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DALLAS PAULDING COUNTY, GA.j THURSDAY, AUGUST 2, 1883.
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NUMBER 35.
donly •topped Mid fail dead. No marks earring knife *11 yew tor splitting kind-
m-dn-nfanw were found on hi* body. It it ling wood, opening fruit cans, joining
fro^n stove pipe, potting Ixrae plant, digging
GENERAL NEWS. !NW«* Mining ope^tionU mg HUMOROUS PAPERS;
| have already commenced.
Last week in the northern part, of
Henry county, Tenu., while some l wye
were in a mill pond iH'longing to Mr
Hays, they were making wiellafdisbud
anee that Hays came out and ordered
them Out of the lionet. A tjoy. named _______
Huf. MdCoiihelt toolc a p* slot from life Jy 1 ™"
hftithcr's pocket and shot Hay*, killi‘ 1 “ -
Thh cotton Worm is reported in a num
ber of places ih Wilkinson county, Mi**.,
and it is feared will do the crop mueli
damage. - <
The inangptor* at New York .aiesed
80,00f> wsfArtnelohiH, Fmpped4ft>th Niviui-
hah. ’A«r»4rfHt Sfltfi 1 saM t-tTITe rotten
and unfit for use.
An Ohio capitaUqt r wiahes, to stast n
rolliig.ikU*in Aflaifba.Vfa., aim ini* Ifeeii
in"ebrie?, fbhiKnffJ with Mr. Nat. Haven,
of UuUoite^^Ao^e matter.
T)ik CiTaThm-g Goal and Lake Compa
ny, of Alabama, own 10,000 acres coni
lands. Thouwpvnray Im'v slrrndy begnv
operations, mid iit %el ting Out 800 tons
of coal a day, and 'will inoreaso tlio out
put as-fa it as possible.
The military telegraph line* have been
Bold at Bnn Aniline, • HevSn hundred
and thirty-tlve mile* of line were Hold,
realizing a total amount, of $71,444,1)0.
The Rrie Tolophone • Company "Whrf the
principal pnrchsHer,
hint instantly. Both hoy* started off
a nut over the hill*, and about
front the scene of the murder R'
TOO MUCH OOMTETITIOft.
“Yon have alwnys had the repntettdu
if being an honest man—how, then, is it
WHAT WR FIND IN Tltnui TO MUIJt' mat you hnve boon guilty of theft ?*
ttVlIB TBMJ WBM. I ^ed Ml Austin Judge ol a man who
■ had been arrested with stolen proporty
oabv»o a tumor. | in his possession.
The beef way to oarve a turkey, sayBi “It is not my fault, Judge. It is the
Bindsttfl. fei First Bny a turkey thatf fault of the ago in which wo livo. The
- ■—1 death at the age of ninety- ! upright man who Btrivcs to make an
The bluer the meat the | honest living now-a-days, oau't do it,
a mile
if. sua-
thought that his death occurred
fright and exhaustion,the day being
'worms and scraping knife brick,
Fourth—R»t the turkey on a platter two
■ires smaller than the bird. Fifth—Set
; the,, divide itetweon Bod raid
IVefB. it crops out at Saledo,
A number of citizens of Oxford, Miss.,
havo engaged in. the, business of buying
and shipping,,c v 1 (Ip. The cattle are
shipped to Arkaus yi, Tuxes and Missnn-
n. Tb,^nkinpij. ipgum very profitable,
aiwHtafcifldimu'iiwrnTpfctfteVTliising.
A imlnimw'tv 111%* 'in' F)o*ii$a lies
patented a process for making sugar
aitcf syrim film evumva juid. after ex
periment. wSte% fchiit, ho. has no doit P
that ea 11Ak' etiwrutfrm'Xviiiyin a%w
years, bo tin must profitable employ
ment of the pSojfle’nf that Htute.
Gbeat excitement prevails in lingual
> Ark.,- over tha dlsiioVerv oi a" gold'mtne
a few miles west of that place, which ns
says 810.113 in silver and SI 1.03 in gold
per ton. It is thought the ore extends
all nlonj,
’White riVei'B. It crops
Greenbrier and ne t;- Biu-k Horn,
B. NV. Harrison, of Melrose, is the
honey farmer of Rockingham Co., Vn.
This year from 150 hives ho will souore
a crop of over 2,000 pounds of honey, for
which he will get about $100. This,
besides the increase of his bees, which
will bo fully eighty hives, thus adding
to liis “working” capital.
After, shooting at it eight or nine
times, Mr. W. H. Richardson finally
killed with the ninth shot, n few days
ago, a milk-white deer in the forests
near Bigboo, Ala. The negroes think
that white deer aro akin to witches, and
are probably delighted that one of them
has been laid low. Two more of them
,ha« been upon recettt'y in the forests of
' Watfhmgt* >ii county.
Around Gainesville, Fla., tlio raising
and shipping of the turbine squash 1ms
become an industry. It finds a ready
sale at Boston, and is used almost exelu
sively for making pie3. In shape it re
sembles a turbine wheel, whence it takes
its name. It has the color of a pumpkin
»n,l looks like a Kershaw, hut is finer
and has a more delicate flavor. The
vines hear heavily, and continue hearing
until about the first of August. The
- prices vary from 81.50 to 85 per barrel
The four wing dams at the “Upper
Flats” of the Savannah river have been
completed. The effect of these works
upon the channel is already perceptible,
and it is . the opinion of the engineers
that there will be within a short time
depth of twenty-two feet of water at this
point, an increase of six feet. The con
struction of the wing damhs at te “Cab
bage Trees,” or “Lower Flats,” has been
commenced, and it is expected the work
will ho finished in two monthB.
Capitaman (La.) Advocate : The in
cessant rains are working injury to the
growing crops, particularly cotton, which
is shedding in some places and rusting
in others. It is feared the little cotton
the rain leaves will bo finished by the
caterpillars, although this destructive
insect has not appeared in th s vicinity
as yet. Cane is not looking ns well as
we would like to see it, the continued
rains being anything but favorable to
its growth, while the grass in some pla
ces is about to take complete possession
of the cane fields.
A LARGE mining enterprise of North
ern Alabama is the Lady Lesley Mining
and Manufacturing Company. Its in
corporators are chiefly Memphis gentle
men, and it is named in honor of a Mem
phis lady, who met a tragic death last
year on a Nashville Btreet in a runaway
accident. These gentlemen with the
assistance of agents, have quietly been
buying lands along the projected
Birmingham and Northwestern railroad
until they are now in possession of 75,-
000 {tores of the finest mineral lands in
be done by proxy.- The day bad arrived
the guests assembled, the license pro
cured, the parson on hand and tee bride
roady, lnlt tlie youthful groom did not
turn up. The friend who had douo the
courting went out, and, after looking
around, found jiim jittigg or lying in a
horse bough. X>11 -asking him why he
did jib! go to Uit| houHtj to be married,
lie said: “Oh, I can’t go tlmr and stand
before them folks.” “Oh, yea, you cans
everybody in there is married.hut your
gui. uuu ” "Get her to come out
iloors and* we’ll nwuxy under the shed
but let the old folks stay iu the- house.
Tho friend went back, got the girl anil
her the turkey. Second—Boast it
uutU yon osn strike 8w out ef its breast
with a whet-stone. Third—Use tlio
wgrin. .
(Georgia seems to he pre-eminently s’**®. 1 - -
Sumpter Republican te’s the story of a X,Tsi.lh--Then inrite ,our guests
young man down near the nver who was * young nun who has
to tje married on a certain mg . « llol —t leaned to swear, to osrve the
ha l seen and loved the girl and_ whs too ^ >oriflofc He leMn in „ ix minutes,
uashful to do the courting so it had to
dnlcBB he stools. There is too much
competition.”—Texas Siftings.
CLirriNGS.
irson out without exciting suspicion,
and they were married. The company
wailed two or three hours, and, on being
invited to supper, were introduced to
tho bride and groom. They became so
indignant that all left without partaking
of tho supper.
Tiiehe is a good deal of complaint
along tho line of the Mobile and Ohio
ailroad in Alabama about the depreda
tions committed on tho lands belonging
the road. Mr. Danner, President of
the Danner Land and Lumber Company
ays he found hundreds of people depre
dating on tho lands, especially iu the way
of getting turpent-ue and rosin. The
people who do the actual work of cutting
the timber belong to a cIiibb of poor and
ignorant men, who aro encouraged by
men of means and respectability. “For
instance, persons of means have built
turpentine stills at points near tho lands
which were the property of the railroad
company—lands which are now in our
possession—and would thou give out
that tltfy would buy erudo turpentine
when brought to them. They would at
tho same time furnish these laborers
with provisions, tools, etc., show them
the railroad lands, and induce them to
work on them and bring the produce to
them." Those who have been engaged
in these transactions aro to be prosecu
ted, and a company hiiH been organized
for tho purpose of inducing parties to
move their mills there from the East and
West and saw up the timber.
EDITORIAL NOTES.
It is claimed that 90 per cent of the
10,00;) felons prrdoned by the czar du
riug coronation week have found their
way buck to p rison again, and are ready
for another coronation.
The jury in the case of Treasurer Polk
brought in a ve -diet of guilty of embez
zlement, fixing the penalty at imprison
ment in the penitentiary for 20 years,
and imposing a fino tn the full amount of
the embezzlement.
To oarve f Oh, the gods pity you, no,
no, no;' not to csrvew
ran un eon or nun.
At noon yosterday there were half n
dosen Idler* st the foot of Woodward
avenue, some asleep, some looking des
pondent, and two who had just assured
• pedestrian that they must have work
at tome prioeor starve. A gentleman
suddenly stepped out of an offioe and
approsohed one of these menand said:
' “You look like an honest man.”
“lies, sir, Ida”
“And yon are a hard worker.”
“I am that.”
“I presume yon could be trusted in
any oapneDp.”
“Oh, I know I eonM. ”
“Well, I have a job fee you. Unit,
porter at the Sixth National Bank 1ms
left us and we mutt fill his plsoe. The
only thing—that is—you sco- ”
"Do you want a recommend?” asked
the man, as the other hesitated.
"Oh, no, no, no ! You see*we have
been paying the other man 84,000 per
year, and—and—”
“And wliat, sir ?”
“Well, the board has deoided to out it
down to 83,500.”
“Then don’t yon take it!” said tho
man’s partner.
“Then I won’t I If I ain’t worth ns
much as the other man was, tho board
can do its own sweeping 1”
The gentleman walked back into tho
office tho winner of a box of cigars. Ho
had wagered that he would offer the
man $3,500 a year, and that it would 1»
refused.—Detroit Free Press.
peck’s sunbeams.
“It has cost over one hundred and
fifty thousand dollars per year to main
tain the pleasure yachta for the queen
and princes of England.” If it costs ns
mnch as that to run a pleasure yaelit,
Jay Gonld is not going to make mnch
by selling his newspaper and going into
the pleasure yacht business. He could
lose more than that with his newspaper,
and besides have a good deal more fun.
The suit brought by a New York man
against a Pennsylvania railroad for thir-
An argument used in England against
the oniranehisement of women is the
power it would throw iutj the hands of
the clergy. “The vuat majority of their
weaker Bisters,” it is urged, “would un
doubtedly bave recourse to their pastors,
not only for gho ,lly counsel and advice,
but for political principles.”
The supreme court of Ind'ima haB de.
cided, iu reviewing the proceedings in
murder case, that the mere fact of a man
having read news’)'per accounts of
crime, and having an opinion i herefrom
but oue which could be removed by the
evidence, does not render him incompe
taut to sPEve ou juries.
There is said to be an unusually large
number of young men among the mem
bers elect "of the forty-eight congress,
but the youngest man who has ever been
elected to congress since the adoption o*
the federal constitution was John Ran
dolph, of Virginia. His fellow-citizens,
considering him a prodigy, elected him
their representative to congress at the
iju veple age of 22 years,
ty thousand dollars, for the loss of a leg
in an accident was decided against the
man because he rode on a pass. If tho
railroad company think they can frighten
newspaper men into paying their fares
by any such means they will get left.
Editors have rode on passes too many
ears to be frightened off by one suit c,l
this kind.
It is reported that a vast amount ut
money will now have to be spent in re
pairs of the Atlantic cable. The great
strain upon the cable ir sending over
sueh a large number of Rnssian names
averaging from six inches to four feet in
length, for that long and exciting period
during the coronation exercises has, it is
nppoeed, nearly ruined the entire cable
system.
Joke on a Commissioner.
On th* hlattohm—“And to you, kind
teachers, who have watched over us
with such solioitous onro, and havo so
carefully trained us to love tho beautiful,
the true, and the good, We bid all affee
tionate, though a sorrowful farewell."
v Vt homo- -“Well, I’m just felad school
s over, for if any girl was tortured to
death with useless lessons and merciless
tfcachers, I was that girl. OU. what a re
liof to think that my ednoation is fin
ished."—Oil City Derrick.
An Equal Division.—An nnoommon
Step in the division of tho property was
tikon by the logatoes of tho late Amnsa
Htono, of Cleveland, Ohio. They found
♦hat one or two of Mr. Stone's relatives,
oud ones to whom ho was cBpociiilly par
tial, had been forgotten in his will. A
Mooting was called, tho matter talked
over, oud it wob finally agreed that
( iyery oue should sot aside some portion
d his or her bequest and thus make up
•B equal amount for those not provided
for. Such was douo, and os an uuiisual
occurrence in such matters deserves
special mention.
I’m latest “American” story going
the rounds of the European press is
that of a traveler of that nationality who
it neoeesary to excusd his inability
join in the hilarity of other travelers
,use of his poverty. "Gentlemen,’
he, “I know I am more or fosw of a
ratod blanket on this party; but the
fiust is I am a very poor man—steeped
trj,the lips, I may say, in impecuniosity.
When I tell yon, in atriot confidence,
that tliis is my wedding'tbftV/amMhaw
boon compelled to leave my wife at homo,
you can form an idea of the narrownosa
of my resources."
Merchant— 1 ’The article is first class
madam; and $1.50 a yard is very oheiq
If we hadn't got four mouths’ time on i>
—if wo hadn’t bought it on orodit—w
couldn't sell it to you at that price. I
wo had paid cash, it would have cost $2
a yard, madam.” Mrs. Brown—"Yes
i know it must be clicnpor to buy oi
i ime. My husband tolls mo to purcha-i
dl I can get on oredit. I think I’l
lake sixtoon yards, and yon can jus
•lmrgo it to Mr. Brown.”— Texas Sift
inejs.
A PAOKAOB containing I wo drafts, one
for $1,000, another for $2,000, and a five
dollar gold piece, belonging to a lady in
Boaui%nvd, MiHS., was found 110 miles
from that placo, having been blown
there by a cyclone. It takes a oyclone
to “raise tho wind," and yon will always
find more or less breeze whore there is
a Unit.—Norristown Herald,
Mamie having been helped twice to
amt kills H*n two children and
HSSSHLT. o
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Tlio details of an insane woman’s ter
rible orime aro given in an Ohio paper:
A*Tarmer named liobert J. McMillan
came to Ohio several weeks ago with his
family, consisting of n wife and two
small oliildren, from Garlnnd, Warren
county, Pa., and settled in tho town of
Lindenvillo, in Ashtalmlla county. His
wife, a woman about forty yonrs of age,
has boon in failing health for somo time
past, and within tlio last, week lias been
the victim of spells of insanity, which
at times has assumed violent forms.
Hovoral times sho lias made desperato
attempts to take her own life, lint was
uusneeusHful. She hail been in better
health than usual for the last few days,
and Monday morning McMillan left the
two children in her charge and started
to work in the neighborhood. It was
not long after his departure that his
wife beoiune suddenly insane, and wliilo
tho oldest child, a girl of eight years,
wus iu tho front room tho woman picked
up her baby boy, aged two years, and
going out into tho yard proceeded to an
old well on tho promises, and after kiss
ing and embracing tho child threw him
mto tho well, which is forty-five foot
doop and contains ton feet of water,
The child sank immediately and was
drowned. Tho womau then returned to
the house and taking the little girl by
tlio hand led hor totho well and pushed
her into tho opening. A neighbor, who
was watching her queer notion, hurried
into the ynrd and endeavored to rescue
tho girl, but wus unsuccessful. In tho
meantime Mrs. MoMillnu returned to
hotiRO and swallowed several ounces of
bedbug poison. Sho was in a dying
mdltion whou found and her recovery
is impossible.
Croat Bridges of tlio World.
Tlio following interesting figures of tli#
t agtli of notable briilges of tho world ars
« lvon: - ML
roiti
everything on tho table, Hlid down, when
the coffee oame in, from her chair, witli
n sigh. “There now,” said her mamma,
“I suppose yon have eaten so muoh that
you feel uncomfortable.” “Don’t," re
plied Mamie, quickly, witli a toss of her
little head, “I only just feel nice and
smooth.”—Harper’s liazar.
“Sav, Pat, what ever mode yon go to
work for Uncle Dan ? He’s the meanest
man in the conntry.” “Mane is it?’
said Pat; "why, sure an’he’s the foinest,
nisyest-goin’ master iver I hod, bedad
lie gives a man fifteen hours to do a day
work in,”
The Apache Indian, it is said, cun
march from thirty to forty mileB a day
Without becoming tired. It is really a
bity that tho Apache cannot he civilized,
for he would be just the fellow toaoeom-
JlL
~ f ' : V”)l. - ■ . , —, 1)1 MTH»1 Sir'll if
A Xotkcr’a Desperato Act, TH* FnWr wJCwXfTOvW" "
Psrtr-stss Tears IMS. sM Si* toi *
Iks BalilaMrs sad Ufcls Used.
exhibit, the first locomotive engine trait
for their road which proved sneoeeeniL
This locomotive is tlio celebrated. ’’Aff*"
bian,” No. 1, whioh like all prortinent
objects in Baltimore, -has a Ismily his
tory. It is not, as is generallv supposed,
eitiier tho first eligino built by the oom-
iniiy or the first engine that ptfiled a __
rain oil a curved road, but it was the
Hint successful American locomotive.' It
whh built at th* company's shops under
tlio supervision of its designer. It wen*
bite service June, 1834. It has been
carefully taken enre of and repaired, "and
with vory littlo difference is precisely the
same engine that it was forty-nine years
ago. It is claimed to bo the oldest eflee- <
live locomotive engine in tlio United
States, and perhaps ill the world. It is
a geared engine, having a vortical c™n- 1 *
dor, with walking beam. It haa tour
dri ving wheels, each thirty-six inehcain
diameter, or nearly ono-half the size of
tho drivers used on modern passenger
loeomotivi-s. The weight of the Arabian
is thirteen tons, about one-third that of
tho modern locomotive. Its traetivo
power is (1,000 pounds. It naed’to'havo *
runs oonneotod with the exhaust, l)ut
those become .broken, and no attempt
lias been made to restore tliorii. Witli
tliis exooption it is tho same engine iw
when first miulo. It is in aetivo service
at the Mount Clare yards, aud works a*
well now ns whon first pnt on ttas read.
It was for many years s passepger, en
gine, drawing trams on both the Wash
ing branoh and tho main stem. *
A* far os could he learned it had Mffer
mot with an accident, never jumped a
rail, or ran off tho truck, with one execu
tion. Ttiat excnptiou wss a notable
one. Boforo it was finished Mr. Davis
promised the workmen engaged In the
shops, some 800, to take them and their
mi tlm ♦ruin ilniWB 1»V tllfl AfA- ’
Chelsea, suspended • • W®
Oliicimisll and Covlnfilop (over tho
Ohio), suspended, built 1«07.... .... I,nfi7
{(ton (over Ninaamilivef), suspended. 1,2«H
Hairs, Infill 1889, suspended
HimnorforU. suspended
Hleff,suspended
Mens!, hufit 1818 78, KUr-nrndad 1,080
•'iuusia. bum 1885, mispeiaW... 2,990
Oi, built 1840 tofuuspratoit - ’5-889
HOT HUHI’DHBIOlf.
Vlctorle, over Bt. bswronco Iliver,
wrought Iron
Bombay (Miulr**) q
Boyne, nt Drogheda, Wrought Iron
itihou Aqueduct, atoiio
..oulBvillo, K.V
Uaiutonon Anmuinct, ntono
flu rlrm AquoauoL 8toll!)
Vlotilpflllior Aqueduct, Htono
3,780
1,700
3, NOS
5.310
10.807
1,450
8,214
r Ini'burg, W
»toin •«....
5.800
11,200
2, HOC
1,702
3,300
0,530
8,500
4.800
A train on the New York Central and
Hudson River Railroad stopped below
Spuyten Duyvil a few days ago on ac
count of a hot journal, whioh was blaz
ing tip and threatened to *et fire to the
car. The moment the car stopped the
rear brakeman ran back with a red flag
to stop any coming train. The conduc
tor went to the last car to see that the
brakeman was doing his duty, and then
set to work to cool the journal. While
he was occupied with this task a man of
dignified appearance approached
“What did that man go back with tba
red thing for?” he asked. The conduc
tor paid no attention to him and he re
peated the question. Finally he re
marked to the unmindful conductor-
“Do yon know who I am?” Tho con
ductor replied that he did not, and what
was more, did not care s continental.
“I am a Railroad Commissioner, Sir.’
The conductor, nothing daunted, re
torted that *-he Commissioner ought to
nunv his wife on a shopping excursion, man s
r ,.r — - -...n TTe.ra.td. refer- soon forgiven
, V*., iron 7.1148
Q'ni'nny"("Vi)i ; Mississippi iliver), iron..
’uihIiii (over Missouri XUvor)
•Hockport,
-ttinHburg, stone
It. Charles, Mo., Iron
Susquehanna, stone.........
Vlbane, N. Y., extreme length.........
Albany, N. Y„ ilontilu track railway
brblKo (largest draw apan in tlio
world) M"”
Vistula lUver, Germany, iron.......... 4.780
firth of Tav, length nearly two mile* or 10,891
Brooklyn Bridge 0,*s»
lie Was Forgiven.
Tho Philadelphia Press tolls tho fol
lowing amusing story of tho late Dean
Richmond, President of tho New York
Central It. R., a well-known railroad and
steamboat man: One oi his Hons was at
tho time a conductor on tho Central, and
very strict orders hud been isanodj ema
nating from tho old gentleman, it was
supposed, that no passenger should he
“deadheaded” on any exenso whatever
without showing a pass from some officer
named. Mr. Richmond, the elder, whs
one day on his son’s train, when the
young man wus collecting tiekots J and
making no move to show a ticket or a
puna, was plnmply asked by the lary tor
a ticket. “Go away, I haven’t got any,
said tie. “But,” said the conductor,
‘'my ordure aro strict to let noboilv ride
i:hout a ticket or a puss.” “We
.nutter,” said Dean, “I’m president of
riiis road, and don’t need cithor. ’ “Can t
help it, father; you see how I’m fixed.
Shull have to put you off if you don t do
one or the other. ” The old man looked
il him square in tho eves, hut as the son
didn’t quail and looked a look that meant
mischief,’ tlio president deemed it best
0 come down with the “spoiululics,
and did, amid the merriment of thoBO
around. But, as it showed the young
mettle in the line of duty, he wus
families on tho train drawn by the Ara
bian ss far as it went, then to go to
Washington and have dinner st gown’s
(now the Metropolitan) Hotel. The
Washington branch was then opened
nearly to Blndenslmrg. The trip yas
1,880 mudo, William Duff being tlie qiiginoer.
2,5(VJ jukt wont of .Toiwiun'ii ©lit, WiQ u
half miles -this side ol Baltimore, (die .
Arabian ran off the track. Mr. Davis
was sifting with Mr. Duff when thane- •
eideint ooenrreif. BUw-«vri»esnUe<>
its side. Neither Duff or anyhodyelse
in tho train was hurt, lint Mr. Witts. •
Ho was killed. There scetaed to bo a
special fato in tho matter, Nobody
(•mild over tell why the Arabian rsif off
tlie truck. There was no evidence asrer
shown, although the (idlest investigation
was mndi'i that any caune ©iiHifca to
throw it off. As tlie Bnllpek press,
whioh, tho first lime it was PUtto work,
caught the inventor and printed him into
its first impression, so the Arabian on
its first trip killed i(s designer mid mak
er. An imaginative mail, giftod witli a
littlo anperHtitlmi, might' think that
matter hud been imbued with iitjalh-
gonce that rsaepted its creation thus
fiercely on its creator. 1 '
The Arabian will be mtgimau&.to
Chicago by Mr. Thomas Galloway. •
Tho Chicagoans will thus see-the oWest
effective locomotive engine in the world
mu by the oldest living railway engi
neer, an incident in railway history that
deserves a more lasting record than wist
of a nowspaper article.
The Marshall (Texas) Herald, refer
ring to tho trouble the flies givo tho
bald-headed, suya: “We saw an account
of a man similarly situated who secured
immunity from the flies by painting a-
large spider in the centre of the bold
space.”
Teacher—“In the sentence, ’Mary
loves John,’ what doeB ‘John’ agree
with ?” Bright scholar—“With Mary.
Teacher—“With Mary! How do you
make that ont?” Bright ^holar--
“ ’Cause Mary wouldn’t love him If ht
didn’t agree with her.”
Brother Hopewell retired to his cornel
Protecting the Troops.
The Texas Indi um have always had a
thorough contempt (or the blue coats.
Id 1875 the milro;d Loom began, ine
builders ran their lines with an army of
men in advance to drive back the sav
ages The railroads havo done more to
subdne the Indians in Texas than any
other influence. Lo can’t stand steam.
The State in 187-4 began to prepure for
the immigration influx winch followed.
Despairing of protection against the In
dians from Uncle Hum, the Legislature,
equipped the Frontier Battalion of State
Bangers. This handful of scouts attacked
‘'marauders whurever found,_ and
England’s Greatness. ••
La Fanoe, says that England’s jeul-
tinhv of Franco j’h caused by her fcarH ttiat
in case of war tho Chinese tea ports will
lm closed and the Chinese cpmpelled to
use their own opium, and then tlie jour
nal goes on to show whatr England-gaitm
from her co|onie* mid dependencies, f ho
H'/urcH are calculated indeed to in#]jir<*
France to exert herself in tho sums’de
ruction. Thus La Prance tejjs ua AM
England has 7,917,000 square miles of
colonies and possessions beyond too *as,
“i extent twice as large ns ail BnMx;,
,ith 218,000,000 inhabitant whteh
00 000,000 nro in India, 5,000,000 in
Canada, 8,000,000 in Australia and
1 000,000 ut tho Capo, all of whiqh form
for England avast army of consumers,
giving to hor commerce and: Dwrigraon-.
prodigious activity. In 1881 EfigW"
trade of exports and imports with The
colonies and hor possessions amoontra to
arly 5,000.000,0001., and.hor total ton
nage of shipping leaving heroolomu! find
foreign possessions was 50,000,880 out of
the 08,000,000 tons registered. “ Noth
ing,” adds La France, “shows srf
strangely us tho above figures hoW taueh
England’s commercial prosperity lsttono
♦„ h.-r colonial possessions.’ It concludes
all broken up, and his first inove w^ ^ ^'id in hTx years what tho United States
offer to trade a handkerchief with a red
border to Shindig Watkins for a white-
handled knife with all the blades broken.
It may be a mighty big source for con
solution when a po’ man sets down and
suvs- “It’s all right, fur de rich man
can't git ter Heaben; hut gib do po
‘ see how quick he d
know without asking what a fed ifeg I man a chance an see noiv T
meant,—.New For* 'Times, I stun m de nob mail s shoes,
troops had attempted fur twenty years—
drove out the Indians. Recently one of
these gallant scouts was asked : _ Whst
do yon rangers do out here?” “We
protect tho frontier,” answered the ran
ger “But,” exposulated the inquirer,
“ I thought the United States troops
| wore sent out for frontier protection.’
j “So they wore, and the rangers pame
I out to protect th* troops,”
to her colonial possessions.’ It concludes
by urging Franco to develop herself be
yond her own limits, as she haa com
menced on the Congo, in Madagascar
and Tonquin.
TonAC.oo.—Although the Scotch are
• renter ainokers than the English,“yet
U»hh tobacco is smoked in Scotland tlijati
in England. This is due, according to
the London Truth, to the cafrny ata-
,.cter of Sootehmen. Owing to the large
quantity of water in the ordmm-y tobacco
?»ld a pipe goes out More the tobacco
to it is P smoked out The Englishman
Givown awav this damp tobiwjco*
Scotchman carefully extracts it from h.s
pipe, and thou, when it has dried, re-
places it. ’
A Long Range.-English capiUUsta
have bought the Pan-handle of Texas,
whioh has an area of 5,000 square mde^
The contract has been put out for a win
fence 200 miles long tohead off the oattM
from w>jpg tjftrft,