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NEWS GLEANINGS,
A Mormon has married a Methodis
lady in Falkville, Ala.
Sackson, Tennessee, is to have aeottoi
factory.
Over 80,009 pounds of tomatoes have
been shipped from Chattanooga during
the season.
Montgomery, Alabama, has an arte
sian well that discharges 2-5,000 gallons
of pure drinking water every day.
An oak tree on the Keyser farm, Page
county, Va., is twenty:two feet in cir
cu inference.
The death race in July in Chat
tanooga, from a basis of 17,000 popula
tion, was only a little over 18 per cent,
per thousand.
Robert Thomas a colored man of Cocke
county, Tennessee, has bought the Car
son farm of 205 acres, near Dandridge,
for $8,525.
Jefferson's old clock at Monticello is
being repaired. It is a remarkable time
piece on a grand scale, and a splendid
piece of mechanism.
A Mississippian by the name of Darl
ing P. Dear, has died at West Enter
prise. Wonder if the “P.” stands for
Pet?
The Coosawhatchie swamp in Hamp
ton county is drying up rapidly, and
quantities of lish are being devoured by
the buzzards.
In the death of Colonel Randolph L
Mott, of Columbus, Ga., the Macon
Volunteers lost the hut of the originrl
and charter members. The company
was organized April 23, 1825.
John Colbert, of Etowah, Ims lost
three wives, being married thirty-six
years, has buried twenty-two children,
has lost one arm and thirty horses, and
is but fifty years old.
Cork trees are being successfully raised
in Georgia. The cork on some of them
is already thick enough for use. ft is
supposed these trees can be succe.—fully
raised in m >st of the Southern States.
Apalachicola, Florida, has a popula
tion of over 2,000 souls, forty or fifty
vessels engaged in the sponge and fishing
trades, and five large mills, with a ca
paeity of over 250,000 feet of lumber per
day.
Coal oil has been discovered near May
flower, Arkansas, and two local compan
ies have been formed, who are leasing
all the land in the neighborhood. Pros
pectors and speculators are flocking in
in great numbers.
John Boswell, colored, formerly State
Senator in Florida, and a prominent
candidate for Congress from that State,
is now workingout a acutance for dis
orderly conduct in the street-gang of
Galveston.
A bill declaring a wife a competent
witness against her husband, where he
committs an assault upon her, has passed
the Georgia Senate. Likewise, one to
make if a misdemeanor to carry intoxi
cating drinks to any public gathering.
The Georgia Redater says “the House
has on hand over 900 bills, or enough,
if each sheet were detached and pasted
together, to encircle the city of Atlan
ta, which is nine miles in circumference.
No adjournment in sight, even with a
first-class telescope.”
The farmers in South Ge orgia suffer
so much from watermelon thieves that
they poison fine melons frequently to
catch the thieves. A few nights since a
party of young men of the best families
of Decatur county were out late at night
and took a melon from a neighbor’s
patch. All were desperately sick and
one has died.
One of the finest, light-houses in the
world i» being erected at Cape Henry,
in Chesapeake Bay. It measures from
top to base 155 feet; diameter at the
base, thirty feet; at the top, 15 feet. It
has six stories, and above there is a serv
ice room, watch-room and lantern-room.
It is constructed of cast-iron, and the
interior is sheet-iron. The light room is
a circular steel frame, twelve feet in
diameter and nine feet high. The glass
used ferthc chimneys will Is- of French
glass.
A negro boy living in Chailottsvilie,
Virginia, fell from a tree about six weeks
ago upon a sharpstake, which penetrated
his liver. A portion of the organ pro
truded from the wound. Dr. William
G. Rogers attended the case. He clipped
off a piece of the torn and protruding
liver about the size of a marble and
sewed up the orifice. He expected the
boy would die, but he got better from
the first and is now running about as
usual.
The North Georgian.
VOL. IV.
TOPICS OF THE DAY.
GutTBAU is anxious to bo admitted to
bail.
The Grange idea has just reached
Brazil.
Prohibition was overwhelmingly de
feated iu North Carolina.
Jim Keene, the great speculator, is
not iu good standing in London, report
says.
There are 500 men in New York worth
$3,000,000 and over. Wo hold that they
are lucky.
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The President is now anxious to try
his legs, but his back is a little bit too
sore for that.
Trtn yield of wheat in Indiana is esti
mat'd at 21,000,000 bushels against 17,-
000,000 bushels for 1880.
It has been decided by a Pittsburg
Judge that insanity is not sufficient
grounds for divorce.
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May blessings flow profusely upon the
heads of eorre-qiondents who have ceased
to dilate upon the lunatic Guiteau.
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A thoroughbred Indian has been
appointed a clerk in the Indian office,
and “ tilings is a workiu’.”
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Mb. 8. Bern, refuses to ride on the
Mtn. He thinks they want to get him,
where they can break his neck.
Ex Minister Ciiuistiancy has paid to
Mrs. Christuincy and eounsi 1 so far, for
alimony and counsel feus, over $21,000.
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Tm real and personal property in the
United Status is valued $70,000,600,000.
It don't look like very much on paper.
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Some time ago Senator Bon Hill bad
a cauoer cut from his tongue, since
wliieh time ho has been unable to
talk.
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The anti-treating law in Wisconsin is
a deed letter. The people—that is, the
drinkers- drink together just as they
always did.
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Canada is not accused of stealing,
but at the same time the Postolliee I lo
ment thinks they like to use our mail
bags up there mighty well.
L—k
A St. Louis Fenian has a plan for
•ending up balloons and dropping down
torpedoes on the hated Saxon, as a
means of “freeing Ireland.”
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The bullet iu the President’s body
has been located by tho aid of Bell s
electric machine, but for the present the
doctors will let it remain where it is.
The Paris of America is called Cin
oinhotter by tho Louisville Courier
journal, Watterson refers to excessive
warmth. He is familiar with the topic.
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Lawton B. Evans, of Atlanta, eigh
teen years of ago, is tho youngest Master
of Arts in the country. He received tho
degree from the State University at
Athens.
A ii ton peak on one of tho mountains
opposite Cornwallis, Mon., fell with a
terrific crash the other day, thousands of
tons of rocks being hurled into tho val
ley beneath.
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The Philadelphia Herald says if you
will catch a few flies and stick them in
the butter you can imagine yourself at a
seaside resort. The Philadelphia Her
ald is a pseudologist.
'Die Ute Indians will be removed to
their new reservation about tho Ist of
September. They consist of Uncom
paghre, Uintah and White River Indians,
numbering in all about 2,700.
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The Russian Jews are crossing the
German frontier in considerable num
bers, intending to form settlements in
America. No obstacle is offered to their
departure by the Government.
The white woman in Ohio who re
cently married Wah Sing, a Chinese
laundryman, has eloped with a white
man. She got enough of the cheap
labor business in a pretty big hurry.
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In one of his verses, Oscar Wilde, the |
aesthetic poet, alludes to “the barren
memory of unkissed kisses.” An un
kissed kiss probably is the barrenest j
thing within the range of human expert- '
ence.
Europe will not want much bread
stuffs this year, and while the farmers
may not be particularly pleased with
this news, the poor man may laugh in
his sleeve. Onr granaries will not be
overstocked from present indications.
Ax exchange says “it is much a ifer I
to fight a duel in Europe than it is to
i call a man a liar in Kentucky,” and we
BELLTON. BANKS COUNTY, GA., AUGUST 11. 1881.
may add, the man who doos not believe
it bad better try it, but fight the duel
first to be sure yon will experience both.
Captain C. A. Cook, of Brownsville,
Ohio, made himself great, by slapping
George Morrison in the mouth for hop
ing tho President would die. Tho wnv
the cent subscriptions are pouring in
upon him, he will bo able to buy him
self a farm.
A French newspaper tolls a pretty
tough story. A millionaire who lost all
of a large fortune bnt 100,1)00 francs,
died of grief in twenty-four hours. His
brother and sole heir died of joy on the
sudden receipt of what he considered so
large a fortune.
Latest reports stato that Jay Gould
owns 7,000 miles of railroad valued at
$140,000,000. He seems to bo getting
the bulge on us. If King Kalakaua was
smart now ho would cultivate Gould's
acquaintance. He could buy up hi* do
minion and not miss tho money.
O. A. Cook, Brownville, Licking
County, Ohio, is tho address of the man
who was fined $lO and costs ($32) for
slapping a man named Morrison who
■aid he hoped Garfield would die. Mor
rison, at tho time, was flourishing n re
volver in protection of his right to his
views.
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The Steubenville Herald, a little folio
paper containing only twelve columns to
the page, is seventy-five years old. Its re
markable vigor may be attributed to that
risible genius, J. \V. Lampton, whose
“mixed drinks” have been known to
intoxicate whole families at one sitting.
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The spot whore Gen. McPherson fell
is described as a small enclosure, railed
in with musket barrels, capped with
spears, and covers a little glade in the
forest, two and a half miles from Atlanta.
From u granite base in tho center a
thirty-two pound cannon rises in tho
air, its square cut face rounded by a
shell held in the mouth.
Mrs. and Miss.
Tn former days single women, when
they bad reached a certain age-thirty
years, -wo believe—shared with thew
married sisters the distinction of being
called Mrs. Thus we read of Mrs.
Elizabeth Carter and Mrs. Hannah
More, neither of whom had a husband.
Latterly, Mrs. and Miss have lost all
relation to age, and are used to express
respectively tho married and spinster
states. This does not please some of the
advocates of women’s rights. Mrs.
Elizabeth A. Kingsbury, of Portageville,
N. Y., writing in the Woman’/) Journal,
urges a return to the old custom. She
argues that as Master William or Charles
grows to the distinction of Mr., so
increasing years and dignity should en
title their female relatives to a corres
ponding change. “It is annoying to be
introduced,” she says, “to Mrs. Brown,
a silly, superficial creature, yet in her
teens, and tho next moment to bo pre
sented to Miss Williams, who at a glance
we perceive to be an intellectual, noble,
broad sonled woman of thirty-five or
forty, worth more than a dozen lilt o Mrs.
Brown.” She denounces the existing
usage as degrading, and in reply to tho
question of male objectors, “How shall
we know that a woman is married?” says:
“Inquire, if you wish to ascertain, as we
have to do respecting you." This ia
very well ae far as it goes, but there
remains the fact that most women, es
pecially unmarried ones, are sensitive
regarding advancing years. We fear
that many of tho latter, if compelled
when thirty to take the appellation of
Mrs., would never confess to having
reached that age. Mrs. Kingsbury does
not seo things in this light, and
solemnly warns all girls to keep out
of matrimony until they are twenty-five
at least. If ardent lovers wish to hasten
their nuptials, they must be silenced
with “I am twenty-one, but I do not
intend to murxy till I am twenty-five.
The laws of my being would be disobeyed
by so doing, and I shall not marry even
then unless reason and judgment unite
with affection in approving my choice.”
We fear that Mrs. Kingsbury will not
find many supporters, and that her
young sisters will decline the “strength
and independence” which she promises
them in tho adoption of Mrs. as an ad
vertisement that they are no longer
chicken*. — Cincinnati Gazette.
Reward for Lost Property.
One P. lost a diamond pin and pub
lished in a city paper the following no
tice : “ Lost, $25 reward—A diamond
pin. Hie finder will be paid the above
reward by leaving the same at this
office.” The pin wa* found by 0., who
demanded the reward, which was re
fused. P. then demanded the return of
the pin, and, on being refused, brought
action in replevin for recovery. Hold
that the finder, according to the com
mon law, becomes the proprietor in oaeo
the true owner does not appear, and
meantime his right as finder is a perfect
right against all others. And he is en
titled to recompense from the owner for
his care and expense in its keeping and
preservation; but his status as finder
i only does not give him a lien. Yet, if
such owner offers a reward to him who
will restore the property, a lien thereon
is thereby created to the extent of the
reward so offered.—Wood vs. Piemen,
, Supreme Court, Nebraska,
Something In the Bed.
Judge Pitnam has a habit of slipping
his watch under his pillow when he goes
to bed. Ono night, somehow, it slipped
down, and as the judge was restless, it
worked its way down toward'the foot
of the bed. After a bit, wliile he was
lying awake, his foot touched it; it felt
very cold; he was surprised, scared, and
jumping from the bed, he said:
“By gracious, Maria, there’s a toad or
something under th* covers; I touched
it with my foot ”
Mrs. Pitnam gave a loud scream, and
was on file floor in an instant.
“Now, don’t go to hollering and waken
up the neighbors,” said tho Judge. “You
get me a broom or something, and we’ll
fix tho thing mighty quick.”
Mrs. Pitnam got the broom and gave
it to tho Judge with the remark that
she felt os if snakes were creeping up
and down her legs aud back.
“Oh, nonsense, Maria! Now turn
down the covers slowly while I hold the
broom and bang it. Put a bucket of
water alongside the bed so we can shove
it in and drown it. ’’
Mrs. Pitnam fixed tho bucket and
gently removed tho covers. The Judge
held tho broom uplifted, and as tho
black ribbon of the silver watch was re
vealed, he cracked away at it throe or
four times with the broom, then he
pushed tho thing off into the bucket.
Then they took the light to investigate
tho matter. When the Judge saw what
it was ho said:
“I might have known—it is just like
yon women to go screeching and fussing
about nothing. It’s utterly ruined.”
“It was you that made'the fuss, not
me,” said Mrs. Pitman.
“You needn’t try to put the blame
ou me,” then tho Judge turned in and
growled at Maria until ho fell asleep.
Yery Gullible.
Thirty years ago Mr. Win. Hall, of
Now York, lent, a “friend” named White
$30,000 worth of bonds and checks as a
security in n speculation, with tho under
standing that they were on no account
to be converted into cash. The friend
immediately converted them into cash
and disappeared. Not long ago ho went
to Hall’s house, and in spite of Hall’s
anger placated him by representing that
with tho $30,000 which he had appro
priated to his own use ho had gone to
California, had made a large fortune
and had traveled across the continent
for tho express purpose of refunding the
money. Mr. Hall was charmed and
entertained White royally nt his house.
White pretended to be, sincerely sorry
for the roguery of his younger days,
and entertained his host' with graphic
descriptions of California, and amazing
yarns about the way in which he had
made his princely fortune on the Pa
cific slope. Hall believed every word
ho snid, and agreed to lend him $6,000,
on White’s turning over securities in “a
sealed envelope.” Ho had already paid
him $1,200, when Mrs. Hall, rising at 5
in tho morning, carried the envelope to
the Chief of Polico. On opening it, the
papers were found almost worthless, and
White was arrested. How a man cap
able of being gulled after this fashion
was also capable of accumulating $30,-
000, or 30,000 cents, is a mystery that
would puzzle even a phrenologist.
Ono day about a year ago, a medium
sized gentleman, with a sharp, intelli
gent eye, was standing about 8 o’clock
in the evening, on the side of the Bowery.
A policeman came along. The gentleman
asked tho officer what tho crowd was
doing there, and the latter replied
gruffly:
“I don’t know. It’s none of your
business, anyhow. Move on.”
“I asked you a civil question,” said
the other, quietly.
“I don’t give a ,” retorted tho
officer. “You move on.”
“I won’t,” persisted the man firmly.
“Well, I’ll take you in,” announced
the cop, and he did.
About a block from the station house
the two met tho sergeant, who snlutoo
tho arrested man politely, while the cop
looked on iu astonishment. The ser
geant asked what the trouble was.
“He was disorderly and I arrested
him,” returned the officer averting his
face as he spoke.
“You infernal fool!” exclaimed tho
sergeant, “don’t you know who thut
is ?”
“No,” said the officer, faintly.
“It’s Commissioner Sid Nichols.”
The cop fainted dead away. The
joke was so rich that, after giving the
fellow a good scare, '-‘Sid” let up. But
you can rely on it, he won’t commit the
mistake of arresting a Polico Commis-
Tjoner again.— New York Star.
Some Definitions.
One of Thackeray’s daughters has just
published a little book about her friend,
Miss Evans, in which she prints some
delightful definitions made by that lady.
Some of these are as follow:
“A privileged person—One who is so
much a savage when thwarted that civil
ized persons avoid thwarting him.”
“A liberal-minded man—One who dis
dains to prefer right to wrong. ”
“Radicals—Men who maintain tho
supposed right of each of us to help ruin
us all.”
“Liberals—Men who flatter Radi
cals. ’’
“Conservatives —Men who give way to
Radicals.”
“A domestic Woman—A woman like a
domestic.”
“Humor—Thinking in fun while we
feel in earnest.”
“A musical woman —One who has
strength enough to make much noise,
said obtuseness enough not to mind it.”
In the course of a dozen or so years
an editor learns to boa right good
farmer -on paper.
The Wife’s Management.
To most wives, tho very thought of
asking a husband for money for per
sonal expenses is a delicate and dreaded
task. Not that the wife of a man fears
refusal, but to her it seems that he
should seo for himself what she needs,
not compel her to ask for what is right
fully hers. Ths wife is head manager
of the home; the man is presumably tho
bread winner, the responsible head, but
on her devolves the burden' of planning
and managing the homo expendi
tures.
When a man marries, ho takes away,
in a measure, the opportunities which
a woman possessed before of providing
for her own support. There are many
men who wed with the avowed intention
of taking a partner iu life who shall
help them earn money, and who demand
that a wife shall toil on, year after
year, at cost of health and home com
fort; no matter if both mo sacrificed, so
that she earns money to help swell the
general fund. We do not propose to
give such husbands even a passing
notice; but allude to those nieu who,
when they enter into wedlock do so with
the design of creating a homo, and di
recting their best efforts toward tho
maintenance of that home and tho edu
cation of their children.
Were such men as the latter to real
ize how most women shrink from ask
ing for money for the purchase of
clothes and tho numberless trifles they
love to collect, they would not force
them to do it. It is a very easy matter
for ii man to give to his wife a weekly
or monthly sum from which she can
provide herself aud little ones with what
they require; aud ho should also depute
to her the duty of making the purchases
for all the departments of tho home.
A certain sum allowed her (and it should
bo according to his income) would place
her in a position to acquire judgment,
by calliug into exercise economy and
skill iu making purchases. A wife who
is thus treated will become systematic
and prudent. She will soon learn that
it is more judicious to buy in large quan
tities. She will also learn that it is tho
truest economy to procure the best. A
new delight will enter into her daily
life. All women have, in a greater or
less degree, a taste for business; ami a
possession of a certain share of the funds
will awaken habits of forethought, ami
common sense will dictate her outlays,
besides she will know better what she,
as the representative of her husband,
can afford. She will no longer bo kept
in ignorance of his affairs, and she v. ill
determine for herself just how much
money should be expended, with tho
happiest results.
If any husband doubts tho correctness
of our views, let him consult his wife
upon the subject, and tho answer will,
perhaps surprise him. And if ho go
still farther, and adopt the advice given,
the report will surprise him also. Ho
will be the gainer, both in true comfort,
and increased respect of his wife, while
•he will enjoy tho pleasant excitement
of bargaining, and tho development of
an executive ability, which might have
remained dormant.
Tho Ways of Plants.
In a great many cases leaves are said
to sleep; that is to say, at tho approach
of night they change their position, aud
sometimes fold themselves up, thus pre
senting a smaller surface for radiation,
and being in consequence less exposed to
cold. Mr. Darwin bus proved experi
mentally that leaves which were pre
vented from moving suffered more from
cold than those which woro allowed to
assume their natural position. He has
observed with reference to one plant,
Mar anta arundinacea, the arrow-root,
a West Indian species allied to Canna,
that if the plant has had a severe shock
it cannot get to sleep for tho next two
or three nights.
The sleep of flowers is also probably a
case of the same kind, though, as I have
elsewhere attempted to show, it has now,
I believe, special reference to the visits
of insects; those flowers which are ferti
lized by bees, butterflies, and other day
insects, sleep by night, if at all; wliile
those which are dependent on moths
rouse themselves toward evening, as al
ready mentioned, and sleep by day.
Those motions, indeed, have but an in
direct reference to our present subject.
On tho other hand, in the dandelion
(Leontodon), tho flower-stalk is upright
while tho flower is expanded, a period
which lasts for three or four days; it
then lowers itself and lies close to the
ground for about twelve days, while the
fruits are ripening, and then rises again
when they are mature. Tn tho Cuelam> n
the stalk curls itself up into a beautiful
spiro after the flower has faded.
The flower of the little JAnaria of our
walls (A. cyrnbalaria) pushes out into
the light and sunshine, but as soon as it
is fertilized it turns round aud endeavors
to find some holo or cranny in which it
may remain safely ensconced until the
seed is ripe.
In some water-plants the flower ex
pands at the surface, but after it is faded
retreats again to the bottom. This is tho
case for instance, with the water-lilies,
some species of the Patamogeton ('L'rapa
natans). In Valieneria, again, tho
female flowers are borne on
long stalks, which reach to the surface of
the water, on which the flowers float.
The male flowers on tho con
trary, have short, straight stalks, from
which, when mature, tho pollen
detaches itself, rises to the surface,
and, floating freely ou it, is wafted about,
so that it comes in contact with the fe
male flowers. After fertilization, how
ever, the long stalk coilsup spirally, and
thus carries tho ovary down to the
bottom, where the seeds can ripen with
great safety. — Sir John Lubbock, in the
Popufar Science Monthly.
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INO. 32.
FACTS AND FIGURES.
Lord Derby has an income of $750,-
000 a year.
Lake Enns is 344 feet higher than
Lake Ontario. The falls of Niagara are
162 feet high.
Tins butter, cheese, egg, and milk
business of this country are estimated
to be worth $10,000,000.
The Brit ish Government spends $700,-
000 annually on its consular service, and
the United States only $300,000.
Three firms are now engaged in can
ning Boston baked beans, and their an
nual production is not less than 4,000,-
000 or 5,000,000 cans.
In vabiotts parts of Ireland, Scotland,
aud Wales are remains of beehive-shaped
huts, underneath which we chambered
burial places. These huts are of great
antiquity.
About the year 400 of our era died
Simon Stylites, a Syrian, who had liyed
in self-imposed martyrdom for thirty
years on tho top of a granite column 30
or 40 feet high.
On the New England coast, moss is
collected in great quantities. The white
kinds are kept for food, forming an im
portant industry, while the coarser kinds
arc placed on the farms.
Near Jerusalem is a building entirely
rock cut, about 90 feet wide and a 100
feet high, which is reported to be tha
place to which the Apostles retired be
fore the siege of that city.
In Australia the average temperature
for a certain three months was 101 de
grees Fahrenheit in tho shade. In the
winter snow-storms often last three
weeks, and cover the ground to a depth
of 12 to 18 feet.
Fragments of celestial bodies in the
form of meteors occasionally reach us
from tho distant regions of space. The
stones exemplify the same chemical and
crystallographic laws as the rocks of the
earth, and have afforded no new element
or principle of any kind.
The Marquis of Lome receives $50,-
000 a year salary as Governor General
of Canada. Tho Princess Louise has an
annual grant of $20,000. She received
$150,000 ou her marriage, which brings
in $6,000 more, and with an allowance ol
about $15,000 to the Marquis from his
father, the Duke of Argyll, the couple
have uu annual income of aboutsloo,ooo.
Strict economy is the rule at Rideau
Hall, as it is at Windsor Castle.
In the tropics of the Old World tha
annual rainfall is, according to Dana,
about 77 inches, while it is 155 inches in
South America. In the Eastern United
States it is 40 to 50 inches, but west of
tho one hundredth meridian, beyond the
Mississippi to the Sierra Nevada, it is
mostly 12 to 1G inches. Tho annual
amount in Great Britain averages 35
inches; iu France, 20 to 21 inches;
farther from the coast, in Central Ger
many and Russia, only 15 to 20 inches;
but about tho Alps, it is mostly 35 to 50
inches.
PuaiLis is are remnants of the ancient
. 1 builders. They build
la r each other's eyes.
We learn that Ellis &Co , proprietors
of Bailey Springs, are making prepara
tions to entertain an unusually large
number of visitors this summer. They are
receiving communications from all over
the sou th inquiring rates and making con
tracts for board. This is only their due,
for not only are they most successful
hotel keepers ,but their place is in every
way worthy of patronage. It is one of
the coolest, shadiest, breeziest places in
the South ; the locality ami surround
ings are delightful; the buildings are
roomy, airy, and conveniently arranged;
the accommodations, fare and attention
are first class, and Shoal Creek is the
most romantic stream and the best fish
ing water you ever saw. Add to this
the unrivalled power of the old Rock
Spring in the cure of dropsy, scrofula,
dyspepsia aud diseases of the blood, skin
and kidneys, and the sum of attractions
is irresistible. If you have ever been
there you know this is all true. If you
have not, try it just once. You will
never regret it. Address Ellis & Co.,
Bailey Springs, Ala.
“Mirrors should never be hung,”
says a writer on domestic economy,
“where the sun will rest upon them",”
and she should have added, nor where
the daughters could rest upon them
?ither. There should be no discrimina
tion in favor of either sex.
No good Preaching.
No man can do a good job of work, preach
n trooil sermon, try a law suit well, doctor a
patient, or viite a good article when he feels
miserable anil <i i il, with sluggish brain and
unsteady nerves, and none should make the
attempt in such a condition when it can be
so easily and cheaply removed by a little
Hop Bitters. See other column.—Albany
Times.
The man who gets maddest at a news
paper squib is usually the fellow who
borrows the paper ho reads it out of.
A Talcitietl LaUy'A Views.
Mm. C. F. Fleming, Stato Lecturer of Mis
souri, and also an artist of rare merit, whoso
picture of Adelaide Neilson Is pronounced by
the press to be tho most beautfful portrait In
the United States, in a recent letter said: "I
have been troubled with kidney disease since
my childhood, aud it finally culminated tn
chronic catarrh of the bladder. It would bo
impossible for me to describe how much I have
suffered, and I had abandoned all hope of ever
being cured. I was, however, recommended to
try Warner’s Rate Kidney and Liver cure, and
it has done mo more good than the combined
skill of all tho physicians I have ever tried
during my entire life.” Ruch testimony is be
yond question, aud proves the value to all
ladies of the remedy it advocates.