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VOL. VII.
Columbia’* Birthday.
List the deep-mounted cannon’s roaring
bee our flag of beauty soaring
Lp to meet its hues reflected
In the dome Jeliova raised
O’er the earth, his temple holy,
O’er the joftly and the lowly
freedom s God, our only monarch,
Be thy name forever praised !
Birthday of our land, to honor
Thee, we raise her starry banner,
While the eyes of millions proudly
View it waving spotless, free,
O’er the country great and glorious;
May it float for aye victorious,
Girding with a zone of beauty
All the west from sea to sea,
Heroes of the days departed,
True unselfish, noble-hearted,
From the patriots Valhalla
Watch the land your prowess won,
By long years of conflict deadly,
By fierce battles raging redly,
From the grasp of crowned destroyers—
Ne’er shall set your glove's un.
Deathless spirits, ever hover
Round this nation—well you .love her ;
And should foes in force assail her,
Rouse her sons to deeds as grand
As your own, when danger scorning
On her tempest-clouded morning.
Bid them keep her as you left her—
Hope of every trampled land.
On this day, across the ocean
Thousand look with glad emotion,
In their hearts new courage growing ;
And they stifle back their groans
While they wait with fierce impatience
For the rising of the nations,
For the breaking of the sceptres
And the crashing of the thrones.
God of liberty, look downward,
Guide tliG people marching onward ;
Spread the light which Thou Hast lavished
On this fajr and favored shore,
O’er a world ’neatli despots groaning;
End the wailing and the mourning;
In the place of kings let freedom
Reign supreme for evermore.
May our banner float forever,
And its stars be clouded never
Till tlieir prototypes in heaven
Ini their sky scroll are rolled ;
Till Columbia’s birthday blending
Witli a daylight never-ending,
Seea a npw world leap tq being
From the ashes of the old !
Toledo, Ohio, June 30, 1870.
Mr . Editor: I wrote you a short
letter on leaving St. Louis, Mo. If
this reaches you in time you can pijb>
lisli it instead of the one written from
St. Louis. Our trip to St.
Louis was not as pleasant as an
ticipated—the dust was very annoy-,
ing to the passengers. All the dele
gates from Georgia were aboard ex
cept Judge Warner, the brother of
Hiram Warner. The delegation
woro all courteous to visitors. Judge
Hall was very pleasant, and showed
every kindness to his visiting friends
Irom Georgia through the en
tire trip, and especially so while in
St. Lous. We were agreeably im
pressed with his manly bearing and
kind consideration towards his Mends.
He is as prudent as a politician as he
is wise as a judge. Permit us there
fore to say that he is making as
many friends politically as he lias al
ready made judiciously. Gov.
Smith’s arrogant deportment was not
only objectionable to visitors but to
say the least of it, his apparently sel
fish manners towards many of the
delegation were not agreeable. Gen.
Young we think was very popular
with the delegation, Mr. Charlie
Dubose, of Greene Cos., had many ad
mirers. lie is now in the State Sen
ate, and gaining popularity rapidly
for a young man. The delegation
made a good vote in the convention.
On the Ist ballot 1G voted for Bay
ard, 5 for Tilden and one for Han
cock. On the second ballot the
papers say 22 voted for Tilden. I
was present when Georgia was called
on 2d ballot and Gov. Smith chair
man of the delegation, announced 15
votes for Tilden and 7 for Bayard.
The delegation may have changed
its vote, I heard no change. Many
of the States changed their votes to
Tilden after they saw that Tilden was
by far stronger than any other candi
date. 492 votes necessary to a choice.
Tilden received on 2d ballot 535, and
was then unanimously elected by ac
clamation. None could possibly de
scribe the scene when it was under
stood that Tilden had received a two
third majority. The indescribable
scene lasted nearly half an hour.—
Men, women and children engaged in
the jubilee. Some yelled, some
whooped, some hollowed,some laugh
ed and some cried for joy; some
threw up their hats, fans, handker
chiefs, papers, sticks; some leaped
and some danced for joy, amid the
continuous cries of the chairman for
order. I can’t tell you half. As
soon as Tilden was declared nomina
ted almost every anti-Tilden man
either disappeared or became an en
thusiastic supporter of Tilden. Very
many of the anti-Tilden Tammany
crowd from New York were regular
luflians, street bullies—and I dare
say street gamblers. 1 know some
were street fighters who stopped at
the hotel I did. They of course had
no influence ngaintst Tilden. Their
strenuous efforts re-acted in Tilden’s
behalf. So much for politics. Crops
were looking well in the Northern
part of Georgia, but not in so good
a condition as iu your community.
We traveled through most of Tennes
see daring the night, hence can tell
you nothing of her crops.—
We passed * through only a
small portion of Kentucky. We
crossed the Mississippi river at Bel
mont, Mo., in a steamer ; our-coaches
were backed into the steamer and
carried across without change of cars.
We went many miles up the Missis
sippi A"alley—a greater part of
wihch was covered with water.-
THOMASTON, GA.. SATURDAY MORNING, JULY' 1.1, 187(1.
After leaving the main valley
we passed many beautiful fields of
coni and small grain. Farmers
plant their com in check—in rows
three by three feet—with from three
to four stalks in a hill. Many fields
looked as if they were sown and not
planted in hills, it looking so very
thick to tlic eye. Many farmers
were harvesting their wheat and oth
er small grain. It is not unusal to
see from 500 to 1,000 acres of small
grain in one body, or the same
amount in corn. A great deal of the
corn is not more than knee-high, due
to too much rain. So much for
Missouri and her crops. St. Louis
is a very large city, consisting of one
half million souls, and hundreds of
magnificent buildings. The bridge
across the Mississippi river is the
grandest structure, I suppose, in
America.
I can’t describe it nor will I try. It
is far beyond any discretion that
could be given by the pen of man.
One can scarcely embrace it in his
mind when he sees it. It is ‘ grand,
peculiar and sublime.”
St. Louis is a Sodom or Gomorrah
—no regard for the Sabbath. The
notorious Can-Can was exhibited to
the people on Sabbath evening. The
stores are open on Sunday as well as
any other uay—in fact, people drink
and dissipate more on Sunday than
any other day. Sunday is absolotely
devoted to the Devil, and not to God
—and when I say absolutely devoted
to the Devil I mean what I say strict
ly. It is too mean a subject to talk
about. I felt myself degraded by
simply remaining in the city a week,
with every restraint that I could pos
sibly throw around me. I became so
disgusted that I left the city before
the adjournment of the Convention.
My trip through Illinois, Indiana
and Ohio to Toledo was exceedingly
pleasant and interesting. The im
mense prairie lands of the West, now
sown down in com and small grain,
are grand to behold. I wish I had
time and space to describe to you the
boundless fields of corn and cats. The
wheat, rye and barley are now being
harvested. I don’t see how the wheat,
rye and oat fields can make less than
from thirty to fifty bushels per acre,
and corn from 40 to 100 bushels. I
wish I could tell you about the fine
cows I have se6n, and the prairie
lands of Illinois and Indiana are cov
ered with them, as fat as they can
roll—with hogs as big as a barrel—
and teats nearly a foot long. I’ll tell
you more about them when I come
home, and make you believe what
I say.
Since penning the above I have
visited the Milburn Wagon Works.
It is tho largest institution of the
kind in the U. S., some say. Cer
tainly it is wonderful for a Barnes
villian to behold. It lias a capacity
for making one wagon every three
minutes. I saw about thirty painters
at work in one room. The works
moved to Toledo in 1873. They cover
an area of 32 acres. The steam pow
er that runs the machinery is 400
horse. The band of the main wheel
is three feet wide, Strangers are in
vited to visit the works because they
are the largest in the world.
Toledo is a town situated on the
south-west point ol lake Erie. Its
population is GO,OOO. Avery pleas
ant place, though anew city. Its
water works are considered the finest
in the U. S. I like the place very
much. Most everything is cheap
here. You can get a good shave for
ten cents—a plate of ioc oream—l
moan your hat nearly full, not a
mouthful—for ten cents; soda water
for five cents. Oats are worth 35
cents, and corn 55. lam rather in
clined to live here, because then I can
afford to keep my horses fat. Most
eveiy body here lias a large, fine, fat
horse. Half the people talk German
—of course I understand all they say.
My railroad fare from Atlanta, Ga.,
to St. Louis, thence to Toledo, thence
through S. Canada to Buffalo will
cost me only $25.
Corolanus.
True Religion.
Once in a while we come across
an incident which proves the prac*
tical value of religion. A great
many people have religion in their
heads, but not in their lives. They
can argue about it, but they cannot
live it. A poor German woman
was dying in a tenement house. —
She was fairly tired out with evil
fortnne, and was looking forward
at last to a rest in the grave. When
the ministers held out a hope of
covery she shook her head and re
plied : “No no, the world is noth"
ing ; heaven is everything.” That
little episode is worth more than a
long sermon on immortality, and
brings the fact of the future closer
home to the heart.-[Carson Appeal.
Remedy l’or llo£ Cholera.
Editor Republican I send
you a remedy handed me for hog
cholera, which you can make pub**
lie for the benefit of the country.
Should it succeed, it will confer
upon a good many the blessing of
spare ribs, back bones and sausa*
ges.
To one gallon of pine tar add
one pound of sulphur, one pound
of coperas, four ounces of blue vi
triol. Pulverize well, mix and
feed on an ear of corn two or three
times a week. Rub the mixture
on an ear of corn and feed to stock
in that wav.
A Han of Part*..
FEW OF THE STORIES THAT WILL
RE TOLD BBFOR* THE CANVAS
IS OVER.
From the New York Sun.
‘■\\ hat do vou think of the
ticket?” asked Mr. Magruder, in
the boarding house, last night.
“Toler’ble,” said Mr. Maguffin,
“toler’ble. Down in the Custom
house this morning I saw a clerk
behind the counter trying to stave
ofl a lot of fellows who wanted to
get their invoices verified. I ask
ed him what be thought of it, and
be stopped work at once.
“Think of it?” lie said. “It’s
a blazer. “It’ll draw like a house
fire.”
“Think Governor Hayes will be
a Reformer?”
“Reformer ? I don’t know any
thing about that, but just look at
his war record. I was on a regi
ment that served under Hayes at
Shiloh. The Governor was bran
dishin’ his sword and urging the
boys on, when along come a bullet
and knocked off his right arm.
lie just shifted his sword to his
left hand, had a tourniquet put on
the stump of his right arm, and
plunged into the fight again. Good
ticket? I should say so !”
“Over in the Appraiser’s office
I found the enterprising young
man that used to put the figures in
Charley Lawrence’s invoices. I
asked him what he thought of the
ticket.
“Think of it? It’s a roarer.”
“Believe the Governor will pitch
in for reform.
“I dont know what he will pitch
in for ; but will you just cast your
eye on his war recoid ? I was in
a regiment that served under him
at Anlietarn. The Governor was
brandishin’ his sword and shoutin’
to the boys to get in, when along
came a bullet and snaked off his
left arm. He just shifted the
sword over to his right hand, had
a hasty tourniquet put on the
stump of his loft arm, and then
bolted into the fight again. Draw ?
He’ll draw like a blast furnace.”
“Happening to be in at the post
office I asked one of the boys who
were ’rastlin’ with tho mails how
tho ticket struck him.”
“It’ll sweep the country !”
“I)o you suppose Hayes will
reform the Government?”
“Iley 1 I didn’t catch that
and the young man put his hand
up to his ear. I repeated the
question.
“Oh, yes, Reform. Well, now,
I really can’t say whether he will
be a Reformer or not; but will
you just let your eyes rest on his
war record for a moment ? I was in
a regiment that served under him
at Gettysburg. The Governor was
brandishin’ his sword and hollerin’
to the boys to let ’emselves loose,
when along come a bullet and car
ried away his right leg. The Gov
ernor stopped just long enough to
have his leg coopered up, and then
he drove into the battle again.
Good ticket? The country was
crying for it.
“Then I dropped in at one of the
United ;States Court rooms, up
stairs and asked one of the offi
cials what he thought of the tick
et.”
“A boon to the country, sir ; a
sweet boon.”
“Think he’ll root out the corrup
tion that defiles the service?”
“Just how much rooting he’ll do
lam unable to state ; but may I
invite you to consider a moment
his war record ? I was in a regi
ment that served under Ilaycs in
the Wilderness. The Governor
was brandishin’ his sword and call
ing on the boys to rush forward
when along came a bullet and lop
ped off his leg. The Governor
didn’t even get oft' his horse. lie
just tied a waist belt around the
leg and went ahead again. Will
the people vote for him ? My friend
they’ll have to enlarge the ballot
boxes.”
“In a room the hall I met a Uni
ted States Marshall making cut a
bill for extra charges. I ashed him
about the ticket.”
“Magnificent l” he said, “magni
ficent !”
“Think the Governor is likely to
reform the Administration ?”
Now, really, I hadn’t given the
reform question much ; consider*
ation ; but let me ask you to look
at his war record. I was in a
regiment that served under him at
Cold Harbor. The Governor was
brandishin’ his sword and whoop
in’ the boys forward, when along
came a shell and struck him and
tore him into fine hash. We raked
him into a rubber blanket, and
were carrying him to the bivouac
of the dead, but the Governor
wouldn’t have it. He jumped out
of the blanket and sprung on his
horse, and went forward, brandish
in’ his sword. Will he be elected ?
Just you wait and see! ’
“Anatomically speaking Mr.
Magruder, the Governor is or was
a man of parts; much go ; but I
don’t believe they can to
gether in time for the ‘lection.
Another AirSiiip.
IT OBEYS ITS HELM LIKE A “FRIG
ATE OF THE LINE,” AND SHOOTS
THROUGH THE AIR LIKE A ME
TEOR. .
[From the FliiUuleltlhia Ureas]
The claimants for aerostatic re
nown, like the seekers after the
philosopher’s stone of old, and the
secret of perpetual motion in those
latter days, are neither few nor
far between, but somehow their
claims, thus far, have proved base- 1
less, and their visions of fame and
profit have faded away, as have
those of mild lunatics who only
want “one more cog,” or “just
another screw,” to perfect the ma
chine which shall rival eternity it-,
self. But Prof. Schroeder, the in -
ventor of the air-ship, has none of
the appearance of a visionary. On
the contrary, lie seems to be a
shrewd, common-sense man of bus
iness, who counts the cost of an un
dertaking carefully, and never at
tempts impossibilities. Jlis airs
ship, which is now being built at
Fortieth street and Cirard avenue
is to be 76 feet long, 5 feet high,
and 44 feet wide in the centre. It
is to be pointed at both ends, and
will be supported by a ballcon of
an elliptical shape, 130 feet long,
59 feet high in the centre, and ca
pable of holding 300,000 cubic feet
of hydrogen gas. It will be fasten
to the ship by five hundred lines
some upright and others stretched
from end to end. These “guvs”
as the Professor calls them, are
calculated to keep the balloon from
swaying to and fro, and also to
keep it setting snug to the ship.
The latter is a frame ef iron wire
shaped somewhat like a flattened
cigar. At the forward end it is
to carry a pulling propeller made
of plate steel, covered with canvas.
It will have tw-o blades, and turn
on a 2sinch steel shaft fifteen feet
long. The motive power will be
an elcctroomagnetic engine of 12-
horse power, which Prof. Wahle,
of the Polptschnic, is now construc
ting. The engine is to have an 80
pound magnet. There arc to be
three rudders, one aft and one on
each side. The stern rudder of
steel like the prcpeler, will be 8
feet high and 7 feet deep, and the
side rudders, placed a little forwaid
of the centre of the ship will be 4j
feet high and 5 feet deep. The in
terior of the ship will be fitted
with hanging seats,and will accom
modate thirty or forty persons.
Her weight, when covered with
canvas (which will not be until the
Profesor is ready to sail for Eu
rope), will be 950 pounds. The
gas used is to he passed through a
purificator, will average 4,280 | cu
bic feet to the pound, and liavo a
lifting power of 14 ounces per cu
bic foot, There will actually be
two balloons in one, that on the in
side being of twilled muslin, and
the outer one of eight ounce cotton
duck. Should tho inner balloon
burst, the outer will form a para
chute, which will lower the ship
slowly and safely to the earth,
Prof. Schroeder says bis ship is
not an experiment. It is simply
an improvement on former models.
He had a ship of this kind, he says
in Rio de Janeiro, except, that it
had a pushing and not a pulling
propellor, and succeeded well with
it. It obeyed its helm like a frig
ate of the line, and shot through
the air like a meteor. He also
sailed in an air ship with Deputy
de Lhome, the Parisian aeronaut
and although it was clumsily con
structed, and had the objectionable
pushing propeller, it still made
good time and obeyed its helm.
The Professor proposes to exhibit
his invention during the Centen
nial, after which he intends to start
for Europe. He says that by fol
lowing the atmospheric currents
over the Gulf Stream he can make
from 60 to 150 miles an hour—
in other words, that he can cross
the Atlantic in forty-two hours, or
less. Another use that he intends
to put his machine to is to photo
graph bodies of water. The sur
face of the water, he says, forms a
powerful reflector, and thus, under
favorable circumstances, it is possi
ble to photograph the bottom of
the sea, oven, provided a sufficient
altitude can be attained, and the
balloon kept still long enough to
permit the use of the instrument.
The Professor intends to photo'
graph the bottom of Schuylkill
river this summer. He says lie
can make his ship stand stationary
as long as he chooses.
The other day the Worrel Sis
ters troupe, dressed in men’s clothes
went down into the Bonanza mine,
and sang to a lot of half-clad men,
“A letter in the Candle’”
A young lady viewing Dorn Pe
dro the other day remarked,
as she fixed her eyes on
the carriage : “It isn’t exactly im
mortality to see an emperor, of
course, but it’s a glimpse at least of
King Dom come.”
! Tin* Oil Kn'ion of California.
A few days ago we had an invi
tation from Mr. 11. Page of the
Star Oil Works to visit their wells
in Pico canon. They are situated
about fifteen miles from the San
Fernando Tunnel in one of the wil
dest and rockiest passes of the
mountains, the road for three or
four miles being so crooked that
one can hardly see a hundred feet
ahead, the partially dry creek
winding in and out like a snake
the whole way up the gorge. The
Star Oil Works have lately com
menced to bore new wells with
fine prospects, while at the same
time they are gradually sinking
the others to a greater depth, one
well which they are now deepening
was originally bored to a depth of
one hundred and twentvWive feet
and there a flow of oil was struck
which yields about ten to twenty
barrels a day,there are also two
more wells which make the total
amount of oil got out about forty
barrels per day. The company
are steadily getting the wells to a
low r er sta’ta of rock and expect
soon to be able to supply the whole
State with as line illuminating oil
as the best petroleum of Pennsyl
vania, and in a short time will
doubtless be running fully a hun
dred barrels of refined a day. Day
before yesterday the company com
pleted their new still for refining
and arc already able to take ca*e
of forty barrels of crude oil every
day. Mr. Page has lately put
about twelve thousand dollars in
to the business and they arc rapid
ly pushing the work along. There
is already about a mile and a half
ot pipe laid from the wells down
the canon and there is about four
thousand more of pipe un the way
which will be laid as soon as it ar
rives. The company intend to lay
the pipe all the way from the well
to the refinery which is about nine
miles. This is anew thing in Cab*
ifornia and it wont be long before
the oil excitement will be as great
in Southern California as it ever
was in the East. —Los Anoelos
Ilerald.
The Laic Sultan.
The suicide ol‘ the late Saltan of
Turkey is stated to be not in conse
quence ot his disposition, but from
grief and rage occasioned by the sei
zure of his private treasure,consisting
of 30,000,000 of Turkish pounds. It is
reported that lie was driven to insau
ty by the events of the week, but if
this be true it is evident that his
death was desired by the new gov
ernment, otherwise he would have
been more carefully guarded to pre
prevent suicide. From the efforts
made to convince the people that his
death w*as self caused, it is evident
that much doubt existed in the pub*
lie mind on this point, and it is not
propablc that even the testimony of
the nineteen physicians will be suffi
cient to alia}* the suspicion of mur
der. If he had killed himself in the
manner indicated it is not likely he
would have cut the arteries of both
arms. In Paris the suicide story is
scouted as incredible. The recogni
tion of the new Sultan by all the
European Pov/ers is now considered
certain, but it is not believed that he
can long keep his teritorry intact.—
The prospect ot a general European
war is daily becoming more ominous,
the result of which would undoubted
ly be the division of Turkey among
the neighboring Powers. Austria is
now expected to join England against
Russia, and it is hardly probable that
France and Germany can avoid en
tanglement in the struggle.
V Lorn Story,
The lieuo Journal thus narrates :
A corn doctor has been doing busi*
ness in lieno for a few days. Yes
terday he tackled the wrong custo
mer. Going uj) to Dick Allen he
asked him if he had any corns or
bunions he wanted extracted.—
Dick answered in the affirmative,
and going behind the counter in
Beck’s store he loosened the straps
which held his wooden leg to his
body. Seating himself in a chair
he called on the corn doctor to pull
olf his boots and go to work. Down
on his knee? went the extractor of
corns and began to tug at the boots
for dear life. In a minute the
whole leg came off. The doctor
turned pale as death, and Dick ex
claimed :
“You have ruined me!”
The crowd in the store enjoyed
the ludicrous scene immensely.
. From the stern manner in which
the Eleven Abie allude to the “wood
head editor” of the Morning News,
one would suppose that they had an
antiphathy to that sort of thing.—
This is altogether wrong. Upon the
same principle we might be prejudic
ed against the Eleven Able, whose
combined heads, it is well known, are
not hard enough to resist an assault
from a boiled potato: I>ut we are
charitable : nay, more—wc trust and
believe that the gentle brotherly
thumping to which wc, in odd mo
ments, subject them,will, in some de
gree, at least assist in improving the
present viscous and protoplastic con
dition of the talented skullsof the
Eleven Able.— Sac. News
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Like in Texas. —Frank Walker
and Wat Groce, two escaped negro
convicts and desperadoes who have
been hiding in Waller county,
went to the house of a widow lady
not far from fields store last Sun
day, and after ordering dinner told
1 her that if they did not find the ox
en for which they were searching,
they would come back to supper.
The lady recoguized Walker, but
did not let him know it, and after
the negroes left she rode over to
a neighbor's and gave the informa
tion of where they could be found.
The two had four good horses, and
each was armed with two six shoot
ers. One was riding on the fine
silver mounted which once belong
ed to Mr. J. Groce. Deputy Sher
iff Renfro and Constable Walling
ford, with the assistance of some
citizens, succeeding in capturing
both, and a guard started to carry
them hack to the penitentiary, but
were stopped when four miles from
Hempstead bv a large body of arm
ed men, who hung Walker and
shot Groce.—[Galveston News.
California 'promises
bushels of wheat, this year.
♦ ■ ■ .
Thirty-three counties in Louisi
ana indicate a decrease of thirty
three per cent in cotton acreage.
Young swell: “I should like to
have my moustache dyed.’’ Polite
barber: “Certainly, sir. Did you
bring it with you ?”
A telegraph operator in New
Hamshirc had a thumb taken olf
by a discharge of electricity while
at his key, and a lady operator
along the line was at the same time
lendeml deaf in one car.
‘Come tiP America, Pat!' writes
a son of the Emerald Isle to his
fiiend in Ireland, ‘Tis a fine coun
try to get a livin’ in. All ye have
to do is to get a three cornered box,
and fill it with mortar aid bricks,
and carry it till the top of a four
story building, and the man at the
top docs all the work.’
When you reflect, says the Balle
tin of Norwich, that at picnics a
hundred yeras ago it was the cus
tom for the girls- to stand up in a
row and let the men kiss them all
good-bye, all this enthusiasm about
national progress seems to be a
grave mistake.
That Norwich man who courted
his wife fifty years before he mar
ried her was a prudent fellow. Fif
ty years tikes the strength out of
most any arm, and makes it ineons
venient for a woman to get down
on her knees to urge the head of
the house to come out from under
the bed and talk the matter over.
Too Often So.— “ Where,” as
<he Woman’s Journal asks, docs
the wife’s inflluence begin? Jt
ought to begin at the very moment
she becomes a wife, but we have
known more than one case in
which it did not perceptibly be
gin until she appeared Ijefore the
police judge and begged the drun
ken rascal off.
The last Arkansas traveler tells
a story of a citizen of that Slate
who, while on board a steamer on
the Mississippi, was asked by a
gentlemen ‘whether the raising of
stock in Arkansas was attended
with much difficulty or expense ?’
“O yes stranger, they suffer much
from insects.”
“Insects! Why, what kind of
insects ?”
“Why, bears, catamounts, wolves
and such like insects.”
The stranger dropped further in
quiry.
A Texan Executed in Tujxc
key.—A young lady in Washing
ton has received a long letter from
Mr. J. A. George, written on the
18th of April, from a Turkish
prison, in whicn *he says that in a
fight between the Herzegovinians
and the Turks he was captured
and was to lie executed the next
morning, lie states that a friend
ly priest had promised to mail his
letter at a certain town, and the
postmark shows that it was mailed
at that place. This confirms the
previous report of the death of Mr.
George, whose mother lives at
Denison. Mr. George was engag
ed to be married to the young la
dy.— Galveston News.
Joke on Atlanta —One of
our prominent business men asked
an acquaintance from Atlanta
whom he met the other day :
“What are you doing now ?”
“Oh, lam try mg to make an
honest living.”
“Well,” said the questioner, “you
ought to succeed admirably.
“Why?” asked the other.
“Why?” why! Because, by
thunder, you’ve got no competition.
You are the first man I ever heard
of in that busine-s in Atlanta. —
Chattelnvoga Cornmercial.
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