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THE PAULDING NEW ERA. Srr- FAN. BRECKENBIIH1E, PuMIsher. ‘‘6f«WAii6 ANb UDWAfcb’ SUBNCB1P1ION i $1.50 Psr Amur. VOLUME IT. DALLAS PAULDING COUNTY, GA„, THURSDAY, DECEMBER 21, 1883, NUMBER 3. EDITORIAL NOTES. Won* is to bs begun this week on Ui« great canal that ia to irrigate the San Luis Valley, in Southern Colorado. Tht canal ia to be seven miles Ibttg and at the bottom sixty feet wide, and there are to be many lateral i-anals from it, all to irrigate two hundred thousand acres ol land now almost worthless. Several col onies Are to be organized to occupy the land. Prom time to time complaints of the inefficiency of our jury system appear in the publio prints, and not a few lawyers of ability do not hesitate to recommend the time honored trial by jury. It ia natural that juries should reflect populai sentiment, and it ia not surprising that the average intelligence and prejudice oi the times should always appear in the deliberations and conclusitms "of a jury. There is no such thing as the re form of the jury system. The improve ment aimed atoannot be reache i without reforming the people at large. With the elevation of popular morals and intelli gence, juries will naturally rise to the height of their duties, and execute the trust confided to them wisely and firmly. Tun largest private house (n Non York city is now in proctss of building near Central park on Madison avenue. It is to be oeenpied by Charles Tiffany, the jeweler, Louis C. Tiffany, the deco rator, and Mitchel, a son-in-law of Charlce Tiffany, It is expected to cost $400.- 000, not including the lot. The house will be five stories high to the coping- style of architecture French, hosed on **jc Benaisance. The walls ore of brick, of a pecuuar - _, m taotured espec ially for the purpose at Perth Amboy. Baph brick ia four inches wide, one and a half inches thick and thirteen inches long, and of the color and texture of fire brick. In the center of'he building iso paved court thirty feet square, open to the nVy, me various stones ue ulg Tuugea around it, and lighted from it, after the manner of the European palaces. J w * In the Hawaiian kingdom there arc about 2,000 lepers, of whom probably half are under restraint. The afflicted are nearly all natives, and the few whites probably fifty or sixty, who are victims of the disease are not under restraint, when a leper ia reported, the police at oneepnt him in a detention hospital. When it is discovered that he is really a leper the authorities send him to the island of Molokai, there to remain until ha dies. On this inland there are proba bly a thousand lepers. The scenes at parting when the unfortunate sufferers are separated from their families to lie sent to their place of exile are described as being sad in the extreme. Of course under the circumstances, there is no help for it. There is no such thing as curing leprosy, and when the disease breaks up a family, the separation may be regarded as eternal. Salt Lake is one hundred miles long and fifty miles across at the widest part. The average depth is forty feet and sounding have nowhere gone beyond ninety feet. 'J he bottom is hard, white sand with a gradually shelving shore, and the water is so clear that the bottom is easily seen where the depth is not over twenty feet. There is over twenty per cent of salt in the water and one gallon of salt is obtained from five ga Ions of water. The density of > the water is' so great that to dive in it is impossible, and a strong man cannot swim in it over one hiindred yards. To a person who does not swim the bathing is delightful, as the water bears him up and allows his liedy absolute rest as he floats. On coming out it is necessary to sponge the body with fresh water as the salt will form a coat of armor not pleasant to wear. Ther is no form of vegetable or animal life to lie found in this lake which holds more salt than the' Dead Sea The rag pickers of Paris are to be ban ished from the city and the work of re moving the dust heaps will be done more thoroughly by regular street cleaners. The c ass known ns rug-pickers with us are called tin France ‘•chiffoniers.” Men; women iud'boys are engaged in the work. They go out at night with lanterns, bags ami hooked sticks with which to i xplore the rubbish. In Paris nothing seems wasted. Bones, broken glass and china, corks, cast off clothes, and even bread crusts and vegetables half decayed are collected and used by the ingenious Frenchmen. Instances of surprising honesty among those degraded creatures are not rare. In 1858 the Em press Eugenie lost a diamond bracelet which was found by Gelestin Colct, chief of the rag-pickers. The chiffonier carried the bracelet to police headquar ters and it was toon restored to the owner. The Empress bestowed a yearly pension of |125 on Collet as a reward for hia hon esty. ' Washington contains 05,000 colored people, a larger number than can be found in any other city tu the Uult&l States, They enjoy every right hat the law has given them, many have accumu lated weal h, and they own bandfiolno residences and h*Vo mtmoroas churches. But tile color lino s rigidly druwn in so cial matters. Even among ihc colored people there are throe distino classes, separated by insurmountable barriers. Tho so-called uppor crust consists of men of wealth, learning nnd high political position. Tlicso people associate -Elly with each oilier, slid nro wait d upon by colored Borvnnla who are made to keop their places. Tho second class is com posed of government clerks slid people in comfortable circumstances, and the thirl class consists of laborets nnd poor people generally. In tho first of these circles the loaders are such families as tho Bniflcs, Gregorys, Langstons, Worm- leys and others. These people arc weal thy and well educated, nnd they live in excellent style, ttill they aro an is iated set, ns they are not good enough for white society and too good for that of thoir own race. The student of the raoo problem will find much to. interest him iu Washington, California continues to hold hor own ns tho wine region of tho United States, ill is country is credited with a wine pro duct of 39,000,000 gallons, nnd California will produce this year ten millions of gal lons, against eleven millions last year. This shortage is snid to be due to n throe days’ norther Inst June, This wind scorns to be in the nature of a sirocco. While Ohio and other sections have be- come prominent for wine production, first The state probably produces twenty varieties of grapes, and six ol seven of these stand deservedly higli in tho opinion of wine experts. It ia impos sible to get at the quantity of wine con sumed by our people, bocause the devil try of adulteration cannot be definitely estimated. The adulteration of wine it increasing the profit of tho dealer tu something like one thoussnd per cent, and it is becoming a serious question with the Californians how to get theii wine to market at lionost prices and still maintain its reputation for richness, pu rity and strength. How to test wine is something in which all peoplo feel more or less interest. Ono thing is now pretty well assured—bouquet is never present except in tho purest wines, nnd there is no truly fine wine without a strikingly marked or agreeable bouquet. One of tho biggest swindles evci known in this country was tho pretended discovery of extensive diamond fioldsin Arizona iu 1872. At that time a man named Harpending made his appearance in San Francisco with a lot of diamonds which were examined and pronounced gems of the purest water. The excite ment flamed up at onoe and spread nlong the Pacific coast. In a short time twenty men organized for {in expedition to tli6 diamond fields. In the party was a Mr. Jones who acted as agent of Harpending, and assumed the position of pilot. Mike Gray was elected captain. After a toil some journey tho explorers reached the mountains of Arizona, and here theii hardships began in earnest Alter fif teen days’ tramping they found to theii astonishment that they hod been travel ing in a circle. Tho pilot, Jones, was appealed to, and that individual admit ted that he had lest his way and hail no idea o 1 the situation. The diamond hun ters worried along another week or so, and then Jones was dismounted and forced to leave the camp. The party soon broke up Two died from exposure one became deranged, several others re mained in the territories for sometime, and the remainder made their way back to San Francisco. 'J ho true inwardness of the affair was Boon exposed. Harpen- diug had “salted” his alleged diamond fields in Wyoming, and in order to gain .time in which to dispose of stock, he caused the Arizona expedition to start off on a wild goose chase. While these poor fellows were floundering about io the wilderness, Harpending sold stock in liis bogus diamond bonanza and skipped before the exposure came. Mb. Hunky Villakii, it appears, has had a serious disagreement with a num ber of his associates and the result has been Mr. Villard’s resignation of the presidency of the Oregon Transconti nental Railway and navigation com panies. Ho is succeeded by W. Endioott, Jr., of Boston, as President of the Ore gon Transcontinental, and by T. Jtefltason Ooolidgo, of Boston, as President of the Oregon Bailway and Navigation Com pany. A syndicate has also been organ ized to lake between Id,000,000 and $10,- 000,000 of the bonds now owned by the Oregon Transcontinental. It IS oliimbd by Mr. Vitiord's friends that Ho still re tains a largo interest in those companies, but it is pretty well understood that the millionaires who havo been backing him heretofore nro not satisfied with tho con dition of affaire. Notwithstanding the rosonte reports of Mr. Villard, the float ing indebtedness of the two companies named has increased in the past sis months from $8,000,060 to 123,000,000, an iucrease which eon only bo accounted for upon tho theory that ihe losses have resulted front a protracted attempt to aus tain in the market the securities of the ' orthern Pacific system. Mr. Villard'i railroad career dates from the time when as the rocoiver of the Kausns Pacific, he succeeded, in chiseling Jay Gould nnd other Capitalists out of Sevoral hundred thousand dollars. Organizing n wealthy following ho turood his attention to the developement of tho railway and steani- shlp systems of Oregon, capitalizing them at eolossnl figures. The uinu's au dacity, aud his immense private invest ments, such ns bis now palace, and sev eral hundred thousand dollars of govern ment bonds, registered in his wife’s name,, havo inspired distrust, and the preferred stoi kholders of the Northern Paoiflo are now moving to replace him as president of that company. The indica tions are that Mr. Villard’s career has received a serious check. The 5,000 lawyers of New York City embrace many ranks, classes aud condi tions, Leas than one-half the number enjoy a competency, but there aro many only in the polico courts—realize' nl much ss |25 000 a year. Dickerson Sc Dickerson, patent lawvers. have mode $5,000,000. Thoir present income is $40,000 a year. Frederick W. Betts, also o patent lawyer, lias an annual in come of $25,000. Rnscoo Conkling prob ably makes $100,000 a year. Tho firm of Which Wm. M. Evarts is a momlior—. Evarts, Southmayd and Choate—do a business of about $80,000 a year. Mr. Evarts is supposed to be worth about half a million. Davi l Dudley Field has made $11,000,000 out of his profession. Iu the Tweed suits he received a. fee of $100;000, Lord, Dav Si Lord received a feo of $175,000 in tho Hieks-Lord suit. Their income is about $05,000. General Roger A. Pryor started in Now York af ter tho war without a dollar, and now has an income of $10,000. The Condert brothers do a largo practice for foreign ers and make 160,000 a year. The in- omes of other prominent lawyers aro estimated us follows : Man & Parsons, $80,000; William F. Howe, $40,000; Vanderpool, Green & Camming, $80,000; •John F. Dillon, $30,000; Alexander Green, 150000; Goodrich, Deady & Pratt, $36,000 ; 8. J. Tildoii is worth ♦10,000,000. B. D. Billie.an is worth $1,000,000. Henry A. Cra n has a for tune of $1,500,000. Judge Comstock is worth $2,503,000. Porter, Lowry, Soren & Stone have an income of $1,000,000 a year. Many of the lawyers who enjoy the largest incomes are not tho most prominent in. the eyes of the public. | The patent, insurance and admiralty Dwy«r» 1 i> , » v very little noise in the world, 1-rtty , noted for thoir fat foes. On’{rftr other hand, advocates whoso names constantly figure in the newspapers in connection with celebra ted cases, have to worry along with in comes ranging from $5,000 to 115,000. Power Absorbed by Railroad Brakes. In the instance of the Metropolitan railway, tho stations average but a half a mile apart, and although the engines are as powerful as those on the Great Northern railway, while the trains are far lighter, the average speed attain able is only twelve miles an hour. No sooner has a train acquired a reasonable speed than tho brakes have to bo sharp ly applied to pull it up again. As a re sult of experience and calculation it is found that 00 per cent, of the whole power exerted by tho engine is absorbed by the brakes. In other words, with the consumption of thirty pounds of coal per train mile no less than eighteen pounds are expended in grinding away tho brake blocks, and only the remaining twelve pounds in do ing the useful work of overcoming fric tional and atmospheric resistances.— in the Continent. Of all thieves fools aro the worst; they rob you of time and temper,— Goethe. GENERAL NEWS. Ten now buildings are going up on ono square in Baton Rougo. The next Mississippi Legislature will contain fourteen negroes. ThK City Council of Noahvillo have voted water froo to the poor. Tils orient of Coal lands ill Texas ia es timated at ft),Odd square lnilesi The average daily shipmeni ot oyatefi from Morgau City, La., ia 75,000. The Hailo gold mine in South Caro lina employs 200 workmen and thirteen engines. Arkansas, which in 1865 had thirty- eight miles of railroad, liaa now 1,554 miles iu operation. Oveii thirty different specimens of oil have lieeq secured in the "finds" in Overton county, Tenn, 7 HR city authorities of Montgomery, Alabama, have ordered tho planting of trees on tho principal streets. A force of alligator hunters in Fin-ids havo engagod to furnish 600,000 skins to a French tannery within a givon time. One thousand dollars in gold is tho re sult of a ftvo days’ run, at Conrad Hill, N, C,, and the ore is steadily improving. The Shofflold Land, Iron aud Manu facturing C ompany, of Alabama, organ ised with a capital of 1500,000 all sub- scribed, Mississippi has gained 100 per cent iu five years in manufacturing industries, having at this timo $7,000,000 invested in such enterprises. Fifteen locomotive engineers have been imported from Fnglnnd to run the Alabama Great Southern and the Vicks burg aud Meridan roads. A stock company for the establish ment of a cotton ini.1 has lx on organized in Slirevesport, La., with a capital stock of $100,000 to $200,000. Fisiiino along tlie Gu f Const is at a tilif'^heip at present. LsnOE numbers of ducks are being caught in traps on tho James rivor. Ono gentieinnn last week sowed sovonty-five bushels of corn is a bait for ducks, The Vicksburg citizens' harbor com mittee are urging the Mississippi Biver Commission to take some immediate measures toward restoring tho harbor. The New York city council lias decided to purchase Leiltze’s picture of “Wash ington’s Triumphal Entry into New York, Novomlier 25, 1783." Tho price asked is $10,000. Hthawbebiues aro in tho Havnnnnli market. Although very early in tho iison, tho fruit is grown in open ground just onst of tho city. Tho market opens at $1 a bask-1. In tho western part of North Carolina, on Pigeon rivor, is a church twenty-five feet wide, forty feet long and fifteen toot high, built from tho timber sawed from olio curly poplar treo. The gold mine known ns tho Hampton mino, about two miles south of Wados- lioro, N. C., which has been laying idle for tho last two years, lias been sold to a company sf gentlemen who intend to work it vigorously. Macon Telegraph ; Immense quantities of Btigar will somo day be produced in Florida and Southern Georgia. It ought not to be long before tho people in those sections awake to a full realization of the capabilities of thoir soil in that direction. “Cattle,” says tho Oxanna Tribune, are bought in Georgia within twenty- five miles of Atlanta; driven to Texas; grazed on tho prairies, an! shipped to Chicago—packed aud shipped back to Atlanta and sold presumably at' a profit to all hands." Richmond State : 3 he blockade in tho Virginia cut of tho Albemarle and ( hesa- peakc canal still continues. One hun dred vessels of all descriptions nro de layed in tho canal and all vesaels aro now stopped from entering the canal to avuirl further accumulations. Duhram (N. 0.) Recorder -. Nearly one million pounds of tobacco were shipped to Durham last week from other mar kets. This shows the value of our market. The manufactnrers of Durham will consume not less than seven million pounds of tobacco this year. A case waa tried in Jefferson, On., against a gentleman who invested his ward’smoney in confederate bonds. They Hiied him for it, and the jury found for the wards to the amount of-what the confederate bonds were worth at the time the investment was made. The Third United Htates Artillery, which has been posted iu Atlanta for several months, has gone into winter quarters in Florida. It is expected that congress will make an appropriation at its present seesiou for the establishment if a permanent post at Atlanta. The Postmaster-General has direoted postmasters to exchange for tho publio, •is applications nro mndo, three and six- cont denominations of postage stamps and stamped envelopes, for other* of dif ferent denominations Stamped en velopes will be exchanged at the fnll ciir- •ont rate. A theatrical manager in theSuprrma Court of Georgia, has recovered damages 'com the railroad oompany whose train broke down and fai ed to deposit them nd his baggage at the given place and timo. Ho recovered tho price of the tickets nnd duo compensation for tlie time lost, CiiAtTANOOoa I hues i Miss Belle Pat terson, granddaughter of the lata ox- l’resiilent Johnson, who resides atGreon- file, is engaged, so report says, In writ ing a thrilling novel, portraying some of ihe marked traits of character of ope or two ruggedly honest and plain-spoken Fast Tennesseans I tiring the-post four years Arkansas, '•’Inrida, Louiaana and Texas hnvn doubled their railroad mileage. Tho total mileage in the four States now rinnds 20,040, ngaiust 7,260 ton years ago, and during the decade it Is estimated diat at least $300,000,000 lisa been in vested in these enterprises. Captain Terrt, of Yalalia, has made ,000 pounds of guava jolly this soason, and is still nuumfseturing, having used nearly a ton of crystallised sugar. A large quantity of guavas is also being iresei vod and put up in jars, and he has lisoovernd a process for making guava vino, said to lie superior to orange wine. The police authorities ot New York havo issued an order directing tlie arrest fevery professional thief qtisi£llt, v TJ»» esnlt of this steu has been — -»j, and hoy aro now spreading themselves all ivor the country There is good reason o bolinvo that many of theso refugee- from justice aro now wintering in the sonth. North Carolina has thirty railroads completed and others building. There ire three important linns under construc tion now—the Ducktown branch of the Western Nortli Carolina road, running from Aslivillo west; tlie Cape Fear and Yadkin Vulley road, running from the h mthoastcru section of the slate diagon ally across to the northwestern section, aud then the Virginia nnd North Carolina road, making a shorter routs between Raleigh and Richmond. The Decombor crop es'imntcs show a decrease in corn nnd cotton sinco tho last report The indications for this month point to a reduction of aimut 13 per cont in cotton from tho crop of last year. The report points to a crop of about 0,000,000 bales, but it is possible that it may reach even higher figures. Returns of oorn production, in consequence of the warm, moist weather north of the fortioth parallel, indicate n few mi lion bu-hels short of previous returns. 1 he wheat aggregate slightly exceeds 4,000,000. Tlie oat crop will exceed 600,000,000 bushels, whiuh ia 4 per oent larger than last year. The United Htates has brought suit in tho United Htates Circuit Conrt.-in Sa vannah, to regain possession of an island in Camden county, known ns Grover’s Island. Ths island was confiscated as tho property of Gilmore Wright in 1779 by the State, and afterwards sold to Josiah Tattnall Tattnall in 1779 mails n deed of it to tho President of the United States nnd liis successors. 'Ihe United States claims to havo held con tinuous i ms session of it lip to tho late war. After tlie war Williams head- righted and afterwards purchased from tho State, anil has held possession of it since that time. The present suit has been pending about thirteen years. One of tho principal issues of the case is whether the original deed from the State of Georgia to Josiah Tattnall was suf ficiently explicit to determine that Grover’s Island was the identical piece of property which waa said to be pur chased. Jfct Poob Lo. —The Penobsoot Indians, who have been a part of the history of Maine for 300 years, have intermarried until they have tiecome almost white. Oldtowu, the scat of their mission, has decreased from a population of 8,000 in 1025-to a mere hamlet of a few hundred souls in 1883. Those wounds heal ill that men do give themselves,—Tro Hut) and Crets- Kiila. WIT AND WINDOW. Adveetieino pays steady s*sh r divi dends to all parties interested. Censure is tho las which a ami pays lo Iho publio for lieiug eminent. Boston has 106 millionaires. This doesn't icollide the airs put on by soma of them. Tbs, Alliert, a barest ia made of maay pieoes. The only hole thing about it it the bung. Has it Aver ooourred lo bass ball men that a milk pitcher is generally s mod fly catcher? .. .. Tramps existed many, many years Ono of Watts' earliest bvmns was, it dogs delight to bark and bits.** He is happy whoso circunutanoes suit Ids temper; Imt he is more excellent who aan suit his temper to any stream- stances. Rev, Mr. Shttp married four oonplss in fifteen minutes, which, oal on Iotas f%e Whitehall 'JHmre, hi at ths rets (4 rix- toeu knots per hour for that Shipp. Han Wants.—California wants mare' *' people Him me authorities have issued n pamphlet stating tlinC nearly 45,000,- 000 acres of laud are open to settlement •« “I sat, Jenkins, can yon tell a young, lender chicken from an old one T” “Of comae I can.” “Well, M«#$” “By Ms teeth." " Chickens have no tastIL" “Nd, but I have/’ ' • How rapidly a man loses all interest in Thanksgiving and Christmas observa tions and the glorious result* of sMaere- obiisotto election when he shat* s ^dqpr on his thumb I A physician say* that womgp like a - cigarette best when it has . opium in Ik Wo think that women like a tagsrsM* best when it has a man at on# SnvNt, —Philadelphia Call. ‘ Did Maryland to see DelawSts Imr ’’ New Jersey? Speaking of shades Mis souri says there’s too mueh Colorado about nothing and thinks- it tin* to have Idaho up some new faka-.in -.ths fashion Wno.-llart/ord •Sunday Journal. It iB a sight worthy of an artist’s eray- oii to see a woman, while talking through a telephono to hor grooer three rallefc .. away, stamping her little foot and shot-; hig hor fist ss though the poor rean was* * • quailing right liefore her. ■ ' Ttre Chief of Police of Buflhlo detoss ■ bWWMoar man standing against a wall li ji'f JoWarii* hixl3*£L honest man. —Detroit FVeS AT cm t - - A (iKNTLRMAN wanted sasas plumbing % done in IiIh house and asked the plum ber to givo an estimate of the oast of tbs work. “Lot mo see," mused «*• plumber, “one and ono are two. Infl Info threeyon can’t. 1'U do thB job for $800,” “James, do yon love your stater ?" • “Yes, sir." “Well, show me bow yon love her.” The boy stood still, nofc- knowing what to do. “James, how do I express my lovo for your mother?’^ “Oh, yon give her some bank-notes, buf _ I aint got any.” \ “Yes,” said the market® an, "Tawmus is mean about some things. “Why beta been hunting four times this week. The first day he bought a fox and ■ brace of. ducks from me, and bang me if hehp*fi\* used those same duoks and that fox ... ivory day einoo I” J “No," said a fond mother, speaking • proudly of hor twenty-flve-year-old daughter; “no, Mary isn’t old enough* to marry yet. She cries whenever any ono soolds her, and until she heemM*< hardened enough to talk back vigorous ly she isn’t fit for a wifo.” • “Comb children,"Hnssn will say,In the * now time dialect. “It is your bed time. All good little children are in bed at half-past nineteen; and here is twenty- one o'clock. Let me took you in your#! lied and I will toll you stories till tbs - olook strikes twenty-two.” “I has heard folks. ssy," remarked Uncle Mose, "dat da oould tell aunort man T mistake. speak . _ . , more sense den de toad what ken took"at yer ten minutes widout winkin’. r To men addicted to delights, business-* is an interruption; to such as are-colds* to delights business is art-entertaimnWrijir for wbieb reason it wan-said - to oBS'wliowi commended a dull man for bis,applies-, - lion, “No thanks to him. If be-luuLliQ y business, he would have nothing to do, . flood Manner*.', .. ’ m * Good manners imply rnpre than mere, ceremony, me o attention t established forms. Tile habitual observance of cer tain conventional rules and tt-ag'es does not make a lady or gentleittan. Some' 1 degree of foimaliiy is necessary in eon- * ducting our relations and. intercourse ■ one witli another, but there must be- witli it some heart, some genuine lov* I for our kind; otherwise we can neither » bo tlio instruments or recipients of on-- joyinents in the midst of the social cir cle, To impart or receive pleasure in society there must be at least “tho flow of soul,” if not the “feast of reas'on." We may admire this or that person for special accomplishments of manner;’ * style and conversation; but if these SEs' seen and felt to be merely artificial, not at all involving the affections, we can- never love the same. No gifts of raind,- nor elegance of person, nor propriety of personal bearing can compensate for the want of heart in"company. It is only the heart that can tortoh and im^, press tlie heart.' A warm confldiag soul* is tlie element of all enjoyment and- j pleasure iu the social world; and wheirs>. ( ' this is there cun be no stiffness, no studied formalism of manner*or Ian*, gunge. * ile Mose, "dat da oould tell a smart i by lookin' in his eye, bnt dis is a lake. De mole ain’t got no eye ter' ik ob, but dinged ef he ain’t got