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NEWS IN BRIEF.
Apples are said to b* more nutritious
than potatoes.
The municipal debt of New Orleans is
$20,000,100.
The swamps of Macon county, Ala.,
are full of wild pigeons.
The raising of ostriches is now proposed
as likely to be profitable in all the
Southern States.
Several men were killed by an explosion
in the Midlothian coal mine, near Rich
mond, Va., on the 3d.
Soovilie’s appeal for money to aid in the
further defence of Guiteau has brought in
a few small contributions.
Recent changes in the Chicago custom
house have all resulted in putting stal
warts in place of Blaine men.
Blaine’s proposed South American
policy finds more favor among Democrats
than with stalwart Republicans.
During the week ending on the 10th,
there were 131 failures in the United
States: the week before, there were 142.
Guiteau says that be would not walk
out of prison if the doors were open.
Probably be real zes that he is safer where
Le is.
The lower Mississippi is very high.
Levees have broken, farms are under
water, stock and human beings are in
great danger?
California now yields coal oil in
quantities sufficient for her own con
sumption. It is sold if five gallon cans at
18 cents a gallon.
The supreme court of Tennessee has
decided that the 100 3 act. providing for
paying the State debt in full, with three
p ir cent interest, is unconstitutional.
In 1 SSI the stamp tux on patent
medicines, perfumery. and .-.Msmetics
yielded interna! revenue atnout tine to
$1,543,266. In 1880 it. was $1,733,842.
Smallpox prevails a tunny the school
children of Point Pleasant. N .1. It is
to have hppn introdueed by a lot
of second hand echo.- 1 books from N \v
York City.
Near Doyiestnwn, < Miio, recenflv,
Albert Melting r, aged“2s, committed
suicide by taking strychnine, because he
coni ! not decide w hioli one of two girls lie
loved (die best.
In Philadelphia, on the 13th, Dr.
Willi iui Goodall took from a woman an
ovarian tumor which weighed 112 pounds.
After the eperation the w.mian weighed
only 75 pounds.
The governor of Arizona has called on
the president for aid in putting down law
less hands of cowboys. Americans and
Mexicans. They are sufficiently numerous
to run over sheriffs an 1 other officer*.
In Rhode Island, foreign born citizens
of the United States are not allowed to
vote unless tiiey own real estate worth
$134. Numerous unsuccessful attempts
have been made to repeal this law, and
another one is anticipated soon.
The supreme court of Kansas has
deeidtd that any one who is legally in
Jpossession of liquor cun burn it, drink it,
nr give it away: also that the section of
the prohibitory law which prescribes a
punishment for drunkenness is uncon
stitutional, because one of the copying
clerks left out some words.
Within three weeks cotton futures have
declined rapidly, and many who had in
vested their spare change in this way,
have lost it all. Louisville is mentioned
as having suffered particularly: men and
women of all olassr*, who could raise as
much a $5. are said to have used it in
buying futures, and all have be ri frozen
out.
There is trouble in Maryville,"Tern.,
between the races. Some regro students
in the college there applied for admission
into a literary society, and wore rcj.cted.
The whites who voted to admit them were
expelled. The remninin t members moved
the furniture of the society to a room in
town, after being forbidden by the faculty,
and were suspended from the college.
Mar y students bare left, and more trouble
i expected.
The National Republican, of Washing
ton, D. ('., recently published several
articles reflecting on the character of A
-‘M- Sjateldo, formerly one of the editors
of that paper. On the n'ght of the 9th,
Fateldo and his brother wei.l to the office
and handed to Clarence Barton, managing
editor (who was alone), an aitiele.de
manding its publication. Barton referred
him to the principal editor. A quarrel
ensued, and several shots were fired:
Barton was shot twice, hut not seriously:
cateldo was shot near the spine, paralyzed
from his head down, and d;ed soou.
A public meeting held at Columbia,
Caldwell Parish, Louisiana, recently,
adopted a resolution stating that 19-20 of
the people in Caldwell, Franklin, Grant,
Ouachita, Richland, Union, and portions
of Concordia and Jackson, have not a
grain of corn to feed their starving teams,
no money, no bread, no credit, no where
to go to, nothing to go with, aud that
hogs have been dying for two months on
a uut of the failure of crops and mast;
and that a large portion of tbit country is
inundated, adding to their distress. They
-ay that help must come speedily, or
yuny must starve. Later reports, from
other sources, say the distress is much
exac.gerated.
We JSttmmeftoilte f alette
VOI, IX.
GOOD ADVICE.
There ain’t much happiness found, you know,
As the years go ‘splurging” by.
And there ain't any truck one can tote along
Wheu it comes oue’a turn to fly.
But whatever the luck that may befall.
Whether diamonds are trumps or not,
The best idee is to treasure what's square
And let all the rest, be forgot.
To grumble along through the little span
That is given to travelers here,
Is hardly the thing to prepare a man
For the joys of a brighter sphere.
1 doubt if the fellow who nurses a snarl
At the ills that beset us below
Ever gives himself time tor sprouting the wings
That must take his tired spirit in tow.
I know you are not of the growling sort,
Though trouble enough you have had,
And 1 know that your heart is ablaze with joy
Whenever your friends are glad.
Therefore, when the sun was lit to day.
To beam on a bright new year.
And another ripe sheaf was laid away
lu the caves of the past, cold and drear.
You had hope enough lu your trustful breast
For a bravo and an honest parting;
And faith enough that “God knows best,”
To welcome the year just starting.
So 1 only send good whhes along,
They r<* flowers you know, in one’s path.
And a prayer that Heaven may make y ou strong
And temper life's wintry wrath,
lie knows best how to make things below,
Though His plans may seem often hard,
But wishes an., prayers are angels, you know,
If accepted aud put ou guard.
A MAN THAT SUCCEEDED.
“My nnl, daughter, >ir,”siil Colonel
M uteagle. “And. as l venture to hope,
accompli-bed in her way. \\ e are not
much iii the way of school* or academies
here, but 1 have been her iustruetor my
self, and she is a thorough tualbetuati
cine, an excellent musician and a linguist
of no mean capacity. Wo are studying
lb brew now every day, she and I, ami
‘•lie devote* her evenings to com pro lien
<dv ‘ reviews of her Latin and Greek.
She will be a scholar, sir, if I live to
complete her education!
Mr. fVd’ton looked eiri<tu*ly at the
oddly-assorted pair—the silver-haired,
shabhi’y attire ! old gentleman, with hi*
bald forehead, eagle eye and delicately
whit** hands; and the dark-browed, Mil
len-looking girl, with a gypsy skin, untidy
frock, and patched boots.
Pretty? Ye. she might be pre’tv under
some circumstances. Ibe diamond itself
is not .in attractive stone before the lapi
dary's art ha* polished in rude angles into
glittering facets of white lire. But she
certainly pises ed no sweet, feminine
graces now.
“How old are you. Mis* Monteagle?*
be asked, finding it imperatively neces
sary to *av something.
And Mary Monteagle answered in
words, ‘‘Seventeen,” while her looks re
plied, plainly, “None of your business!”
“Go, my child, and gather some flow
er* to deck our bumble board,” said the
oid genileimm, magi iloquent!\, while
he conducted the son of hi* oldest friend
intithe tumbledown old stone bouse,
where the carpets were ninth eaten, the
furniture mildewed, and every truce of
decayed gentility to'd the sad story of
better days.
Mrs. Monteagle, who had been a beauty
once, and had her portrait engraved! in a
“Gallery of American Rose-bud*,’’ was
sitting up in state in a buttered boudoir,
in u black silk dress that must have been
quite a quarter of a century old, with a
flower in her silver-sprinkled hair, and
still preserving the girlish attitude in
which the engraver's pencil has] immor
talized her, cddly contrasting with the
sharpened outlines and haggard abrupt
ness of her sixty-odd years.
Aud this was the way in which the old
e tuple lived, in the dead past as it were,
Colonel Monteagle statving contentedly
on the recollection of his past grandeur,
and hisw.fe fondly fancying that time had
stood still since the days in which she was
counted worthy to be one of the '‘Amer
ican Rosebuds.”
Mrs- Monteagle sweetly welcomed her
guest and touched the little hand -hel. at
Iter side.
“We will dine, Sarepta,” she said to
the maid.
“Please, tua'am,” breathlessly uttered
that young person, “there ain't nothin'
for dinoer. H’t eat the last of the cold
beef yesterday, and the dog he tipped
over t tie pan of oys ers, and —”
“That will do, Sarepta,' said Mrs.
Monteagle, with a red spot mounting to
each of her cheek-bones. “I haid—we
will dine!”
And narcpla withdrew with a jerk.
4he dinner was served presently—an
instance of th magnetic power of will —
hut there was no cold beef, neither were
there oysters. Fruit, a thin, watery soup
of herbs arid parsley, tastefully garnished
salad of lettuce ami mayonnaise, and a
dish of peaches and cream, formed the
meal
“Quite Arcadian! ’ said Mrs. Mont
eagle, with a giggle.
“And very badly served,” secretly
commented Mr. Cioftori to himself. “But
the salad was nice. ”
“Where is Mary?” the colonel asked.
“Drinking in the beauties of the sun
set, I presume, ” the lady answered, air
ily. “ihe dear child has an artist's soul,
and we do not tie her down to any hours
or rules. ”
The colonel fell asleep in hisehair after
dinner. Mrs. Monteagle and her painted
fan withdrew themselves into the boudoir
—and Mr. Crofton. inwardly bewailing
himself that he hid promised to etay a
week at Monteagle Manor, sauntered out
SUMMERVILLE, GEORGIA, THURSDAY MORNING, FEBRUARY 23, 1882.
I upon the heights which overlooked the
! valley below.
As he stood there, a rustling sounded
in the bushes, and the drk-browed gipsy
sprang up the hillside. • •
“You hare a fine place here. Miss
J Monteagle,'' he said, by way of making
himself agreeable.
“I hate it!" said Mary, darkly.
“I—beg your pardon!" exclaimed Mr.
Crofton, in amazement,
“Ido!’’ flashed out the girl—"l hate
it all! The learning, and th • purity, and
, the miserable makeshifts!”
“But—"
j “All!" said Mary Monteagle, “you
| don’t know it all. You never I eard the
tradesmen howling at the buck doors like
a pack of howling wolves; you don’t
know that the house is advertised for sale
for tax arrears, llow should you? How
should you be aware that the very clothes
we wear are not paid for, not the coals
| that cook our dinner? l’apa smokes his
J cigars and talss about the Mexican war;
; and mamma ] oscs in the great chair, and
dreams of embroidery wort ami tapestry
! stitch; and l—l sm expected to learn
Arabic and .Sanscrit, and nobody kno-s
what else, and ignore our wretched pov
rty But 1 can’t! Who could?"
Mi Crofton looked pityingly ut the
gill's ; aikling eyes, and pale, excited
I face.
“I am-veiv sorry to hear this," said he.
"Can nuking he done?”
‘'Yo>. ’ said Miss Monteagle, brusque
ly. ‘’Something can he done —at.d I am
doing it, in so far as 1 can. But papa
and mamma must not he allowed to mis
pect it. i am—learning a trade!”
"You!” he echoed. “A trade!”
“There’s a factory near by here.'' she
said, calmly. “The country girls earn a
little pocket money there rewingon shirts.
I am to have a machine as soon a- I have
learned to manage it. I go every even
ing. while |,apa fancies ian at the tiivi k
and I.aiin to farmer Pelham's, whose
wife tenches me the use of the machine.
lam Icarrijug housework, too. I made
the mayonnaise fur your salad to-day,and
I l.aked the bread. Our servant can do
nothing of the sort. But it. would kill
mamma to think that ! stooped, as she
would eali it, to menial labor.”
“You are quite right,” said .Mr. Crof
ton.
“That is what I warned to know,’’ said
Mary, hastily. “Because, living hero all
by u y-elf, in such a strange, unnatural
atmosphere. I sometimes get confused,
and scarcely know right from wrong ”
“But they will have to know it, when
you—”
“When I really go into the factory,”
said Mary. "Yes, I know that. But
until then, I would fain spare them the
pang. lam to have a dollar a day, Mrs.
Pelham says, if I operate the machine
skillfully. And a dollar a day will buy
mamma many a little luxury, and go lar
toward paying the grocer and baker.”
“You arc a noble girl,” said Mr. Crof
toh, warmly; and in his eye, at that mo
ment, Mary Monteagle was glorified with
rare beauty, as she stood there, the fresh
wind blowing her jetty curia about, the
reflection of orange sunset, deepening the
color on her cheek, and the grave, far
away sparkle of her eyes, hull-veiled
beneath the long lushes. “Arid if I
could he of any assistance to you in this
task—”
“You can,” said the girl, abruptly.
“Sou can stay here and amuse papa, so
that he shall not suspect what occupies
my time. Youcau divert his attention
from Sanscrit and Arabic, and all these
mysteries "
Aud, for the first time in his experience
of her, Mary Monteagle laughed—a
mellow, bird-like laugh.
“I will," said Mr. Crofton, heartily.
Aud so the compact was sealed between
them.
Instead of the week he had promised
his father to spend with old Colonel
Monteagle, the sojourn was extended to
| three.
| At the end of that period, he gravely
| addressed hiuise f to the dark-eyed
j daughter of the house.
“flow is the trade?" said he.
“I am to have a machine next week,”
-aid Mary, with the conscious pride of
one who has conquered fate; "and then —
only think of it, Mr. Crofton—l shall
earn ad jllar a day!”
"Mary,” said Mr. Crofton, seriously,
“I have been thinking of another plan
I for you. You tell me that this farmer’s
wife has made u first-class housekeeper
of you.”
“I baked mince pie yesterday! ’ said
Mary, exultantly; “and I have quilted
a quilt, and made soft soap within the
week I”
“I don't like the idea .if your going
into a factory,” said Mr. Crofton, “Http
pose now, by way of variety, you were to
—marry me?”
“But you're riot in love with me!”
said Mary, opening Iter bright black eyes.
“But I am,” said Mr. Crofton, with
great gravity. “I have deliberately fuade
up my mind that I can’t be happy with
out you. And although I don't profess
to be a rich man, 1 beiieve I can make
you a better allowance than six dollars a
week, while at the same time you will riot
he compelled to work ten hours a day for
it. That is the business like view of the
question. Now on to the more personal
one Don't you think, Miry, that ym
could love tue? Beoause 1 love you very
much indeed.
“I—don't know!" whispered Mary
“I might, try I”
And then she blushed charmingly.
So Colonel Monteagle*a daughter went
to the fair Floridian plantation on the
shores of the river St. John, and aston
ished eviry t tie there with h.r thorough
knowledge of housekeeping in all its de
tails. And the two old people, with their
burden of insolvency and cure lifted oil
I licit livi s, dwell quietly on in the accent
tower-like housii, and talk to everybody
who crosses their path of “the excellent
marriage which n.y daughter Mary has
contracted.”
“A thorough scholar,” ays Colonel
Monteagle, with dignity. "A musician,
a linguist, a thorough Hebrew student,
aud a proficient in Latin and Greek. I
myself was her instructor. It is not sin
either that a giil of such intellectual
powci should marry well.”
But Colonel Monteagle, honest man,
| never dreamed that it w.t the soring
machine and soft soap, the mayonnaise
.dressing, ami the vehement struggle to
cei free Iruiu debt, which conquered Mr.
Crofton's heart. There are plenty of
scholarsuud poetess sin the world but a
real womanly woman—is not her price
fat ali.ve rubies?
V NKW YOKK SKWSPAI'I'R AT MCillT.
"Hermit,” the New York correspond
ent of tile Troy Times, writes: The morn
ing papers do much of their work at night,
and few more active scenes can he found
than at one of these establishments.
Stand, I r instance, in the business room
if the Herald and see the hurried groups
of i dvertisers who are rushing their slips
in so as not In lose the nt xt issue. Many
of tlic.-e pcoplo have just got through
J their day's work, and improve this clmncc
!of making their wants known to the
| world 11 ere tiro clerk sand porters look
ing up situations, Contrasted with cooks
and housemaids who arc offering their
services t >\lie public. 11 ere is a delicate
lon ing lass, who with a modest blush
blinds in an advertisement, asking for a
pine", perhaps to tend baby. Her history
is that ciimnon one in city life £>f poverty
diiving families once rich an I exalted tu
seek bread by hard labor. Such mis
fortune is illustrated by the painful his
tory of sewing girls, music teachers,
governesses, etc , which ono can readily
understand when reading l lie advertising
column. Here, too, is some finical youtli
inserting a “personal” to sotufegirl he has
met, who will probably never see the
advertisement, while lie will wait day
after day, vuinly expecting an answer.
In the vault beneath the mighty engine
is resting from its labors, having just
worked off one side of the paper, and is
beirg prepared for the labors of the night.
The engineer is giving it a thorough ex
amination. Its machinery must he in
perfect order, for a breakdown at. mid
night would he a eostly damage. Go up
to the second story wliero editors and re
porters are hard at work preparing mat
ter, and every little while jerking the bell
ami sending "copy” up the elevator to
the composing-room. Tlioso men will he
on duty until after midnight, ar.d such
work as this tolls upon the system in the
most exhausting manner. Ah, little does
the reader, as lie lolls over a newly-printed
sheet, damp from the press, think of the
close and trying effort of combined in
tellects, poorly paid and worked hard, and
the sacrifices of health and comfort which
gave it existence. We may ascend still
Higher to the "composing-room,” where
the types are set and tho paper got ready
for the press. Here 100 men are hard at
work, and amid the general silence one
hears the incessant click of type- One
great difference between night and day
duty in such an office is that in the last
hours of work all “copy'’ is in manuscript.
The “clippings” have been cut up-during
the earlier part of the day, and now come
the thoughts from the fevered brain.
Most of these men, after the paper has
gone to press, put on their coats hastily
and gohome, first taking tbeiraccustouied
drink at the porter house, which is ever
ready to entrap the victim of appetite.
Some of them, however, remain at work
until morning. The reason for this is
they are out-of-town men, living in
Orange or Morrisarti ', and by working ull
night they can go home by 6 o’clock in
the morning and stay all day. There was
a time when it. could he said with truth,
“Man goeth to his labor until evening.”
Now, however, the rule is to a large
degree reversed, and inert work by nigln
aud rest by day. The day, however, is
never a proper time for rest, and llie
slumbers taken at this unseasonable hour
are far less restorative than those of
nights. Our newspapers reach their
present perfection through the incessant
sacrifice ol health arid comfort on the part
of editors and craftsmen, arid again we
exclaim how little is this considered by
those who dawJle over a morning paper
and sip their coffee at ease, while
criticizing the labors ol that uhfortudatc
class referred to.
Potatoes planted must have their eyes
about them if'lhey arc to come up.
I'ISUUKMUN'S WHOPPERS.
Why is it that fishermen tell pitch
whoppers? A good sized book eculd
be made of lislt stories “fell the
weight of the largest trout you ever
caught,” said an Eastern titan to n
native of Nevada. “Wal,” was the
answer, “I can’t exactly tell as to the
weight,, but you folks cun Agger ou it.
Now, you know it is over 200 miles
around this vet* lake. Put that down.
As I said before, l don't know the
weight of the biggest fidi I ever yanked
out, but 1 did haul one upon the beach,
and after 1 landed him the lake fell
three feet, and you can see by the
water mark over yonder, it hasn't tis
since.’’
Another fisherman giving his ex
pericnoe, says:
“The fish, began to pull away and
every little bit the line would slack up
and then the pulling would he twice as
heavy. At last it .felt like a locomotive
was at the other end of the line, at)< l
then 1 lost, my presence of mind end
jerked. It took pretty hard jerking,
too, but at last I landed a fish about
sixteen feet long. I took it off the
hook and there was another one on
about two Ibet shorter, aud so on until
I took off nine of them, and then came
to the bait still on the hook. You see
the way of it was this: The first lisli
to grab and swallow the hook was
about two and a half loot long. As
soon as he got last a bigger one
swallowed him, a larger one still swal
lowed them both, ouAip until the ninth
swallowed the whole eight. If I had
only waited they wpuhl have kept o:i
until 1 would have had a whale alter
awhile, and the oil nml whalebone
would have sold readily for $200.”
This will compare with a Georgia fish
story told most appropriately by a
gentleman named Hass, lie said lie
caught a catfish, a squirrel and an
alligator, all upon the same hook at.
tile same time. The lislt probably
caught tho squirrel whi'e swimming
across the lake, and afterward caught
and uw:illowed an alligator, about a
foot in length, and then Ibund and
swallowed the bait upon a set book.
U hen a catfish starts out on a foraging
expedition he will take in anything
from a wheelbarrow to a saddle blanket.
A sportsman who camped six days
on the shore. 4of the Battantia Kiver,
Fla., says; “A friend had given me
a small clothes line, over 300 feet
long, with a heavy sinker and a hook
nearly five inches long, backed by an
enormous shank. Every night at dark
I was in the habit ol tying the line of a
cabbage tree overhanging the camp
lire. Afterward I would bait the hook
with half a mullet, take the'sin' er out
the full length of the line and drop it
overt) ard. One night after I had gone
to bed there was trouble in the old
cabbage tree. The limbs were crack
ing and dancing over the embers of
the camp fire as if the spirits oftlie air
were tit work. Buster, our dog, was
harking like all possessed. Roused
from a sound sleep, it was some mo
ments before I could realize w liat was
the matter. It struck me like a flash.
I dashed out of the tent in my bare
feet, stood upon the beach in the soft
light of the February moon, and spent
fifty minutes in getting to the shots a
a bass that weighed fifty-three pounds.
At times 1 could not ho and him. Me
absolutely drew nte over the shore.
When I landed him I was dripping
with sweat. The splashing of the water
and my shouting to my comrades,
started a regiment of'owls, and they
filled the woods with unearthly (tools.
The owls started the alligators, and
the alligators the herons, and the
herons the wild eats, while hordes of
drum fish beat a general a'.arm. The
doctor scaled the bass with a grubbing
hoe. 'J ho most of the scales were as
large as silver dollars.”
An Irish Munchausen turned up at
Boston restaurant in the humble ca
pacity of a waiter. The guest had been
served witli a small lobster, “Do you
call that a lobster, Mike?” “Faix, I
believe tiiey do be callin' thim lobsters
here, sur. We call’em crabs at home.”
“Oh, said the diner, “you have lobster.-
in Ireland?” “Is it lobsters? Begorru,
the creek is full of ’em Many a time
I’ve seen ’em when I lepp> j d over Lite
slhrames.’’ “How long do lobsters
grow in Ireland?’ “Well,” said Mike,
thoughtfully, “to sphake widin bounds,
Sur, I’d say a matter of five or six feet.”
“What! Five or six feet? How do
they get around in these creeks?”
“Bedad, sur, the creeks in Ireland are
fifty or sixty feet wide,” said the imper
turbable Mike? “But,” asked tie
guest, “you said you had seen them
when you were leaping over the
streams, and lobsters here live in the
sea. “Sure I did, sur; we’re powerful
leppers in Ireland. As for the say.
sur, I've seen it red with ’em.” “But
look here tny tine fellow, ’* said the
guest, thinking he had cornered Mike
at last, “lobsters aru not red till they
are boiled." “Don't I k: ow that,” said
Mike, “but there arc bilen springs in
the ould country, and they swim
through em and come out all ready
for ye to crack open and ate em."
This calls to my mind the story of
Sheridan. At a dinner oue evening a
sportsman said: “I was out fishing one
day in a cold spring and soon caught a
large mess of delicious trout, put
what’was really surprising, not a foot
from the cold spring there was one of
boiling water, so that when you
wanted to cook your fish all you had to
do after hooking them from the cold
spring was to pop them directly into
the boiling.” The company all ex
pressed astonishment and incredulity
at this monstrous assertion, with the
exception ot Sheridan. “I know,” said
he, “phenomena yet more surprising.
I was fishing one day when l came to
a place where there ere throe springs.
The first ; a cold one stocked with
fish, the second a boiling spring and
the third a natural fountain of melted
butter and parsley.” Turning to one
of the guests w ho seemed to be smiling
slightly, he said: “Y l! u don’t believe
that.?” “Oh, yes," replied the guest,
“1 believe it because you say it; but I
should not have believed it it I had
seen it myself.’’
THE XVIIICI 1.-HORSE.
There is a wheel-horse in every family;
someone who takes the lead on all occa
sions. It may be the oldest, daughter,
possibly the father, but gonetally it is the
mother. Extra company, sickness, etc.,
give her n heavy increase of the burden
sip* is already carrying.
Even summer vacations bring less rest
and recreat ion to her than to others of the
family. The city house must be put in
order to leave; (he clothing for herself and
the children which a country sojourn
demands seems never to be finished; and
the excursions and picnics which delight
the hearts of the young people are not
wholly a delight to tho “provider."
Woman’s work is never done. Kite
would never have it, dona. Ministering
to father and mother, cherishing her
husband, nourishing and training her
children —no true woman wants to see her
work done. Bift because it is never done
sho needs resting times.
Every night the hcavy.truck is turned
up; the wheel-horse is put up in the
stable, and labor and care are diminished
till the morrow. '1 lie tlnlls of the house
hold van cannot he turned up at night,
and tho tired house-mother cannot go
into a quiet stall for repose. She goes to
sleep to-night feeling the pressure of to
morrow. She must have "an eye” over
all until every one is in bed, and must
keep an eye ready to open at any moment
to answer the needs of children, and open
both eyes bright and early to see tho
machine well started for the new day.
A lIOY'S LUCK.
Tho Norristown (Pa.) Herald in a
recent issue referred among others, to the
following oasoa of special interest. They
are their own commentary. Mr. Samuel
U. N.yco resides at 308 Marshal street,
nml holds tho responsible position of
journal clerk in the Pennsylvania legit-la
ture. at Harrisburg. While Mr. N.yco
and family wore in the country recently,
his boy, aged throe years, fell and broke
Ids leg. Ho recovered, but a very trouble
some stiffness set in and be could scarcely
use tle leg. The injured limb was rubbed
several times with St. Jacobs Oil, and
the stiffness was so much re dm,a and that
the ioy was able to use Lis leg freely.
Dr. Knipe said it, was the ust of St.
Jacobs Oil that cured tho stiffness. Mr.
Nyco himself u-ed the Great German
Remedy for toothache with good effect,
and also for a sptain and pains of
rheumatic nature, and always with good
effect. Mrs. Nyco also says site thinks
the Od is a splendid thing, ur.d sho
always keeps it on Itaed.
A doctor will sit down and write a
prescription; time, five minutes; paper
and ink, one-fourth of a Cent; uml the
patient pays sl, $2, $5, $lO, as t lie case
may be. A lawyer writes ten or twelve
lines of advice, and gets from $lO to S2O
from his client. An editor wiites a half
column puff for a man, pays a man from
fifty cents to one dollar for putting it in
type, prints on several dollars’ worth of
paper, sendsit to several thousand people,
and then surprises the puffed man if he
makes any charge.
Uriel Anderson, of Bloomington, 111.,
thought his hunting outfit was not com
plete without a pocket flask. On his
first excursion this season he became
intoxicated, lay drawn upon the railroad
track and was killed by a train.
UKOItUIA NEWS.
Corn planting has commenced uhou
Albany.
Houston county reports a petrified
honeycomb.
Tho streets of Savannuh will soon bo
lighted by oleotricity.
A cotton seed oil company has boon
organized in Atlanta.
Athens adds her recommendation of
cotton seod ii 1 lor cooking.
NO. 5.
Four page have boon cut from tho
Record of Deeds in Fayette county.
Died in McDuffie county, recently, J.
11, Casey, judge of the county court.
It is estimated that tho city government
of Atlanta this year will east $479,000.
Oscar Wilde was the “too, too uttor"
attraction ut the library fair in Rome on
the night of the 15th.
In Gainesvillo, recently, Gen. Long
street’s barn and contents were burnod.
Loss, $1,200 or more.
Col. F. Terry, of Harris county, took
to Columbus recently four bales of cotton
raised on his farm in 1800.
The commissioners of Bibb county
have piohibited the sale'of whisky in
tho county, outside of Macon.
Tho family of the late Chief Justice
Joseph 11. Lumpkin have presented a
line portrait of him to the University of
Georgia.
Henry Thomas, from DeKaib county,
fell in Atlanta on the 7th, in consequence
of stepping on a banana peel. His leg
was broken.
Wiley Chambliss, of Berrien county,
while drunk recently, resisted arrest, and
was seriously hurt by being knocked down
by tho officer.
F. M. Wynn,of Douglas county, made
last year 0,590 pounds of seed cotton on
one acre. His neighbors, and the county
officers, certify to this.
Oglethorpa Park, Atlanta, has been
bought by the Exposition Cotton Mills
Company. They will put a cotton factory
in operation as soon as possible.
Get eral William Mcßae, late superin
tendent of the Western & Atlantic rail
road, died suddenly in Augusta on tho
12th, from congestion of the lungs.
11. I. Kimball proposes to tho Atlanta
council that he will erect waterworks
supplying from five to ton million gallons
per day, and take the present works in
pay.
The reamer used in boring the artesian
well at Albany broke off recently 180 feet
below the surface. This makes it neces
sary to bore anew well. The water rises
to within ten feet of the surface.
Several persons have complained re
cently that the lightning rod on tho Rome
water tower is broken. In that case it is
worse than useless, and should either ho
taken down or repaired immediately.
An enterprising grocery keeper near
Athens had his barroom in a pen of cot
ton seed. lie kept his barrel hid there,
witli a rubber tube leading from it, and
be sold by the jugfull to all who wanted it.
Tito directors of the Oooan Steamship
Company (running from Savannah to
New York and Philadelphia) recently
decided to unite its stock witli that of
tiie Central railroad. An injunction has
been applied for to provent this.
In Lee oounty, on tne 7th, Morgan
McDonald, a little boy, shot at a lark.
Tho whole load lodgod in tho shoulder of
Jack Watters, aged 12, who was plowing
in an adjoining field, but whom Morgan
did not see. Jack died in two hours.
Two freight trains on the E. TANARUS., Va. &
Gu. H. R. collided about nine miles south
of Rome on the 11th. Thirty cars were
thrown from the track, some of them be
ing piled up 30 or 40 feet high. Freight
wus strewed around promiscuously, but
no one was seriously hurt.
Tho Inman Manufacturing Company
of Augusta, has been abandoned, ar.d a
petition will be made tp have tho charter
revoked. The company wanted 1200 feet
front on tho river side of the canal, but
the canal committee of tho council
thought host not to allow them more than
700 feet.
Iu Conyers, on tho Gth, while U. M.
Harper was drawing some whisky for
Dink Mitchell, and his son Frank was
ti-eoiring the money for it, Ilersh Mitoh
oll entered t lie front room of tho storo
and stole the money drawer, containing
over S2OO. The two negroes were after
wards arrested, and most of the money
recovered.
William Cooper, of Griffin, after living
unhappily four or five years with his wife,
formerly Miss Phelps, deserted her about
a month nan, ondcamoto Rome, bringing
their chill, ag and 21 years. After anxious
inquiry, its grandmother recently learned
his whereabouts, came to Romo, recov
ered the child, and carried it back to its
anxious mother.
A tenant in Merriwetlior county, while
drunk, put one of his landlord’s mules,
a fine young animal, into a stable attached
to an unoccupied house, and when ho
became sober forgot all about it. A vig
orous search was unavailing, till, five days
after, a family moved into the unoccupied
house, and found the mule. It could
scarcely walk.
A negro was arrested iu Brunswick
recently, suspected of being Gudson
Jackson, who was wanted in Decatur
county. While waiting for the shuriff of
Decs'ur county to come, tho Brunswick
officers searched the negro, and found a
pistol. Within 24 hours he was tried,
and sentenced to the chningang for six
months for carrying concealed weapons.
The Decatur sheriff, when he arrived,
said that the prisoner was not the one lie
wanted, but within an hour afterwards
Jackson was found, arrested, and imme
diately taken to Decatur,