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A Proclamation.
GEORGIA.
Jiy R UFUBII. li ULL 0 CUT,
Governor of Saul State.
WiiitßSAs, Tiie Alabama and Chattanooga
Railroad Company has failed to pay live Benti-
Mimual interest doe on the tlrst days of Janua
ry, and July ultimo, upon certain bonds o!
tbat Company : and
Whereas, The State of Georgia indorsed
for and guaranteed the prompt payment of
the interest ami principal of said bonds, and
lias paid to the holders thereof <,he semi an
nual interest due on the first days ot January
and July aforesaid ; and
Whereas, The said Alabama and Chattanoo
ga Railroad Company accepted, concurred in,
amt agreed to the terms and conditions pre
scribed by law at the time said indorsement
was made by tlii? State :
Now, therefore, by virtuo of the authority
iu mo vested by the Constitution and Laws of
tide State, I, Knfns B. Bullock, Governor and
Commander in Chief of the army and Navy of
this State, and of the militia thereof, do issue
this my proclamation making known tlmt the
State of Georgia is iu possession of the Ala
baina and Chattanoiga Railroad, its track,
road bed, machinery, franchises, and property
of all and every dcscrip'ion, lying or being in
the State of Georgia; and it is
ORDERED, That all officers of this State,
civil and military, exercise due diligence, to
the end that the agent of this State be main
tained in tlio peaceful possession of the said
Alabama and Chattanooga Railroad and its
property within tills State, and restrain ail
parties from any action whatsoever to dispos
sess the State nntil the further order of the
Executive.
Given under my hand and the great seal of
the State, at the Capitol iu Atlanta, this
13tlf day of August, in the year of our Lord
Eighteen Hundred and Seventy-one, and of
tiie Independence of tiie United States of
America the Ninety sixth.
RUFUS B. BULLOCK.
By tiie Governor:
David G, Cotting, Secretary of State
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A Proclamation.
GEORGIA.
lhj n UFUS Ji. Ji ULL O CK y
Governor of said State.
WttKliEAs, It has been represented to me
that Walter Wilson, Joseph Undo, Richard
Lnzenby, and Radford Perkins, stand charged
With the crime of usssanll. with intent to
hiurder, upon Ephriatn Gibbs, in the county
bf McDuffie, on tiie 13th day of May, 1871,
and that they have tied from justice, I have
thought proper therefore to issue this, my
proclamation, hereby offering a reward of
One Thousand Dollars for all, or S3OO each,
for the apprehension and delivery of tiie said
Wilson, Hodo, Lazenby, and Perkins, with
evidence sufficient to convict, to ihe sheriff of
said county and State, and also a further re
waid of five hundred Dollars, upon the same
conditions above recited, foratiy accessory, be
fore the fact, to said crime.
Given under my hmd and the Great, Seal o.
the State, at the ciipitol, in the city o| At
lanta, this oth day of August, in the year of
our Lord Eighteen Hundred end Seventy-
One, and of the Independence of the Uni
ted States of America tiie Ninety-sixth.
RUFUS B. BULLOCK
by ttie Governor :
David G. Cutting, Secretary of State.
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EXEC. DEP T STATE OK GEORGIA,
Ati.anta, Ga., August 1,1871.
Virrsunnt to section Ist of the Tax Act, ap
proved 18th of March, 18f>9, which authorizes
the Governor, with the assistance of the Comp
troller General, to assess and levy such a per
ventage on the taxable property as will pro
duce, in the estimation of the Governor, the
sum of live hundred thousand dollars, exclu
sive of specific taxes, and after approximating
as nearly as practicable the amount in the
value of all taxable property iu the State as
exhibited in the Digests ; it is
ORDERED: That four-tenths of one per
cent, he assessed aud collected upon the
amount of the value of property returned by
each tax payer, subject to taxation ad valorem.
RUFUS B. BULLOCK,
Governor.
Madison Bull, Comptroller Geneial.
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Fruits and Flowers,
Durham, Mountain Leaf
Smoking Tobacco,
For sale-by T. S. POWELL, Trustee,
Cong’ress Water
For sale by T. 8. POWELL, Trustee,
Druggist, Bookseller and Stationer.
Assortment of Slates,
For sale bv T. S. POWELL, trustee.
CUTHBERT fjlg APPEAL.
'‘Charity.”
BY HARSKI.TINE.
As day comes with Bilnshioe to drive off the
gloom,
Which the mantle of night hath spread
o’er the earth,
So charity came, a relief to the doom,
Which threatened the soul, at creation’s
birth.
Charity suffers long, and ever is kind;
It dispeusith joy in the homes of the poor;
It removes the scales from the eyes of the
blind,
And points to sweet rest, on happy Ca.
nann’s shore.
Charity prompted brave Florence Nightin
gale,
To sit at the coiteh of tbe soldier dying,
And listen with sorrow, to the oft told tale,
“Tis for the loved ones at home I am
signing.”
Sweet charity I heaven given emotion,
That leadeth to actions of kindness and
love,
And filleth the soul with heart-felt devotion,
Known only to the omnlcient God above.
Charity I white winged messenger of bliss,
Long may’st thou live, with thy soul
checring power.
To lesson the cares of a cold world like this,
And scatter adversities clouds as they
lower.
[From the Christian Observer.
The Use of Tobacco.
Believing as I ilo, that the follow
ing condensed delineation of the
evils resulting from the use of to
bacco, taken from the laws of life,
might be productive of good, I will
be much obliged if you v ill give it
an insertion in your widely circula
ted paper:
“ This weed is the deadliest poi
son known, which human beings
habitually use. Its effects on the
human system are varied, and dele
terious in proportion to the organs
affected. The derangements which
the habitual use of tobacco produ
ces, are as follows:
1. Headache over the eyes.
2. Nervous headache without
sickness.
3. Nervous headache with sick
ness of the stomach.
4. Deafness.
5. Partial blindness, or amar’uo
sis
6. Running at the eyes.
7. Cancer of the lips.
8. Consumption, . preceded for
years by a cough.
9. Asthma.
10. Dyspepsia.
11. Palpitation of the heart.
12. Paralysis of the upper part
of the body.
13. Neuralgia, especially of the
face, head and neck.
14. Swelling of the gums, and
rotting of the teeth.
15. Enfeeblements of the lym
phatics.
16. Enlargement of the glands of
the face and neck, making the chew
er thick about the cheek and lips.
17. Lethargy.
18. Morbid appetite for spirit
uous liquors.
16. Morbid appetite for food,
especially high-flavored food.
30. Indistinct taste.
21. Indistinct smell.
22. Imperfect sense of touch.
23. Obtuseness of the moral
sense.
24. Uncleanliness of person.
25. Stentorian, or snoring sleep.
26. A sense of deadness and of
great debility, on first waking from
sleep, uu{il one has had a chew or
a smoke.
27. Confirmed and incurable dis
ease, and premature death.”
It would seem that a calm, delib
erate review of the preceding
delineation of the evils resulting
from the, use of tobacco, which
alas ! is but too true, should be suf
ficient to influence every person
who had not formed the habit, nev
er to form it; and also induce all
who have formed the habit, to break
it oft* at once and forever.
For the encouragement of those
who may be disposed to relinquish
the habit, I could give some interest
ing cases of success, and the happy
consequences resulting therefrom.
Mr. A. T. gave up the habit about
twelve months since, after using to
bacco for fifty years, with very de
cided improvement in his health.
Hon. 11. G. J. relinquished the hab
it twenty-six years ago, after in
dulging in the use of the article
forty-three years. In his case the
improvement of his health was so
marked, that in a few months after
giving up the use of tobacco, he
dispensed with spectacles, which
he had been obliged to use for sev
eral years previous to that time,
and he. has not used them since,
now in his eighty-ninth year. The
improvement in his eye-sight being
produced, as he believes, from giv
ing up the use of tobacco. Other
cases equally interesitng in then
character could be given. But let
these suffice for the present. From
a pretty close observation of the in
fluence of this and other injurious
habits, made in the practice of
medicine for thirty six years, I can
safely say that I have known a per
son to give up the habit without
being benefited thereby. In fact,
in many forms of chrouic disease,
especially in persons of highly ner
vous temperament, the relinquish
ment of the habit seems to be al
most a sina qua non condition to
ultimate permnent success.
Most sincerely yours,
S. Alexander, M. D.
Clinton, Hinds Cos., Miss.
CUTHBERT, GEORGIA, FRIDAY, AUGUST 18, 1871.
THE WORLD ON FIRE.
A Million of Dollars or Til Set the
Pacific Ocean in Flames.
The Veracious History
of the ‘Man With a Secret’—
Gregory Summerfield’s Mur
der Attributed to an Extraor
dinary Cause.
In the Sacramento Daily Union
of a recent date appears the extra
ordinary statement of one Leonodis
Parker, written before his death,
and giving what purports to be the
account of his connection with the
murder of Gregory Summerfield.—
The latter individual * had been
known for many years as ‘The Man
With a Secret,’ and he met with a
horrible death at the age of 70
years, by being pushed from the
platform of a train upon the Union
and Pacific Railroad near the North
fork of the American river, at a
place called Cape Horn. The un
fortunate wretch was hurled down
a distance of over 1,000 feet upon
the bristling rocks at the foot of the
declivity. Parker, who was upon
the platform with Summerfield at
the time of the catastrophe, was
twice arrested and tried for the al
leged murder, but was mysteriously
acquitted, once by a justice and the
second time by a grand jury.
Parker was himself a distinguish
ed lawyer of Sacramento, and was
widely respected. He always re
mained silent concerning the cir
cumstances of the imputed crime,
but shortly before his death he
placed in the hands of a friend a
document, the gist of which we
give below, the entire story taking
up nearly a page of the Union.
Referring to Gregory Summer
field, the murdered man, Mr. Park
er speaks of him as having been
one.of the deepest medical students
of the age, a natural mathemati
cian, a profound astronomer and a
man of excellent literary attain
ments. Parker has known Summer
field for over twenty years their ac
quaintance having been formed in
Texas during the days of the re
public. Continuing his account,
says:
“One day towards the close of
last September, an old man rapped
at my office door and on invitation
came in, and advancing, called me
by name. Perceiving that I did
not at first recognize him, he intro
duced himself as Gregory Summer
field. After inviting liim to a seat
I scrutinized his * features more
closely, and soon identified him as
the same person 1 had met 22 years
before, lie was greatly altered in
appearance, but there was the old
charm of intellectual superiority in
his conversation, and I welcomed
him to California as an important
addition to her mental wealth.
“It was not many minutes before
he requested a private interview.
11c followed me into my back ofiice,
carefully closed the door after him
and locked it. We had scarcely
seated ourselves before he inquired
of me ‘if I had noticed any recent
articles in the newspapers respect
ing the art of decomposing water
so as to fit it for use as fuel for or*
dinary purposes?’
‘I replied that I had observed
nothing new on that subject since
the experiments of Agassiz and
professor Henry, and added tbat in
my opinion the expensive mode of
reducing would always pretent its
use.’
Iu a few words he then informed
me that he had made the discovery,
that the art was extremely simple,
and the expense attending the de
composition so slight as to be in
significant.
Presuming that the object of his
visit to me was to procure the nec
essary forms to get out a patent for
the right, I congratulated him up
on his good fortune and was about
to branch forth a description of
some of the great benefits that
must ensue to the community,
when he suddenly and somewhat
uncivilly requested me to ‘be silent,’
and listen to what he had to say.
lie began with some general re
marks about The inequality of for
tune amongst mankind, and in
stanced himself as a striking exam
ple of the fate of those men who,
according to all the rules of right,
ought to be near the top instead of
at the foot of the ladder of for
tune. ‘But,’ said he springing to
his feet with impulsive energy, I
have now the means at my com
mand of rising superior to fate, or
of inflicting incalculable ills upon
the whole human race.
‘Looking at him more closely,' I
thought I could detect in his eye
the gleam of madness; but I re
mained silent and awaited further
developments. But my scrutiny,
stolen as it was, had been detected,
and he replied at once to the ex
pression of my face: ‘No sir, lam
neither drunk nor a maniac; I am
in deep- earnest in all that I say ;
and I am fully prepared, by actual
experiment to demonstrate beyond
all doubt, the truth of all I claim.’
‘For the first time I noticed that
he carried a small portmanteau in
his hand ; this he placed upon the
table, unlocked it, and took out two
or three small Volumes, a pamphlet
or two, a small square, wide mouth'
ed phial, hermetically sealed.
‘I watched him with profound cu
riosity, and took note of his slight
est movements. Having arranged
his books to suit him, and placed
the phial in a conspicuous position,
he drew up his chair closely to my
own, and uttered, in a half hissing
tone:
‘I demand one million dollars for
tbe contents of that bottle; and
you must raise it for me in the city
of San Francisco within one month,
or scenes too terrible even for the
imagination to conceive will surely
be witnessed by every living hu
man being on the face of the globe.’
‘The tone, the manner, and the
absurd •xtravagance of the demand,
excited a faint smile upon my lips,
which he observed, and disdained
to notice.’
‘My mind was fully made up that
I had a maniac to deal with, and
I prepared to act accordingly. But
I ascertained no trace that my in
most thoughts were read by the re
markable man before me, and seem
ed to be anticipated bj him in ad
vance of their expression.’
‘Perhaps/ said I, ‘Mr. Summer
field, you’d oblige me by informing
me fully of the grounds of your
claim and the nature of your dis
covery.”
“That is the object of my visit,”
he renlied. I claim to have discov
ered the key which unlocks the con
stituent gasses of water, and frees
each from the embraceof the other,
at a single touch.”
“You mean'to assert/ I rejoined,
“that you can make water burn it
self up?”
“Nothing more nor less,” he re
sponded, “except this —to insist up
on the consequences of the secret,
if my demand be not at once com
plied with.”
‘Now suppose I fling the contents
of this small phial into the Pacific
Ocean, what would be the result ?
Dare you contemplate it for a mo
ment ? I do not assert that the en
tire surface of the sea would instan
taneously bubble up into insuffera
ble flames; no, but from the nucle
us of a circle, of which this phial
would be the centre, lurid radii of
flames would gradually shoot out
ward, until the blazing circumfer
ence would roll in vast billows of
fire, upon the utmost shores. Not
all the dripping clouds of the ele
ments could extinguish it. Not all
the tears of saints and angels could
for an instant check the progress.—
Onward and onward it would sweep,
with the steady gait of destiny, un
til the elements would melt with
fervent heat, the atmosphere glare
with the ominous conflagration, and
all living creatures, in laud, and
sea, and air perish in one universal
catastrophe.’
“Then suddenly starting to his
feet he drew himself to his full
height, and murmured solemnly.
“I feel like a god ! and recognize
my fellowmen but as pigmies that
I spurn beneath my feet.”
At this Parker states that he at
tempted to reason with Summer
field upon the absurdity of believ
ing that he held in his hands power
so mighty, at which the lattor re
torted with quotations from the
Scriptures, Humboldt’s, Cosmos,
and the works of famous astronom
cal writers, proving that it was
not only possible for entire planates
to be destroyed by fire, but that
such terrible events had actually
often occurred. This answer con
cluded, he handed Parker a small
phial, requesting him to open it and
smell of the contents, the result be
ing that a strong order «f potassium
was observed. At this Sumirlerfield.
continued :
“Os course you are familiar with
the chief characteristic of that sub*
stauce. It ignites instantly when
brought into contact with water. —
Within that little globule of potas
sium I have imbedded a pill of**my
own composition and discovery.—
The moment it is liberated from the
potassium it commences the work
of decomposing the fluid on which
it floats. The potassium at once
ignites the liberated oxygen, and the
conflagration of this mighty globe
is begun.”
“ Yes,” said I, “ begun if you
please, but your little pill soon evap
orates or sinks or melts in the sur
rounding seas, and your conflagra-.
tion ends just where it ‘begun.”
“ But,” sneered he, “ the element
ary substances in that small phial
recreate themselves ; they are self
generating, and when once fairly
uuder way, must necessarily sweep
onward, until the waters* in all the
seas are exhausted.”
“ Rising fro n my seal, I went to
the wash stand in the corner of the
apartment, and drawing a bowl full
of Spring Valley water, I turned to
Summerfieldand remarked, “Words
are empty; theories are ideal; but
facts are thirds.”
“ I take you at your word.” So
saying he approached the bowl,
emptied it of nine-tenths of its con
tents and silently dropped the po
tassium coated pill into the liquid.
The potassium danced around the
edge of the vessel, fuming, hissing
and blazing as it always does, and
seemed on the point of expiring,
when to my astonishment and
alarm, a sharp explosion took place,
and in a second of time the water
was blazing in a red, lurid column
half way to the ceiling.
“ For God sake,” I cried, “ extin
guish the flames, or we shall set the
building on fire.
“ Had I dropped iffe potassium
into the bowl as you prepared it, he
quietiy remarked, “ the building
would indeed have been consumed.”
Lower, and lower, and lower, fell
the flickering flames, paler and
paler grew the blaze, until finally
the fire went out, and I rushed up
to see the combustion. Not a drop
of water remained in the vessel !
Astonished beyond measure at
what I had witnessed, aud terrified
almost to the verge of insanity. I
approached Summerfield and trem
blingly enquired. “T o wh o m
•ir, is this trgmendoits secret
known ?”
“ To myself alone, he responded;
“ and now answer me a question, is
it worth the money?”
It is entirely unnecessary to relate
in detail the subsequent events con
nected with the transaction. Hav
ing fully satisfied myself that Sum
merfield held in his hands the fate
of the whole world with its millious
of human beings, and by experi
ment having tested the combustion
of sea water, with equal facility as
fresh, I next deemed it my duty to
eall the attention of a few of the
principal men in San Francisco to
the extreme importance of Sum
merfield’s discovery.
A leading banker, a bishop, a
chemist, two State University pro
fessors, a physician, a judge, aud
two Protestant divines were selected
by me to witness the experiment
on a large scale. This was done at
a small sand hill lake, near the sea
shore but separated from it by a
ridge of lofty mountains, not more
than ten miles distant from San
Francisco. Every single drop of
water in it was burned up in less
than fifteen minutes. We next did
all we could to pacify Summerfield,
and endeavored to induce him to
lower lys price and bring it within
the bounds of a reasonable possibil
ity. But without avail. He began
to grow urgent in his dernauds.
The sub committee soon com
menced work among the wealthiest
citizens of San Francisco, and by
appealing to the terrors of the few,
and the sympathies of all* succeed
ed in raising one half the amount
in the prescribed period. I shall
never forget the woe begone faces
o f California street during the
month of October. The outside
world and thS newspapers spoke
most learnedly of a money panic-r-a
pressure in business, and the distur
bances in the New York gold room.
But to the initiated there was an
easier solution to the enigma. The
pale spectre of death looked upon
them all, and pointed with his bony
finger to tho tomb of the whole
race, already looming up in the dis
tance before them. Day after day
I could sec dreadful ravages of this
secret horror; doubly terrible, since
they dared not divulge it. Still, do
all that we could, tho money could
not be obtained. The day preced
ing the last one given, Summerfield
was summoned before the commit-
teee, and full information given him
of the affairs. Obdurate, hard, and
cruel he still continued. Finally a
proposition was started that an at
tempt should be made to raise the
other half of the money in the city
of New York. To this proposition
Summerfield ultimately yielded, but
with extreme reluctance. It was
agreed infeommittee that I accom
pany him thither, and take with nie
in my own possession, evidence of
the sums subscribed here, that a
proper appeal should be made to the
leading capitalists, scholars and
clergymen of the metropolis, and
that, when the whole amount was
raised, it should be paid over to
Summerfield and a bond taken from
hitn never to divulge his awful se
cret to any human being.
With this he seemed to be satis
fied, and left to prepare for his go
ing the next morning.
As soon as he left the apartment,
the bishop arose and deprecated the
action that had been taken, and
characterized it as “ childish and
absurd.” He declared that no man
was safe one moment whilst “ that
diabolical wretch ” still lived ; that
the only security for us all was in
his immediate extirpation from the
face of the earth, and that no
amount of money could seal his lips
or close his hands. It would be no
.crime, he said to deprive him of the
means of assassinating the whole
human family, and that as for him
self he was for dooming him to im
mediate death.
With a unanimity that was extra
ordinary the entire committee coin
cided.
A great many plans were pro
posed, discussed and rejected, hav
ing in view the extermination of
Summerfield. In them all there
was the want of that proper caution
which would lull the apprehension
of an enemy ; for should he for an
instant suspect treachery we "knew
his nature well enough to be satis
fied that he would waive all ceremo
nies and put his threat into imme
diate execution.
It was finally resolved that the
trip to New York should not be
abandoned, apparently. But that
we were to start out iu accordance
with the original programme; that
during the journey some proper
means should be resorted to by me
to carry out the final intentions of
the committee, and that whatever I
did would be sanctioned by them
all, and full protection, both in law
aud conscience afforded me in any
stage ot the proceeding.
Nothing was needing but my
own consent. I asked the privi
lege of meditation for an hour, at
the hands of the committee, before
I would render a decision either
way. During that recess the above
argumentation, occupied my
thoughts. The time expired and I
again presented myself before them.
I'did not deem it requisite to state
the grounds of my decision; I
briefly signified my assent and
made instant preparations to carry
the plan into execution.
Having passed on the line of the
Pacific railway more than once, I
was perfectly familiar with all its
windings, gorges and precipices.
I selected Cape Horn as best
adapted to the purpose, and * *
thfipublio knows the rest.
Having been acquitted by two
tribunals’of the law I make this fi
nal appeal to my fellow men
throughout the State, and ask them
confidently not to reverse the judg
ment already pronounced.
About Dust.
Dust is a great enemy to life. It
permeates everything. Tear down
an old chimney or plastering from
a room in your house, and see how
the dust will find its way into every
nook and cranny in your house. It
passes down your throat and lodges
in your lungs. It collects as a sto
ny grit in the lungs of stone cu tters,
while the lungs of colliers havo long
been known to be affected by fine
coal dust. The dust that rises in
the flouring mill collects in the lungs
of the Aiiller, enfeebles them, and
causes his death. A dusty street
is not favorable to health.
Not only is dust permeating the
atmosphere, but the air is full of
the germs of animal life. Conta
gious diseases are supposed to be
caused by germs floating through
the atmosphere, and passing into
the lungs and stomach.
A German chemist has succeeded
in keeping blood fresh for several
weeks simply by keeping it in clean
vessels, free from dirt. A frogs
heart continued to pulsate more
than a week left in the same con
dition.
Prof. Tindal in a recent lecture
argues that the great trouble from in
disposition of wounds to heal arises
from the interposition of dust with
in tho wound, and that the aheesses
produced by vaccination arise from
the same. It is for this reason that
surgeons now make use of cotton
to cover wounds to keep out the
dust and germs.
A dirt}’ carpet is often the cause
of much dust. Hence they should
be carefully and faithfully cleaned.
Neatness in the rooms of our hou
ses always leads to care in other
things. Decayed vegetables in a
cellar aud unclean and neglected
vaults should receive eareful at
tention.
Much attention has of late been
taken by scientific and practical men
to prevent the fatal injuries that of
ten occur to firemen, and an appa
ratus has been constructed to pre
vent such fatal disasters.
A Beautiful Illustration.—
Shortly before the departure of the
lamented Hebrew for India, he
preached a sermon which contain
ed this beautiful sentiment:
“Life bears us on like the stream
of a mighty river. Our boat glides
down the narrow channel, through
the playful murmurings of the lit
tle brook and the winding of its
grassy borders. The trees shed
their blossoms over our heads, the
flowers seem to offer themselves to
the young hands ; wc are happy in
hope, and we grasp eagerly at the
beautiful around us—but the steam
hurries on and still our hands are
empty. Our course in youth and
manhood is along a wider and deep
er flood, amid other objects more
striking and magnificent. We are
animated at the moving pictures,
and enjoyments and industry
around us; we are excited at some
short-lived disappointment. The
stream bears »s on, and our joys
and our griefs are alike behind us
We may be ship-wrecked, but we
Cannot be delayed ; whether rough
qr smooth the river hastens to its
home, till the roar of the ocean is
in our ears, and the tossing of the
waves is beneath our feet, and the
land lessens from our eyes, and the
floods are lifted up aroflnd, and we
take our leave of earth and its in
habitants, until of our future voy
age there is no witness save the In
finite and Eternal.”
To Keep Tomatoes for. W inter
Use. —A correspondent at Webster,
N. Y., sends the Rural New Yoiker
the following : “ As the tomato sea
son is approaching, I can contrib
ute one way of keeping them for
winter use that may be new to some
of your readers. I ate them in
February, sliced and seasoned with
sugar and a little vinegar, that
seemed every way as nice as toma
toes fresh-picked from the vines.—
They were prepared thus: Dissolve
a tea cup of salt in a gallon of wa
ter: Pick ripe tomatoes* but not
over ripe, leaving a little of the stem
on. The tomatoes must be kept
well covered with the brine and
they will keep till spring or long
er.”
Another method, practiced by a
lady correspondent of F. & G., and
very successful, is to peel ripe tom
atoes, slice and put in jars ; sprinkle
salt between the layers aud merely
have the top covered with the brine
formed by the tomatoes. Cover the
jar with paper moistened with
white of egg, and keep in a cool
place.
“ Now, young people,” said a pro
fessor of natural history to his class,
“ now, then, as to hens; a hen has
the capacity of laying just six hun
dred eggs, and no more; and she
finishes the job in just about five
years. Now what *is to be done
with her after that? ” “ Ciit off
her head and sell her for a spring
chicken ! ” exclaimed an urchin
whose father dealt in poultry.
A bachelor says that “ love is a
wretched business, Consisting of a
little sighing, a little crying, a little
dying, and a great deal of lying.”
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Y.ou can’t breakfast off a roll of
the sea any n*ere than you can bo
scolded by the rail of a ship.
A Sensible ResdhA
“ Did you hear, sir, heflt it was
that Edwards, the Mason, gave up
drinking ? ” said a workman to my
father one day, when he was talking
to him about the evils of intemper
ance.
“ No,” said n.v father, “ how was
it ? ”
“ Well, one day Edwards was
driuking in a public house, when
tbe landlord’s wife came to call her
husband to dinner.”
“ What’s for dinner ? ” said the
man..
** Roast goose,” replied his wife.
“ Is there apple sauce ? ” he ask
ed.
“ No.”
“Well go make some; I won’t
eat goose without apple-sauce.”
When the woman had left to pre
pare this delicacy, Edwards was so
impressed by the scene he had wit
nessed, that for the first time in his
life he began to think what a fool
he had been.
“Here’s this man,” said he to
himself, “can’t eat his dinner of
roast beef without apple-sauce,
while tny poor wife and children at
home are glad to get even a herring
for their dinners, und very often
can’t even get that. Whose money
I should like to know, goes to pro
vide this fellow’s good things?
Mine, and that of other poor fools
like me. Well, what’s done can’t
be undone. Jt’s no use crying over
spilt milk, but the fellow shan’t
dine off roast goose at my expense ”
So lie paid his reckoning, and
walked out of the public house nev-
er to enter it again.
The same tiling is going on in
thousands of public houses all over
the country—the landlord and his
wife and children feasting on the
very best of everything, and the
poor tipsy men who pay for it hav
ing scarcely enough to keep them
selves from starving. —Saturday
Evening Post.
A Spanish Atrocity.
A most touching instance of he
roism, and one of the most atro
cious acts of cruelty, the truth of
which is vouched for by the most
respectable authority, occurred dur
ing the Columbian struggle for in
dependence.
The Spanish General, Morillo, the
most blood thirsty and treacherous
tool of the Spanish King, was cre
ated Count of Carthagenia and
Marquis de la Peoria, for services
which rather entitled him to the
butcher or hangman. While seated
in his tent one day, he saw a young
boy before him drowned in tears.
The chief demanded of him for
what purpose he was there.
The child replied that he had
come to beg the life of his father,
then a prisoner in Morillo’s camp;
“ What can you do to save your
father? ’’ asked the General.
“ I can do but lit'-le, but what I
can shall be done;”
Morillo seized the little fellows
ear, and said :
“ Would you suffer your ear to
be taken off to procure your fa
ther’s life ? ”
“ I certainly would,” was the un
daunted replyt
A soldier was accordingly called,
and ordered to cut off the ear with
a single stroke of the knife.
The boy wept; but did not resist
while the barbarous order was exe
cuted.
“ Would you lose your other ear
rather than fail in your purpose ? ”
was the next question.
“ I have suttered much, but for
my father I can suffer still,” was the
answer of the boy.
The other ear was taken off by
piecemeal, without flinching on the
part of the noble boy.
“And now go 1 ” exclaimed Mo
rillo, untouched by his sublime
courage: “The father of such a
son must die ”
In the presence of his agonized
and vainly suffering son, the patriot
father was executed.
Never did a life picture exhibit
such truthful lights and shades in
national character, such deep,
treacherous villainy, such lofty, en
thusiastic heroism.
Socrates says: “He is not only
idle who does nothing, but lie is
idle who might be better employ
ed.”
Prove all things; hold fast to
that which is good. —Paul.
Alger says: “Those who have
not suffered know not what they
have to gain.”
Many a man dreads throwing
away his life at once who shrinks
not from throwing it way piece
meal. . ‘ .
The mind has more room in it
than the most people think, if they
would only furnish the apartments.
Dr. Joonson says the chains ot
habit are generally too small to be
felt till they are too strong to be
broken.”
Luther said: lam more alrald
of my own heart than the Pdpe
and all bis Cardinals. I have with
me the great Pope, self.
Good Time.—The Montgomery
Advertiser says the trains from
West Point to Atlanta now go
through in three hours. The dis
tance is 87 miles. The fastest time
of any road in the South. . This is
fair time—twenty-nine miles an
hour, stoppages included.
fSigr Eloven years ago Francis
Williams peddled books aroqnd
Dubuque with a hand cart. He is
now able to ride in a buggy which
his uncle gave him.
NO. 34
VARIETY;
“Talks from real life”—Chinesb
“queus.”
OtHeLlO was not a lawyer, al-.
though lit was a tawny General of
Venice.
GraviiA if? nd triorc evidence of
wisdom tlidn a baiter collar is of a
shirt.
A GOOD gaiige by which to meas
ure and man’s character is his laif*
guage. *
A had hat takeh to an evening
party frequently comes out as good
as new.
WhkS and person declares that his
brain is on fire, is it etiquette td
blow it out ?
A teoftTEMfioßAß* describes the
political epidemic of the atf
“Ring Worm.”
One ought to have dates at one’s
fingers ends, seeing they grow oti
the palmj
A dandy on shore is disgusting
to many, but a swell of the sets
sickons everybody.
A bad marriage is like an elec
tric machine; it makes you danoe
but you can’t let go.
Why are free sittings in church
very immoral ? Because you are by
them made good for nothing.
Tiie fellow who slept under “the
cover of night,” complains that he'
came very near freezing.
There are two. Classes that catclf
At straws —drowning men and lov
ers of cobblers and juleps.
The light of a match will fright
en a wolf away, it is said. But
love-matches don’t always keep the
wolf away fr'tttft the door/
A man, who was very ill, was ad
vised to send for a physician. But
he said. “No, if I am to die let
me die at my leisure.”
A little girl, delighted 1 at tits’
singing of .a bob o-iinlr, earnestly
asked her mother, “What niakfetf
him sing so sweetly, ma ? Is it be
cause he lives on flowers?”
England imprisons fortune tell
ers, and strange to say those wh<f
claim to see their way into the fu
ture are utterly unable to see their
way out of prison.
Captain JoHn Meiks proposes'
to drtfss the Atlantic on a raft fifteen
feet long and twelve feet wide.
Wilmington has fined a man
for cruelty to animals.
Miss Matilda Hindman made a
speech in Pittsburgh on the 28th’
ult., in which she exhibited a blood
thirstiness equalled only by the
most rampant Radical. She de
clared that if Jeff Davis and Robert
E. Lee had been hanged we would
not hear of any outrages in thtf
South. This country is entirely too
pacific for this lady, and she should
emigrate to Paris and join tbtf
Communists, where the “ Petro
leuse ” exceed all others in cruelty
and vindiotivenesss.
Cut Worms. —lt is very annoy
ing, after haring set out a nice lot
of sweet potato or cabbage plants
to see them cut down, hue by onej
by these worms.
We have tried ashes, lime, soot,
and in fact almost everything wo
have ever heard of, but never found
anything effectual until, by accident
we found three or four of the worms
one morning, ' gathered under a
small board which had been left by
some children on a sweet potato
hill. Acting upon this hint, we'
placed small pieces of boards, large
chips, etc., all through the paten ;
and we trapped them by hundreds.-
The boards must be lifted efltdy in
‘the morning, ami on very warm
days, again about noon. A litttlo
care for a few days, will clear these
pests out of a garden. One trial
w ill satisfy any person of the merits
of this plan.
Signs and Tokens. —The Gridi
ron.—To taken the gridiron from
the nail where it is hanging, with
the left hand, is a sign that there
will be a broil in the kitchen.
The Mirror/—lf a mirror i3 bro
ken, it is a sign that a good-looking
lass will be missed in that house.
A Funeral.—Po meet a funeral
procession is a sign of death.
Pocket Book.—To lose a pocket
book containing greenbacks is un
lucky.
Nails. —If a Woman CfltS he's nails
every Monday it is lucky—for her
husband.
Roosters—ls you hear a rooster
crow when you are in bed, and the
clock strikes a few times at the
instant it is a sign of mo(u)rning.
An itching ear, tickle your nose,
and you will have an itching there;
and ill luck Will be averted.
U3§T > Columbus is pesterod with
two bass ball clubs.
Mrs. Samuel Colt, the widow
of the late Mr. i’ott, of revolver
fame, reports an income for 1850
of four hundred thousand dollars.
BSP Muscogee county adds up
her wealth and finds that it is SB,-
000,000 —being an increase of £“2O0 4
000 oVCr last year.
One street railroad line in
New York—the Third Avenue— ;
has 1,800 horses, 300 passenger
cars, and employs 800 men:
