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TO ONE.
For some little lime past Dr. Sam
uel Kin us F. R. S. A. etc., Author ef
“Moses aud Geology,"’ has been giving
a series of Lectures to very distin
guished audiences in the London
drawing-rooms of the aristocracy, to
prove that Moses has given fifteen
creative events in the order of se
quence indicated by the latest" scien
tific discoveries, notwithstanding that
there were a billion chances to ono
against his doing so correctly.
All Dr. Kinn’B scientific facts have
been confirmed by the eminent meu
on the various stalls of the Royal Ob
servatory, the Geological Survey, and
the British Musenin, and his calcula
tions have been confirmed by high
class mathematicians; it would seem,'
therefore, that liis denunciations arc
quite unassailable.
The following is a copy of one of
the papers circulated amongst his
hearers, reprinted from “Moses and
Geology,” which wo think will also
interest our readers:
The following order of fifteen < rea
i live events, as taiightbv science, cor
i responds with that given by Modes:
'Primarily. —Science says that mat
ter existed first in a highly’ntter.uated
gaseous condition, Rolled ad he r, Svlth
tout any form, and non-luminous.
Koxcs says: “And the Earth was
vritliQttt form, aud void, and darkness
was upon the face of the deep.”
I. Seieucß; Astronomical facts
go to prove that other worlds were
formed before the Solar System.
Moses: “In the beginning God
created the Heaven aud the Earth.”
11. Science: The condensation of
; a'ther formed luminous nebula', which
Afterwards still further eoudensed in
to snus and worlds.
Moses: “And God said, Let there
b light.”
111. Science: On the cooling of
the Earth some of the gases which
surrounded it combined mechanical
ly and chemically to form air and wa
ter.
Moses: Aud God said, la:t there be
a firmament.
IV. Science: On further cooling,
great convulsions took place, which
heaved up the rocks and raised them
above the universal sea, lormrng
mountains, islands, and continents.
Moses: “And God said, Lot the
dry land appear.
V. —Science : ’I lie earliest forms
of vegetable life were eridently Cryp
togams, such as the algtc, lichens, fun-,
gi, and ferns, which are propagated
by spores, and not by seed. (Dr.
Hicks says that lie lias found ferns
iu the Lower Silurian of Wales.)
Moses: ‘•And God said, Let the
Earth bring forth grass. - ’ (Literal
translation: “Let the earth sprout
forth sproutage,” which might he ren
dered tender herbage.)
VI. —Science: Next succeeded the
lowest class of Phienogams, or* flow
ering plants, called Gyinnosperin*.
from having naked seeds such as the
Conifers. (Dana mentions conifer
ous wood being found in the Lower
Devonian.)
Moses: “The herb yielding seed.”
Vll—Science: These were fel-
lowed “by a-higher class of I'lin no
gams, or flowering plants, bearing a
low order of fruit, found in the Mid
dle Devonian and Carbonilerous
vtrata.
Moses: “And the fruit tree yield
i ingiruit.”
~ higher order of fruit trees ap
<*j^Wn*fi#,hen “God planted a garden,”
Tbo Earth un
til ilV’tV <1 Carboni
ferous ,wio ' *’ ,g " vide ! rtly .
ourronnd 4 . va P or > and an
. vLt w;evailefl all over its
•equable cllm Bub .
Widea, ana then the
Sun caused the 6easo. ', • . , iijAjc
Mo.es: “And God sa \ (
be lights in the firmament. gca _
and let them be for signs and i.
sons.” <„
IX. Science: After the Carbon
ferous period many fresh species of
marine animals appeared, and the
scasswarmed with life.
Moses: “And God said, Let the
waters bring fortl) abundantly.”
X. —Science: In the New Red
Saudstone foot-prints of birds are
found for the lirst time.
Moses: “And fowl that may fly
above the earth.”
XI. Science: Iu the succeeding
strata of the Liasmonster Saurians,
such as the Ichthyosaurus and Plcsi
oaurtis, are found.
Moses: And God created great
w halos.”
(Should have been translated “sea
rn-,inters.”)
XII. Science: Enormous beasts,
suck as the Megalosaurus, Igwano
dsn, andPinothcriuui, preceded the
advent of cattle.
Hoses: “And God made tho beast
•f the earth after his kind.”
XIII. Science: Cattle, such as
oxen and deer, appeared before man;
seme of them in the Post-Pliocene
period.
Moses: “And cattle after tl sir
kind.”
XIV. Science: According to
Agassiz, the principal flowers, fruit
trees, and cereals appeared only a
short time previous to the linmau
race.
Moses: “The I.onl God planted a
garden . . . and out of the
ground made the Lord God to grew
every tree that is pleasant to the eight
and good for food.”
XV. Science: The highest and
last-created form of animal life was
Man.
Moses: “And God created Man in
His own image.”
Finally. —Science: As far as our
present knowledge goes, no fresh spe
cies of plants or animals were created
Merman.
Moses: “God ended his work
which He had made.”
THE WASHINGTON GAZETTE
YOL XVIII.
“Mathematicians all know that the
uumber of changes that can he made
in the order of fifteen things is more
than a billion, via., 1,307,071,368,000;
if then Moses placed fifteen important
creative events in their proper ordey
without the possibility of traditional
help, as most of them happened mil
lions of years before man was created,
it is indeed a strong proof of his in
spiration, for group them as you may,
and take off a further percentage for
any scientific knowledge possessed by
him, still the chauces must lx reck
oned by hundreds of millions against
iris giving the order correctly with-,
ont a special revelation from God.”
WOMEN IN THB.SOVTU.
History Will never detail the self
sacrifice aud heroic courage of South
ern women, writes “M. Quad” in the
Detroit Free l’ress. No matter as to
the right or wrong of the cause—they
believed it was right. The blow
fell upon the family household early
ami with full force. In Virginia sev
en out of leu families were without
men folks at home within three
months from the first battle. Father
and sons went together. The wife
and mother gave all she had, and
then turned to face further anxieties.
There were thousands ol women in
the Old Dominion who had never
laced their shoes or combed their
hair. The slave was at hand to obey
every nod. These women sent their
husbands and sons to the front, and
then faced the question of food supply.
When this occurred the women went
into the fields and put in such crops
as they could. Where the slaves re
mained the mistress was forced to
act as her own manager and over
seer and assume all responsibility.
There are plenty of Federal troopers
still living who found educated and
cultured southern women wielding
hoes aud holding plows in the corn
field within six months of the open
ing of the war.
It was the Southern women more
than the provost marshals who check
ed desertion and made the offense odi
ous. The Confederate who left the
front witlioutloave found no welcome
outside of his own family, lie who
came home by authority, and with a
wound to attest his bravery in action,
was a hero until duly compelled his
return.
No man ever saw a night so wild
that a Southern woman would not
face it to carry news to Confederate
soldiers. Every woman was a scout
and a spy. If (lie mother (S coubi not
go the daughter was sent. If there
was no daughter a dispatch or mes
sage was hurried ofl'hy a negro or a
signal was made. They came to ac
curately estimate the strength of
■■arching columns, to identity one
uiakc of gun from another iu the bat
teries, and where sebuts and spies
could not go the noble women could
It was the women wire sayed Mosby
again and again. It was a w oman
who told General Jackson the exact
strength of the Federal force at Front
Royal before lie fell upon it in carry
ing on his valley campaign. It was a
woman who told Early just how
Sheridan was distributed at Cedar
Creek, and thero was scarcely a battle
ow-Virgi uia's soil with which women
had not something to do as the bear
ers of information. Onco enlisted in
the cause, they did not know what
despair was. They sent their bed
ding to the hospitals, their provis
ions to the army and their jewelry to
a buyer of Confederate arms in Eu
rope, When the Confederate Govern
ment could not furnish rations the
Confederate women did.
N tty.Af MUTES’ CONVENTION.
TSL
- . • days of nobjr conventions,
when men a * U S4)rU * f u things
on the floor, L Mld J ■ the
lobby, it is sootl, <* to ? and lb “ Pro
ceedings ofthe t'nvcntiouof deaf
mutes. Among the b “ndred
present at the session m Yol *
no one was interrupted b/ cries of
“The previous question!” thwd was
no swearing by members of excluded
delegations, and m om, on rising to
speak, was greeted by au uproar that
drowned his voice. Ail Ilia conversa
tion was in pantomime, so each i*an
saved his breath and no one made a
conspicuous fool of himself. A deaf
mute may not always b# a loomumcat
of wisdom, but almost any fool may
be suspected of being a wisemau if he
will forbear to wag his tongue. Let
the politicans take a hint from the
deaf mutes; the country is quite will
ing to stand the consequences.
Whr <a*r Call Bias “OUt Wan.”
“Yes, that’s sadly so,” said Jenkins,
“my hair is turning gray and failing
out before its lime. Use something?
1 would, but most hair restorers arc
dangerous.” “True,” answered his
friend, “but Parker’s Ilair Balsam is
as harmless as it is effective. I’ve tried
it, and know. Give the Balsam a
show ami the boys will soon stop call
ing you ’Old Man Jenkins.’” It never
fails to restore the original color to
gray or faded hair. Bichly perfumed,
an elegant dressing. sep.
Griffin SHn: “Rosa, the little two
year-oid daughter of Joe Atkin, while
eating a peach last Friday, sacked a
portion of it into her trachea, which
so obstructed the passage that air
could not pass to and from the lunga,
and it died before medical aid could
be summoned.”
DUELING—PAST AND PRESENT.
(George William Ciutia. in Harper's Magzine.)
Twenty-five years ago at tke table
of a gentleman whose father had fal
len in a duel, the conversation fell up
on dueling,and after it had proceeded
some time the host remarked emphat
ically, that there were occasions when
it was a man's solemn duty to tight.
The personal reference was to signifi
cant to permit furthur insistiince at
that table that dueling was criminal
folly, and the subjeet of conversation
was changed.
The host however, had only reiter
ated the familiar view of General
Hamilton. His plea was that, in the
state of public opinion at that time
when Burr challenged him, to refuse
to fight under circumstance which by
tho “code of honor'’authorized a ch%l-.
lauge, was to expect a brand of cow
ardice and a want of gentlemanly feel
ing which would banish him to a mor
al and social Coventry, ami throfV a
cloud of discredit upon his family.
Bo Hamilton, one of the bravest men
and one of the acutest intellects of his
time, permitted a worthless fellow to
murder him. Yet there is no doubt
that he stated accurately the general
feeling of the social circle in which ho
lived. There was probably not acon
spieious member of that society who
was of military antecedents who
would not have challenged any man
who had said of him what Hamilton
said of Burr. Hamilton disdained ex
planation or recantation, and the re
sult was accepted as tragical, hut in a
certain sense inevitable.
Yet that result aroused public senti
ment to llio atrocity of this barborous
survival of the ordeal of private bat
tle. That one of the most justly ro
uowned of public men, of unsurpassed
ability, should be shot to death like a
mad dog, because he bad expressed
the general feeling about an unprin
cipled sclicmcr, was an exasperating
public misfortune. Bnt that lie
should have been murdered in defer
ence to a practice which was approved
in the best society, yet which placed
every other valuable life at the mercy
of any wily vagabond, was a public
peril. From that day to this there has
been in duel which could ho said to
have commanded public sympathy or
approval. From the bright June
morning, eighty years ago, when
Hamilton fell at Weehawkcn, to the
June of this year, when two foolish
men shot at each other in Virginia,
there bus been a steady and complete
change of public opinion, And the per
formance of this year was received
with almost universal contempt, and
witjj indignant censure of dilatory
police.
The most cclelnuted duel in this
country since that of Hamilton and
Burr was the encounter between Com
modores Decal ut*and Barron, in 1820,
near Washington, iu which Decatur,
like Hamilton, was mortally
wounded, and likewise lived but a few
hours. The quarrel was one of pe
sional, as Burr's of political jealously.
But as the only conecivaUe advantage
the Hamilton duel luy in its arousing
the public mind to the barbarity of
dueling, the only gain from the Deca
tur duel was that it confirmed this
conviction. In both instances there
was an unspeakable shock to the coun
try and infinite domestic anguish.
Nothing else was achieved. Neither
general manners nor morals were im
proved, nor was the fame of either
combatant heightened, nor public con
fidence in the men nor admiration of
their public services increased. In
both cases It was a calmity alleivcd
solely by the resolution which it
awakened that such calamities should
not occur again.
Such a resolution, indeed could not
at once prevail, and eighteen years af
ter Decatur was killed, Joathan Gilley,
of Maine, was in a duel at Wash
ington by William .1. Graves,
of Kentucky. This event occurred
forty-five years ago, but the outcry
with which it was received even at
that time—one of the newspaper mor
alists lapsing into a rhyme as he de
plored tbo cruel custom which led ex
cellent men to the fatal field—
“Wlire Cili*jr* m/rat th#ir Onrei"-
and the practicia! dlsapearauce of Mr.
Graves from public life showed bow
deep and strong was tho public con
demnation, and how radically the
general view of the duel was changed.
Even in the burning height of the
political and sectional animosity of
1850, when Brooks had assaulted
Charles Sumner, the challenge of
Brooks by some of Summer's friends
met with little public sympathy.
During the excitement the Easy
Chair met the late Count Gur
owski, who was a con
stant ud devoted friend of
Mr. Summer, but an Old World
man, with all the hereditary and so
cial prejudices of the Qbl World.
The Count was furious that such a
dastardly blow had not been avcpgcd.
“Has he no friends?” he exclaimed.
“Is there no houor left in your coun
try?” Aud, as if he would burst
with indignant impatience, he shook
both fists in the air and thundered
out, “Good God! will not somebody
challenge anybody ?”
No, that time is passed. The el
derly club dtfde may lament the decay
of the good old code of lienor—a word
of which he lias a very ludicrous con
ception— as Major Pendennis, whe*
he pulled off ids wig, and took out
his false teeth, and removed the pad
ded calves of his legs, used to liope
* that the world was not sinking into
AVASHINGTON, GA„ FRIDAY, SEPTEMBER 7, 1883.
shams in its old age. Quarreling
editors may gain a morning’s noto
riety by stealing to the field, furnish
ing a paragraph for the reporters and
running away from the police. But
they gain only the unsavoiy notorie
ty of the man in a curled Wig and
flowered waistcoat and huge I flapped
coat of tlie last century who used to
parade Broadway. The costume was
merely an advertisement, and of very
contemptible wares. The man who
fights a duel to-day excites but one
comment. Should he escape ho is ri
diculous. Should ho fall tho common
opinion of enlightened mankind
writes upon his.headslone: “lie died
as the Iboi dictli.”
AN ACTIVE BBAIK.
Wonderful DT.lopin.t In a Pwnt't
vanla Boy Flt. Tear. Old,
Little Morris Castle,"aged not quite
5, is a very remarkable child, says the
Erie Dispatch. He lias never been
to school n day, nor has lie ever been
taught at home, yet he is a better
mathematician than two-thirds of the
grown people a year out of school.
The pleasant little fellow, perched in
the largest editorial chair in the
office, was asked tflic lould count one
hundred.
“Forward or backward ?” asked
tho boy, looking up quickly.
“Either.”
Morris chose (lie latter, anil rattled
oil'the numerals from 100 to 1 in bet
ter timo than bis questioner could
were he to begin at one.
“Twice 00?” asked tho Disjiatch
man, and Morris answered so quickly
that his father volunteered to select
problems equal to (lie boy’s ability.
“How many feet in a mile?"’ asked
his father.
“Five thousand two hundred and
eighty,” replied lie, without the least
hesitation.
“Twice 770?4 ?” was asktd him.
“One thousand five hundred and
forty-one and one-half," he replied
almost before the question had left
the speaker’s lips.
Then followed questions involving
both memory and calculation, and
within reasonable range not a prob
lem puzzled the boy for an instant.
He would look tip with his pretty
blue eyes, move bis lips slightly, as if
calculating to himself, and he give
out the answer iu a business like way
that was simply astonishing. He told
readily 4l>e number of feet in a rod,
hours in a day, days in a year, ounces
in a pound, twice 400, three time 72
anil four times 31. He repealed the
“threes” iu (lie multiplication table,
and could have gone on to the end for
aught the Dispatch man knows. Mr.
Castle said that no effort whatever
had been made to teach the tho child,
and that he li£d obtained his knowl
edge of mathematics by his own ex
ertions and up to within a few
months ago his parents knew nothing
of his precocity.
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WHAT IT COUTH
Between seventeen and twenty
three there are tens of thousands of
young men damaging themselves ir
retrievably by tobacco, You cither
use very good tobacco or cheap tobac
co. If you use cheap tobacco, I want
to tell why it is cheap. It is a mix
ture of burdock, lampblack, sawdust,
colt’s-foot, plantain-leaves, fullers’
earth, lime, salt, alutn and little tobac
co. You cannot afford, my young
brother, to take such a mess as that
between your lips. If, on the other
hand, you use costly tobacco, let ine
say I do not. think you can afford it.
You take that which you expend and
will oxpend, if you keep the habit all
your life, and pit it
aside, and it will buy
you a house, and it will buy you a
farm, to makc'yon com forte, bio iu th#
afternoon of life.
A merchant of New York gave this
testimony: “In early life I smoked
six cigars a day at six and a halt
coins each; they averaged that. I
thought to myself 011 c day, ‘l’ll just
put aside all the money I am con
suming in cigars, and all I would con
sume if I kept on in Hie habit, and I
will see what it will come fo by com
pound interest,” and he gives this
tromeudous statistic: “Last July
completed thirly-nine years since, by
the grace of God, I was emancipated
from the filthy habit, aud Hie saving
amounted to the enormous sum of
129,102.03 by compound interest. We
lived in the city, but the children,
who had learned something of the en
joyment of country life from their
auuual visits to thoir grandparents,
longed for a home among the green
fields. I found a very pleasent place
in the country for sale. The cigar
money now came into requisition, and
I found that it amounted to a suffi
cient sum to purchase Hie place, and it
is in ine, I wish uli American boys
could sop liovr my .children enjoy
fliely home as tficy watch the vessels
with thoir white sails ’-hut course
along the Bouipl, "Sow, hoys, yoM
take your choice, ynokiug without a
home, or a home without smoking.”—
Rev, Dr. Talmago.
H. H. P. is without doubt llie best
Panacea now on ilufmarwet for bead,
aclie, dyspepsia and kindred evils. It
is maufactnred right here in Augusta,
and a trial will convince any one.
The Evening News gives 11. H. P. its
unqualified endorsement.—Augusta
Evening News. For sale by Janies
A, Bepson, Washington,Ga.
INDIAN FARRIERS IN NORTH CARO
LINA.
The Indian farmers in "Western
North Carolina are located in Swain
County, fifty miles from auy railroad,
and comprise one thousand eight hun
dred' men, women and children.
AVhea the Chcrokees were removed
to tlieir reservations these Indians,
that is, this remnant, absolutely re
fused to go ami the Government fin
ally consented to their remaining.
They are, most of them farmers.
Their “farms” run in size from one
hundred acres down to ten. They
own their laud, live pretty well, and
use the same implements as Hie whites.
Tlioy raise own, wheat small fruits,
and vegetables, making a speciality
They plow gener
afty 11 1 ti \ sl^'Tonml;--the whiter* arc
so mild. Their farms i resent a fair
appearance, the fields being enclosed
with the Virginia rail fence. Tlioy
do their own horse-shoeing, and oth
er work ‘le.rtuiniug to the blacksmith
shop. Asa general thing they are
moral, and do not us# intoxicating
drinks.
They are under the leadership of
Chief Jarrett Smith. Chief Smith is
about forty years of age, straight as an
arrow, anil over six feet high. He
has a wifefand eight children who have
been taught. English, aud twooftlicra
arc able to teach in any school in the
country, The people go to GliUf
Smith for advice, and obey him.
AVliilo they observe the Legislative
enactments of North Carolina, they
innko laws ami regulations for them
selves. They talk the Cherokee lan
guage. They have schools conducted
by Qunkers, of which Hie General Su
perintendent is a man named Brown.
The children arc (aught English.
Their school houses arc built of logs,
and partially covered with shingles.
The Indians arc now constructing a
new building for educational purpos
es- School is kept up the year round.
The children are paid a cent a day for
attendance, aud at Christmas tlioy
receive mow clothing from the Quak
ers.
Suit Owl, the preacher of these, In
dian farmers, is six feet two inches,
ami about fifty years old. He preach
es with great power, and his sermons
are longer than while people would
care to listen to. Frequently he will
discourse tor an hour and a half at a
time, tholisteners remaining uutil the
sermon is finished :and not infrequent
ly afterapj Ilcv. Mr. Owl lias closed
hisdisiavirse, another preacher takes
tb| delivers a > econd ser
mon, llv people remaining and listen
ing to tho finish. Tho ladiuns uro
mainly Methodists and Baptists, and
are good citizona generally.
They display a good deal of mechani
cal ingenuity. A convenient lathe,
invented by one of their tribe, is gen
erally used by them iu the manufac
ture of thoir housshould goods, etc.
Thoir corn mills are rude in the ex
treme. The mill entire, consists of a
section of white oak, hollowed out,
together with a dottble-ender, very
heavy at both ends. A man or wom
an, as Hi* case may be, pounds the
com.
It is noteworthy, Hint wherever the
half civilized tribes of Indians arc set
tled, they compel the women to per
form all the labor, but here Hie men
do their share. The Indian women
arc very ingenious at making baskets
ofail kinds, though not so skillful in.
his line •!' labor as the Passamaquod.
dies of Maine. One of the interesting
characteristics anieiig the females is
the Indian nurse. Kite wraps her
child in a wlftte sheet, and carries it
about upon her back, instead ef hav
ing tho infant strapped closely to her
hack in papoose style. Tho settlement
is about sixty miles from Ashville, N.
C. A itflw railroad, when completed,
will ron within ten miles of here.
—American Agriculturist.
TIIK WORSHIP OF CHOLKBA.
In Lower Bengal, Dr. Maenamra. a
great authority, whoso “History of
Asiatic. Giiolora" is a text-book on the
subject—and a very confused text
book it is*-*ays that the natives have
for a long time past worshipped the
Goddess of Obolora as the Oola Beehce
whose temple is at Calcutta. The tra
ditloius that ut au early period, the
date ol which can not new be ascer
tained—“once upon a time”—a female,
while wandering about in (lie woods,
met a large stone, the symbol of the
Goddess of Cholera, and it became
a prcvalant idea among the Hindoos
that worship oi the deity through this
stone was the only means of preserva
tion from the influence of disease. As
the fame of tho goddess spread, peo
ple floekd from all parts,,rlhe country
to her sbrine at Calcutta. Apart from
the period of a Cholera epidemic the
temple was'most frequented by pil
grims iu the months of April, May
and June. The votaries of Hie god
dess last iu the morning aud evening
partaking of adisli of crushed rice aud
dliglice, a preparation of milk, at 2
o’clock iu the aftoruoon. At the time
•f which Dr. Macuauiara writes, be
tween 300 and 400 females ul to
worship after this fashion every Tues
day aud Saturday. All of these used
to bring offerings, The idol Was at
one period productive of a large In
come totlie priestly family ft hi whoso
posessiou it had passed, but. latterly
the income lias only amotilcd to be
tween £3O and £4O a year. Original
ly the home of the idol was under a
bamboo shed, but about an En-
glisli merchant, to give pleasure to his
native friends, built a temple for it.
This becoming iiicouvicntly* situated,
thirty years later,, Mr. Duncan, who
had married a Mohammedan lady,
erected the temple at present in use,
his contribution amounting to £6OO.
“Tho old rude stone was transferred
to tho now temple, and a somewhat
elaborate idol constructed. It repre
sented in 111 cccntre a(.areas, with a vul
ture preying on it. Upon llie back of
the vulture the goddess, with
folded hands, is rep-
resented in a silling posture. On her
right is Muusha, the goddess of ser
pents to her is Shiva, the de
stroying principle. Next comes a fe
male in suppliant posture, and a male
affiicled with t,he disease^tho female
is svpposetl to be praying to Shiva for
the recovery of her husband. On the
leftof goddes are tho idols of Sheelola,
the goddeas of small-pox,and of Shus
ter,! he goddess presiding over infants
and children.”
THE USE OF SALT.
AVo have received from a corres
pondent a letter making some inqui
ries into tho use of salt, and we arc
given to understand that among oth
er fellies of tbo day some indiscreet
persons arc objecting to the use of
salt, and propose to do without it.
Nothing could be more absurd. Com
mon salt is the most widely distribu
ted substance in the body ; it exists in
every fluid and in every solid ; and
not only is everywhere present, but
in almost every part, it constitutes the
largest portion of the ash when any
tissue is burnt. In particular, it is a
constant constituent of the blood, and
it maintains in it a proportion that is
almost wholly independent ef the
quantity that is consumed with the
food. The blood will take up so much
and no more, however much we may
takc without' food ; and, on the other
hand, if none bo given, the blood
parts with its natural quantity*slowly
and unwillingly. Under ordinary
circumstances a healthy man loses
daily about, twelve grains by on#
channel or Hie other, and if he is to
maintain his health that quantity is
to be Introduced. Common salt is of
Immense importance in the processes
ministering to the nutrition of tlie
body, for not only Is the chief salt
in tlie gastric juice an essential for
the formation of bile, mid may hence
be reasonably regarded as of high
value in digestion, but it is an impor
tant n<?ent in wVbiiK** l c—
f diffusion, and thereforo of absorp
tion. Direct experiment lias shown
that It promotes the decomposition
of albumen in the body, acting prob
ably b y increasing the activity ofthe
transmission of fluids from cell to
coll, Nothing can demonstrate its
value better Ilian the fact that if al
bumen without salt is introduced in
to Hie intestines of an animal no por
tion of it is absorbed while it all
quickly disappears if salt he added.
If any further evidence wero re
quired it could be found in the pow
erful instinct which impels animals
to obtain sail. Buffaloes will Irarel
for miles to reach a “salt-lick and
the value of salt in improving 1 lie
nutrition and Hie aspect of horses and
call!# is well known to every far
mer,
The conclusion, therefore, is obvi
ous that salt, being wholesome, and
indeed necessary, should betaken in
moderate quantities, and Hint absten
tion from it islikoly to be injurious
—London Lancet.
Tho trade dollar is again coming in
to circulation, which is rather hard
on the people who' have worked off
their surplus stock on the contribu
tion box.—Rochester Post-Expross.
In France, women livo an average
thirteen years longer than men. This
is as it should be. It is only a wom
an wiio looks well in a mourning cos
tume.—Detroit Free Press.
Tliu high school girl condemns Hie
phrase “tumble to the racket” as vile
slang. She says “precipitate ill the
direction of the clamor” is a more ele
gant expression.—OU City Derrick.
“I toll you, it’s been a powerful
close season in Michigan this sum
mer,” said the I ramp, as he fished in
his poket f*r another green apple.
“Why, last Biimmcr, I kept mysolf
dressed like a gentleman by stealing
the scare crows from the certi fields,
hut this year the farmers rip a pair
of pants in two and make Hie two
ragged legs do duly over a whole for
ty acres”.
“1 soo you’ve got a colored servant
girl,” said a Somerville man to an
other the oilier day. ‘•Yes.” was the
reply; “you *cc my wife’s sister, out
in California, has just lost her hus
band, so as we had to get iglo mourn
ing, we discharged our while girl
and hired a colored one. She kind
of harmonize* with the mourning, as
it were.—Somerville Journal.
A school of poor children, having
read In the Bible the denunciation
against hypocrites who “strain at a
gnat and swallow a camel,” were af
terward examined by a benevolent
patroness as to their recollections of
the chapter. “What, in particular,
was Hie sin of the Pharisees, chil
dren ? said the lady, “Ailing cam
els, my lady,” was I lie prompt reply.
—Glasgow Evening Times.
NO. 36
THE NEW PATIENT
DUST - PROOF
Stem Wiiiii Open Face Cak,
MANUFACTURED BY THE
AMERICAN WAYCH CO.,
WALTHAM, MASS.
This cas in formed in oue solid piece without
joint or Beam, opening in front only, "iJiuji avoiding
the usual Cap, and Boc'uring greator iitrtingth aud
durability. ' /
Tlieae Watches are all open tffo. TU texol, into
which an extra aUoim is fitted Wh an os
pectally prepared ‘Wafor-proo/ remont, ii V SM-whed
to the case it thereon, and tlmi forma
an air-tight Junction with tho body of the case
which ia proof egainßt dust and moiaturo.
To railroad men, travellers, miners, lumbermen
and others who are almost constantly oxposod, aud
who havo to make frequent rcferenco to the watch
these qualities aro of tho utmost importance.
The Following Letters tell Their Own
Story.
Valdosta, Georgia, July 20, 1882.
“I sold one of your Patent Dust rroof Cases
about ton months ago, and the other Jay it came
back with tho request to make it wind easier. On
examination I found that tho stem was rusty, and 1
inquired into tho cause of it. The goutlotnau stated
to me that ho was starting some saw logs that had
lodged in the bend of tho river, when his chain
caught in a bush and threw his watch Into about
twelve feet of water., and he was about two hours
ttnding it. When he got it out it was running and
he thought all right. In about tlireo mouths ho
found that the Btora was hard to turn and sent it
to me.
I can say that the watch is all that the company
claims for it, and recommend it to all railroad and
mill meu. B. W. BENTLEY.”
Clinton, lowa, April 20,1881.
“I wish you woultl sond me a spring for tit* Wm.
Ellery Watch * * * By the way thin Ellery iu a watch
I sold in your Screw Bezel Case, to a farmer last
fall. The first of January he lost tho watch iu the
woods, and found it thin week in about ou foot of
water. It had laid throe months and over in snow
and water, with but alight injury to the watch -
only a hairaprlug. C. S. RAYMOND.”
Tho above were very severe tents, and domon
atrate beyond a doubt that for any reasonable
length of time during which a watch might be
under water It would receive no Injury whatever.
Wc make thoao earns* iu both gold aud silver, ami
w a Perfectly Dnat-Prottf Stem Winding Batch
Case, Challenge the World to Produce it* Equal.
For Sale by all First-Class Jewelers*
Tax Assessment for 1883.
STATE OF GEORGIA, WILKES COUNTY.
CIOUNTY COURT, sitting for county purposes.
J The following assessment* on the state tax are
hereby made lor county purposes for 1883; and
Wm. R. Wraith, tax collector for Raid county, and
ilia HucccßNor in oiflee, are instructed ami required
to collect the same, viz :
For Roads,Bridges and Pub. Buil
dings 8 per centum
For Sheriffs aud vthcr officers... 3
“ Coroner 1 . •*
** Juror*....— ••
" other luwful charges I** ** ,4
..
Also the following for special purposes.
Paupers 8 “ •*
Repairs Court House 2‘, “ ”
Sulary Cos. Judge (by the Ordinary. ll)?* " “
For purchasing Bite and building
office* for Ordinary and Clerk
Superior Court and Reposlto*
ries for County Records 33 “ 14
Total 95 “ 41
Tha same being 23 7-10 cents on one hundred
dollars worth o! property.
Witness my hand aud official signaturo, this 25th
day of Aug. 1883. C. E. WINGFIELD,
aug3u im County Judge.
CURED BY
Oliier’s Quick; Relief
Rheumatism, Neuralgia, Headache
Toothache, Colds, Sore
Throat, Bites, Stines
of Insects, Colic
in Houses. &e.
PREPAUED KV
MAYS Sc CO.
ATLANTA, GA.
For Halo l.y O. K. LYNDON, WaaUliigton (la.
Alhea k Bro., ltchoboth, G*„ Mathewß k Tally
Danburg, Ga. t w. B. Norman. Pistol, G.
KEEP IT BEFORE THE
PEOPLE,
TUB LARGEST STOCK OF
Stoves, Ranges,
GRATES,
SLATE AND IRON MANTELS,
PUMPS, ItUBBR lIOSE, WROUGHT
IKON riPE,
Steam & Gas Fittings,
Shoot Iron, Copper, J/t-ad, Stamped, Plain and
Japanned Tin Ware, Gum and Oil Chandolirß,
Baby Carriages, Refrigerators, Leer Cooler*, Tee
Cream Freezor*. Water Coolers, Cottage Mantel*
Parlor Mantel*, Grates, Gas Chandelier* a specialty
Come and look through this stock, bo convinced
and bay what you want at reasonable prices.
PLUMBING,
GAS FITTING,
Bt*am Heating. Tin Itooflng, Galvanized Iron
Ornamental Work, Sewerage, dpno promptly on
short notice, Como and see.
BABY CARRIAGES.
Avery large assortment of the most beautiful
aud excellent Baby Carriages. ap27
HRNNICUT & BELLINGRATH
36 Ac 38
PEAOHTBBE STREET
Atlanta, Georgia,
*■ lI£ PBIBINE* I SIVIRSI ,
For niuttitteSciroular* AUxoaotaol ”>i
um tkhool. UKablUkett buenbi/ mn.
Legal Advertisements
Citatum for Letters ot Dismiss!oa
GEORGI A, WILKKB COUNTY.
AV" I mmta A m,n W ni”" “'iminWralor, a,
i ooijlh non. nl si ;( lo o( John T „
ropiwßnto to the Court in hi. petili,.,,
kc.. that he has fully administered John T ? r.lu
way’s estate; This is therefore to e?to "if," , ~
ooneerned, heirs and creditors, lo show
any they can, why said administrator slmX ’nm
be discharged from his administration X,,i
oeivo le ters of dismission, on the first ?Io“3y , .
September, 18SI. This May 30,1853 MOD ' ! *y * *
JnneQJlm am. DYSON. Ordinary W C
\ Citation for Letters of Dismission
GEORGIA, WILKES COUNTY.
administrator should not soif.reod'frmn'm 3
administration and receive lotto™ f! m hU
a* nm M on,ta y m
1 JunS-Sm GBO.tWSON,
Ordinary w. C.
Administrator’s SaTo~ ~
GEORGIA, WILKES COUNTY.
I 5 V ry I of T won?2‘ n , 0r ''f ,h 0 Court of Qrdin*.
term, lost, of said courtli'wi’lToxre “‘t.ra and Y'S^*
> u t I”'"" • wJISa‘Sr ,rn r S
an" tU?i:Yho ta lSa P l t i;n , n b^;*{;, a ‘*'' , ' ,i V tt '^
te“o.d^
El <t A<in ' r of ,lr. J. Randolph.
Citation for Letters of Bjfflnission."
EO RGIA, WILKE# COUNTY.
YYTHEREAS Job 11. Stov.’vll, executor of Abram
vl'lds in thcrofc.ro to cite „" Urt u <* estate.
| v u irs and creditors, t. sU;."/,,,™ 1 * c ? cur ‘‘* 4 '
Ibis 7th day ot August. 1888.
auglo-am GEO* DYSON, Ordinary W. C.
Citation tor Lottars of Dismission.
OEOIitUA, WILKES COUSTY.
\\nir.ltEAH, !>. c. Hill, I'xiimi; oi a. T J
,1, 'yreyon. represents to tlm cotfrttn his pa
tition, that lie has fully administered A. i . j
Wootten s estate. This is, therelor. ft cite ~n
porsous concerned, helm and credit to 'Low
tll0 ?? lln ’ why soldex.-Rlir shoo'd
not be discharge I from his admlnfstraiio... :.„d m
( .■ITO letters ot dismiSßiou on the first .'louc-v in
December, 1333, . gem. I> , s '
Jia-dtu. Ordinary W.'c.
Notice for Leave to Sell Land.
GEORGIA, WILKES COUNTY.
APPLICATION will be made to the Court of Oj
dimu y of Wilkeu county, (ia., at the first rutr
ular term after Urn expiration of ;!<i days frmdfHhie
notice, lor leave to soli a portion of tho lauds be
longing to the estate of George W. Florence, late of
said county, deceased, for tho benefit of the heirs
and creditors of said deceased. This Aug, 'list
188 - A. A. BARNETT.
„„' C. 13. FLORENCE,
aug2Mt Ex’rs of G. W. Florence.
Notion to Debtors and Creditors.
GEOItGIA, WILKES COUNTY.
N’OTICE i hereby sirm to ail persons luviitr
demands against Geo. W, Florence, late oT
said county, deceased, to present them to the un
dersigned properly made out, within the time
prescribed by law, so > us to show their "character
and amount. And all persons indebted to said
deceased are hereby required to make immediata
payment to the underaig nud. July 3d, 1983.
,C. E. FLORENCE.
A. A. BARNETT.
Ext’h Geo. W. Florence.
Administrator’s Sale.
GEORGIA, WILKES COUNTY.
IV y irt T IIE of , un or,lar uf tbe court of ordinary
of said county, passed at the November term.
1882 I as udmiuiKtrator du bonis mm * Reuben
Smith, deceased, will oxposo to Bale at public out
cry, before the Court house door in Washington,
(3a., within the legal hours of sale on tho Ist Tues
day in October, 18*1, a tract of land lying in said
connl v. on the road from Washington to Mallorys
| ullf, a bon t seven miles from Washington. s,tid
tract containing three hundred and eighty-tfx
acres, moro or lens, and being the plncu whore said
Bmit It resided prior to his death. Hold as the prop
erty of Reuben Smith's estate to pay debts and for
distribution among bin heirs. Terms- Five hun
dred cash on day of sale, the balance due Dec. 25,
IHB.I, without interest, the purchaser giving a note
and receiving bond for titles. Tho premise* are
rented for this year. Tho tenant consenta that tho
purchaser have the prlvilago of going on the place
to arrange for the coining year and to sow grain as
fpr as does not luturter* with the ck-dpofthe tenant
tho
Adm'r de bonis uon of Reuben Smith,
Georgia Railroad Company.
Office General Manager, )
Augusta, Ga., April 28,1883, )
/'■'IOMMI2NCING Sunday, 29th inst., Washington
V 7 Brandi Trains will run as follows, daily :
Leave Washington 11.20 a. m.
“ Ficklcn 11.53 ..
44 Raytown 12.23 i\ u.
Arrive at Barnett 12.40 “
“ Athens'. 5.05 *
“ Atlanta 5.50 •*
44 Millodgeville: *’49 •*
44 Maoon g. 45 *
44 Augusta
Leave Augusta A . M
44 Macon ••
14 Millodgeville 9.10
" Atlanta 8.20
44 Athens 9.05* .4
44 Barnett 1.35 •*
44 Raytown 1.67 *
44 Ficklen.. 2.22 u
Arrivo at Washington 2.05 •*
Trains conuefft at Atlanta an l Augusta for all
points West, North-wost, Fust and South-west.
JOHN W. QUEEN, Gen. Manages,
E. R. DORSEY, Gen. rasa. Agent.
T. M. H. OVA
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Selected from ten of tha
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so much less, that Pur
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ing to
Gr. O. ROBINSON & CO
Save monev at 831 Broad,
street, Augusta, Ga.
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