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ABOVE THE ARCTIC CIRCEE
THE MARTELS OF THE FRIGID ZONE —
INTERESTING EXPERIENCES IN THE
SEARCH FOR THE OPEN PARLOR SEA
SURROUNDED BY ICEBERGS.
Dr. Isaac J. Hayes, delivered the sec
ond of his course of lectures descriptive of
his researches and adventures in search of
the open parlor sea before a large audi
ence in Association Hall last night. The
glaciers and icebergs of Greenland were
vividly described. All the interior of
Greenland, the lecturer said, is one vast
field of ice, which gradually and imper
ceptibly moves downward toward the sea
the centre moving somewhat more rapidly
than the sides, and by the fractures thus
created giving to the ice those fantastic
shapes which from time immemorial have
been at once the marvel and admiration
of explorers. When the glacier reaches
the sea it passes on as before over the in
clined plain beneath the surface, until so
much of it is immersed that it is no longer
able to resist the buoyancy of the water,
and breaking from glacier, with a roar
that can be heard for miles, the iceberg
rises to the surface, and floats away some
times as far as the coast of Newfoundland,
while the glacier continues its ceaseless
movement downward to farm new icebergs
from age to age. The masses of ice thus
detached of course vary in size, but in
all of them there is seven times as much
ice under water as appears above the sur
face. From the deck of his vessel Dr.
Hayes once counted as many as 500, some
as large as the ball in which he stood,
others as large as Trinity Church, still
■others as large as the city of New York,
.and yet others twelve times the size of
New York. One in especial arose 317
feet above the surface, and he computed
its weight to have been not less than
twenty-seven billions of tons.
THE MIDNIGHT SDN.
Willi regard to the midnight sun, Dr.
Hayes related an incident which, had he
not actually witnessed it himself, might
possibly have been received with incredu
lity by his audience. As he traveled
northward the days gradually lengthened
until darkness ceased altogether, and the
sun was never out of sight. The pas
sengers on board the ship were much
incommoded, and were obliged to create
rartilicial darkness by drawing curtains all
around them when they desired to sleep.
The dumb animals on board were in a
jpittiful state of consternation ; the doge
howled ceasingly. and evinced a desire to
bay the sun. But the most remarkabld
eflect was created upon an old rooster, the
last of their stock of fowl, whose life has
been spared in consideration of his age,
and consequent toughness. This venera
ble bird day after day, watched the heav
ens, but found that n oportunity of her
alding the approach of dawn by his
wonted crow. His mind at last gave
way, and one morditig, in full view of the
astounded voyagers, the unhappy bird
flew upon the rail of the ship, stretched
his neck toward the sun.
In 1859 Dr. Haye’s first expedition sailed
morthward, and breaking through the ice
in Baffin's Bay, penetrated as tar as lati
tude 75 degrees, this, up to that time, be
ing the furtherest point ever attained by ex
plorers. On the iceburgs which he en
countered, polar bears were very numer
ous. These animals, he said, which voy
agers are so fond of depicting. They are,
in fact, very timid creatures. As an in
stance of their cowardice, he related an
account of his suddenly meeting one in
the middle of an arctic night, that is to
say broad daylight. Without a moment’s
hesitation the doctor turned and ran, nev
er stopping until his breath was utterly ex
hausted ; he then looked behind him to
see, as fie said, how long a lease of life
remained for him, and to his unspeakable
relief saw the bear was running also, but
Jn the opposite directien.
AN HOUR OF TERROR.
Avery perilous adventure through
•which he passed during the voyage was
listened to with breathless attention. The
ship waa lying in a large natural bay or
harbor, close to a glacier; one day a ter
rific roaring startled every one on board.
An immense iceberg had parted from the
glacier, and risen to the surface so near
the ship that the first of a succession of
waves which it created carried the vessel,
dragging her anchor, entirely across the
bay, leaving her within a few feet of the
recks on the opposite side. The waves re
coiling, threw over the deck a volume of
water that swept before it everything not
made fast, and forced the crew to hold on
for their lives.
Two of the finest glaciers the lecturer
saw he christened after Prof. Tyndall in
compliment to that great scientist for his
Alpine researches Among the interest
ing features of the lecture was the exhibi
tion of some exquisite photogrpahs of Arc
tic scenes reflected upon a curtain on the
stage. One of these was a gigantic rock
on the cost ofGreenland, wliichjwas in all
respects similar to that on which the ill
fated Atlantic had struck, and it was
matter of surprise to Dr. Hayes, in view
of the nature of the coast, that so many of
the Atlantic’s passengers had been saved.
Melville Bay was the highest point reached
in this expedition. In concluding his lec
ture Dr. Hayes this trip might
be made by any gentleman during the
summer months in his own yacht. Noble
sport could be found iD shooting polar
bears, and the trip would be no more dan
gerous than crossing the Atlantic. At
the first blush it might seem that sailing
among these tremendous glaciers and ice
bergs was perilous ■ivigation, bat it
should be borne in mind that tlio proper
season darkness never hides them, aud
hence danger from this source need scarce
ly be apprehended.
A young girl left Lowell, Massachusetts,
two years ago with SSOO in her pocket,
and went to Kansas and turnd farmer.
She could sell out her property this day
for $60,000.
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The Marquis of Bute has refused to
grant the tenantry of his estate au exten
sion of time for the payment of their rents.
The tenantry represented that the unpre
cedented rainiall of the past year had
caused the crops of potatoes and turnips
to fail, and that the wheat and barley had
been damaged in harvest-lime, and in
viewoftljese disasters they begged for a
postponement of the pay day. They now
have the aitei native of paying immediately
or vacating the lands.
A large number oftype setting machines
have been invented, aud there are some
actually in use, but this use cau never be
come general until a difficulty hitherto in
surmounted Ims been overcome. It ap
pears easy enough to invent a machine to
set type and distribute it, but none has yet
been made which can justify the matter —
that is, "space” the lines, and make them
of certain lengths. All thus far brought
forth set the matter in one long continuous
line, and it must be afterward justified by
hand. This is a work requiring patience
and time, so much, indeed of the latter, that
the type machines are, to all intents aud
purposes, failures.
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State Lunatic Asylum.—Ur. Thos.
F. Greene, Superintendent of the State
Lunatic Asylum, now in the city,-, in at
tendance upon the Georgia Medical Asso
ciation, informs us there are five hundred
and seventeen patients in that institution
He says that the accommodations are so
limited now that, in three mouths more,
more patients cannot be received except as
vacancies occur.
The Legislature should look into this
matter and make further provisions for
the care of the lunatics and embeciles of
the State. The Asylum ought to be en
larged so as to accommodate the increasing
number of such patieuls.
Dr. Greene is entitled to the respect
and confidence of all philanthropists of
the State, for the devoted care with which
he has presided over the institution. — At
lanta Sun.
A TltlllUTE TO TIIE MARRIAGE TlK.—
On this subject, the Daily Graphic of Sat
urday has the following :
“Never was a higher tribute paid to the
marriage state than was given by the mar
ried men who were passengers on the
wrecked Atlantic. The record of their
fate is extremely touching. With few ex
ceptions, they all perished, refusing to
desert their wives and little ones. Wives
begged their husbands to seek flight from
the sinking quarter-deck, but they never
stirred. Hand clasped in hand, husbands,
wife and child went down together. In the
supreme moment of life, wife and husband
forget all past bickerings, and lost fear of
death in the companionship of each other.
They recked not of the opinions of the
world, while the waives swept over them
and the horror of sudden destruction was
imminent, but were simply true to their
instincts. One such fact will outweigh
volumes of argument in favor of free love
and easy divorce.”
A Billy Goat’s Raid on a Panier —
An amusiHg case of assault and battery
took place yesterday on the corner of Sixth
street and Virginia avenue. Three respec
table ladies were taking a quiet walk,
dressed in gay colors, and while in the lo
cality named were astonished by the head
and horns of a billy goat coming in con
tact with the most prominent portion—as
fashions go—of the outlines of one of the
promenaders, making sad havoc of the
fixings. The ladies screamed at the top
of their voices as the irate quadruped per
sisted in chasing and butting them right
and left. A crowd soon assembled and
amoDg them Officer John N. Berry, who,
without the authority of a warrant took
the dilemma by both horns, and thus re
lieved the frightened ladies, who scamper
ed off some to repair damages. The as
sailant was persauded to the First precinct
station house, where he butted the boards
off his stall before his wrath subsided.
This morning, after a hearing before Lieut.
Gessford, he was turned over to the tender
mercies of the pound men without secur
ity.— Wathington Star.
Death From Smoking. —The New
York correspondent of the Buffalo Courier
reports a sad case of death resulting from
smoking. He says that for thirty years
the victim had been a heavy smoker of the
choicest cigars, but iu all his other habits
temperate and regular, and of excellent
constitution—one who, of all men, would
have laughed at the suggestion that tobac
co was killing him. On Sunday he was
stricken with the progressive paralysis
characteristic of nicotine, and on the next
Sunday night he died. His death was
most pitiful. First, sight was lost, then
speech, then motion of the neck, then mo
tion of the arms, and so on throughout the
body, and he lay for a fortnight unable to
wove or make a sign, save a pitiful,
tongueless, inarticulate sound, which
sometimes rose to almost frantic effort, all
in vain, to make known what he wished
to say to his family or friends—for his
consciousness and mental faculties were
Ipft unimpaired till within two hours of the
last, to aggravate to the utmost the horror
of his situation—a living soul in a dead
body. The sense of hearing was left un
impaired, so that he was conscious of all
around him, while as incapable of com
municating with them as if dead, save by
a slight sign of assent or dissent to a ques
tion. The doctors were fully agreed that
tobacco was the sole cause of the stioke.
MACON, GA„ SATURDAY, APRIL 12, 1878.
psiMMONsl
For over FORTY YEARS this
I’IRKLY VEU ETAJBLE
LIVER MEDICINE has proved to be the
Great Unfailing: Specific
for Livkk Complaint and the painful offspring,
DYSPEPSIA, CONSTIPATION, Jaundice,
Billious attacks, SICK HEADACHE, Colic,
Depression of Spirits SOUR STOMACH,
Heart Bum, Ac., <sc.
After years of careful experiments, to meet a
great ami urgent demand, we now produce
from our Original GENUINE POWDERS,
THE PREPARED,
a liquid form of SIMMONS’ LIVER REGU
LATOR, containing all its wonderful and val
uable properties, and offer it In
ONE UOLLAK BOTTLES.
The Powders, (price a6 before) SI.OO perp’kge.
Sent by mail 1.04
J3T CAUTION!! J&l
Buy no Powders or PREPARED SIMMONS’
LIVER REGULATOR unless in our engraved
wrapper, with Trade mark. Stamp and Signa
ture unbroken. None other is genuine.
.1. 11. ZEIUIN A CO.,
MACON, GA., and PHILADELPHIA.
SOU) BY ALL DRUGGISTS,
jan 31-523
MERCHANTS
AND
PLANTERS
/
WILL FIND IT TO THEIR AD
VANTAGE TO CALL ON US
BEFORE MAKING THEIR
BILLS.
WE HAVE IN STORF,
100.000 LBS. BACON CLEAR R.
SIDES.
25.000 LBS. BACON SHOUL
DERS.
10.000 LBS. BELLIES.
50.000 LBS. FLOCJR, all grades.
500 ROLLS 2i BAGGING.
10.000 LBS. ARROW TIES.
10 BALES TWINE.
JOHNSON & SMITH.
JOHNSON & SMITH,
“Have, and are offering at very
low figures :
100 BOXES TOBACCO, all
grades.
100 IJBLS. WHISKIES.
150 BBLS. SUGAR.
50 BBLS. MOLASSES.
100 BALES HAY.
1.000 BUSHELS CORN,
Together with a full stock o 1 all
all goods in onr line of business.
Opening for the Summer.
HAVING rented the house and grounds of
Mr, N. Binswanger, on TatnaU Square, I
will open it as a place of resort during the
spring and summer. The beat Lager Beer will
be always kept cool and nice, as well as the
finest brands of Wines.
I will be pleased to see all of my friends and
the public generally an next Sunday, when it
will be thrown open. The strictest, order will
be preserved. E. M. BKOWN.
apl4-lwfrsatsu
Don’t W This!
WE are now in receipt of a freah and Invi
ting stock of
CHOICE
Family Groceries
Consisting In part of the following:
Fresh Fulton market Beef,
Ferris’ I¥. If. Hams (unexcelled)
Choice Beef Tongues,
Ileckcr’s Self-raising Flour,
Canned Frails and Vegetables,
Fresh Crackers,
Etc., Eh „ Eh-.
PARCHED
Rio and Java
COFFEES,
GROUND FREE OF CHARGE.
Oolong and Im
perial Teas,
AT 70 AND ISO CTN. PER Ell.
GIERMAN
GROCERIES
A SPECIALTY.
Segars! Segars!
“ PUTZEL’S DELIGHT ”
AND
“ PUTZEL Jk JACOBS’ FA-
VOKITES”
Arc the most popular Sugars in town.
Try tliem anti you'll smoke no
•them.
ourt PRICES ARE LOWER THAN EVER.
GIVE US A CALL.
PUTZEL & JACOBS,
Second St., Dnmour'* Mock.
marlS #
IMPORTANT TO
CAPITALISTS!
J?HE City Bank is authorized to receive sub
scriptions for the State Bonds authorized to be
issued by an Act of the last Legislature.
The Bonds to have the following strong
points to commend them to such as are seek
ing investments:
They bear eight per cent interest.
They are free from all taxation, and irrepeal
able prevision is made in the act of authoriza
tion for the prompt payment of the interest
and the Bonds as they fall due.
Wall street says the State of Georgia has no
credit since the report of the Bond Committee
In 1872.
Georgians, hurl back this libel on your fair
fame by promptly taking up this loan iu the
Interest of your State.
mar2l C. A. NUTTING, President
Change of (Schedule.
ON MACON AND AUGUSTA RAILROAD.
FORTY-ONE MILES SAVED IN DISTANCE
Omci Macon and Augusta Railroad, I
Macon, May 18, 187a. (
ON and after Sunday, May 19, 1873, amlpn
til further notice, the trains on this Koud
will ran as follows:
DAY TRAIN—DAILT (SUNDAYS EXCEPTED).
Leave Macon 6.80 a. w
Arrive at Augusta 1-1“ r. m.
Leave Augusta 13.15 r. v.
Arrive at Macon 7.40 p. m.
tSfPassengers leaving Macon at 7.80 a. m.
make close connection at Camak with day pa*
senger trains on the Georgia Railroad for At
lanta and all points West; also, for Augusta,
with trains going North, and with trains for
Charleston ; also, for Athens, Washington, and
ail stations on the Georgia Railroad
CifTickete sold and baggage chc xed to ail
points North, both by rail and by steamships
from Cliarleston.
24-lv 8. K. JOHNSON Suo’t.
Change of Schedule.
MACON AND. WESTERN R. R. C 0.,)
Macon, Ga., November 16, 1873. f
ON and after Sunday November 17, the fol
lowing schedule for Passenger Trains
will be observed on this road:
DAY PASSENGER.
Leave Macon 7:25 a. u.
Arriveat Macon 7:48 A. m.
Leave Atlanta 1:45 a. m.
Arrive at Atlanta 1:35 v. u.
NIGHT PASSENGER.
Leave Macon lfl:00 p. if.
Arriveat Macon 8:30 p. m.
Leave Atlanta 2:30 p. it.
Arrive at Atlanta 6:00 A. M.
Making close connections at Macon with
Central Railroad for Savannah ami Augusta,
and with Southwestern Railroad for points in
Southwest Georgia. At Atlanta with Western
and Atlantic Railway for pointaJWest
A. J. WHITE,
nov3tf Superintendent.
W. fc E. P. TAYLOR,
Cor. Cotton Avenue and Cherry Street,
DEALERS IN
FURNITURE, CARPETS k RUGS,
OIL .CLOTHS, WINDOW SHADES, etc.
Metalic Burial Cases & Caskets,
Fine-ami Plain Wood Collins ami Caskets.
Ordure by Telegraph promptly attended to. Ibtf
IMPROVED &n &EAE,
SOin vr IT I < 4 T\ IGW.
SUPERSEDES ALL OTHER HORSE POWER
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IT IS NO HUMBUG!!
qpHE settling of the Gin House floor bus no effect on the Gearing. King Post of Iron and all
X the work bolted to Iron.
IT IS MADETO LAST, AND TO RUN TWENTY-FIVE PER CENT. LIGHTER THAN AN Y
OTHER POWER IN USE.
Cali aid see for youaself.
I bui.u a Portable Horse Power that challenges all Other M A K EB, tint it will not do f lit work
with the same Draft that my PATENT GIN GEAR will.
All kinds of Machinery made and repaired at
CROCKETT’* IRON WORK*
108-lSfl Near Brown House, Macon Georgia.
OF OIF^O
croplo i
Clover ami Grass Seeds.
m
RED CLOYER,
CRIMSON CLOVER,
SAPLING CLOYER,
HERDS GRASS,
LUCERNE SEED,
BLUE GRASS,
ORCHARD GRASS
&c., &c.
Just received,
HUNT, RANKIN & LAMAR,
Wholesale Druggists,
140 815 46 and 82 Chtrry Street
ANNEXATION!
WE have added to our large and varied
stock of Choice Family and Fancy Gro
ceries, Wines, Liquors, Fruits, etc., the fol
lowing
LUXURIES!
350 BARRELS FLOUR, all the favorite
brands,
15,000 lbs. SUGAR CURED “GOLDEN” and
“MAGNOLIA” HAMS,
40,000 lbs. BULK SHOULDERS aDd CLEAR
RIB SIDES,
60,000 lbs. BACON SHOULDERS and CLEAR
RIB SIDES,
75 BARRELS POTATOES, embracing
every variety,
70 CASKS McEWAN’S ALE and BASS’
PORTER,
DIHECT IMPORTATION !
Terms CAsn, unless other arrangements are
made at time of purchase.
CREEP, LAKE & CO.,
Cor. Cherry and Third Ails.
mch34-tf
EDWARD SPRINZ.
Notary public and ex-officio jus
tice OF THE PEACE. I ean t>e found
for the present at all hours of the day at my
offl-e adjoining the law office of A. Prondflt,
over the store of Jaques A Johnson, Third St..
Macon, Ga., to atteud to all Magisterial
ness.
118-330.
Volume I.—Number 308
i Grocery loose
—ON—
MULBERRY STREET,
WITH ELLS A LANEY as Proprietors ;
Epicures, gentlemen of taste and the
public generally aa patrons.
Fish, Game, (lysters a specialty. Fruits, the
finer grades of Groceries, Canned goods below
stairs.
ICE! ICG!! ICE! 11
We huve regularly opened the summer cam
paign with Ice, and will now have It in any
quantity desired. Orders In any quantity, from
a pound to a carload, tilled.
018 BENTAEBANT.
On the second floor, onr Bar and Restaurant
is now, as heretofore, stocked with the finest
Honors and the choicest gume and other meats
which can bo bought iu the markets of the
United States.
„ ELLS & LANEY,
marl 8
Cboice Leaf Lard
A Very Choice Lot,
JUST RECEIVED,
IN PACKAGES TO SUIT THE RE
TAIL TKADE.
For sale by
B. 11. WRIGLEY A CO.,
Commission Merchants,
insrlß Macon, Ga.
SUGAR GRelk
PAPER MILL!
MANUFACTURE
BOOK AND NEWS
PAPER.
i
See the Enterprise for specimen of paptr.
Highest ca*h price paid for OI.I) NEWS, un
sized BOOK PAPER, and pure WHITE PA
PER SHAVINGS.
WM. McNAUGHT A CO.,
mar3l Atlanta. Ga.
THE
EMPIRE STONE MS.
I HAVE opened a STONE QUARRY near
the Cemetery and am now ready to contract
and fill orders for Stone and Stone Work of
any kind required. , „ . . .
My attention will be especially directed to
the enclosing of lots in the Cemetery with good
substantial and would be
pleased to receive orders for that kind of work.
Being convenient, prices will be reasonable.
I o-j/r also build foundations, basements, walls,
i sewers, gutters, in fact an; kind of BTONE
WORK wanted. P. H. WARD,
Firm of Ward A Nelson, Cherry Street.
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