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Wm. A. BRECKENRIDGE, Poblisher,
“Onward nncl Upward.”
SUBSCRIPTION: $1.50 Per Aninlm.
VOLUME I;
DALLAS, PAULDING COUNTY, GA., MARCH 1. 1883.
NUMBER 13.
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remain only one week iu iach momh.
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PHYSICIAN &8URG‘ON,
Tend r« hts rroLssi nil s rvhes n the
pract.ce o f medicine iu a’l it.s »r«incl.e«< »o
the cit /.:aa n D JUs and surroutitJin
country. -etrOfll .c No. 5 Ac.vor;h st.eet,
near c nr h use.
” K PlRLDER, gko h roiikrt
GUELDER & ROBERTS,
ATTORNEYS AT LAW,
Deltas. Paulding Crantv, G«irgta
Praolioe in ell the o>nr «. Pruinpt ntten-
Hon giv n tj lo,.kiu* nicer wild land chin b.
Col ections a ppecin ty. i ly
J M fcPiNKd,
. ‘attqhney at law,
Balia,, Paulding County, G lorgia.
Pro opt attention given to c-filict ons in
anv part of III-* Stale. Wil I lands looked
aftir and intruders ejected..
THOMPSON & SPINKS,
Attorney and Cou<-se'tor at Law,
Ba'las, Paulding C>., G».
"Will pr dire in all the cour s of thi- Stale,
from t;:c jo tice <o'irs up* Prompt attfn'i- p
Riveo to oo'lacti »o-. I, >oking u’ter wild
lands, removing intruders, no,, made a sne*
oialty.
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Even these “with no e«r” whil* away de
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one can play it Children piny it in one
evening. Costa but ouo*tenth as much as
the O g nette, OrgnniuH, eto, and is fa
sweeter and needs oaiy common music. T -
introduce our newmun c ve will tend a sam
pie Organ, with bound b >ok emuining fu 1
woids and mu*ic of 96 new ai»d p p • far
songs, which iu *heit form pell for $36.3.3,
prepaid to any address f >r O V LY $1.
C. O D.—-As a guarantee that every o e
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on> sample book and ororan by expre s C.
O. D„ $100; two for $i 60; three. $2 30, . r
more at the rate of *9 per doz^n. We « an*
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Loc’< Box 780, II ns lale, N. II.
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Ornniro trees nro lipin* bbipi-ed to
South Florida.
X perfect gold fever is raging in Po k
county, North Carolina.
There is a negro boy in Nath county,
V. C., that is nevon fo t high.
Freight trains are prohibited from
running on Sunday in Alabama.
West Virginia contains 52.000 persons
over ten years of age who cannot read.
There were 1,851 arrivals at’the Cedsi
Keys hotels during the month of Janu
ary.
About $5,000,000 is the amount now
invested in the manufacture of pig iroi
! n Alabama.
A bill making It a criminal oflenre to
deal in futures has pasted the Alabama
State Senate.
Sixteen very lurgo whales drifted
ashore on the sea beach nenr CanAneral
Florida, recently.
A negro in Newberry county, South
Oar^ linn, has forty-two children and
824 grandchildren.
A man living in Polk county, Tenn.,
had six acres in tobacco last year, and ii
made him *76 per acre.
A remarkable rich vein of ore has been
'truck in the Gold Valley mine, in Row
an county, North Carolina.
Frederick county, Vn., has fine cloth
manufactories, turfyimr out over 300,000
yards of cloth per annum.
Only four miles of iron has got to be
laid to complete tlie railroad from Pen
sacola to the Apalachicola riv^r.
Over 52,000,000 cans of tomatoes were
packed last year. Nearly half of it wa»
done in Maryland and Virginia.
Tlie horse trade of Texas is rapidly
growing iu importance, and assuming
proportions only surpassed by its cattle
trade.
The grand jury of Mobile has been in
session two weeks, during which time it
1ms examined 250 witnesses and found
148 indictments.
There are 40,000 square miles of al
most unbroken forests in North Caroli
na, comprising pine, chestnut, oak, ma
ple, beech and hickory timber,
Land at Gaffney City, Spartanburg
county, S C., which was worth nboui
f2 an acre ten or fifteen years ago, now
finds ready sale at from $20 to $50.
The North Carolina Legislature is fa-
vnrbly disposed towaid a bill which
makes null and void all contracts for
cotton futures. Tlie measure lias passed
firHt reading
In Anderson county, Tenn., there is
a well which emits a perpetual stream of
illuminating gas, and it is said that
crude petroleum may he found in the
same locality.
Perhaps the rarest curiosities over
brought to Jacksonville, Fla., are two
monkey-faced owls, recently captured in
one of the caverns in Fort Marion, at
St. Augustine,
It is very probable that (lie city of
Atlanta will get a special appropriation
of $75,000 to buy land and begin the
erection of permanent United States
barracks in that city.
A rich vein of gold quarts, over seven
feet thicli, lias been struck in the Mor
row gold mine, Virginia. It yields now
$00 a day. The new machinery, now
being added, will greatly increase the
yield.
The Alabama Legislature recently re
fused to grant a charter for the Rome,
(Ga.) nnd Decatur railroad, saying it
was against the policy of the State to
grant charters to roads leading out of
t lie State. t; [7’
Tlie Alabama Legislature has passed
an appropriation bill in favor of the Mo
bile Medical College. An appropriation
of #900,000 in favor cf the University
nnd Agricultural College of that State
has also been passed.
Maj. A. V. Hitt, who, in ante-bellum
days, was one of the largest cotton buy
ere in Columbia, B, C., .and possessed a
fortune estimated at $200,000, died in
the alm»-house of that city on Saturday
last, aged seventy-eight years. He was
never married.
The salaries of the city officials, in
tituling tlie Police force of Pensacola
were paid in cash last Saturday, for the
first time in many years, and the city
administration will hereafter be run on
n cash basis. The salaries of city officials
have been reduced about onc-lialf,
tif the <80 murders recorded for tlie
country last yenr, 212 wore committed in
the Southern Suites nnd 131 were com-
uitted in the State of New York alone.
I’liis is rather severe on Northern sta
tisticians who would locale all lhc mur
ders in the South. It appears moreover
hat, of the executions for murder, half
if them took place in the South.
The City Council of Dalton, Ga., has
unanimously reitised to grant licenso to
veil intoxicating liquors in that city. It
is not to bo sold in drug stores under
the name of bitters nor from any other
place, nor in any quantity. Great re
joicing among the people. Out of a vot
ing .population of 400, 835 signed the
petition asking the Council not to grant
licenses.
New Orleans formerly took 2,000,000
bushels of Pittsburgh coni nnnunlly.
Now she receives less than half that
amount, the remainder coming from the
coal fields near Birmingham, Alabama,
Si ill the Pittsburgh miners standout
for their four cents, and one largo oper-
itor ha* made up his mind to go to the
mountain, and' lias already tnken up
5,000 acres in Alabama.
Tlie United States Government lias
purchased the Gummun property, ad
joining the site of tlie former custom
house, at Pensacola. The lnnd purclios
ed by the Government has a front of
seventy feet on Government street, nnd
i hey paid for it $18,000. This is llio
first move in a tangible shape to render
nviiilablo the. appropriation of $200,000
innde by the last Congress to replace tlie
custom house that was destroyed by lire
in December, 188\
One of the most noted housekeepers in
Talbotton, Ga., lias not bought a pound
of store lard in forty five years. She al
si has never failed to plant her Irish po
tato crop during the dark nights of Feb
ruary in forty-five years, an'd this year is
the fust year in forty-five that she lias
failed to put hog hair on her potatoes.
She maintains tlint nothing helps Irish
potatoes like n smnll bunch of hog hair
put on top of each seed potato placed in
the ground.
Sweeping Them Out.
“ How do I get rid of gossips ?” asked
Miss Hopkins, with n twinkle of amuse
ment in her bright eyes. “ Easily
enough. I found out the way long ago.
Tho llrst thing I did was ty) gut the
bruBli and dust-pan, and lay them handy
'gaiuBt. my neighbor camo in. Soon in
r ps Mrs. Smith. ‘Mrs. Smith,’says
‘yon won’t mind my doing a bit of
dusting, will you, wbilu you’re talk
ing?’ Of course slio couldn’t but be
agreealdo to that. So down on my
kneoB I goes, and begins to dust with
all my might. But somehow it was a
very curious thing that tho dust alius
would gather just under tho chair
my neighbor was u-sittin’ on. She’d
shift and shift, but I’d nllus bo arter her
with my old dust-pan; and tho dust 'ud
get up in her nose, and she’d begin to
sneeze—aud soon she’d Say, ‘Well, I
think—ketcherl—I’ll call in another
day, as I see you are—ketoher t—busy. ’
And so, in less than a week, I had dust
ed all my neighbors out of the houso. ”
Wise Mrs. Hopkins I
Pointed Shoes.
A grentbeauof the time of Wm. Rufus,
called Robert the Horned, wore shoos
with long points, stuffed with tow, and
twisted in a special form. This fashion
took tho fancy of tho people of that
day immensely, and the jioint.s increased
yearly until tho reign of Richard If.,
when they had to be tied on the knees of
tho wearer, that lie might not bo encum
bered in walking. This tying was, in tho
. TOPICS OP THE DAT.
Tub latest Washington real estate
olaimaut iu one who asserts a title to the
arsenal grouuda.
A BEounin branch of the "crook”
profession in New York now, is tho steal
ing of valuable pet dogs.
The land claims in Huron District,
Dakota, during the last quarter of 1882,
amounted to 745,893 sores,
A iovn'O lady of B.miberg, Germany,
lias been puuished by a Ano and costs
for tho offeuse of playing the piano at
night by an open window.
Mannirr H, Dbmicnt, a Chicago man,
olaima to have invented a machine
witli wbioh a person can beat fifteen av
erage oompositors in setting type.
The customs officers at Now York
seized u Diblo a fow days ago, bcoansn
set iu a spneo neatly out in one of the
Ihiok tucks was a diamond ring valued
at $150. Tho package was addressed to
a lady iu San Francisoo.
Tint Asiatio Sooi ity is about to erect
a monument on tho site of tho Iilack
Hole of Calcutta, the duligoou in wbicli
14G British prisonois were ooiiflned on
the night of June 20, 175(1, and from
whloli only twenty-three wore taken out
nlivo the next looming.
The fooling ou the lower Mississippi
m donscquuuco of the fiood is one of
dread and oxpuotaney. Tho terrlblo dis
asters of Inst yenr are still fresh in mind
nnd their repetition is feared. At various
points the population is abandoning tho
low lands.
Jay Gould expresses tho opinion that
there nro no good grounds to fear a corny
meroial and financial panic in this ooun
try. He thinks a largo percentage of tlie
new railways being built are usolosa, and
tho building of parollcl competing linos
simply to sell is ruinous.
Last spring two women wero elected
school 'directors iu Philadelphia. Their
services have been so satisfactory that
eight or ten more prominent ladios liavo
beon put forwnrd by their friends as can
didates for similar positions soon to bo
vacant. They will, it is expooted, stand
u good chance of success.
W. W. Story has expressed his will
ingness to make a bronzo statue of Dan
iel Wobster, to bo orcetod on Boston
Common, his reward to bo cither #15,000
or #10,000, according to r.izo. About
#5,000 liavo been subscribed, and it is
likely that Mr. Story will bo commission
ed to undertako the work.
Swindling practices by Brooklyn un
dertakers have been exposed by the
Commissioners of King's Oaunty, Now
York. The law requires expense* of
burying. soldier* and tailors who die in
destitution to be paid by the Commis
sioners. The board repot t thst many
bills presented to it by Brooklyn under
takers have already been paid by friends
of tho dooeased.
Rumor now denies any intention on the
part of Hon. David Davie to marrv. A
rodent Bloomington, III., dispatoli says
George P. Davis, who, with his wifo,
went to Washington with the intention
of proceeding to North Carolina to wit-
ness bis father's wedding, has returned
to his home. Tho Vine President’s half
brother, Mr. Lyman Betts, omphationlly
denies all reports nonoerning Mr. Davis'
matrimonial intention.
A phyhioian rented his stable in
Chicago to some men who had said thoy
desired to roost over again some coffee
that had beon damaged by wetting; but
he soon discovered that they were on-
gaged, in treating worthies coffee with
poisonous chemicals, so that it oouhl be
deceptively sold for the very liesl Java.
He informed the Board of Health, and
one of tho largest grooery firms in the
city has boou exposed ns the real pro
moter of the fraud.
Scarlatina surpasses diphtheria in
its ravages in Bussia. Iu 1882 there
were 1,823 deaths from tlie formor, and
1,14(1 from the latter in 8t. Petersburg,
nnd during five yean there have been
15flJt2Lfatal oases ont of 468.018 persona
attacked by those two diseases in the
empire. Tho Ooloe remarks that no war
lias over been so disastrous, and that,
considering the largo proportion of
young podplo among tho victims, it is
really the future of the country that is
in qnestion. Tho great difficulty is tho
lack of competent physicians.
The ltev. W. C. Winslow fans loaned
to tho Boston 8 iciety the ancient door
knocker, once in use on the door of his
famous ancestor, Governor Winslow of
tho Plymouth Colony. Tho venerable
relic is of solid yellow brass, and is ap
propriately mounted upon a pieco of
English ouk tlint might have accompan
ied the knocker over in tho Mayflower,
An apple in porfect preservation, al
though ninety-six years old, is in posses
sion of a gontleman in Ulster County,
Now York. As it rounded up from tho
blossom ol' tho parent stem iu the early
summer of 1787, a bottlo was drawn
over it and uttaolied to tho branch, and
alter tho apple had ripened tlie stem
was severed and tho bottle sealed tightly.
Vandeudilt tins sold the bioak on
which tho Madison Square Garden
stands to Edward S. Stokes and Wil
liam Mackey, the bonanza king, for
$950,000. It is iutendod by tho pur
chasers to erect a handsome and costly
theater aud to cover tho rest of tho
block with a series of Bplundid compart
ment houses.
The question of the adoption of tho
wliipping-poat for wife-beateraand other
despicable criminals is one npon which
opinion is muoli divided, and also
ono regarding whioli many men’s opin
ions froquontly change. To-day a man
thinks n whipping-]>ost law would be a
disgrace upon the statute books of a
State; to-morrow a miserable crimo is
brought to his attention, and appcsls to
his wrath, and ho thiulu the lash too
light a punishment for the culprit. Cal
ifornia is the State that has mast recent
ly refused to add a whipping-post amend
ment to its Constitution.
A man named Peter Wendling, living
in Bismarck, Penn., was recently exam
ined by tbo Philadelphia County Medi
cal Society and pronounced a wonderful
medical enriosity. He has neither hair
nor teeth, does not possess the sense of
smell, and lias no pores in his skin. The
latter foot is the cause of muoli wonder,
ns it has been held that no person
could live without a porous skin.
Wendling axperionoes great discomfort
from his incapacity for perspiration,
and his body grows so hot that his
clothing has to be kept wet in order to
mitigate his discomfort. He lias al
ways boon in good health, aud has a
wife and eight ohildren. None of tho
children partake of their father's pecu
liarities, exoept that non* of them have
perfect teeth.
The Executive Committee of the
Trunk lines and managers of Western
roads have signed the following agree
ment: "We hereby pledge ourselves
(bat we will not allow any variations to
lie made from the established castbound
rates, by an officer, agent, or employe of
tho roads controlled by us; and that
upon the request of the Commissioner,
when evidence satisfactory to him has
beon presented, that the established
'IT'D 1717 S nd '( MOORE’S
Jj Ik, Pi ID Business University,
Atlanta, (ieoigiu,
For Illustrated Xtiroulnr A live ac’usl bos
inees school. EstabM-hcfi twenty yoirf. , his profession and refunded it
When Gov. Stephens, of Georgia, was
a lad the ladies of the Presbyterian
church, appreciating the great capabili
ties and fine promise, aided in having
him educated for a minister; but ho, be-
An eccentric New Hampshire man re-
,, .. nuested that after death he should be
case of a gentleman, hy chains of silver | bnried 8tal)(iiDg in bis coffin and a pipe
orsilvcr.(nlt. In Chaucer strain the upper ^ ^ month; a , BO> that beshould
be hauled to tho grave in a hay-rack,
or silver-gilt. In Chaucer’s timotheupper
part of these shoes was cut to imitate a
church window. Tlie rank of the wearer
in those days was known by tho lengtii of
bis poulaines. “ The men,” says l’ara-
din, “wore them with a point before half
a foot long; the richer and more eminent
personages wore them a foot, and Princes
two feet long.” By an act of the reign
of Edward IV.. the absurd length to
which tho points attained, was limited;
aud no ono under tho rank of Lord waa
to wear shoes more than ten inches long,
and all cobblers making them were to lie
fined and cursed by tho clergy.
—The climate of Japan is mild and
g len emit, resembling that of the Atlantic
tates of America from New .Jersey to
Florida. It is a land of fruit aud flowers.
Among tho latter is the chrysanthemum,
with its scarlet and pink blossoms, and
the lotas, with its crown-like bead; the
first tbo national and tbo second tho
sacred flower of the empire. Most of
American fruits and vegetables grow in
Jupan. They have small but delicious
millions on millions of acres of rice.
He died tlie other day, and his nnsym-
pathizing relatives planted him in a
horizontal position, and were glad to get
him under in any shape.
A vast amount of cheap fish is an
nually wasted in England because the
people ignorantly suppose it is not fit to
eat and won’t buy it. One of tlie useful
features of tho coming International
Fisheries Exhibition at London will be
daily demonstrations by the School of
Cookery that these so-called inferior
Borts of fish are savory and nutritions.
A Massachusetts man is owing him
self of dyspepsia by a ten-days fast. At
the end of five days he said he felt full
of energy, had no sense of hnDger, and
expected to taste nothing until his time
was up. There is no manner of doubt
that fasting will cure dyspepsia, or any
other disease, if tlie sufferer will only
refrain from eating long enough.
PITH AUD POINT.
—One lawyer In Dm MoIom, Iowa,
has put through 189 dlvorooeasM within
a yoar. The faro to Des Moines is
about Sevan dollars.—^.Chicago Tribum.
—Tho Now York Commercial A/lver- -
tint suddenly remarks that! "Theman
,vho bangs his hair hasn’t enough sense
to blow out hi* brains, even If ho pos
sessed any."
—Highly sugar-coated: A New York
divoroo lawyer's advertisement rends;
"Ilymanoal incompatibilities as a spe
cialty, carefully adjusted. ’Tie slavery
to dot-uln ttio hand after tho heart hatll
fiod.”
—A Pennsylvania paper tells of a
family which has been poisoned by eat-
ihi! plo containing arsenic. It seems
like a work of supererogation to put ar-
sonlc into plo. A pie that can not kill a
family without the help of arsenic is a
very * weak pie Indeed.—Durlini/ton
Bawkei/c.
—An African travelor gives a thrilling
account, of a "vegetable vampire"—a
tree wliloh onvelops a per on with tto
branches' and strangles him to doath.
The nearest approach wo have jn this
country to a vegetable vampire Is the
"dead beat," who also lives upon oth
ers.—Norristown J/erahl.
—"Mv motlior’s awful fiukle,” said
little Edith to Mrs. Smith, who was '
making a call. "When she saw you
earning up tho street, she said; "There's
that horrid Mis' Smith; I hope she Isn't
coming here; ’ and a minute after she told .
yon she was real glad to see you. Mother
says I'm floklo, but I guess I don’t
uliango my mind at quick as that."—
N. Y. Graphic,
—It took me four years Vg save my
first thou-anil dollars. It was saved
from a soldier's pay Irf the army, and
the boys often said: "Charlie, you
might ns well spoud yonr money, for
you may no'vor got homo to nte H." It
required courage to resist tho Influence
to spend all, but the schooling ol thosn
four years was worth more than the
thousand dollars, for 1 learned to save
money.—Charles IF. Black.
—An old man would not believe bn
could hoar his wifi\ talk a distance ot
five miles by telephone. His better hall
was In a country store several miles
away, where there was a telephone, amt'
tho skeptic'was also In a plaoo wherh
there was a similar instrument, and, on
being told how to operate it, he walked
boldly up and siiouted, “Hullo, Jane!”
At that instant lightning'struck the
telephone-wire and knocked the man
down, nnd as lie scrambled to Ills feet he
excitedly dried, "That's Jane' every
time."—Modern Aryo.
—“James, dear, Reginald desires n
now sled. I think you had better get
him one." ** What’s a sled good for to
hlmP You'vo brought him up to stay
in tho house and look pretty. Ho
wouldn’t know what to do with ono.*'
“Oh, 1 don't mean one ot those grant
big out-door sled*. I mean n little
houso sled that ho can play with in the
front hall, dear, just to get him accus
tomed to the Idea, you know."’ Lota ol
littlo Reginalds are being cultivated in
doors, and they will either go to early
graves or grow up to be flat*.—Boston
(Jlube.
—If wo must talk about the weather,
why not vary the formula, "It,.j* a
pleasant day." Every one is tlrea ol
admitting that It Is. Why not lie Scien
tifically accurate when one inedtt a
friend P Tho following is submitted as n
specimen dialogue: Jones—“Ah, Mr.
Smith, I see we havo cloudy weather
with light rains." Smith (wlthachoor-
ful smile)—“Yes, and variable winds
shifting to colder northeasterly, station
ary or higher pressure.” Jonps—
“Quite so; but it is gratifying to know
that tlie rivers will remain nearly sta
tionary and that *tho temperature has
fallon thirty degrees in the llio Grando
Valley. Good-morning, sir."—Boston
AUrerliser.
In One Lifetime,
Homo ono has recently written : 1 am
not un old man; yet in material things I
have seen tho creation of a new world.
I am contemporary with the railroad, the
telegraph, tlie steamship, the photo
graph, tho sewing-machine,'tho steam-
plow, tlie friction-mutch, gaslight, chlo
roform, nitro-glycerino, tho monitor,
the caloric engine, tho California gold
, f w _ discoveries, tho oil-well discoveries,
rates have been out by a connecting road I gutta percha, canned fruits, the electric
or ito connections, even though reduo- ! ii e llfc * ‘ h “ JSJST"
.. . , • *a ?, . i Homo of tlie footprints of material prog-
tion may be made in its or their own r(>|)H 0 j jp 0 present generation. Do yon
proportion of rate, we will withdraw nil think the moral world will remain tlie
prorating arrangements and will not ac- same us before ? That society will ro-
cept from soeh oonnoctingroads through main unaffected by these changes? -If
bills or through cars, but will cause a , do - let me call your attention ,to
, , , , .■ . , „ | the fact that the same generation lias
transfer aud rebillmg of property at full | H „ (m th(| nbolitiou of K , liv b y „„ n grand
tariff rates from tbe junction point,
nnd we further agree, that any agent
under oar control who may be shown to
lie quoting less than, or instrumental in
cutting established rates, either by re
bate or otherwise, shall bo discharged. ”
" Wlial’s In a Name! ’
acalc, tlie opening of China and
Japan, tho institution of world’s fairs.
Black Costa. *
Tlie late famous Bev. Dr. Macdonald
was crossing at Kessook on ono of his
A good deal,"especially if it’s a bad one. 1 frequent journeys. Tho day was very
Eugene Sue, l'nlus “Mysteries of Paris.” stormy, and there was (bfflculty m get-
happenod to cliooso a very respectable tmg tlm boat across. Au old woman,
street us tho scene of some of the worst ono of the paesengere, quoted the saying
families moved to other streets, and grout Ho atmwered, witli hubitual quickness,
wns tho grief of the inhabitants that, for that “ministers are at war with Satan,
no fault of their own, their neighborhood a Q(1 that ho supposed tbe latter, as prince
was regarded as little better than infara- ol tho power of the air, was at the-hottom
ons At hist it occurred to somo clover of the matter.” Coming back some time
fellow to have tbe name of the street after, the day being fine, tlie eld woman
changed. It was done, and all was soon was there again, and this time quietly
right again I The novelist was couqurred, -remarked, to tho discomfiture of Die
and tlie residents were us respectable as doctor, “I sec you have made yonr peace
„„ | with tho prince of the power of the air.”