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H C RONEY,
ATTORNEY AT LAW,
THOMSON,' GA.
Will practice in the Augusta, North
#rn and Middle Circuits. nolyl
It, W. H. NEAL,
ATTORNEY AT LAW,
THOMSON, GA.
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VOL. V.
TH E SUN.
Weekly and Daily for 1875,
j The approach of the Presidential election
I gives unusual importance to the events one
i developments of 1875. We shall endeavoi
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oct2lt(i
Notice of Dismission.
GEORGIA —McDtirris County.
| O* R. WETHERS. Administrator of Denis
j Paschal, colored, deceased, applied to the
j undersigned for Letters Djamiusiuy from
; his adaoinairatorship: Therefore, all per
i kukh Concerned are hereby required to show
! carise, if any they have, within the time
I prescribed by law, why said Administrator
[ should not bo discharged.
A. B. THRASHER,
Jan. 18, 187.“,. Uni. Ordinary.
B >entisl r # v.
i I)U. ALBERT HAVE offers bis profes
sional services to the citizens of Thomson
: mid vicinity. His office for the present will
ibo at the residence of ,M It. '*'. E. Sl’lElt.
| whore he may be f.und from the Ist to the
loth of each month.
•Inly 8, 1874. ts
Citation-
GF.OUGIA McDctfie (to nty.
\ \ HEitEAS, A. L. Veanv, Administrator,
YV lie bonut turn of Jno. IJ. AViley, re
presents to the Court in his petition." duly
fil' and and entered on record, that ho bus
tally a-1 ministered Jno. H. Wiley’s estate:
This is, therefore, to cite all persons con
cerned, kindred and creditors, to show cause,
if any they can, why snid administrator
should not be discharged from his adminis
tration. and receive letters of dismission, on
the first Monday in December. 1874
A. B. THRASHER, Ordinary.
Sept. 0, 1874- 3 m
For Bale
r|’HE large building, on Main street, in
I Thoms. to. occupied at present by Sutton
i it Hamlet. Dr. Jas. S. Jones and Mrs. I. C
! Richards.
The house is well arranged, and finished
throughout; with one large sto*-e room and
office below, and five rooms above; and
with a kitchen and well of gopd wutcr
on the premises.
ALSO, the house, on Main street, now
occupied by Jerre F. Jones, us a store house
For terms apply to
JNO. L. HOLZENDOKF,
Nov3tf Thomson, Ga.
SSOOO REWARD. ’
ON the night of the 15th Dec. last, one
Allen Creed set tire to and burned up
mv Bara and Stables, and Blacksmith shop,
Ac.
f Said Allan has fled from justice. He is
|of brown complexion, stutters very badly,
i and cannot talk without jumping up. The
I above reward will be paid for the delivery
of said Allen Creed to any officer of the State,
and for his safe-keeping* until he can be
delivered to the Sheriff of McDuffie Cos.
C. H. BUSSEY.
JanG*7stf. Thomson, Ga.
Notice of Dissolution.
r ] HIE firm of JOHN M. CURTIS A BRO-
X THER is this day dissolved by mutual
consent. All who are indebted to said firm
must make settlement on or before the first
day of April next, or their claims will be
placed in the hands of an Attorney for
collection. Either partner is authorized to
settle the business of the firm.
The business will be continued by John
M. Curtis, at the old stand.
JOHN M. CTTRTJS,
Thomson, Ga. T. D. CUR I IS.
Feb. 20, 187-1 4t.
Agents Wanted-
WE want two responsible and energetic
young men to represent our machine
in Taliaferro, Greene and Warren counties.
Address, with refereijees,
The Howe Machine Cos.
J. YV. WILLINGHAM. Agent.
ClO-cf Thomson, Ga.
*!•«. I'urticulaiß LcII A Au'JmU. biiiwlm * Cu!)i’wi t Und, lin. u*j.
POETIC A L.
Beautiful Spring.
Beautiful Spring! Beautiful Spring!
Coming again on thy wandering wing.
unshine and beauty and pleasure to bring;
Gladly we welcome thee, beautiful Spring !
Robed with a mantle of gorgeous array,
Girded with tendril Is of amaranths gay,
Gcmin’d with flowrets of every hue.
Fresco'd with sunbeams and spangled with
dew.
Ilollow-cheek’d Sorrow’ and Sadness and
Gloom
Y r anish away to their wintry tomb:
j Grief bows her fennel-crowned head to the
sway,
Time, like a phantom, glides swiftly away.
i .Genial laughter raid frolicsome mirth
: Herald thy coming again upon earth,
i Welcome thee back to thy throne in our
bowers.
Queen of the empire of beauty and flowers.
, Everything beautiful, noble, or grand,
Wakes into life at the wave of thy wand ;
Earth dons her mantle of radiant sheen,
i Azure, and purple, and scarlet, ami green.
Hedgerows and forests burst out into bloom,
i Flowers exhale a delicious perfume ;
A bids hail thy coming with boist’rons cheers,
! Clouds in their gladness gush out into tears.
I Brads sing thy praise with a sonorus voice.
| I roes clap their broad waving hands and
rejoice,
Lambkins aud fledglings the chorus prolong.
Streamlets gusli out into rapturous song.
Everything beautiful, noble or bright.
Hails thy approach with a shout of delight.
Welcomes thee back with a jubilant ring,
I Radiant, sunny-eyed, beautiful Spring!
THE HOLLOW OAK.
A STIIANCIE STORY.
I used to think there was nothing else
in the world so absurd or nonsensical «s
a ghost story, be cause 1 had not the
slightest belief in ghosts or apparitions,
f think ail of us change more or less in
our views and belief as we go on in life,
! and many things which we scoff at in
early days we learn to think more seri-
I ously about as we grow older, and begin
to doubt the wisdom of our earlier and
j rasher judgment.
| Perhaps there are no such things as
| ghosts. lam not prepared to say that
there are, and I cannot say that there are
j not. Let me tell you my story. Then
' you can tell for yourself whether I had
| good reason for revoking my early decis- j
| ion regarding the utter aud downright
absurdity of ghosts.
I was in Jtome. I had been in Europe,
a year. I bad visited all places of inter
; esfc, and in a few weeks more would start
for America.
i It was one of the most beautiful even
l ings T ever knew. The sky was beauti
fully clear and hi no. The moon shone
| with a silver glow over the quiet city,
j and touched the hills lying outside the
J walls with a white aud lovely radian " '
i that made them seem like a glimpse of
! some enchanted land. Below me and
around me the housed had a strangely
quiet air about them as if they had stld
; deirly gone to sleep.
i I was sitting in one of those little pro
i jeeting windows which one so often sees
: in houses in Koine and other Italian cit
i ins. A net-work of vines clambered
about it. Before me all was bright and
! radiant. The hour was quite late, I had
j stayed up to smoke a cigar or two before
going to lied, and the honest itomans
! were, at that moment, most likely sleep
j ing the sleep of the just. At any rate,
! no sound of life came floating up to my
| ears from any part of the old city.
| Suddenly I thought of Boy Grayle.
| Roy and myself had been the host of
t friends in gone by days. We hail been
[ students together, and in after life we 1
' had kept up the friendship which school j
life begun. Os all my friends, I counted ’
Boy first. We had kept up a corrospon- :
deuce during my tour on the continent, i
and I looked forward to my meeting him I
as one of the pleasantest events of my
return.
At thought of him a strange sensation
' flashed over me. It was much the same
kind of feeling that someone is looking
at usearnestiy, and we look up to meet the
eyes of some person fixed steadily upon
us. It seemed to me that Boy was near
me ; I could feel his presence.
Suddenly the houses faded out of
sight; the hills were lost in the white
glory of the moonlight. Before me
drifted a vapor that was strangely lumi
nous ; it floated about my window, aud j
gradually a shape grew out of it. It
was like a shadow growing out of a shad
ow. I can think of no other way of de
scribing the strange something that took
shape before me, and assumed the like
ness of a man. For a moment I shut
my eyes, half frightened, but as if fasci- i
mi ted by what 1 had seen I opened them |
again, and there before me stood Boy j
Grayle. His features had ail the dis
tinctness of life. I saw that there were j
traces of pain in the pale aud ghastly i
face.
‘Roy!’ I cried.
‘Yes, I am Boy,’ lie answered, and his
voice had a strange, far-off sound in it.
‘I am here to tell you to look iu the hol
low oak at Densmere. There you will
find proof of what has done this’, and as
he spoke he lifted his hand and pointed
to what I bad not seen before, a gaping,
bleeding wound iu the breast.
And then there came a sound like the
rustling of a mighty wind, and the figure
grew dim and dimmer, and soon was
gone.
Had I been dreaming ? 1 shook my
THOMSON, GrA', v UM>M 24,1875.
self. I got up and tvaVkofibout. X was
wide awake as ever I was k. ruv life. If
I had not been what was it I
had seen ?
A mouth later I "StfllWl for America.
Two weeks of uleafaut sailing brought
me iu sight of the »bores of my native
land.
The first person! I met as I stepped
ashore, was Carl I He gave me
a cordial calling a
ft -
..
town. HR
!.ca»^^^Hte<r»hlc
. heard of it.’ RH||
I
-trange,
ic> ,
‘I will up to yon to
. an-a 1 : : o.v
this ghostly you
ho
nmoli iv. .m o to in thai
portion of the strainfc s”ry, aa j u any
other ?
‘All right; «e will gtj,' jt answered.
And on the morrow ■*,- went up to
Densmere, whore Kciy i. tfyle had been
spending the slimmer wl It he was mur
dered by some person o', wiimn no clue
!>v! ever i: oi tab ' jphg,vad occur
rence had broken up tflrj-'mpuny that
had gathered there, aud vihad scattered
to the four winds of flstoitfi.
Wo went up |p and Mr.
Grosvenor gave us a .SktmA
When l told him ray iUitff igil why we
had determined to visit .•o-iueto, his
face wore a puzzled| Lask. iuei -.lulous
expression. K
‘I don't understaufl it,'*e wiii 'i l
has too miicli of the sUptSß'vttnai a ut
it for mo to comprehend tt.iv. ;!;. How
ever, we call look fir i* oak’
you speak about. 1 at.i lid uv.iivi;. t,, *.
there is an oak tree otj - .he iijwuitsc
ITiei e may be, however..dt iliirii but lit
l " mi'S m Minting : 11 übably
iieenuse I have no l'a; q.yy kind of
ghost stories aud ••;>•.. n7.:" in.iuifesta
tions.'
We sot out in beeches
grew thick aud tall, <>u all sides, but no
trees.
‘I am afraid that your ghost was draw
ing on his imagination when be spoke of
an oak tree,’ said Mr. Grosvenor.
‘lsn’t that an oak-leaf V cried I’crci
val, stooping and picking it up. Ware
enough it was.
Looking up, we saw a gnarled, ciooked
limb projecting over onr heads from a
thicket of young beeches. The top of
the aged oak had been broken off years
before, and only this one branch re
mained.
I dashed into the thicket. There was
the body of a great oak tree, and about
four feet from its roots, was a hollow
large enough for the insertion of a man’s
arm.
' I never.was more excited in my life,
and yet outwardly, 1 was cool aud com
posed. I thrust my arm into the aper
ture, and drew out a knife and piece of
paper. 1. opened the paper and read :
‘Boy Giiayue, Esq,
Dear sir—Hearing that you were slop
ping at Densmere, [ take the liberty of
I addressing you, and asking if u person
J calling himself Marmot Garcia, and
! claiming to be a 'Garcia of the B w or
i leans family of that name, is stopping
! there. If lie is, beware of him. He is
! an imposter, a gambler, and a villain
that would not for a moment be tolerated
in the society in which lie liuh thrust
himself. If you have any doubts of the
truth of my story, write to Sebastian
Garcia, 27 Rue do Aunuiicion, New Or
leans, and lie will tell you that the man
who has borrowed a.v old and honorable
name is a liar and a villain, who would
no sooner show his face irTsew Orleans
than he would dare enter a lion's den.
The latter place would be the safer ot
the two. I have kept up with this man
whose name is Gonzales Dupres, for
years, and ho cannot hide himself away
iroin me under the cloak of a false name.
Ask him if lie remembers Marie Ht. Ma
ry, and thou call him Duprez and see if
lie will not turn pule with guilt and fear.’
‘I see how it must have been,’ said
Grosvenor, after I had read the letter to
them, ‘liny Grayle had been to the vil
lage for letters, and was returning whan
he was murdered. That much we know.
He must have received this letter. Prob
ably he met tiio mail who had foisted
himself off upon us as Manuel Garcia,
and charged him with being an impos
ter. To save himself from detection
and exposure, Garcia killed him, secured
the letter, and concealed it with the
knife with which he stabbed his victim.
It is strange, but not one of us ever sus
pected Garcia of the murder. Not so
strange either, for we knew of no quar
rel between him and Boy Grayle. They
had always seemed on very good terms.’
Two days after that we started for the
X>iace where we heard Garcia alias Du
prez was staying, taking an officer with us.
We found him lounging oil the steps
of the hotel.
| ‘Manuel Garcia, otiierwise Gonzales
j Duprez, T arrest you for the murder of
Roy Grayle,’ said the officer, going di
rectly up to him, and putting his hand
on Gareier’s shoulder. ‘You are my
prisoner. ’
Garcia turned deadly pale. He tried to
speak, but fear seemed to paralyze his
tongue.
‘Don’t deny it,’ said the officer. ‘We
have the proofs. We found them in the
hollow oak.’
Garcia made a full confession of this
awful crime when he learned how he had
been brought to justioe. His Spanish
superstition was very strong indeed, and
the idea of a ghostly witness against him
served to frighten the truth out of him.
We ask, if it was not a ghost what
was it - ?
Cooley’s Hen. —Observations by Mux
Adler : Cooley has had some trouble
with one of his liens. Bhe wanted to
set, and he didn’t want her to. He put
her under a barrel, ducked her at the
pump, threw her into the air, and rea
soned with her, but she would persist in
going back to her nest. Finally he put
a hot porcelain egg under her ; but she
skipped about until it cooled, mid then
she returned and sat on the egg with the
air of having ’resolutely determined to
hatch a set of crockery and a couple of
Hour pots out of the porcelain delusion.
Thou Cooley resqjved to blow her off.
He placed half a pound of gunpowder
under tho nest, and laid a slow match
out into the yard. As soon as he saw
the lien safely seated, he went into the
kitchen to gc.t a light. Meantime, Mrs.
Cooley entered the hen-house to hunt
for eggs, and to ascertain if that idiotic
chicken was sitting yet. Then Gooley
came out and fired the train. In a
couple of minutes there was a fearful
emerged precipitately froth the door with
; her mouth full of feathers, her hair full
iof bihqdng straw and warm blood, and
an iisk uinu'et of drumsticks, gizzards,
:ud ■ • v . -. hsU-ihokd nrouu. 1 he** "dress.
the result was Ido not know. But i :if <
' him on t|ie following Tuesday with
■ court plaster on his nose and a look of
j subjectiou 'in his eye and he informed
line confidentially that the next hen of
j his that wanted to, might set in peace
tbt'iui.'hou't the ages of time and ail
j through the unending cycles of eternity
Imfore lie would bother himself about
her.
Giants of the Olden Time. —A giant,
exhibited in Rouen, iu 1830, measured
nearly eighteen feet. The Chevalier
Scrog, in his voyage to the Peak Teue
lifl'e, found in one of the caverns of that
mountain the head of tho Gunieh, who
hud sixty teeth, and was not less than
fifteen feet high. Gorapius saw a giant
that was ten feet high. The giant Gul
abra, brought from Arabia to Rome, un
der Claudius Caesar, was ten feet high.
Famiuin, who lived in the time of Eu
gene If., measured eleven and a half
feet. Near the castle in Dauphiiie, in
1032, a tomb was found thirty feet long,
sixteen wide and eight high, on which
was cut in gray stone these words “Ke
toloclius Rex." The skeleton was found
entire, twenty-five and a fourth feet long,
ten feet across the shoulders, and five
feet from the breast hone to the back.
Near Palermo, in Sicily, in 1516, was
found the skeleton of a giant thirty feet
high, aud in 1559 another forty-four feet
high. Near Maxrino, in Sicily, iu 1816, j
was found the skeleton of a giant thirty !
feet high, the head was ns large, as a |
hogshead, and each of his teeth weighed I
five ounces. The giant Farragus, slain i
by Orlando, nephew of Charlemagne, <
was twenty-eight feet high. In 1814, j
near Bt. German, was found the tomb of |
the giant Isorent, who was not less than
thirty feet high. In 1599, near Rouen,
was found a skeleton whose skull held
a bushel of corn, and who was nineteen
feet high. The giant Bueart was twen
ty-two feet high ; his thigh bones were
found in 1703, near the river Modern
And not only were the past ages distin
guished for the prolific proportions of
these monsters, but their history is not
more, remarkable than that of dwarfs,
several of whom were even smaller than
the Thumbs and Nutts of onr own time.
Honor the Scissors. —The Guelph
“Mercury” says : “Some people, iguo
rant of what good editing is, imagine
the getting up of selected matter to he
the easiest thing in the world to do,
whereas it is the nicest work that is done
on a paper. If they find the editor with
scissors in hand, they are sure to say.
‘Eh ! Halt's the way yon get up original
matter, eh ?’ accompanying their new
and witty questions with rui idiotic wink
or smile. The facts are, that the inter
est, the morality, the variety aud use
fulness of a paper depend in no small
degree upon selected matter, and few
men are capable of the position who
would not themselves be able to write
many of the articles they select. A sen
sible editor desires considerable selected
matter, because lie knows that one mind
cannot make so good a paper as five or
six. ”
T. J. Smith, Master of the State
Grange, expects to visit every county in '
the State this year. Colonel T. Harde- !
man will accompany him.
NO. 12.
Prepared Expressly for the Journal.]
I THE INFINITY OF SUNS AND
WORLDS.
j The earth, upon which we live, is like
a grain of sand upon the sea shore amidst
i the innumerable quadrillions of other
suus ami worlds which stand on nothing,
I and whirl in their mysterious rounds in
i the Sahara's of space.
Telescopic vision reveals to us the
pageant splendors of Jupiter, Saturn and
| other planets of our solar system. Some
i of them are more than a thousand times
las large as ours. They, like the earth,
; move iu their stupendous orbits aroirud
; the solar kiug from whom they receive
j their daily light. The sublimity of this
! machinery of may be. imagined
: only, Tor it mocks the grasp of human
comprehension. Thought may wing its
flight to Jupiter four hundred and ninety
j millions of miles from the suu, hut it
S cannot grasp the distance, or the move
ment of that monster planet iu its orbit
around the sun, which requires eleven
| years, three hundred and fifteen days,
aud some hours to complete its revolution,
j The difficulty become* immensely greater
; in contemplating the distance of Neptune l ,
the most remote of all the known planets
which astronomers assert, is three thou
sand millions of miles from the great
: central orb. This is the distance from a
' single sun to its outer-most satellite.
Next, let the mind contemplate the
distance from our sun to Syrius or the
| Dog “tar, as it is vulgar lycidiod, the next
j nearest sun. That space is calculated at
I more than twenty trillions of miles. It
j was necessary to place it thus far to keep
their respective planets out of the reach
;of each sun s attraction. The immensity
■ of space becomes the more overpowering
when it had been ascertain.
oniers that four hundred aud fifty mil
: lions of suns have been discovered bv
. the naked eye, and the aid of telescopes.
Hersehel, according-to his own statement,
| discovered fifty thousand in only six
degrees of the galaxy, commonly called
..«*•» wav.'' Doubtless they.
■ .ituoui.'
|hole oirofi -1
; many millions which exist- iii spsotvffan
either side of thnt luminous track which*'
i seems to encompass the illimitable bea
j Vf'Us. All astronomers deem the fixed
s-‘.:iK) to W sups. Our suu aud »U its
! planets are under the magnifying power
of telescopes. Those instvnni nils go
| enlarge the planets as to make the four
| lrfoous of Jupiter, the seven of Saturn,
. aud the six of Hersehel visible to the eye.
j Every scholar, who has had the advantage
jof high instruction, lias seen them, flu;
the telescope has but little power over the
i fixed stars. Such is their distance that
they look pearly as large to the naked
eye as when seen through the powerful
reflectors of Hersehel, Itoss, and others
of more recent construction. This shows
that they shine by their own and not
borrowed light. They are suns, the
centres of other stysems.
The light of very remote stars suppos
| ed to be nebulous clusters according to
some astronomers, has been progressing
to us for forty-eight thousand years, with
a velocity of a million of miles in five
seconds. Far beyond them all iu the
never end ng stretches of space, are voids
and caves of darkness to our natural or
artificial sight. Yet they are decked with
suns ami stars which we will never see.
According to Sir Isaac Newton, the
comet, of 1080, whose orbit is iu our
solar system, approached within fifty
thousand miles of the suu, and moved
with a velocity of eight hundred aud
eighty thousand miles per hour. Could
that comet have been exempted from
attractive power, and moved on with that
velocity forever, it probably would never
have encountered the boundaries of space.
if we have our wonders on this earth,
its winds and storms, earthquakes and
lightnings, volcanoes aud Northern lights,
and in our system several hundred fiery
comets, with luminous trains mure than
a hundred millions of miles in length,
pursuing their eccentric courses at the
rate of a million of miles per hour, what
must be the mysterious wonders shut
from our sight in the mute, dark, abys
mal heights aud depths of unending
space,
What lightnings, like serial fiends,
shoot athwart those voids ? YVliat thun
ders rock those unseen planets ? What
volcanoes belch their terrific lavas?
What oceans toss aud roar upon their
rock bound coasts, where suns, a hundred
times as large and hot as ours, give fury
to their terrific heats, and maddened
winds and storms ?
The stui is the centre of onr solar sys
tem ; but where is the centre of the uni
verse ? A thousand fancies steal over
the mind from the mystic lights of the
star-decked heavens. One idea bolder
than another travels from system to sys
tem to see if there is not a grand imperi
al union of these mighty celestial powers.
Perhaps, it was this thought that first
suggested a cluster of systems., with all
their suus aud satellites revolving around
some still greater monarch of fight aud
power, aud finally millions of clusters
moving around the last aud greatest of
all the suns. Aud what a sun ! No hu
man figures or thought could estimate its
size and splendor.
Man’s mind cannot reach the centre of
the great deep of this mysterious space.
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Each subsequent insertion 75
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’O' Ten lira's or less considered a square,
All fractions of squares are counted as full
squares. - * •
| No dark priest of nature could fill it With,
these wondrous suns and worlds, which
move with mathematical preoision, and
can move eternally without collision,
Jehovah is the eternal Mysteriarch who
created them all. His finger pointed
their ways, and that was enough. He,
has made the space for their orbits, as
illimitable as his power is omnipotent.
Changes op a Century.—The nine
teenth century has witnessed ' many and
great discoveries.
Iu 3 809 Fulton took out the first pat %
ant for the invention of the steamboat.
The first steamboats which made reg
ular trips across the Atlantic Ocean were
the Sirus and the Great Western, in
1830.
The first public application to practice
the use of gas for illumination was mm lo
in 1802.
In 1813 ths streets of Xtcmdon were- for
the first, time lighted with gas.
In 1813 there was built at Waltham,
• Mass., a mill, believed to have been tlie
first in the world, which com billed all the
requirements for making finished cloth,
from raw cotton.
In 1790 there were only twenty-five
postoffices in the whole oountry, and up,
to 1837 the rates of postage wore twenty
five cents for a letter sent jver one hun
dred miles.
In 1807 wooden clocks commenced toi
be made by machinery. This ushered
in the era of cheap clocks.
About the year 1833 the first railroad
of considerable length in tlie United
States was constructed.
In 1810 the first express business was.
established.
Tlie anthracite evil business may bo
said to have begun in 1820.
Xu 1830 the first; patent for the, inven
tion of matches was granted.
Steel pens wero introduced for ift# In
1830.
The first successful reaper wus cou
sin luted in 1833.
A Forgotten Cm.-—The late Lieut,
< burlier dit ;ovgred las* year . in Combo-,
dm the ruins of aueietg mtv. An..
ge«r. These ruius are of extraordinary
" uigu ificeiiee, boMj|]jii partite ofcgnxfeul
- hi 4 ar'-liite.-turursphsuo;.!;;'- side
! ferenoe, -f iL. uenjjUM qf^^^^isa
| rbails buried in the foreJt «;iti j
j contain ; fivTurumSfet;
... h if possible, ill.-,- • a-f :
the preceding. ” The architecture and '
sculpture of this forgotten city ex’ ibit a
very advanced knowledge of the arts,
and the great temple is described as the
masterpiece of some unknown Miches!
Angelo. Angeor must bate been one at
tlie greatest citiest on,the globe, and yet
of its history no account remains. Noth
ing is known of its past save that a Chi
nese traveler, in the year 1202,, men-.
Honed its splendor, and that after 300
years it was referred to by liiboudoneyra
as an ancient ruin.
A Bin Country.— The total area of
British India is officially stated at 950,-.
319 square miles. Under the adminis
tration of tlie governor-general of India
there are Ajmere, containing 2,672
Rquare mi lex ; Coorg, 2,0fi0; Berar, 16,-.
900, and Mysore, 27,077. Under gover-.
nors there are Madras, with 141,746
square miles, aud Bombay, with 127,-.
533 square miles. Under lieutenant-.
governors, Bengal, with 248,331 square
miles ; the Northwest provinces, with
80,901 ; and the Punish, with 102,001,
Under chief commissioners, Oude, with
23,073 square miles ; and British Bur
ma!), with 93,663 square miles. All this
great region is under British administra-.
tion or government, and is exclusive of
native states. It has a population equal
to an average of 201 per square mile.
While cutting down a tree in Rockdale,
county, in this State, recently, the axe
man cut into a hollow filled with gold
pieces, each amounting to about s.\o
- are supposed to have been hidden
there by some of the followers of De-
Soto, as they were Spanish coins, and on
tlie line of march supposed to have been
taken by him, when he discovered the.
.Mississippi They were embedded six.
inches beneath tlie bark.
A French naturalist hollowed out a
'urge stone and cemented a toad in it.
At the end of five years the anjrnal was,
taken out alive, but in a torpid state.
This fully corroborates tlie New Canaan
story. A large grindstone in Brown’s
axe factory burst while revolviug at great
-peed, and threw out a couple of yellow
lizards. Scientific men assert that the
lizards have been entombed fpr at least
ninety centuries.
Mrs. Mapuiug, of South Carolina, who,
recently died, was connected by blood
with four Governors of the State. Gov.
James B. Richardson was her uuole,
Gov. John P. Richardson her brother,
Gov. Richard I. Manning her husband,,
aud Gov. John L. Manning her son.,
This is certainly a brilliant record.
The deepest well that lias ever been
sunk is in Prussia. It is 4,194 feet deep,
and they are still a digging. If it had
been in Massachusetts they would have
struck hell long ago.
The regular Baptists of the United.
States report an increase of 127,000
members during tlie past year,