by many to be''a'bn , i'lesqne
of that affair. The result was the
duel which might have happened, was
never afterward heard- of. '^SlFe‘fol
lowing is thq handbill: . a^c-y: ;;
TO THE PUBLIC. — g
Old Hardy Newsom; Was Heard Sta-
tingyto His AVife in’ those r Words
SYlitirc is that Sick ‘man tfie reply
was by His Wife .'lhe. man Gone from
Here Old 'Ne wsom then observed I
and Dumb sony F»r^; for he had a
stayed Here I would had all his mon
ey—& horse saddle & bridle to Bun a
Way on By god. i then Entered liis
Housed at the'elose of His conversa
tion to His Wife He then tiirna To
me and Stated I was Jest stateing To
my wife liow damb Eiteli I would a
Ben I had Money a Plenty a Damb
obd Horse saddle <fc Bridal To Bun
way on his Wife Ordered Him To
hush he says By god it No harme for
the mail Gone * - - tlie sick
man Come By iny house and Observd
To me tuat he was affraid To stay at
Old Newsoms for He Htared them
plotting To Bob him of his mo ey &
Horse sadle & Bridle When thaj'
thought he was a sleep
The a bove Statement Sworn to Be
fore me this 18th day of * angnst 1825.
JOHN JENKINS, J. P. ' liir
MABTHY x BO WEES
This Evil infender have levelled at
my character in tie following manor
To (Wit) that I maid application Tc
him for me To Give the man one
Doce of medison .& I would give him
Ten dollars allonding that my inten
tions Were Yillony ------- I pro
nounce him a D—D lier this Bare
footed vagabone wisbd To maik the
Commnnetv Deleave that lie was per
fectly hones & wonld -Not Eceept the
Offer mankind of Desernemeut knows
if we harcon to the sound Ove a D—I)
Bascol Every man a Boge But him
self.
DB, L N. MOEBIS
-Elderly Mistress Beard fm-ther states
that he told * lie on hir and his Bepn-
tation were indifferant as to his honj
esty. .
Ancient Tombs in Suotlind.
Mr. J. S. Phene, P. S. A, has open
ed a number of mounds in Scotland
which it appears, served es tombs Jor
the early -inhabitant 0 . These tumuli
are of exactly the same construction
as the similar heaps found in Mexico
Some served as monuments; and in
one opened at Largo, Scotland, were
discovered partides of bone, caleined
and mingled with debris. Evidence
king, Saco, after his great battle with
the-Scots, in 1263, ordered the ships
ged, untidy manner, for the tree sheds
its bark in winter, and gray willow*
like leaves were waving on flexible
boughs. For about twenty-five feet
the stems of the trees ill the inner
part of the plantation rose up with
ho brandies at all, but on the skirts
of the wood the trees sent out branch
es in the light and air nearly, to the
ground.
Beautiful is not the Word I should
apply to its appearance; but, in ex
change for bare sun-baked earih and
deadly swamp, -these Eicalyptic
forests are most grateful, and the
smell delightfully resiuous, warm and
gnrniuy. The multitude of birds in.
the branches, and their busy twitter*
lugs, added much to the pleasant im
pression,. I measured these trees as
I walked along, and found them from
forty tu forty-five inches in eifenm-
fereuce—-those on the borders of the
wood always, of course, a few inches
larger.
Mapy village communities in the
plain have planted scores of guin
trees iu this neighborhood, and feel
the benefit,-..but at present there
is certainly an exaggerated manner
of speaking of the EucalyjJtus. It is
praised as a scent, as cigars, os medi
cine. as a tonic, as a throat lozenge,
and, above all, as a bath'. BrahelfeS
and leaves are pnt into hot water and
it is stated that sticSh bath rhfS)Td5-
rheumatic pains, neuralgia, and the
debility incidental to the malaria of
country. The flower ot the Eao lyp
tup till- tribe is very like the myrtle
flower; it is very full of honey, and at
tracts n,multitude of flies and bees,
anil the birds naturally follow, for
they flud not only food," hut thick,
warm, leafy cover iu winter, and shel
ter from the burning sun in sum-'
mer.
Finally, our opinion is that the. Hu
calyptus tree may prove the most
powerful element of eiviliz tliou as
jut pnt in foree on the coast of North
Africa; that in a few years it will be
•self-showing, and thus take its place
as a natural lied subject-, there is very
little reason to doubt. This year the
seed ripens plentifully on seveu-year-
old trees. Thus in a. few years- we
may sea the one thing most longed fer
on .In Barbary coast—that is, shade
f-om the fierce sun.
M. WATKINS,
CtoBMEB, SHERWOOD A CO.-
476 678 Broenoo Street,
oV 3EI T: "S'. O SiT. .
&
streets, temples or houses, and often,
too, in mat-sheds; they are constantly
burning ‘mock or paper money,’ in
honor of deceased relatives, etc., uu* bread it is claimed, will remain fresh-
similar conditions; and go where you fora long time.’ The yield to the
will into a temple, a shop, or a pri* bushel of grain is not known. Itis
rate dwelling you are almost sure to claim -d that by the “new-purifying
dud smouldering sticks of incense j process” it has been found in Miubes-
ied, and of such consistency that j
When thrown into the air it does n t
fly off in particles, but descends into j
the hand in a mass. It requires one j
third more water in mixing than in ‘
ordinary flour,and iu kndading it into i
douffh more labor is required. The {f™**' presMent wxiro«n.
SHOES.
AT WlilHESto;.
Fish in the Caspian Sea.
The Caspian appears to be even
richer in fish than the banks of the
Newfoundland. In a ' single district
15,000 sturgeons are frequently taken
out in a day, and when they are not
Interrupted for twenty four hours,
the water becomes almost choked by
the fish, which are so abundant as to
press each other out'on the shore.
The total.yield of the Caspian Sea for
one year in fish and fish products lias
been estimated at thirteen thousand
pounds (About 4g9,430,000 pounds
avoirdupois), worth about.$12,000,000
There are several varieties of sturgeon
among the fish taken, as well as the
carp, the salmon, the Co legem us
(similar to the white fish of the Amer-
can lakes), several kinds of herring,
-ate. A peculiar phenomenon observ
ed, especially among the sturgeons, is
that of a kind of winter sleep. At the
approach of cold weather . they seek
the deep portion of the rivers and re
main there in a state of torpor, during
which they secrete a viscid matter
which forms a coating over the entire
body ealled by the.fishermen a pelisse.
During this period they appear to eat
nothing, their stomachs always being
found entirely empty.
(foreigners call them joss-sticks) lying
about. TJfider these circumstances,
and .considering that nearly all their
linildiig are, to a g.cat extent, con
structed of a yei-y inflamable materials
it is not very suprising that, in a cli
mate where everything is as. dry as
tender'during a great portion of the
yeaf, their" superstitious op?.tliy is of
ten the cause of fearful conflagrations.
We have otifselYcs witnessed
mote than one, which we shall never
forget, at Pekin; Hankow, and else
where, and when inquiry came to be
made into the matter, the fire was
mast invariably traced to ono of tbe
above causes, or to a man having
■knocked out his pipe on some mat
ting^ When a fire does break out the
behavior is equally extraordinary and
apathetic, and of this ,ve remember a
somewhat amnsing, bnt at the same
time an extremely exasperating in-
s auce. On the night of the I7fch of
December, 1861, a father seri .us firi
occurred in a portion :of the British
Legation at Pekin, an establishment
which covers some acres of giouad,
a id at that time was;: for the u.03t
part of pmely Chinese construction.
On the nlainY spreading, the night
patrol of the native police arrived in
charge of au officer, and it will per
■ Imps hardjly be credited that their
course of action w is to wave their 1i-
rny flags, biat' gongs, and even pro
duce fans, for what purpose we never
could make out, as the thermometer
then marked nhout ten degrees below
kero (Fahrenheit)! On this occasion
the Chinese also bronght to our assis
tance whajtjhey are pleased to con
sider fire engines, and we think tSat
an Eugl.’sii fife brigade wonlil hav
been rather; astonished at their per
formance, for they would not h ive
Y<eien of much use in watering a large
garden',ijthd had it not betn for th *
timelv aid of the Ooss icks and other
fore’g jpmi residing in Pek n, the Lega
tion wonld have mffered more severe
ly than actually tlie case. The inci-
dent we’ have illn led to is by no
means an insulated one, and we recol-
ect Witnessing equally la licrom e
hibitions at Hankow on the occasion
of some extensive conflagrations then,
iu 1863 and 1864.
uota that spring Wliojit cau be ’made
into the highest pi ice flour, and that
the same onit.be done with other kinds
of wheat. There are now abuu 11 wen-
■y mills in Minnesota in which the
new marhinefv has been introduced!
The owner of the jiatent was feccntly
in Baltimore ueg-atiating for the for
mation of a stock company to mann-
faenre the ”neW process” flour in that
city and' it is understood that Iris ef
forts were so far successful tl at the
Millington Mills will be at once fitted
up for that purpose. —jY. Y. Bulletin.
Ifi' Trinm; i-l Colnma.
The following fr hu the Cinciuna'i
Enqiurer.and rep iblished in the Nash-
v lie Union and American, answers
that paper’s bosh ah int the Democrat*
i« name. It is. a brief absiract of. the.
elections which have thus far been
held iu 1874:
New Hampshire—Democratic Gov
ernor aud Dom.eratie Legislature.
Connrclicut—Democratic Governor
Democratic Legislature, and Demo
cratic United States. Senator.
Oregon — Democratic Governor,
Democratic State officers, aud Demo
cratic Congressmen!
North Carolina—Seven Congress
men out. of eight,. lal‘ge Democratic
majority iii the Fegislatnre aud Dem
ocratic State ticket,
Tennessee—Nearly every county
Democratic.
Ditto Kentucky.
There has been but one siilgle ; de
feat. The manufacturing" firm of
Brown. & Ives- carried tbe State of
Rhode Island. These elections are
indicative pf what is to follow' in the
hill. Ohio, Indiana and Illinois, es
pecially, will even do better than the
States which have preceded them,
Sirin. News:
CASH CAPITAL, i 100,000.
PLANTERS’ RANK.-
F-.>:;T VALI.KV. cr i.mr-TA;
Transacts a GcnfTal Banking. Discount,
Exchange Business.
Particular attention given to the collection f
>'otes, Drafts, Coupons, Dividends, etc.*
DIRECTORS.
Wu. J. ANdeksoS.
H. L. DvshahB) RKTcod t
W.H.lIoLia.NsniLUi, WiAi M.\thkW
Jint Id
A Horrible Indian Cfirime,
A letter elated Omaha,- Angnst 12,
says: A shocking, murder, accompa
nied by torture, was perpetrated in a ... r
.. , , „ ’impression that the food lor the sick!
lonely spot m Colfax eonnty, in this
A Live Lantern.
You think, perhaps there is no such
thing. Look at the little glow worm
and sparkling fircdlies. Doesn’t .each
one of them carry a bout With him
tiny lantern to light his path.
Bnt that is not ail.
In the West Indies'and. some oth
er hot countries, as I've beeu told,
there are distant relations of ourglow-
wonns and fire-flies that carry much
larger sparks. These insects .-ire so
light that they are caught by the nr*
tives, and sometime a dbzeu at a 'time
:ire pnt into a- gonrei pierced With
.many holes, each too small for the in
sects to escape through. The open
ing by which they me pnt into the
gourd is then. stopped up, aud the
five lantern is ready to be carried
about dark nights,, as yon sometimes
carry a glass one. A very convenient
lantern .the .insects .-make, for the
flame never bums auything and nev-
gues out.
By .the way, I wonder whether the
flame can be of the same-sort that
burns on the oeean? Tbe flame with
the long name—the phos-something
that I told you about last month? I
shouldn’t wonder if it. were so. Who
will find out.—Btchc/lag/or S.-/,/em
ber
—►-4-*- :—’
Salt hi. Sickness.
Dr- Schndder remarks: ‘T am satis
fied tbat-I have seen patients die from E
deprivation of ^common salt during a
pifotracted illness. It is a eomrron
A i Hono^t G >nf ,ssion-
In 1872 the vote of Arkansas was
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to be 41,784 for Baxter, Grant Radical,
ind 38,673 for Brooks, Grtey Con
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ter imbroglio of last w’nter, an appeal
lias been made to a C o lgivssion il in-,
vestigatiugcomraittee.a ,d tha election
returns of 1872, when snbaiittjd to
die committee- at Little Bock under
oath, showed 38,99S for. Baxter end
4S,551 for Brooks. This is conclusive
proof that the Greeley Conservatives
or Democrats carried Aakansas by 9,-
553 majority. Yet it was counted for
Grant. And those who perpetrated
the fraud, are the parties: to expose
and acknowledge it. Sholi are flip
fruits of Eepublican rule. And their
faats in mathematics" have not' been
confined to Arkansas or to the South.
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itlsflta;<3x
has been found tnat these the Norse S!a‘e, on Sunday. A number of In-
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, _ •. . ; Macon-, fra.. Mav 1HU, JS7J.
slop may be given, it is almost mao- j my THE PATRONS OF HUSBANDEY
cent of this essential of life. In the ( -[ fi ^ yth^ as 1,een
to be stranded -on the shore to be bur- !t;-vo squaws went in search of food.—- milk diet fhacTrecoinmendie sickness [ ter of lhe°Loniriiina State Gran°e^r ifelp
ned. The bodies of the dead were-t They came to the house when the j common salt is used freely, the - Efilkj for the destitate Agriculturists At Lis State.
thrown'inS.b-fhw'burnfagpile,together ; man was absent, and went through it i beiDg.boiled and given hot; and if the ^ope, in confimmty to our obBga
... “ , . .. , „ ... 0 i D , , , f ,, , . bon, and in harmony with the Genius c
V * 1 Y- — —— — — — -V • - — —- — ‘ * r s 1 e- f O i\f 1 il A vir.a'C wnTra AT) T... tl .YY,/- t 1 f Im nc*n,i I nnonL ^-V -r ... ... 1 .
diars,-supposed to be Pawnees, camp
ed near a homesteader’s 1 cabin, and
OSWEGO
Silver Gloss Starch.-
-C J or iiio Xjfitiiittry.
iLVNirpAcruh'Et) by
. KINGSEORD & SON/
HAS BECOME A
Houseftold Necessfty,
Its great e^ceileuce Hasifteritfd the roft-”
meuuatioii of Europe for Anaerican
fictate.
PULVERIZED CORN STARCH/
fiifASgri B ^’
T. KiNCSFORD & SON,
Exiiressly for food, whc-Q H is rroperlyl
made into puddings;'is ri dessert of great’
excellence.-
For Sale by all First-class Grocers.
June 13 im:
with the armour, etc.;- and when all .in spite of the wife’s remonstrances, j patient cannot fake the usual quanti- J our Order, yon wlii :ft once torward to E.
was consumed, the mound was form- i Finally they atiemp- ed to take away j ty in Iris food, I have it given to- him 1 ! Taylor, Secretary, sneh sums, to He thus
ed from the ashes. - th « provisions, to which the ia his drink. Thiu mat ter is soimpor- | hfldTJmrf^^s^
***■ j wife djjiected. The two squaws heat [ tant that it- cannot be repeated too of- appear.in die “Georgia Grange.”
Railway Up Vesuvius- . j ber over the head. Just then the j ism, or dwelt upon too loDg.. The By order of
Mr. Barkdale went home with the The plans <ri the line which isdo-as- j husband earns iu, aud seeing his- wife
fair Barbara and they grew to-be very cell( -] yjount Yesuvins are now cam- : wonnded r took liis gua and shot one
great friends, and whese’s- the use The route will be 161 miles in of the squaws-, Tlie other squaw ran
trying to conceal how ii. all ended. length. The grain's are- twenty and to the Indian eaiap and reported what
They were married at-the year s- en^ j p cr hundred, and the road ; had been done:- Twelve of the Hor- / . „
with all the six unrprisers for brides- ^ f eW feet from the era-: dians then entered the house,- cap- ( pallid, paffy, with a tenacious pasty
If,
L. F. Livingston.
J-: S. L.itendsb.
JV H. Echols,
Executive Committee.
maids, Kate Kellford included. Mr. 1 There will be one station pro- • tnred tlie homesteader, skinned him,
Noth Greenfield proposes te-foJlowthe oya sort of break lava, which ! eat his hands oft’and his heart oat.—
rivomub ns cfwill lie STetS liis tLiplo- : -T- , 1. a .1 * — t.:.
example as soon as he gets his ^P^ 0 ' qi^-ert the flow, in ease of einpfc-; This was done in the presence of his
ioE, away from the building aud rails. 1 wife. A large party of pursuers has
To Smokers, i The road is so laid cat as to be natu- j left Westpoint in search of the In-
G> ' rally sheltered at every point except' dians, bat it is almost certain that they
j Lat-a-distance of about, sixty feet.- 1 will.not-find ihezn-.-
Smc-kists can find gocdiaegirs at
W, KiHensv
most marked example - 'of this want of
common' salt I have ever noticed has
been in surgical diseases, especially in | —
open wounds. "Without a supply o' I
salt, ths tongue would'become bread, ■
AND .n-TEK THi: FTRST OF JULY 1874,
, ,, ,. , , ,, vy return tickets toSti Ironi acy -.err.iiiiuH or
coat, the secretions anested, the effa- Nation on the Central ' " ' ’
sion at the point of injury serious,
Cheap Travel-.
GEORGIA, HOUSTON COUNTY;.
—The estate of. Allen P. Spradley, of
said conrty, deceased,- beifi^ unrep
resented and not likely fo be rijpre-'"
sented.
This is therefore to cite all pereon/.
concerned, to offer at the Jnly Term,'
1874, oi the Court of Ordinary of
county, anil show cause, if any thef,
iiave, why the administration of Ai#
estate should not be vested in the."
Clerk of the Superior Court of sail)
county, or any other person deemed
lit and proper by the Conrt. . - .
Witness my official agnnfnro, ibis* -
June 6, 1874. A. S. GILES,
4 w‘ Ordinary.
wester- Kail road a
j>Urchased for OXK I' aJIK. :
Said tickets will be sold until the 31st of De- j
with au unpleasant V*nterv pus. which member next and be good to return until the 15th
. : of January 1875. Conductors are not author-
Office,
at last-becomes a mere sanies or ichor.
A few" days of a free allowance of salt
Would change all this, and the patient
weald gel along-weil.”
of Jaanary 1875. Couductora are act antlior- j me following is tb esch etfllie of ibis cf-'
ized to eon rt-turu otktts frum ],o-;r,t». trffere ; fice;— Mailarrives H:4S; hJMl OMR* 19rl5-'
agentssell. Tbe public are tliercfi.re c-autioned : t p« v ~. n.ie , ^ - ■ Si
to provide tecicn-lves witb ticket* from tbe ayent ! ‘ , ,
at tbe !»ta tion or i«y both ways. . must lx- handed in by 1^30, uld Mi to h)
wuxiaxi bogeks. mailed by 2:10 p. m.
G*.LeralSuiJEriLtA'cdt.trt / J, C.