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Newspaper Page Text4.*4* ft ***-' 1 >/' / L- Jr J /X c n ) ■> ...<, J. T. WATERMAN, PHOPRIETOR. w - cwa m————x—i■ coanRmxER-*iENEn.iL’s report. The report of Win. (V. Wright, fttooTgiafflto an admirable ”i,’ , «j ini-w-t lo , ve'-y . ... (TSrgtf. *Tf »-*W full am) explicit than winilar reports have been heretofore, and evineps not only great industry but unusual Jkilf on the part of the comptrolh r *ud his subordinates. For the benefit of > ur readers, we collate many interest's^ items from it,, f ,.,-j ...i Yl'e fe>iflpUolIcr shows* the toia’ value of the property <*l the Suite io lie $238,934,126 agaiust 82*25,003,419 loi the previous y« ar. This gives an incica-.ot $13,840 707, exclusive of Csn>d«vt«\*»‘VwhMsh uu return ha* yel been reee’ved. In-3879 ihe prop erty of that co’intjf iias pivi u in at 8538,472, which, if it has fullered no dm. oitt i wi.nlii make the i..crea-p, ol taxable value- of the State lor the cuin iit vearam iuiitio the splendid agere-guti’ of $14,3(9,119. The number of while polls in Geor gia is 134.3*23 ; colored,94,000—mak ing a total of 224,995. «, - Tbetje jne 1,2x0 lawyers in the ,, Rut, t,€49 doctors, 179 dentists, and atjbblti0^i i« pqtfttiou ol 433j2«j6 ehii- dren. 'The vafqe.-oC her live stork, hojps- etc, is 8*23,075,764. There are fortysfour insurance com panies doing business in tho Slate, whose aggregate premiums amount to $*39,775.44. Tie table ol losses, is not titled out. The average value of improved land pei acre is 82.94, and of wild land ‘23 rents. 'I hit ty7fonr manufacturing estab Hu nts aie exempted from taxation to the amount of 84,138,375 ior various p. riods of time The total, value ot tiierc.bandise in the Slate is 613,980,119 ; valm of cot ton ”iiii‘Ut.:etone*s, $l,9liti,845 ; vain of stocks ami bonds, $5,037,894; cap' itat invested in shipping, $879,081. *J h b ait tax is 33 cents on 8100 '1 hat ot the counties varies from 81.50, in C harlton, (w Inch is the maximum assessment j, le> the mere imminul rate ol On retilK in Lihcrty county. About 000 maimed'* Confederate suxtiers have been supplied with U-gs ami arm*, sometime* lioth, or their equii altut in cash, at a cost of 809,' 870. Cl.ARKE Col'NTY. jssak m-fr ft M .at ifem. UHNEB§nV 9F GEORGIA UBRARt “WISDOM, JUSTICE AND jpOQqjtATigir?' Jg'tjl Volume LXV. XH» VOL'IK DUTY* BTMACCUAIO. Go alonpr and do your duty,- No mattar what that duty ti; Go alonir and do your duty. Never falter, never fear; God will help yon, only trust Him, He la alwaya, always near. Always near to help and bleat you, Strenghen you to do the right; Look to Him when cares distress you, llo will make your burden light, jOh. Ha la ao Rood and faithful I -*-</— r Ton cap ted no earthly friend aa trua : If you’ll only do your duty, ■V^He trill n#rer tuts trotujon. Do it with a gentle pattenat,™ Keep the great commandments strictly. Trust Him with a strung, tras trust, ^ And you will find Hit mercy boundless. You will ted Him always Jurt. When Hope's stsr ia bid from right; Ha can change the gloom to hrightutaa. Turn to day the darkest night. ATHENS, GEORGIA, TUESDAY MORNING, NOVEMBER .23, 18S0- ■ ■ y 1?; ; l * {I j;V' U(T It »>■>' 1 im r, Number 3. I One .raw afternoon, with a harsh breeze and a rising sea, at last we heard the long sing-song cry. from the mast- i head, “Heblows! tier—re—blo-o-wB!” Four times, st regular intervals of abont forty seconds, the cry was repented; and then he knew it was a sperm whale. It was about 5 o’clock in the evening when the first cry was heard, and the sun went down at'fi:30. with scarcelyfive minutes of twilight As a rule, on board of American whalers, when wholes ore seen late in the evening, the boats are ijot sent down, unless circumstances, sfteh as weather, moonlight, and so oh, .are vfty. favorable; In most cases the irne of the whales- and the speed of We give below some fact* ami fig ures concerning our own comity. There are 1»68 polls—932 whiles am! 890 colored, and 48 delaulters '1 here me 17 lawyers, 11 doctors, I dentist; school population 2,858; school fund 81,009 50; number ot hands between 1*2 and 65 years 1,673. There are 73,276 acres of improved land, talucd at 8494,735; 98,984 acres ol wild laud, \alued at $14,639. Average value ol former 86.75 per acre ; ol ti e latter 14 cents. Thu value ol city and towi prop erty is 81,490,715 ; building and loan association, $8,830; shares iu banks $■276,909 ; money and solvent debts 8573,005. Value ol merchandise $328,865; ol stocks and bonds $663,790; ol .cotton mniiiituctoric-s $289,000 ; of iron works $22,800; ol household and kitchen tutiupvrc $147,055; ot horses, mules, hogs sheep, cattle &c., $91,695; ol i Imitation and mechanical tools, t!3,- 146 Value of watches, jewelry and silver plate, $38,260 ; of cotton, corn and annual crops iu hands of producers April 1st, $3,740 ;.of all other prop erly 8*2,295. The value of real estate is $1,916,- 080 ; ot personal estate $2,514,185 ; aggregate value ot whole property $4,430,265. 'I be tax on professions amounts to $290; on polls to $1,868; ilia tax on polls, professions and prop erty V 34 mills, amounts to $17,- 668.92' .<,? I ■the colored people. . Wo fiiftf-lhat tte colored 'people ia have city or town property to the amount of 881,380; money and sol vent rlelit's $1,870; household and kitchen furniture $11,090; horses, mutes hogs,. cattle, sheep, &e., $14,- 510; plantation and mechanical lool.- $1,645 ; all other property except annual crops, $4,185. The aggre gate value of their whole property is $140,630..3* TAXATION ETC. The taxation account with Clarke county is as io lows; General tax: 814,871,C3; poll tax $1,737; county tax wildland, $55,61; general lax collected, not on digest, $2,18 ; poll tax collected, not ou digest $48. The receiver’s commissions w ere $414,91 ; the culled ore‘$409. CO*;'insolvent gen et a! tax *51.14y inabWenl poll tax $270; t et poll "*thx~ftfli<1 to county school c< nimissioucr $1,481,95; gen eral tax paid to treasurei $14,131,13. J.BREVITIES CHIPS, THE CARPEilTER. bt jons iwjvl* o'urjlj.l. . ... ■‘Chips,” wIioto I knew for montli* by no otlu-r name, was ship's c3irp.‘l:t,T of the wluderGozello, of Xrw Bedford. Ho was twenty-six years old, six feet high, and strong as a tree. Ho was the favor ite of the siiip—and no wonder. He was tender and gentle, perhaps because ho wins strong; lie was peaceful, beeause ho was powerful. And the soft word which tumeth away wrath, with the gentle fraud to soothe a sufferer, are often needed in the whalo fisheries. Most of the foremast hands of the Ga zelle were rough Portugese lads, from the Western Islands, on tlieir first voyage. They were treated with oarse contempt by the few American seamen and by the officers. 1 Tho'only “white man”—as the Yankee sailor loves to call himself—who was kind and patient with the rude boys was Chips; and be was never tired of show ing them or teaching them sometliiug of what he knew. He was one of those unselfish fellows who did not believe in keeping knowledge to themselves! He hod never been to sea before, but during the first two years of this voyage he had attended to eo many things besides his own easy work, that he was considered os one of tho best and coolest whales- men aboard. Although exempt from standing watch, he had insisted on doing the duty from tiie first day out. At night, if the weather were g—.;d, he would sit on the main hatch, in the center of a ring of the Por tugese lads, and with wonderful patience teach them to make splices and knots, and to ep8nk -Bnfdish. He never tired of doing this or any other kindly thing for them. In the day time, if there were work, ior him at his trade, he still had ttierf atoidid' lrtifi, explaining everything as he sawed - or planed, as if he wished to make them os good carpenters as he was himself. will move at the rate of about six miles an hour; when “ feeding” they keep on the same “ground” not moving more than a few miles a day.^ When seen lata in the evening, the ship Is steered dur ing the night according to the ohaerra- ! turns, and oitch finds the school in sight ’■in the morning, Wien the boats are at i onoe aeut down. r->, - - /v' . , Tliis course was not followed on the evening in question. It was not a school iwe saw, hut s “lone whale,” and one of ' extraordinary size. The night promised Ui lies rough one, and the whale’* mo tions were strangely irregular, os if he hod lost himself in an unknown sea. -“and there are no lanterns on the i One of tho men from the boat relieved Chips at the wheel, and he went . to rig lanterns at the fore and maintops/ When this was done we stoo on the forecastle, looking ant fen the bqata. Suddenly he me and sard: “We’re going to lose sol night. While I was at the seemed to me as if something in my ear that we’re going to man to-night.” I said he was growing os as old Kanaka Joe, and ho. i .“I can’t hdpii „Itdid heard that whisper,. their travel are carefully noted. When that I ■til??*eSlfXlf"ftscMbdlOf speftn whales [ fefror." y Another shont from tho sea cut ofl further talk, and we soon bad two more boats at the davits. The absent! one There is something soiemn and mys terious in the sight of “lone whales.” and marvelous siv,>erstitions are current among whalemen respecting them. Though spending year after year on tho great waters, whalers become more im pressionable to supernatural tilings than other seamen, and long observation of the slmals or schools of the vast creatures they pursue, tends to fill them with , amazement and awe when -they meet with a solitary leviathan who has aban doned all fellowsliip with his kind, who lives by his own law—lonely, mighty and terrible. •" Soon after the erv from aloft, we saw the whnle from the deck; only a short dis tance from tho ship, and we might have seen him long In-fore had not his white, hush-like spout been lost in the angry whiteness that was fast spreading over the sea. For a moment nil eyes were fastened on the long body, like a great, black tube, over which the waves washed. Every face was wonder-stricken at the immense size of the whale. Captain Clifford had been examining him through a glass, which he handed in turn, to each of liis officers. “What do vou say, Mr. Hussev?” he inquired of the first mate, who glanced at the sun and answered: “Go down, sir; we can doit.” “Mr. Joseph?” and the captain turned to tho second mate, an old PoTtugese’tif' extraordinary size, and perhaps the most famous whaleman alive. “Go down, sir, if we want to get the fellow; we’ll never see him again.” The two other officers were younger men, and of the same mind. There was Mr. Joseph’s, and we knew that through thick and thin he would hold on to the whale. It was hours before we fonnd him; and when we did he re fused to cut his line from tho carcass. The captain cried to him that we could not hold the whale in suen a sea, but the whaleman cried back; , ‘He’s a hundred-an’-fifty barreler; and if you don't take the line aboard, we’ll stick to him in the boat!” Soon after, as the gnle was moderating, the line was taken in, passing through a strong iron brace screwed on to the star- hoard rail just forward of the gangway amidships, from whieh it was taken back niul made fast to the windlass bits at the foot of the mainmast. . It was a new line of stout Mnnils hemp, and its strength was put to a fear ful test. A hundred fathoms astern of the ship it held the monster’s car:ass; and, as the vessel rolled heavily to the Rea the strain on the line was terrific. Standing forward of it I laid my hand on the line as the Btrain came, and I felt it stretch and contract like a rope of India ruhlier. Mr. Joseph’s boat had come alongside, and tlie captain, standing on the star board rail, was shouting to him through a trumpet. The line from the whale passing from astern to the brace forward, and back to tho hits amidships, made an acute angle, inside of which the captain was standing. I saw and noticed this as passed forward, and I noticed, also, in the dark, a tall man who seemed to be lean ing against the line. “I hope he is for- fard of it," I said to myself as I went on with what I was about I had not taken six steps from the spot when something strange occurred. The ship steadied, os if the wind had ceased. There was no sound greater than the storm; but, instead, there seemed to fsll suddenly a stillness. I ran amidships aud grasped for the line in the dark. It was gone! A rush to the rail, and all was clear. ..The strain had torn out tlio braoe. The mighty pull of the whale .astern had jerked the line straight,' like the cord of a gigantic Ikiw, and the cap tain. who had bean standing on the rail, was stmek by the firing rope and thrown scusuless fae into the sea,» ' All this had been seen by the men in the boat ljcfore arfy'oae oiC board” bad • -TlTWDIFTITnF.RTA; 7 ; i .* i RKM.vRKS os the characteristics AND TREATMENT OF THE DISEASE. Considerable diversity of opinion exists among medical men as to l&e true, nature of diphtheria. Speaking; gen erally, however, aua without any pretension to scientific acouracy we should say th 't it was a malignant sore throat, attended with formation of.p, membrane. Few diseases are more dreaded both by patient and .* ji; wirfiOjir, i- diptherifc Dip the- frequently and . girls,,., more commonly than boys. It may occur at any season, and is little affected by either heat or cold. In different epidemics it lias been found that neither tho heat of the dou-days nor the frost ot' the winter affected the prevalence of the disease. 8souie people appear to be much more susceptible to its influence than others; ‘thus of two families residing in tlie same bouse, and apparently under identical conditions, one has suffered severely, while the other has entirely escaped. A difference of susceptibility is also observed io members of the family, and this is not always in favor of the more robust. It is said that people of great mental activity and a high de gree of nervous susceptibility are es pecially prone to suffer from the dis ease* Is it contagious? Undoubted ly. 4V e know that it is contagious, although we are not acquainted with the exact mode in which the couta gion operates. The infectious matter is uot capable of any wide diffusion though the air, but it eliugs in the most persistent manner to particular places, houses and even rooms. There is, we believe, no known instance of its hav ing been conveyed from one house to another by a person not suffering from the disease It is still very doubtful whether it can be inoculated. There is good deal of contradictory evidence on the subject. Do people ever have diphtheria twice? There can lie no doubt that a person may suffer from it any number of times. The tiict of having had and survived the disease does not grant that immunity against a second attack which is so markedly a characteristic of measles, scarlatina and small-pox. now rr begins. his letters and pictures on deck, Chips j “Swing the boats!” shunted the “old showed tlie only signs of sadness w« l man.” ever saw. He was the only one on lioard Hie lines and irons had already been —except myself—who had neither pic- I thrown in by the crews. A “heave, oh!" i ‘Nothing «n'i lie. said i agninib free trade.’—Jenna A. Garfield, July 10, 18G6. ., y j i; ,, .. nil r (_ Tlie Baltimore,.Atnyrican .wittily says John Kelly is a democrat for rev enue only.’ , ” ivub It is said ■thnt’Gen.*' whnt’ can *tcp resent us ai the ooutt ol St. James it lie desires the position. The New York Herald says the dc-mocialic wagon is mired again, and advise j to unload. A revolutionary circular, now he ing distributed in Ireland, says: •Londun must be huu in ashes !’ Spalding county-is thteonly county in the filth congj.eflpional district that gave Clark ami<Jr:ificJu u majority. . ,Two licgro women and a white man were sent from Newnan to the asylum, all at‘one lime, aiid all ol thuu went cri.ky. through jealousy. SJiowere oflioistonee have recently, on two ocraekins, fallen in a cotton fi. Id in Cobb ccnnty, and driven the bands lopcek sjuejter./ Afcteujrie trag- ments, piqljajily. ,'j ...... ’* A'BiWe and a ne» spaper fh * bVei'y lions-, and"* good school in every disiiici ail studied and appreciated as they merit, are the prii eipal si>p)s>r> of virtue, morality ami c.til liberty. It ie-said <o“lw* a fact caj»Me ot clenr jT"o) tlial .Gen G T Anderson, a I wavs kn»w u in the army as -Tige’ ol Atlanta, i.ta whip the hglit vhtcli secured the victory all lie second bat tle « i Mai-assas. on. tl* S&kofi July] 1862- A gemh'Wmn in-now engaged writinp Sn Aveoh&’cij .jv’lbte'Ure' Phil- ftdelphlll/BrWtai, VIZ Ait tores nor letters—neither face nor word to remind him of home. When the ship touched at some port with a postoffiee, and every one ran for letters, Chips remained aboard—he knew there was none for him. "jo one of the boys’ albums he fonnda picture of on old, white-haired woman—the lad’s mother— and every Sunday afternoon he asked for that album, and always gave it hack when be had turned and looked at that picture. The ship had been two years out when I first saw Chips. Through strango and unhappy circumstances I was Afloat on the Indian Ocean, in a small boat, when thiaNaw Bedford whaler hove in sight, and ran toward me. The first man to spring out in tire mizzen cl mi ns, to help me aboard, was strong-handed Chip*, with team of sympathy in his eyes. On deck,the captain met me with open hand and heart, and for eight months I sailed with the whalemen, and took part in the good and.ill that befell fhemi ' v • Chips and I were friends from the in stant our hVnds struck. Shaking hands is one of the best tests of character. Some people shake yonr hand so politely that you feel they would care mighty little about shaking your acquaintance; some men slip their hands into yours and make you feel as if you were squeez ing a fish; some people’s bafids are so thick, and fat,‘and 6old, that yon might well grasp tlie fingers of a leather dummy. Moot people, and nice people, shake hands as a preliminary to eonvarsa, tion; but now and than one’s hand strikes into a sympathetic palm, the fingers take full hold, the thumbs inter lock and close—and when that friendly gnsp is over, there is not a word to be said—it spoke all friendly greeting in its own good language. Just such a kindly and grim grip did Chips give me the first time we met _ . When I boarded the whaler I was in a bad way fordgtfiaB; all that belonged to mo in the world were the few br rags that I had worn in tho boat Sailors are need to sncli tilingsr and they-know the remedy. Every one ’came fortrard with his little offering. One brought a hat, another a jacket, another a pair of sea boots, a jack-knife, a cake of to bacco, and so onritudfl I had a bunk fu|[, of marine necessities.: \i J t Chips had least to give of all, for he had shipped without a regular outfit Bui when he saw all that had been given, smffteg aVthorongh boyp ea-each one handed bill*offering, he drew me off to his own cubby-hole, and hauled round his own chest Out on his bed came the content*; had in a minute there was a fair division of all ft contaforil—-ffaAn£ls, shirts, stockings and everything to-* handkerchief. '.'- 1 ; ' ’ r - “These are yonrs, and these are mine, said Chips; “and I’ll make you a chest to-morrow.” . That’s the sort of a man he "was'in everything. No wonder the boys loved him, and -that the one word spoken in thp hesitates of the ship *as the name of the kind-hearted, many Chips. He was as brave os he was kind. When whale* were chased, Chips went down in a boat *hd there was no cooler‘head among them when the fragile shell was to be laid broadside to a monster nearly as long as the ship. Once when the boat was stove in by a sweep of the awful flakes in the dea£h-flurry^ one cf^thq' boys Was crashed by the blow and dnven senseless nndqr the water. Whet* Chips came to the surface he counted the heads and a straining sound, and in one min ute the four boats struck the water, and tlie men were settled on the thwarts with the long oars out. On Snnday, when everyone brought j wasjio time lost in further consultation r ,. a ]; z ^l the affair. In less than a min ute tlie cry of “Saved!” reached us from Mr. Joseph, and, in a shorter time than can be imagined by a landsman, tlie Ixiat was hanging at the davits, and the injured commander was being cared for in his cabin. Rum and hard robbing are the potent remedies on a whaler, and by dint of those the captain opened his eyes in a quarter of an hour. He had been stunned, but not seriously injured. He was amazed at first at seeing the mute aud mvself standing over him with the mm bottle.. But without a word he realized the situation. “ How is tlie weather?” he asked. “The wind has gone down,” said Mr. Joseph. “We’re under foresail jib and reefed topsiffs, and running right away from the whale." “Gone?” said the old man. “Gone, "answered Mr. Joeeph ruefully. “Stanchion dragged, and the line parted, anil eight thousand dollars went without an owner.” .. >•' ~ “Tell Chips to see to that broken rail,” said tlie captain, closing his eyes drowsily. s The snn was low and large and red, and the whole western sea and sky were magnificent in crimson and gold and block. The pk turo was one of the finest I ever saw. The rising sea was jet black, except where it was bloody; a broad road of crimson shimmered from tho ship to the snn; the long body of the whale, even blacker than the sea, was plainly seen in tlie ruddy glare; and life was added to the immense scene by the four white specks—the whaleboats— closing to a point os they drew near the motionless monster. * ~ It was not nntil tlie boats had left the ship that we realized ,hqw threatening was tho weather. iEtftry moment the seas, come wilder and heavier against tho vessel. Only how spd Again, as they were lifted on a sea, conlil we catch'sight of the brave little boats. The breeze grew stronger every minute, aud before tho first bout neared the whole, was whistling through the rigging iu the wild way that tefia.iqf a (joining gale. The captain regretted the lowering of the lioats, and soon signaled them to return. Bat the men were excited, and refused to Bed the signal. , Killed to the gurfw*le, the seas lashing over them every mo ment, on they went where only a thing bo nearly perfect as a whaleboat could keep afloat As the first boot swung round to run down to leeward of the whale, the red sun stood fairly on tho block field of ocean. Talk about the bravery of soldiers in battle, or of men osliore in any enter prise you please; what is it to the bravery of such a deed as this? A thousand miles from land, six men in a little twenty- eight-foot^ shell, coolly, going down in a stormy sea to do battle with tlie mightiest created animal!’ It' is the extreme of human coolness and courage, because it i* the extreme of chtnger. Tlie soldier ’ faces one peril—thesbullet. The whale man, in such a cose as this, has three mighty enemies togfifllitr—the sea, the gala and the whale. | f l We saw the harpqpner of each boat stand up as.tiieyxpine ‘within heaving distance, aud senlrti bis two irons. All the lioats were fast before the monster seemed to feel the first biow. Thgfi Came the fight, the cmal and unnatural tight lietween vast power and keen skill. Tlie black water was churned white os tho flukes struck ewt in rag* andxgftny. The snn disappeared and-ibe-'gale screamed wilder in the rigging. We Diphtheria usually begins, lioth iu adults and children, with marked sym toms as lever, there bciiig an eleva tion of 'he temperature ot the body by fem <is five, degrees,aud an increase in the rate of the pulse which is often very marked. Sometimes the attack f>egin9 with n littlc sensation of chil liness, but it i» never u-hered in with that marked shivering which occurs in omeother levers. The patient usual ly complains of a stupid feeliug, of pain in the head and neck or in the loins, of debility, weakness in the limbs, and increased thirst Sometimes he is restless or inclined to be drowsy, or he may be sick.' Children when first taken ill, are apt.to sleep daring the day more than usual, and are restless or even light-headed at night. Very shortly the patient exper iences asensation of dryness and burn ing in the throat, as well as pain on swallowing. If the space under the jaw he examined, some little hard, tender inmps will be felt, which are the enlarged glands. If the throat be now carefully examined it will be found to be of* dark-red livid color, ol' tlie approaching danger. There is a little fever or none at all; there is a trifling sensation of malaise, a little uneasiness ift; the throat and a feeling of dryness or a slight pricking pain in swallowing. In adults these symptoms are very easily overlooked, and in children they cannot be ascer tained. The glands of the jaw and neck swell moderately,.and, arosotnes what tender or painful ou gentle pres sure. Only in rare cases doesthislight form of tlie disease give rise to more marked symptoms. The fever. " (hen more Intense, the temper* ire of the body stands’ three of WMBtpaSii skin feels dry. and hot, the pulse is frequent and full aud the face slightly congested. The patient complains of heaviness about the head or ot a *cnse of stu pidity, of lassitude; increased thirst, aDd of an annoying or painful sensa tion on swallowing. Sometimes even there may be a little stomach distur bance and the patient may be sick; still, after ashort time—usually in the course of from twelve to twenty-four hours—these symptoms disappear as quickly as they came, a-.d the patient soon forgets all about what he char acterizes as his little temporary indis position. If, however, we could have examined his throat, we should find it was in places swollen arid of a vivid red color. A few hours later a num her of gratish-whiteer whitish-yellow spots would have been seen, perhaps confined to one tonsil and a little _ of the adjacent tissues, and we should then have entertained no doubt as the true na 1 ure of the di-ease. The diph theric membrane gradually clears off, and io a few days the attack may be I over; or, ou the other hand, the term ination may be less favorable. Diphtheria may ennse death simply mechanically by suffocation, but the exhaustion occasioned by the inten sity of tlie constitutional disturbance is usually an important footer, The duration of the disease may vary from tbrtyseight hours to fourteen days. When dyaihukes place within a week’ from the first appearance ot symptoms of illness, it is al ways preceded by the extension o( tlie inflammation to the larynx. When death occurs as ' the consequence of the general disease, the. fetal issue usually ensues during the secoud week of tlie. disorder, un less indeed, the patient hag been greatly weakened by some previous illness. During the progress of the case the kidneys not untrequenliy become affected, and diphtheria may cause Bright’s disease, just as scarlet fever docs. Alter’recovery lroro an attack of diphtheria therels often paralysis of different parts of the body. As tlie patalyiis is developed only grad ually and slowly it is seldom no ticed until the second or third week from apparent recovery from the disease. What should be done when diphtheria breaks out in a fam ily? In the first plocq, send for the doctor. Tin re is up disease in w hich the personal attendance of a medical man is more imperatively demanded. He will take the entire charge of the treatment, and you will not only have done the best for the sufferer bat will have relieved yourself from a fearful respons hlity. , WHAT SHOULD BE DONE. 1 ' coming in direct contact with the ^ throat or by its general influence on the system. The solution of perchlnride ofirondoes'goodwhen frequently pain ted over the back of the throat. Great pains must be taken to apply it very gently, or by increasing (he in flammation it may do more barm than good. In many instances the internal administration of the red iodide of mercury, in doses of 1-60 grain, has been attended with the most favorable result* It should be given every alter* nate boar in a few grains of sngar bf milk. The question of the amount of stimulant that should be given is a very J. T. WATHEtMAN, PROPRIETOR. GEORGIA NEWS. About 60Q names have been signed to a petition to do-away with Ihe-nie of liquor in Forsyth. Saturday night a negro in Macon was shot and instantly killed with the careless handling of a pistol. Eddie Hill, a six year old son of the school commissioner of Habersham County; was killed by lightning. A little negro child was run over th Savannah by the carelessness of a brutal driver and will probably die. Col. Wadley celebrated his 68th birthday last Friday by a family reun ion at his residence At ‘ Bolingbroke.' Mr. IWra- Pifober, of Sumter coun ty; had three hogs weighingjover 700 pounds killed by one stroke of light ning. . _ r,-„ -; hr i 4 ,V . A man named Conner made an at tempt to commit enicidc in Albany by battering himself in the head with ashofeTiSmmei^"-—"; A negro mAh and four white men are Candidate for ordinary in DeKalb county. There is also a negro candi date for clerk. ■ Mr. J. J. Robinson;-of Campbell coqntv. went to. Atlanta, sold bis cpto ton and left in ft veiy mysterious way In a difficulty beTween'Mr. Patterson and Sir; Ogletree, iu Craw tient goffering from diphtheria in self affords no grounds for the admin istration of alcohol.' The stimulant, „ . , . - . , should be given because the general fold county, the former was seriously condition of the patient? requires it, 8 “ ot by the utter- and BOt because he is suffering from Gen. Toombs, says he has practiced any particular disease. law about fifty years, and has never In the slighter cases of diphtheria seen as much wide-spread poverty in no stimulant at all is wanted ; where- Georgia as now exists, as in the more severe forms, where Geo. T. Jackson & Co., of the Ex- the patient’s strength is utterly worn celsior mills, Augusta, sold twelve out, nothing but the free adminisira hundred barrels of flour to parlies in tioff of brandy will enable him to Columbia, S. C., Wednesday and weather the storm. Do not be in too | Thursday great a hurry to give wine or brandy, i In ; Leesburg on Tuesday or you may find when .t is too late ni . hl , a freight some one fired into a that you have thrown away your best negroes on their way to card. Remember, too, that ' the m( Jj A w t m an was shot, and is mere fact of your ge ting do wni *o> Ukel & die . much brandy does not prove that it ,. , is token into the system, for it may Capt. Sain Beal, of Lumpkin, has remain in the stomach absorbed, and ma de a Sensible swap. He traded might just as well, for all the good it a P a,r °* f° x bounds for some Kens does, be outside the body. Feel the tucky hogs-of fine breed. Sensible pulse, and if you find your stimulant Swbuel. strengthens it ypu may hope that it I Ben Huff, a notoriously bad charac- is doing good. I ter, robbed a man named B F. Peri- In severe cases, attended with great due of $50 at one of the Griffin bar- prostration, as much as four or five ber shops Friday night. Huff has ounces of good brandy may be given: shipped. , in the twenty-four hours, even to a Isadora Finkenstein, the young Ger- child. It must be distinctly under- mn n who attempted suicide several stood that the remarks we have made days ago at Rome, is progressing fa- concerning the treatment of diphthe- vorably, and hopes are entertained ria are for those only who are unable j 0 f his recovery to obtain personal advice. There are T he Albany News learns that the many different methods of treating River acl Brunswick railroad this disease; and if the plan adopted c . ruu a roa d trom New- by the doctor in attendance is at var- to „ < 5 amiUa thenCe t0 Sumner on .ance w ith the direcuons wo have ofi he B & A r0ad< laid uqwo* it should be remembered .. n , that one who has bad the opportitm- Mr. Tillman Gamlin, an o'd and t'v of seeing and examining the patient re^pecU-d citixen of Murray county, to likely to prescribe better for him while ginning cot on a ew days ago than one wl.o has not. When the, 8” 1 his heed caught between two cog softer pariioi tbejehest recedes while a wheels crushing out hia brains, breath is being taken, or the patient ' Mis’ Lacey,’ a widow lady' in Sa- looks ever so slightly blue or livid,' it vnnnnh 90 years of age, to c»l ling un is to be regarded as an indication that other set.ot leeib. She is about as there is some obstruction so the free spry as she was forty yearr-ago, and entrance of air into the lungs, and the I superintends her household affairs doctor, if not present, should with remarkable precision and exact-, be at once sent tor. At the conc'usion ness. of a case of diphtheria, whether it On Wednesday night last week the terminate favorably or unfavorably, depot at Waynesboro was entered by tlie room which the patient has slept burglars and about sixty dollars taken should be theronghly disinfected. | from the desk. The parties broke Unfortunately, however, the atlen dance of a medical man is not always procurable ; and for the benefit of those who have to rely on their own uiiaided resources, we give a short' “Ay, ay, sir,” said the old second mate, as fie stamped on deck. I heard him stop at the after-hatch, where the boat-steerors and the carpenter lived, anil call “Chips” two or three times. At last there was an answer iu another Toice—-iiot; Chips’; theft a round of hurried feet on deck, a slionl down the forcastle; and a shout back in answer. There was no Chips there. Two minutes after, a heavy foot came aft to the cabin stairs, and Mr. Joseph, with a white face, entered. I knew what he had to tell I knew now—-just as if I had seen it all—who the tall man was whom I had seen leaning against the lino. The captain looked at thoaeooed mat* “Chips to gone, sir,” said the old Bailee;-with a tremor in hi* rough voice; “Chips was knocked over by the line, and we’ve gone four knots since it parted. I've put her about; and we’re running down again.” .' V ' There was dead silence. Wei all knew the search was hopeless. No man could swim iu such asea; and we had a thought, though no one spoke it, that brave Chips had been lulled by the line before he touched the water. — AU night we heat about the place where we thought it had occurred. The wind and sea fell, and the moon came out in great .beauty to help our sad searah. Every man on board staid bn deck' till the sun rose, and then we looked far and va. ily over the heedless swell of the sea. Chips waa dead.' The rough Porta- iieso lads found ■ it hard to believe that ;lie kind heart and strong hand of their friend had gone forever. We all knew that the best man in the ship was taken away, T could no longer see tlie boats from the Twa years ftffawnjJ Whftn l fonad ship. .The few men on board clewed up mystlf m Bbst6n,""Ttook from my sacreT the uvula which hangs down at the sketch of the mode of treatment. In back being swollen to twice its size. In, the first place the patient should beat a few hours the affected parts be- onpe sent to bed, For early rest in the light sail aud took a reef in the top sails, . and by this time tlie night was dark, as pitch, and the gale had whipped and howled itself into a hurricane. It waif fearful to think of' tho fehr small bents owf in-each a «ea as wns-then running. We on the ship had to cling to the rail of the rigging; tho terrific strength of the VTaves .sleep} Ihe ; heavy vessel about like a oork.' 1 saw the cap tain’s face a moment as he passed the binnacle lamps, and it was absolutely de formed with grief' and terror—not for himself, brave old sailor, but for hia boys in'(he boat* ‘Wlio’a at - “send a Mfc—t mmt iff duwa hultiu Muud.r »--"'Ayr«y. "toK brine he went, among, the sharks and fished np the sinking Mifr. 5 He waa a mighty swimmer, and, with. only an oarv to ding to, he held the senseless man oufi of water from noon till aunaet. But, to the story. The Gnzelle bad been cruising for three months a few hundred miles off tho coast of Western Australia—the great penal oolony of Eng- heel?!:' ho shouted; to the wheel." in iheAark* deep quiet voice: ‘!l’ve got the .wheel. That was Chips, and -1. walked aft to be near him. Just.thenalang hailcamo through the darkneRS, and we saw the flash of aboat's lantern on the lee quar ter. In a minute more a line was flung aboard, and we soon had one crow safe on deck. It was the mate’s boat.- ‘Where are the others,” waa the first come covered with a false membrane, which is icott marked on the tonsils and soft palate. This diphtheric in flammation, with the formation of the membrane, is very prone to spread, both upwards to the back of tlie nose and downwards into the larynx and windpipe. At first the membrane is easily detached aiid the tissnes beneath are apparently t healthy,but as it grows thicker and tougher it may be torn off in strips, and the subjacent struc tures will be seen to be raw and b'eeding. As the local mischief extends the temperature of the body usually rises, and the general constitutional dis turbance is increased The difficulty* in swallowing is in proportion to the amount ot infi i niation, swelling and exudation. Wearisome and painful efforts to clear the throat' are often Occasioned by the abundant secretion of a thick tenacious mucus. In some cases the breath becomes extremely offensive. From the first there is usually a good deal ot cough; but should the windpipe become affected both oough And voice assume a hoarse, husky, muffled tone, and a difficulty is experienced in breathing. During the whole course of the disease the bowels are either quite natural or they ore confined, diarrhoea being very unusual. several varieties tilings a letter, which I had found in Chip’s chest. It was addressed to a wo man, with the name and number of a Cambridge street I found the place— a amall frame house, with tots of Chip’s bandiaord around it His-’ mother-met me at the door, white-haired woman. See seemed to have been waiting and watching for somebody. A few words told the hopeless story. The letter was for her, and she read it over—the letter of her only boy, asking forgiveness for his one great and only (liHolx-lienco—and aa she read, the white head bent lower and lower, till it met the thin hands; and I turned and left the littie toom I had darkened,'with all its poor ornaments, useless now, and, as I walked toward Boston, I could not help thinkihg that God’s ways are often wofnliy tor from being our way*—AppMon’t Journal. A leading mer. ban' ot Warienton, Va., last Friday ( rder.d thirty bolts of cottonades bom Co’umlni*, Ga. ot goi ds North, l ut has found he can SevCri.l varieties of diphtheria are re cognized by medical'men, in some the symptoms are much milder than .we have described, andin others they assume a more malignant type. The great danger ot the slighter forms that they may be entirely ovetlooked. The patient Is apparently so little in disposed, that professional aid is not considered necessary, and the true nature of the complaint remains un detected. It iniy so happen that this is of very little moment to the patient himself, bnf it is a matter of the very gravest importance to all who have the misfortune to 'be brought tn contact with him. This .plight attack is ca|iable ol commun icating to other people the disease ip its most malignant form. It to difficult to ’over-estimate the serious consequence* that might eusue from a case of tbis-description bein- land—and during {hat time had not I question. —^ . . ,, , fallen jp with * flinglo sperm whalo. “Fast to the whale,” was the answer, Southern factories these cases ia of the utmost importance. The room should, if posible, be large and airy, and the greatest attention must be paid to ventilation. At least one ot the windows should be kept constantly open for an inch or two at the top, so as to avoid any chance of stuffiness. It is a good plan to have plenty of carbolic acid and water, placed iu bav ins about the room. It may be used tor receiving and di-inlecting the dis charges ; and a' iiule occasionally sprinkled on the floor will do much to keep the air swett. Means should be taken-to isolate the patient; and peo ple who are not actually iu attendance should not be allowed in the room, both for their own Bakes and for the sake of the sufferer. It is a good plan to giv9 : tbe patient p'enty of ice to suck, in pieces of such a size that they can be conveniently and comfor tably held in the mouth. Ice is use ful in allaying the beat and pain in the throat, and in checking that abun dant secretion of mucus which is _ so annoying from the coustant hawking which it occasion* Its beneficial ef fects are most marked when Its use is cotnineuced at the very onset of the attack, and it should be continued as constaDtly as possible until it bos fair ly declined. During tbe whole of the illness the patient’s strength should be carefully supported by the admin istration of strong beef tea, milk, raw e.-g* and other nutritious diet, ITEMS. VOR THE LADIES TO READ. open the door seemingly with crow bar* There is no clue to the perpeto ratora The people of Baker county Are o v ... . „ni greatly exercised over a strange and Sashes are w y I loud rumbling noise that none can, ac- new costumes. - - - count for. It sounds to those in Scarf-like draperies are on late nn-1 ^gwton like it ciuuo--from the west, ported goods. Some say that it ia a volcano about to Gay plaids line nearly all the hoods hurst forth, on new mantles. . , A telegram received at Augusta by Fichus of fine white uets are a*pop-: Major Tbo* P. Branch, announces the alar as those of mull were during the death, at Modesto, California, of his summer. brother, Mr "Won. A.’Branch, for- Fringe and bands made of loops, o merly a citizen ot Augnsta. Tho re- chentille are in favor, and make a ; soa| mains will be carried to Virginia for and pretty trimming. interment Short dress skirts are made fuller Mr. Henry Glover, who resides this winter than before, and the drap- near Amerious, recently lost a fine ery-ia all more bouffant. ' I cow which was Apparently in splendid Embroidered castimcre, in patterns wndition. The causeofthe animals of five yards each, tosold for trlu.mIng U^h remained a mystery until a ..i.in [post mortem exanitnation revealed a plain cashmere dresses. lady’s hair pin buried in her heart inside ot the sleeves. ^ bigh> , with brpnche8 and bolls to New clothes for men’s and woraen\> correspond. This giant fttalk will be garments have a dash of color. It is uge d by Mr^Talmagoin decorating his sometimes almost mvisible, but it is, Tabernacle in Brooklyn on thanksgiv- nevertheless, there. ing day. It is a custom of the great Three American young ladies at an preacher on thanksgiving day to dec- inn at the village of Simpeln fill the I orate his church with the different column of the book headed ‘Occupa- products of the soil. tion with the words, ‘Looking for a —— husband.’ Hon. A. H. Stephens,; member A Kansas woman who was called ?. ld , * an * "Wfr -homeW as a hedge fence’ sued the on f he . anti-tariff plank of the Uincm- slanderer and received only six cents nal1 P' a '£? rm ’ ^e has . e courage damages. Kan as hedge fences are ™ ke h, »°P ,ni ° na . kn0WD ’ , H ® n x* Jf i mi ht/Jrinfv 6 I terly repudiates the-talae and undem* not so bad luoking. , . .. cc^tic Idea, that any good eaa result San Francisco doesn’t busy itself from robbing all other classes in the about tho Baroness Burdett-Conus’ marriage. It scorns to be meddlesome; aud moreover it has enough to do to guess why the Flood Grant engage ment was broken off. Some of the saleswomen have ac quired the baby store and practice it ou country to enrich the manufacturer* —Sparta Ithmatlite. In these days of democratic trim ming, we are glad that bo able a man as Mr. Stephens can he found, who is willing to stand up to the good old THE USE OP IRON. The'drug on which we place the greatest ot reliance is iron. I', is, we believe, best given in the form of tbe solution of tbe perchloride ot iron. The tiuctore of perchloride of iron is of the same strength and answers equal ly well, but it is made with spirit, aud we may not always want to give al cohol. f In the case ofan adult,thirty minims should he given iu an ounce of water every alternate hoar, or half the: quantity hourly. The dose for * child is teu drops every hour in a little water These are large doses., but in diphtheria, as iu erysipelas, iron, to do any good, must he g-ven frequently and in oonsiderablecquanti- tie*.;The-taste is rough,land should it try objectionable qwy . he ' iy the addition to each dose alldned to run h.ose in a school. | of twenty drops of..glycerine. The elight attack, usually begin with- Mjjbraw exactljt,> : wfoit p’drithttsi- to bet’tr advantage from tmt any symptoms Which’ might give | way tfje medicine acts. It may pro- ' Warning to the patient or his friends ducc its beneficial effect either by .a!,-!- -T'*!t® customer* It is tolerably effective on democratic doctrine of free trade, a man, but the woman.who encount- There really is not any good reason era it is always made turionsly an- wb aU 0 , her i n t be conn- assirssar^" “ 1 k ** * ^ * r* v v . comparatively few manufacturer*^ W. «. s,.pw where all work is done by men includ- | lead hubis matter, ing that of tbe kitchen and the care of ~7TT m ~ r the cabius, almost convinces her that Isareixa McCuli-OCH, formerly of woman has mistaken her vocation iu I Sonth Carolina, the soprauo singer, land was taken to chureh tor "fi I nersistent wooing on his partabe SSL” si by [to tooWtolW ?“ tb ripito in x1rop«:'Mpili ItonJnnrf carried up the aisle »o the Yo|rog and her for d f ¥orce abont lw0 b-n.Wfto.b.8 to 6 «i««b CT . A' young lady well'known in lava I a time iniGraoe Cfiurch, and’ later in erpool on account of her beauty, waa st. Stephen’s, in New Ifork.city, mftrried last we k. When lhft.oaupn I ■ ^ wfio was officiating read the words, The women employed 11 in the pert * fove : honor and obey ,’ the young lady fumery wOrIts of L. T7 Fiver, in Pans, declined fo repeat the last!' ’Three have Unde Work Becanfo the disctp- tiinesthe canon panned for aa echo, I Kiie toi agiatrict’ fthid the fines; are-so and paused in vain. Ikeal* Wft t on nxvbUftnt ’tliatJt is impwwbjo ior with the service. Bat is this yppng therojtq ftftrtHtW,*««"•* 1 “* “ lady mturned or nut t-~Jjohdoh 'Truth* | paid from 35 to 60 ,'nqney. They afo I cents a day;