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Old Series- —V 01. 25, ISTo. 122.
Railroad Schedules.
Bovlsed and Corrected by B, F. Brown, Gen
eral Ticket Agent, Planters’ Hotel.
PORT BOY All RAILROAD.
Leaves Augusta —4:20 a. m. and 8:20 p. m. |
Arrives at Augusta..7:2s a. m. and 8:00 p.m.
Arrives at Port Royal 3:00 p. m.
Leaves Fort Royal. 9:30 a.m.
GEORGIA RAILROAD.
Lea 7es Augusta at 8:4o, a. m. and 8:15, p. m.
Leaves Atlanta at 7:00, a. m. and 10:30 p. hi.
Arrives in Augusta 3:30,p. m. andß:ls,a.m.
Arrives in Atlanta at 5:45, p.m. and 6:25, a.m.
SOUTH CAROLINA RAILROAD.
Leaves Augusta at 9:00, a. m. and 6, p. m.
Arrives Augusta at 5:15, p. m. and 7:50, a. m.
MACON AND AUGUSTA RAILROAD.
Leaves Augusta at.10:15, a. m. andß;lsp.m.
Leaves Macon at. .6:30, a. m. and 8:00 p.m.
Arrives at Augusta. .2:00, p. m. and 8:15 a.m,
Arrives at Macon at.6:40, p. in. and 7:40 a.m
CENTRAL RAILROAD.
Leaves Augusta at 9:05, a. m. and 8:10, p.m.
Arrives at Augusta at 4:00 p. ni. and 7, a.m.
OJARXiOTi E COLUMBIA AND AUGUSTA RAIL
ROAD.
Leaves Augusta at 9:30, a. m. and 4:15, p.m.
Arrives in Augusta at 8:05, p.m. and 8:45. a.m
E CONSTITUTIONALIST
SUNDAY, MARCH 7, 1875.
[For the Constitutionalist,
THE AUGUSTA FACTORY.
A Detailed Account of a Great In
stitution.
Any of our Northern or other visit
ing friends who spend a few days in
Augusta lose a great treat if they fail
to visit the Factory. For the special
benefit of such as cannot afford the
time for a full examination, and oth
ers who, perhaps, do not know where
to begin and carry it out, I venture to
offer the following, which may be con
sidered an abridged hand-book :
It is not absolutely necessary, but it
will bo best that the visitor obtain an
introductory card from Mr. Jackson—
the President—or from a Director.
Visitors calling without cards, unless
they be personally acquainted with the
officers in the mill, of course, cannot
expect the personal attention a card
would justify. Thus prepared, and
calling at the office on Fenwick street,
you will be shown, at the corner of
Fenwick and McKinne streets, the com
pany’s warehouse. It is a one-story
building of brick, covered with slate,
22G feet long, and 35 feet wide. In this
their cotton and other things are safely
stored. The cotton is, of course,
brought from the warehouses in the
city, where there are thousands of
bales, and from which Mr. Jackson can
select any quality or quantity he may
desire; so in the Factory warehouse
you will find only one or two grades,
such as the mills require. There is not
the slightest necessity for him to mix
grades to “lower the average,” as for
warp and for the filling, he can select
the very article he desires for them.
At the warehouse, you will notice a
number of drays by ‘which the cotton
bales are carried to their proper desig
nation, the picker houses. Here they
are piled up, about fifty, every day,
the bagging, at the ends, torn off,
which enables the operative to take off
hunks or arms full to feed the willows.
These willows are large iron or steel
toothed cylinders, and revolve with
great velocity. They break up the
hunks or matted masses of cotton,
opening the fibres to some extent and
deliver it to an adjacent room or bin.
This may be considered the be
ginning, and it is a very important one
and worthy of note. In recesses under
the willow, you will find sand, gravel
and other dirt which if weighed would
in most cases be found equal to about
ten per cent, of the cotton used. In a
few cases large quantities of cotton
seed andjsmali rocks are found and con
siderable care is required to prevent
them getting into the willow.
The cotton from the room in which
it was deposited by the willow, is taken
out, weighed and spread upon the
pickers. These work it into a bat or
web on a kind of moving sieve some
eight or ten feet in length, and this
web is put on rollers with just so much
pressure that it may be easily un
wound, if required in a continuous
sheet and a certain weight of cotton is
put on each roller. These are placed in
raeks made for them until they are
wanted in the card room.
Here it will be noticed that the
pickers have the effect to some extent
of laying the fibres of cotton parallel
to each other.
The rolls from the pickers are taken
to the card room, and a roll placed in
front of each card cylinder in contact
with the teeth of the cards. As the
card cylinder revolves, its teeth take off
a small portion of cotton and brings it
delicately in contact with the teeth of
the hollow card surrounding the cylin
der. After the card cylinder has made
a number of revolutions, it is found
that the fibres of cotton on it have be
come nearly parallel to each other, and
they are “ doffed ” —that is, taken off
by a kind of vibrating scraper, called
“ the doffer,” in a continuous sheet,
very thin, and of the same width as
the cards. This sheet is reduced in
width by passing it through a funnel
shaped attachment, coming out about
two inches wide and one-quarter of au
inch thick. Then it goes into a long
trough (or gutter) in front of each
“ section ” of cards, and if there are
eight or ten cards to a section, there
will be eight or ten of these laps pass
ing through the trough (or gutter) at
the same time. At one end of the
trough there is an arrangement called
the drawing frames. They take the
laps as deliver©! from the cards, and,
as it passes from one to another a cer
tain number of times, it is drawn into
their slivers, about half an inch wide.
These slivers are deposited in upright
tin cylinders, which make a few revolu
tions first to the right and then to the
left. This alternate movement pre
vents a continuous twist of the slivers,
the alternate twist being sufficient to
prevent the adherence of the coils as
they are pressed into the cylinders.
This latter operation, duly performed,
makes the parallel arrangement of the
fibres completed.
The tin cans or cylinders of slivers
are then carried to the speeder spin
dles where they are further drawn out
or attenuated, and slightly twisted,
forming a coarse slack thread about
inch diameter, which is wound on bob
bins or spools 4 or 5 inches diameter
and about 8 inches long.
Ihe spools last mentioned are taken
to the spinning frames, one of them to
each spindle, and are at once converted
into yarn.
In all of these spinning operations
the arrangement of the machinery is
beautiful aud worthy of careful study.
In the unwinding of the coarse yarn
from the spool of the speeder frames
it is obvious that at the beginning one
revolution of the spool will give off
from 12 to 15 inches of yarn, and this
quantify must bo less and less as the
diameter is diminished till at the close,
one revolution will only give off 6 inches.
(thr flail and (Constitutionalist
In making the yarn the same thing oc
curs, but for all this there is a self ac
ting compensating arrangement by
which every inch of yarn has the same
number of twists and is so evenly
stretched as to be in every part of the
same diameter.
The yarn intended for filling is put
at once on the bobbins for the shuttles,
but the yarn for the warp is sent up to
the warping room. Here the bobbins
are arranged in frames, and for yard
wide goods No. 14 there will be 2,066
threads; these threads are passed
through guides, which distribute them
on wooden rollers, which, when filled,
are J 2 to 14 inches in diameter, and of
length corresponding with the width
of cloth to be made. A “ piece ” or
bolt ” of cloth may be 35 or 40 yards,
but on these cylinders there is length
of yarn enough to make several bolts.
The machines by which the warping is
accomplished are so arranged that the
breaking of a single thread stops the
machine until it is mended, so that you
may be absolutely sure that all the
warp cylinders have precisely the same
number of threads from one end
of the warp to the other, if proper
attention lias been paid to them.
These warps are taken to the dressing
room, and as many of them as re
quired mounted on the dressing frame,
the end of every thread is passed
through a perforated plate, and the
whole attached to a roller or cylinder
at the other end of the frame, but so
distributed as to occupy the length of
the roller. When the machine is in
motion the roller draws the threads
through the perforated plate from the
rollers, just from the warping room,
but in passing from one to the other it
is bent down and immersed in a bath
of starch. After passing through the
starch it is scraped by passing through
the plate aud brushed by a rapidly re
volving brush. The part thus scraped
aud bruehed passes some distance
through a current of heated air, and
by the time it arrives at the end of the
frame is perfectly dry. The use of the
scraping and brushing is to lay the
fuzz or short fibres of the yarn to it
and fasten them there with the starch,
so that you have, when the operation
is finished, a slick and smooth thread
which will pass readily through the
“ harness ” and “ reeds.” It must also
be noticed that immediately after the
thread has been immersed in ‘ the
starch it is passed through or between
two rollers, the upper one of which is
usually of marble or some other heavy
material, by which the redundant
starch is squeezed out and falls back
to its tank.
The warp thus prepared is taken
back to the warp room and each thread
is passed through the harness and
reeds by hand. This would seem to be
a tedious operation, but it is greatly
facilitated by having prepared strips of
the cloth to be woven, with loose ends
to w'hich the threads of the new warp
are rapidly attached.
In the dressing it is arranged that a
red mark is made on part of the warp
at the distance of 30, 35 or 40 yards,
these marks serve to show the weaver
the progress made by the looms.
In the weaving room every loom has
one of the warp cylinders and its har
ness and reeds. The “loose end” before
mentioned is properly fastened to the
cloth cylinder and a bobbin having
been put in the shuttle the weaving
begins. It will be observed that in the
operation of weaving one half the num
ber or every alternate thread of the
warp is raised and depressed at the
same time thus making a space be
tween them for the passage of the
shuttle. The instant the shuttle goes
through, the reed gives the thread left
by it a light rap or beat and as in
stantly gets out of the way of the re
turning shuttle—some idea of the
rapidity of these movements can be
ascertained by counting the num
ber of “ picks’- made in a minute.
Thus with 120 picks, the shut
tle has delivered 120 threads, and the
reed has made 120 beats, and with 12
to the % about inches of cloth has
been made. In making drills or other
fancy goods the harness is arranged to
take up and down any required num
ber of contiguous threads.
The cloth is taken from the weaving
room to the cloth room. Here it is
folded and measured at the same time
either by hand or machinery. It is
then baled, marked and shipped. . Lit
tle, if any, ever goes back to the ware
house.
In making this tour you pass
through a mill five stories in height,
488 feet long and 52 feet wide, beside
outside buildings, as picker houses,
&c. The first story has a large num
ber of looms, and is in part occupied
as a cloth room, workshop, wheel pit,
&c. The second story is the weaving
room proper, and in it and the lower
story thero are 717 looms. The third
story is the card room, and is filfed
with cards and other machines from
one end to the other. The fourth
story is the spinning room, and con
tains 22,448 spindles. The fifth story
has the warp and dressing rooms.
In passing through you are liable to
meet, or see at work, 666 men, women
and children. These live in 123 tene
ments, owned by the company. They
are mainly two-story brick buildings,
well-made and comfortable.
The protection against fire is ample,
as there are fire plugs in the adjacent
streets and about ten within the en
closure of the mill, some of these being
arranged so as to control any acci
dental fire in each story by means of
hose, &c., arranged for the purpose. The
plugs are so fixed that they can be sup
plied by a large force pump, worked by
water in the mills or from the tank and
pumps of the Augusta Water Works.
The city Link is at least 90 feet above
the ground level of the mills.
The production of goods in the mill
for one week is :
Yards.
4-4 sheeting 99,958
% sheeting 36,325
% sheeting 81,281
Drills 32,232
Total per week 249,796
Thus, if an hour has been occupied
in passing through the mill, those busy
hands, whirling spindles and beating
looms, have made 3,202 yards of cloth,
equal to 1.82 statute miles.
Here I may refer to the suggestion I
made as to the propriety of procuring
cards to visit the mills instead of going
in as a stranger. The product of the
mills, as before stated, is 3,202 yards
per hour. This gives near 0.88 yards
per second. Now, if an awkward
stranger comes in, he will, in passing
through, attract the attention of 666
operatives for at least one second.—
Here, then, we have lost 666 seconds,
and the production of 586 yards of
goods. It may be true that though I
measure the production of the mills in
yards of cloth, and that the stranger
may not attract the attention of all the
operatives, yet in some of the processes
the importance of one second is con
siderable, and the mere raising of the
head of an operative to look at the in
A-TTGITSTAI, GA„ SUNDAY MORNING. MARCH 7, 1875.
truder may lead to the breaking of
many threads, the misthrow of a shut
tle, or something of that sort, which
will make the operative lose many
minutes instead of a second, and thus
bring up the average loss to 666 sec
onds.
The present management is as fol
lows :
President—W. E. Jackson.
Directors—C. J. Jenkins, T. G. Bar
rett, F. Fhiuizy, J. B. Cumming.
Secretary -A. S. Morris.
Paymaster—J. H. Cranston, office on
Broad street.
Superintendent—F. Cogin, office at
the mills.
The mills are run by water power,
taken from the first level of the Au
gusta Canal. It is estimated at 650
horse power. Phillips.
FROM WASHINGTON.
The Blew Revenue Law.
Section 1. That from and after the
date of the passage of this act there
shall be levied and collected on all dis
tilled spirits thereafter produced in the
United Slates a tax of ninety cents on
each proof-gallon, or wine-gallon, when
below proof, to be paid by the distiller,
owner or person having possession
thereof, before removal from the dis
tillery bonded warehouse; and so
inucji of section 3251 of the revised
statutes of the United States as is in
consistent herewith is hereby repealed.
Section 2. That section 3368 of the
revised statutes be, and the same is
hereby, amended by striking out the
words “ twenty cents a pound, and in
serting in lieu thereof the words
“ twenty-four cents a pound ; and that
section 3394 of the revised statutes be,
and the same is hereby, amended by
striking out the word “five” where it
occurs therein, and inserting in lieu
thereof the word “ six,” aud by strik
ing out the word “ fifty ” and insert
ing instead thereof the words “ seven
ty-five ” : Provided, That the increase
of tax herein provided for shall not
apply to tobacco on which the tax, un
der existing laws, shall have been paid
when this act takes effect. And pro
vided further, That whenever it shall
be shown to the satisfaction of the Sec
retary of the Treasury, by testimony
under oath, that any person liable to
pay the increased tax by this section,
had, prior to the 10th day of
February, 1875, made a contract for
the future delivery of such tobacco,
cigars and cigarettes, at a fixed price,
which contract was in writing prior to
that date, such tobacco may be deliver
ed to the contracting party entitled
thereto, under special permit from the
Commissioner of Internal Revenue
provided therefor, without previous
payment of such additional tax, but
this said additional tax shall be a lien
thereon, and shall be paid by and col
lected from the purchaser under such
contract before the sale or removal
thereof by him, and when demanded
by the Collector of Internal Revenue
for the district to which the same shall
be removed for delivery to the pur
chaser ; and any such removal by such
purchaser prior to the payment of such
tax, shall subject him aud such tobacco
so sold or removed to all the penalties
and processes of law provided in the
case of manufacturers of tobacco so
selling or removing tobacco to avoid
the payment of the tax.
Sec. 3. That all molasses, concentra
ted molasses (tank-bottoms,) syrup of
sugar, eanejuice melada, and on sugars
according to the Dutch standard in
color, imported from foreign countries,
there shall be levied, collected, and
paid, in addition to the duties now im
posed in schedule “ G,” section 2,504 of
the revised statues, an amount equal
to 25 per centum of said duties as
levied upon the several articles and
grades therein designated : Provided,
That concentrated melada or concrete
shall hereafter be classed as sugar,
dutiable according to color by the
Dutch standard, and melada shall be
known as an article made in the pro
cess of sugar-making, being the cane
juice boiled down to the sugar point,
and containing all the sugar and mo
lasses resulting from the boiling pro
cess of purifying and clarification, and
any and all products of the sugar-cane
imported in bags shall be considered
sugar and dutiable as such: And pro
vided further, That of the drawback on
refined sugar allowed by section 3,019
of the revised statutes of the United
States only one per cent, of the amount
so allowed shall be released by the
United States.
Sec. 4. That so much of section 2503
of the revised statutes as provides that
only ninety per cent, of the several
duties and rates of duty imposed on
certain articles therein enumerated by
section 2,504 shall be levied, collected
and paid, be and the same is hereby
repealed ; and the several duties and
rrtes of duty prescribed in said section
2504 shall be and remain as by that
section levied, without abatement of
10 per cent., as provided by section
2,503.
Sec. 5. That the increase of duties
provided by this act shall not apply to
any goods, wares, or merchandise ac
tually on shipboard and bound to the
United States on the 10th day of Feb
ruary, 1875, nor on any such goods,
wares, or merchandise on deposit in
warehouses or public stores at the date
of the passage of this act.
Sec. 6. That nothing contained in
the act entitled au act to amend exist
ing custom atid internal revenue laws,
and for other purposes, approved Feb
ruary 8,1875, shall be construed to im
pose any duties on'' bolting cloths
theretofore admitted free of duty, nor
to require the use of a stamp upon the
receipt in the receipt book of a saving
bank or institution for savings, having
no capital stock and doing no other
business than receiving deposits to be
loaned or invested for the sole benefit
of the parties making such deposits
without proper compensation to the as
sociation or company when money is
paid to a depositor on his pass-book.
In France a man is never guillotined
for writing his name in the middle, nor
can his head be cut off unless his real
name is known. A prisoner is now
awaiting death in Paris who cannot be
decapitated until the detectives find
out the name he inherited from his
father, which he prudently declines to
disclose.
Frank Burke, Foreman of Engine
Company No. 12, tried to help out of
the ruins a fine fellow crushed and
half buried in St. Andrew s Church.
But he said : “ Never mind mo ; get
thr old lady out. I’ll wait. But the
old lady was dead, and this fine fellow
—Patrick Lavelle—aged 25, if he lives,
will be a cripple.
School inspector (to urchin): Now,
Johnny, how many can you count?”
Johuny—“One, two, three, four, five,
six, seven, eight, nine, ten.” Inspector—
“ Good, Johnny, go on.” Johnny (after
a moment’s thought)—“Jack, queen,
king, ace.”
THE WIFE OF CARL SCHURZ.
A Model Helpmate.
A Washington letter says: Carl
Schurz can not be more missed in the
Senate than his wife and daughter will
be on Lafayette Square. Mrs. Schurz
fulfils more perfectly than any woman
I ever knew the intrinsic man’s ideal
wife. Many women love their husbands,
few find it possible to worship them.
Mrs. Schurz began at: fifteen or earlier
to adore her hero, and after sewing on
bis buttons and learning his limitations
for twenty years, she worships him
still. A little girl in Hamburg, she
worshipped the pictured image of the
Revolutionist whom she had never
seen. After leaving school she visi
ted London, and a friend said,
“ You must come to my house this
evening and see the wonderful Carl
Schurz.” The maiden came, and in
a remote corner worshipped from
afar the young lion of the occasion.
The friend said to Carl: “ There is a
little Hamburg girl here who adores
you as a far off hero. You must hnow
her.” “He was introduced,” said the
sweet voice, “ and what do you think
he said to me ? When my friend asked
‘What do you think of her?’ Why all
he thought was, ‘She seems a good,
healthy girl.’ He did not admire me at
all—not then.” He must have man
aged to do so pretty soon after, how
ever, for they were married within a
year, before he was 21 or she 17. They
came to this country to begin their
united fortune. “ You will hand me
the bricks,” he said “ aud I will build.’,
If ho has “ budded better than he
knew,” has it not been because of the
sympathetic intelligence, the loving
heart, the gentle, unfaltering hands
which have never for an instant failed
him in his life-service? He began his
career in America by learning the Eug
lish language. All ids swift aud keen
perception, all his varied knowledge,
his living ideas, were locked in the
fastnesses of Teutonic speech. To-day
he is a master of English eloquence.
No Senator equals him in vivid, fluent,
forensic utterance. Industry, intelli
gence, a love of books, of art and of
music, with intense home affections,
are the elements which fid his house
hold life. The result is visible in his
own sturdy hold upon mental pursuits,
in his various accomplishments aud
simple, unblemished character. Nor is
it less visible in his wife and daugh
ters, or in the happy eyes of the little
Carl. \
[Cork (February 17th) Correspondence of the
London Standard.
John Mitchel—His Arrival and {Re
ception in Ireland.
Mr. Mitchel arrived in Cork at 6
o’clock this morning, and left for the
junction known as the Limerick junc
tion, which is three miles from the
town of Tipperary, at half past 12. He
is in very feeble health, aud while here
declined to receive any addresses. He
declares his intention of contesting.—
Tipperary again should the late elec
tion be declared void. He was cheered
on his departure by a small crowd; but
no other demonstration occurred, and
there is an entire absence of excite
ment. He is accompanied by his son,
Captain Mitchel, and a few of the Cork
nationalists.
RECEPTION BY THE PEOPLE.
He arrived at the junction at half
past two o’clock on his way to Tip
perary. He was met by an enormous
crowd, numbering many thousands of
people, who formed in procession and
marched along the three miles which
separate the junction from the town of
Tipperary. Mitchel was provided with
a carriage, which was drawn by a num
ber of men. There were several bands
in the crowd, as well as banners. Of
the latter, one was fixed conspicuously
over Mitchel’s head, displaying a typi
cal rebel, with the words of a well
known Fenian song, “With my pike
upon my shoulder at the rising of the
moon.” Upon his arrival in the town
he was presented with an address of
welcome by the chairman of the Town
Commissioners.
MR. MITCHEL’S REPLY.
In reply, Mr. Mitchel said:
Men of Tipperary: It is true that I
have come over three thousand miles
of this globe’s surface to find the peo
ple of Tipperary and to get by them to
Parliament. It was. nothing to come
such a distance and receive such au
honor as I have received this day, and
especially such a high distinction as I
received yesterday. I would have
come from the North Pole. It makes
it the more impressive upon me that I
am not a Tipperary man. I have the
honor to be a Derry man, but I sup
pose Derry is as much Irish as Tippe
rary ; at any rate, I am an Irishman. I
think you seem to acknowledge it.
Allusions have been made to the
steps the Government are about
to take—-that is, the British Gov
ernment over in London. There is a
man over there in London. He writes
novels, and he is of opinion that he
knows better who Tipperary should
elect than you do. [Cries of “ No.”]
That is what he thinks. Now, if Tip
perary is to submit to the dictation of
this novel writer, why the next thing
will bo Cork, and then he will go to
Limerick, and he will make them select
for their representative such a man as
he approves of. [“Oh.”] Now, men of
Tipperary, some years ago the British
sovereign elected me as a fit subject to
cairy a felon’s chain and to bear the
penalties of felony at the antipodes.
[Groans.] Now that I have returned
Here, you, people of Tipperary, have
thought me the very person worthy of
being returned to her Majesty’s coun
cils to offer her Majesty’s ministers
and advisers the best aid of all my in
formation and talent to help them to
govern the three countries. [Laugh
ter.] I am now going to help the
English, the Scotch, and the
Walsh to govern their country
as well as to govern this one.
[Laughter.] It seems they cannot do
without us. You have had little ex
perience of me ; as yet you have only
read of me and heard of me. As long
as I have the honor to represent you J
will not sell you. I will not tm ie upon
you in any shape or form ; the efforts
and sacrifices that the people of Tip
perary have made to put me iuto the
very proud position I hol t to-day,
these efforts and sacrifices I will not
trade upon. I will not be found haunt
ing the doors of Ministers, pressing
them to get little offices and little
places for my constituents, or auy re
lations of my constituents. After some
further remarks in the same strain, he
continued; I think there is a better
class of representatives going over to
London than we have had. Ido not
say, recollect, that lam ever going
over to London at all. I do not prom
ise to go to London ; but whether I go
to London or stay here at home, I
think Tipperary may be very sure I
will never traffic in the trust reposed
in me. [Cheers.]
[Detroit Free Press.
A SOLEMN SKETCH.
Puffing an Undertaker.
“ I’ve taken your paper for twenty
six years,” he commenced as he reached
the head of the stairs,” and now I want
a puff.”
He was a very tall, slender man, had
a face which hadn’t smiled since 1842,
and his neck was embraced by a white
cravat, and his hands were thrust into
black gloves.
“ I’ve got anew hearse, anew stock
of coffins, and I want a local notice,”
he continued as he sat down and sighed,
as if ready to screw a coffin lid down.
“ My dear sir,” replied the man in the
corner, “ I’ve met you at a great many
funerals, and your general bearing has
created a favorable impression. You
sigh with the sighers, grieve with the
grievers, and on extra occasions you
can shed tears of sorrow, even though
you know that you can’t get ten per
cent, of j'our bill under six months.”
“Yes,” sighed the undertaker, in
stinctively measuring the length of the
table with his eye, and wondering to
himself why editors’ tables weren’t
covered with crape, with rows of coffin
nails around the edges.
“Death is a very solemn ,: thing,” con
tinued the man in the corner; but, still,
it is an occasion when one can appre
ciate a neat thing. I’ve seen you rub
your knuckles against door posts and
never change countenance ; I’ve seen
you listen to eulogies on men who owed
you for twenty years before their death,
and.you looked even more solemn than
the bereaved widow: I’ve seen you
back your hearse up to a door in such
an easy, quiet way, that it robbed death
of half its terrors. All this have I seen
and appreciated, but I couldn’t write a
puff for you.”
“Why not?” he demanded.
“ For many reasons. Now you have a
new hearse. Could I go on and say:
‘ Mr. Sackcloth, the genial undertaker,
has just received a line new hearse,
and we hope that our citizens will en
deavor to bestow upon it the patron
age such enterprises deserve. It rides
easy, is handsomely finished, and those
who try it once will want no other.’
Could I say that ? ”
“ No, not very well.”
“Of course I couldn’t. You can call
a grocer or a dry goods man a genial
friend, and its all right, but you aren’t
genial—you can’t be. Its your busi
ness to be solemn. If you could be
even more solemn than you are, it
would be money in your pocket.”
“ That’s so,” he said sighing heavily.
“ If it was an omnibus, or a coal cart,
or a wheelbarrow, I could go on and
write a chapter on every separate
spoke, but it isn’t, you see.”
He leaned back and sighed again.
“ And as to your coffins, they are
doubtless nice coffins, and your prices
are probably reasonable, but could I
go on and say: ‘ Mr. Sackcloth, the
undertaker, has just received his new
styles, and is now prepared to see as
many of his old customers as want
something handsome and durable at
a modern price.’ Could I say that ?”
Another sigh.
“I couldn’t say that you were hold
ing a clearing out sale, in order to get
ready for the Spring trade, or that, for
the sake of increasing your patronage,
you had decided to present each custo
mer with a chromo. I couldn’t say
that you were repairing and repainting,
and had the most attractive coffin shop
in Detroit. It wouldn’t do to hope that
people would patronize you, or to say
that all orders sent in by mail would be
promptly filled, and that your motto
was : ‘ Quick sales and small profits !’ ”
He put on the look of a tombstone
and made no reply.
“ You see, if you had stoves to sell,
or dealt in mackerel, or sold fishing
tackle, everything would be lovely.
You are an undertaker—solemn, se
date, mournful. You revel in crape,
and you never pass a black walnut
door without thinking how much good
coffin lumber was recklessly wasted.
The tolling bell is music to you, and
the City Hall flag at half-mast is fat
on your ribs. We’d like to oblige you,
but you see how it is.”
“ Yes, I see,” he sighed, and he form
ed in procession and moved down
stairs, looking around now and then to
see if the hearse was just thirty-four
feet behind the officiating clergyman’s
carriage.
Showing His Teeth.
A New York correspondent writes:
“ Dogs have the toothache, and not
only do dogs have the toothache, but
they have dentists, and it’s hard to tell
which is the worst to have. A lady
here has a beautiful black-and-tan, a
fragile bit of canine weighing no more
than two pounds. The dear little man
became fractious. He plunged his
head iu the sofa pillow and threw up
the other end as if life had no more
bones. He took a lap at his mug of
cold water, and then sit down on his
tail, and lifted up his voice in such
prolonged misery that the whole house
cried hydrophobia, and got up on top
of chairs and tables. Had this animal
been a twelve-pounder instead of two,
and affection the only tie between the
owner and the beast—though it pulled
her heart-string—' Claude ’ would have
been shot—but it was the purse
strings by which he held on—he was
worth S2OO. A doctor was sent for—
the patient was found with his nose in
an india-rubber shoe, and his rat tail
vibrating with a big ache—an ache the
attending physician immediately pro
nounced to be the toothache. Imagine
the astonishment of the family when
the prescription for Claude was the
dentist. His blanket was put on, his
spirits encouraged, and off went the
poor dear to have his teeth fixed. A
regular practitioner was the operator.
Claude was put into a neat little box,
packed in with wool. His wondering
countenance stuck out of a hole in the
cover. A rubber-covered stick went in
his mouth and kept his jaws open, and
the investigation commenced. Two of
his back teeth were pulled, there was
no doubt of m that. He expostulat
ed loudly, * notwithstanding the
gag. Then he was allowed a respite
of some hours, after which he reluc
tantly resumed his harness and had
three teeth filled with amalgam. Thus
tinkered, Claude has returned to his
home to think of the past and refuse
all sweet things that may bring to his
little canine soul such sorrow as he has
just suffered. This little dog’s dental
bill was S2O, and that’s but one of the
mistress’ troubles. She has paid $25
for his passage across the ocean four
times. She has paid SIOO for damages
done to a suit of furniture from which
he atejevery button in overy tuft in the
space of half an hour. She has paid
innumerable small sums for railway
travel, for of late years they are trying
—these hard-hearted railroad officials
—to part the tender traveler from her
poodle, considering the dog as a nui
sance.”
Shad fishing checked by high water.
[Oglethorpe Echo.
Responsibilities of an Editor.
Very few of those who, from week to
week or day to day, read the newspa
pers have any idea of the labor and
responsibility attached to the position
of an editor.'They take up a newspaper
and expect to find in it such mental
pabulum as suits themselves, without
reflecting, for a moment, that there are
other tastes in the world beside their
own to be consulted. Some men take
up the idea that for the amount of
their subscription they acquire the
right to criticise, and even condemn
the paper they have favored with their
august patronage. Such men would
have the editor, before he inserts any
article, carry his proofs around and
ask each individual if it is his or her
pleasure to have it appear. And not
even content with this, they would
have the editor publish only such
things as interest themselves, and
would leave the rest of his readers to
languish under the infliction of some
thing that perhaps possesses as much
interest to them as would a learned
essay on the unity of races possess for
a Hottentot.
One man would have his paper filled
with leaders on the political status of
the country ; another would have his
devoted almost to agriculture; and
still another would like his paper filled
with local news or literary matter, or
with choice excerpts from the spice
boxes of all of the journals of the laud.
On the weak stomachs of some, any
thing that smacks of sensation cannot
be tolerated ; his sensitive nerves can
not bear the rude shock that would
follow the rehearsal of such a thing as
the Beecher-Tilton affair, while ivith
another a paper filled with such stuff
would be the very essence of perfec
tion.
To publish semething suited to the
masses, for whom it is his duty, and we
might say privilege, to interest and in
struct, is the mission of the Editor. To
reconcile all of these seemingly irrecon
cilable elements to have matter in his
paper suited to the tastes of all, and
yet offensive to none, requires the nicest
perception possible.
And yet all this, and much more, is
required of an editor—and when he
fails to accomplish the greatest of all
impossibilities—please every one—
some ignorant or captious reader
thrusts his proboscis into the editor’s
sanctum, and, with the greatest non
chalance imaginable, requests him to
stop his paper. It has too much non
sense in it, or it is too personal, or it
may be that some puissant specimen
of the class denominated by Charles
Reade pruient prudes, cannot permit
the paper to enter his household—it is
too vulgar.
The editor must stand all this, and
his manner must not betray, for a
moment, his inward thought that the
person who thus makes known his
grievance ha transcended the privi
leges given him.
He must suit all, offend none, bear
with the ill-will of the ignorant, submit
to the criticism of the hypercritical,
and maintain through all an angelic
sweetness which would fit him for a
habitation with the “just made per
fect.”
Who will say, then, that his position
is not an arduous one, and who will
not look on what they may even con
sider failings with some leniency.
How to Tell a Lady’s Age.
The following table will do it. Just
hand the table to the lady and ask her
to tell you in which of -its columns her
age is contained. Then add together
the figures at the top of the columns
designated, and you have the great
secret. Suppose her age to be seven
teen. You will find the number seven
teen in only two columns, viz: the first
and fifth ; and the first figures at the
head of these columns make seventeen.
Here is the magic table:
Ist. 2d. 3d. 4th. sth. 6th.
1 2 4 8 16 32
33 5 9 17 33
5 6 6 10 18 34
7 7 7 11 19 35
9 10 12 12 20 36
11 11 13 13 21 37
13 • 14 14 14 22 38
15 15 15 15 23 39
17 18 20 24 24 40
19 19 21 25 25 41
21 22 22 26 26 42
23 23 23 27 27 43
25 26 28 28 28 44
27 27 29 29 29 45
29 30 ‘ 30 30 30 46
31 31 31 31 31 47
33 34 36 40 48 48
35 35 37 41 49 49
37 38 38 42 50 50
39 39 39 43 51 51
41 42 44 44 52 52
43 43 45 45 53 53
45 46 46 46 54 54
47 47 47 47 55 55
49 50 52 56 56 56
51 51 53 57 57 57
53 54 54 58 58 58
55 55 55 59 59 59
57 58 60 60 60 60
59 59 61 61 61 61
61 62 62 62 62 62
63 63 .63 63 63 63
Tardy Justice to John Young Brown.
Washington, March 3.— Mr. Hale, of
New York, who has not been able to
attend the sittings of the House for the
past four weeks on account of illness,
wrote to-day to Mr. Crittenden, of Mis
souri, expressing his regret that his ill
ness had prevented him from taking
any part in correcting the injustice
which was done to Brown, of Kentucky,
in the resolution of censure moved by
himself and adopted by the House in
the earlier part of the session. He re
peats his conviction that so far as that
resolution imputed to Brown any inten
tion of prevarication or double dealing
in his response to the Speaker,
himself and a majority of the House
had been misled, and had done injus
tice to Browm. He adds: “A careful
examination of the record since, quali
fying it by my own distinct recollec
tion, satisfies me that I did a wrong to
Brown in imputing this intent to him,
and that there was nothing in his re
sponse to the Speaker inconsistent with
good faith or integrity of an upright
and honorable man. I shall never hes
itate to express freely the conviction
that I have above expressed to you,
and if anything contained in this letter
within your j udgment be of service to
Mr. Brown, I beg you to consider the
the letter entirely at your service, for
any use whatever that you or other
friends of Mr. Brown may think proper
to make of it.”
Here is a good thing on the “tater
bug.” Three men comparing notes:
One says, “there are two bugs to every
stalk.” A second says, “they have cut
down my early crop and are sitting on
the fence waiting for my late crop to
come up.” “Pshaw!” said the third,
“you know nothing about it. I passed
a seed store the other day and saw the
bugs looking over the books to see who
had purchased seed potatoes,”
[Correspondence News and Corn ier.
BEECHER.
His Probable Innocence.
Tracy’s speech has undoubtedly
made an impression, and turned the
current somewhat in favor of Beecher 1
His audacity rather astonishes the
lawyers and nettles the Tilton peo
ple. The sharp criticisms upon him in
the Sun are presumed to be emana
tions of professional jealously from a
well-known source. Anyhow, what
ever the lawyers think of him. the
popular opinion is that he has made an
adroit and powerful defense of his
client. He will come out of the case a
greater man, in public estimation, than
ho went in. A friend of Mr. Beecher,
who saw him and talked with him on
Saturday, tells me that the defendant
said that there were facts behind and
to appear in the course of the trial
more remarkable and more exculpa
tory of him than the most extraordi
nary that Gen. Tracy had even hinted
at. Mr. Beecher does not entertain a
shadow of a doubt of his acquittal both
by the jury and the world. It is this
confidence that makes him so happy
and even so jovial at most times. But,
on the other hand, there are times when
the present affliction bears heavily
upon him. At the prayer meeting
last Friday night the pastor in the
course of his remark broke forth
in a flood of tears, and straight
way everybody in the hall was likewise
melted. Brother Sherman was sobbing
on one side of te sacred desk and Bro
ther Hill (the junior counsel) on the
other. It should be said of the Ply
mouth people that they stick heroically
to their old idol. No doubt many haye
been troubled with doubts of his inno
cence during this terrible ordeal; but
guilty or innocent, they will never de
sert him. But one prominent member
of the society, Mr. 8011, an English
man, and Superintendent of the Bethal
Sunday school, has been fully convinc
ed of the truth of Tilton’s accusations.
IBaltimore Sun, r>th.
CIVIL RTGHT3.
A Lively Row m Baltimore.
Two restaurant “Civil rights cases
developed themselves yesterday, which
met with very uncivil treatment. In
one case three colored men went into
the eating*bar of a prominent restau
rant, and taking their places at the
rack made known their wants. The
proprietor seeing them come in, and
determiniuing to avoid any violation of
the law in his house, made the colored
waiters employed by him stand aside
and served the colored customers in
person. What they called for was
served them, but some white custom
ers not liking the presence of the col
ored men, attacked them, and made
things lively v it.i flying glasses, etc.
The colored . iventurers were urged
to get away as fast as possible. The
broken china and glassware was picked
up by the attendants of the house, and
the proprietor, who had done his best
under the circumstances, retired to his
cashiers desk to place the fractured
crockery to the profit and loss account.
The second case occurred at another
point. A white man brought a colored
friend into a well known restaurant,
and both sat down at the eating bar.
The white man called for what they
wanted. The attendant, a white man,
served the colored man, and then
someone attacked the white friend and
gave him a hustling. The atmosphere
soon became so warm that, both the
unwelcome guests were obliged to re
tire.
NATIONAL SOLUBLE
BOM AMMOJIATED.
Moisture determined at
212 deg. Fall 15.20
Organic and vol’tile matter 30.24
Yielding ammonia 3.06
Soluble phosphoric acid... 5.94
Equivalent to phos. lime
dissolved 12.93
Precipitated phos. acid— 5.78
Equivalent to phos. lime
precipitated 12.60
Available phosphoric acid 11.72
Equivalent to phos. lime
available... 25 58
Common phosphoric acid. 0.91
Equivalent to bone phos’te 1.99
Total phosphoric acid, 12.63
Total bone phosphate 27.57
Inorganic olements, not
separately estimated, as
sulph. acid, lime, mag
nesia, oxide of iron, alu
mina, soda, etc 41.93
[Signed] 100.00
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SSO per ton, TIME.
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China Tea % Coffee Store.
A good cup of Tea gives to the housewife
cneer. i
To the laboring man solace,
A clear head and refreshing sleep for all
its votaries.
A CARD.
CHINA. JAPAN. AUGUSTA
A CARGO OF TEA generally passes
through the hands of five or sui par
ties before reaching the consumer, and, of
course, has to leave profit with each, thus
making yery “deargoods.”
1 have a large assortment of TEAS, and
make a ‘ specialty ” of them in my busi
u* r '^ ar qiug the quality and price,
bought from the IMPORTER,
direct I rom CHINA and JAPAN, thus get
f'Tf , from first hands, with only
frolght Hud United states Receiver's coni
mission added 10 cost in China.
I would say to the public they can rely on
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of several profits, as is generally the case.
Retailers furnished in chests, at as low
rates as the same quality can be bought in
large cities.
One Dollar Will Buy
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four and a half pounds of good Rio Coffee,
three pounds Gillies’ celebrated Crushed
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pounc.s of Sugar, Cream, Lemon or Milk
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five gallons of the Best Kerosene Oil.
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