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PROFESSION A L C A &&S ~
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ATTORNEYS AT LAW
BAINBRIDGE, GA.
orriCE in the court souse.
March 28. 1871. 44-ly
ft. W. DAVIS,
ATTORNEY AT LAW,
BAINBRIDGE, GA.
mr Oftce over Patterson A MeNalr’s Store.
efISSLEs a. CAMrBELL h. t. braAov.
CAMPBELL & SHARON,
ATTORNEYS AT LAW,
BAIN BRIDGE. GA
All business entrusted to their care, promptly at
tended to.
Ofltee in Court House. [July 13, ly
DrTeTJ MORGAN.
OFFICE on South Broad, over J. W. Dennard*
store. Resi'ieuce on Went Street.
March 80-ly BAINBRIDGE, GA.
MISCELLANEOUS
TH E SHARON HOUSE,
JOHN SHARON, Proprietor
Bainbridge Georgia.
TRANSIENT BOARD $8 PER DAY.
THE travetfng public are hereby notified that
this house has been thoroughly repaired ani
teflted, as well as refurnished throughout, andien
dered one of the most desirable and agreeable
hotels In the State worthy the liberal patron* e it
has heretofore r ceived from the passenger* on the
river and railroad. No pains or expenses will be
spared to make the SHARON HOtISE all that any
one could desire. Call and test its merits.
JjjfTn connection with the Hotel is an elegaiu
SALOON where the finest of liquor# are kept.
C. Hates, . Beh. J. Lester
Richmond, Ya Savannah. Ga
shc firgima WtotowU
Tobacco, Liquor, and
Commission House
Win. C. HAYES & Cos.
141 Bay Street, Savannah. Georgia.
OBTER special and particular inducements to the
merchants and planters of Georgia and b la.
«T Hides, Cotton and general
exchange, and on consiminienL With libe ai aa
ranees, quick sales, and small commission#-**
hope to share a liberal patronage from trade
generally. ______
THE BEST
IS THE CHEAPEST.
Sue fllvertfool &
Fire Insurance Co
s over $20,000,000 in Gold. Over $8 000,000
Pays losses immediately after adjustment.
Ike New York Life Insarasee Corcip’y
Assets $16,000,000.
J. E JOHNSTON St CO , General Agents.
T. B. HUN NEWELL & CO., Agents.
Bainbridge, Ga.
tTijiSSssi ayas
K£C«rSB Facilities
MEINHARD, iiBO& * CO.
Wholesale Dealers iu
BOOTS SHO3KS. HATS,
Beady Made Clothing
CntUfmtn’s |n»aJ*M»9
111 Bouftkicn St.
SAV AN N AH, G BORGIA.
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lllf.lnb.rd, I so*« WHIT*
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Correspondence of the Chicago Times, t
A Palace Car Episode—A ft ride’s
Toilet on the Plain*
• • • When mo>ning came with Wednesday,
w* had left ci behind as. We were
nulling along the Valley of the Matte, and one'l
her side, as far a-i the eye could teach, there ex
tended a grey and melancholly ocean. All that
day we tore along, ourselves the only Human oc
cupants save at the stations, wht-re we stopped a
moment to water, and then tore on again;
On the Wednesday morning I had interrogated
the plains at first dawn, but repelled hr ♦■*»» m “" t
ia< uotony, 1 telT back in my bir t h disappointed.
Sunrise came, and I still lay there dreaming and
waiting, when my fctie&tion was att>amed toward
A stateroom which was just bdtbnd me oh the op
posite side 'llhe door was slightly open, and ac*
cident or the wind had so di .-placed a curtain that
I oould not but ree the whole of the interior
I blush as I write it, but I saw, I dcrfild no*
help seeing, and my sensations were so carious
that I cannot resist a< tempting a description of
BKAttrt' a&d rrs toilst.
It was she—the slender, spirited bride. Ihe
fond husband was lathering himself before the
mirror in the wash-room—and she availed her
self of his absence to resume the proper garni
ture of day.
She sat so that I had a thfee qtiafter view of
her back. She sat on her birth, with her eyes
Bxed on the mirror in »he wall. Her alabaster
shoulders were bare, and a naked foot with rosy
toes peeped out from the mass of white upon
Which she was seated. —Her arms were bare to
the shoulders, save a narrow bridge of white ;
and tht-se white and slender arms went wildeiing
ly around in all kinds of mazy twinings and in
tertwining#, as their fair owner Arranged her
beauteous locks.
Many of thdsd curly nests of attraction which I
noticed upon her head the day befote were taken
from a box, where all the night they had had the
supreme pldturaie of resting by the tfxft of tbeix
ehauning mistress. How those lock# grew from
their nothingness into a iriazy coitfuie tb.U was as
artistio an it was entrancing !
And now the happy corset enclasped the Blen
der waist, and long fingers came fhound behind
and deftly wove up the raveled woof, whose com
pletion was a close and envied embrace. Then a
critical glance into the mirror, as the head turned
from side to hide, and the slender fingers moved
here a curl and there a frizz, whose change made
the tout ensemble the more ooquettish and oharm •
ing
And then the long, shapely hands went down
into the box and fished forth a twin commnatioo
of unknown character. 'lhey were grayish in
color, and looked like an immense pair of goggles,
save that their converse surfaces were accurately
rounded like an exterior of a hemisphere. The
twin combination she placed carefully within her
o<-rset, at the upper edge, in front, and then she
glanced into the mirror and regarded the blissful
twin eoncavo-convexities with approval.
Just here I blushed at discovering what I was
doing, and at once withdrew my eyes. What! gaze
thus upon an innocent, beautiful creature as she
puts on the armor of her charms! Never iVill I
be guilty of a clandestine operation of such a na
ture. And I persistently looked out of the win
dow upoa the sad wastes of the plaids.
Yhe Three Million Bales Humbug
The New Orleans Picayune has been informed
by a gentleman who has jest returned from Sri
extended tour in every Southern State east of the
Mississippi river, that this is one of the worst
years for etton he has ever known. In some
places it is so stunted one must go down on his
knees to pick it. The crop along the Alabama
river—and he has seen the country <>n both sides
—he pronounces miserably poor; and his general
conclusion is that eVvh had their been no floods
tto Worms, nor devastating storms this season, the
cotton would still fall very far below the average
yield. He estimates the coming crop at about 2, -
250,000 bales. The PieayuneV informant is
neither buyer, seller nor planter.
In corroboration of which the Montgomery Ad
vertises of Friday p>ints the following letter writ
ten from New Orleans on the 2* th, by one of the
largest and best known cotton factors in the Uni
ted Mates:
“The worms have commenced work in earnest
on a la'ge majority of the plantations below
Natchez, both on the liter and hills, and a gen
eral destruction erf the crop seems inevitable.
Red River lands appear equally nnfoi tunate W e
have letters from a planter on Red River, some
hundred miles above Alexandria, saying that un
til the last two weeks his crop teas thS best he
ever saw, but now was without a leaf or young
boll to be found. In view of these facts it would
seem impossible for the crop to reach 3,oo‘,<XK>
bales, and msy fall greatly short of that point.
It will be remembered that the bears have all
been swearing that the Red River count.y
■was making an immense crop, which bn eis
effectually pricked as above. The crop every
where seems to have met with disaster. -*av.
News/
There are some newspaper verses begin
ning : ‘Last night I drew from off my
sleeve a little golden hair/ Lucky for you
j our wife didn't find it before you did.
The crime of jerking the hair out of
yotrr wife's head is not so sinful as it for
merly was. It is just as ungentlemanly as
ever, but it dosen't hart as it used to.
Trying to do business without advert
tising is like winking at a girl through
a pair of green goggles. You may know
what yon are doing but nobody etea does.
If yon wish success »« W**» ma^e P erß '
verence yoor bosom friend, experience
your elder brother, and hope your guardi
an genios.
Independent J" ournal — Devoted, to tJa.& Interests or Georgia.
BAINBRIDGE, GA .* TdURSDAH OCTOBER 12, 1871.
idites Tb Kat«f.
, m There's something iu the name of Kata
Winch many will condemn ;
Bat listen no# while I relate
The trait# of some of them.
«|vo JKte, -* ofearraingmiaS;
Could you her hand obtain,
Sfce’ll lead you in the path of bliss.
Nor plead your cattse in vain.
J There’s deli-Rate, a modest dame.
And worthy of your love;
She’d nice add beautiful in frame,
As gentle as a dove,
Commuhi-Satfe’s intelligent,
As we may well suppose ;
Her fruitful nrnd is ever bent
Dn telling what 4he knows.
There’s intri Kate; she's so obscure,
’Tis hard to find her out,
For she is often very tuffi
To put your wits to rout.
PreVari-Kata’s a stubborn mind,
She's sure to have tier way ;
The cavilling contrary jade
Objects to all you Bay.
There’s alter-Kate, a perfect peat,
Much given to dispute,
Her prating tongue can never rest,
You cannot her refute.
There’s dislo-Kate. quite In a fret,
Who fails to gain her pointy
Her case is quite unfctftn&ife,
And sorely out of joint.
Equivo-Kate, no one will wod,
The thing would be absurd ;
She is so faithless And untrne,
i You cannot take her word.
There's vindi-Eate, she’s good and true,
And strives with all her might
Her duty faithfully to' do,
And battles for the right.-
There’4 rusti-Kate, a Eoddtty laid,'
Quite foudof rural scenes;
She likes to ramble in the grass.
And through the evetgreens*
Os atl lire maiden* you can nnd, *-
There's none like edu^Kate,
Because she elevates the mind,
And aims for something great.
Tie English Language.— Mr. James
Brooks writes from abroad : ‘The En
g list) language, I see—is becoming the
Universal language of the educated world.
Twenty or twenty-five years ago, or less,
only French would carry you through the
world ; but now it is impossible to go any
where from the pyramids of Egypt to the
mountains of Japan, that English will
pretty well cany Jrou along. Chinese
house-servants, more or less; speak En
glish—‘pigeon English as it is called—but,
nevertheless, comprehensible English ; and
go where you will, in whatever society,
English seems no# to be the tongue.*
A Saratoga belle is described by Jno.G-
Saxe, in a letter to the Albany Journal, as
a poetical selection :
'Hark to the music of her borrowed tone ;
Observe the blush that purchase makes
her own ;
See the sweet smile that sheds its beam
ing rays ;
False as the bloom where bsr diamonds
blaze.*
Founder in Horses. — The following is a
sure cure for founder in horses j
Take clean ssssafi as bark taken from the
10 »t, tie around the bridal bit as much as
vou could well put in a horse’s mouth, and
put the bridle on in the evening, leaving it
on all night. The result will be an effect
ual curediy two applications, for either
corn or water founder.
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A great increase in the order of Free
Masons has beea shown lately in this coun
try, bv the multiplication of lodges and the
erection of new Masonic tuildings. A
census of the order, just taken, shows that
this increase is a real one. Over 40,000
new members have been initiated during
the past rear, the entire number now
reaching nearly 500,000. The reason of
this prosperity lies probably, as much as
anything else, in the social attractions of
Masonry. The lodge supplies the place of
a club to its members,and the entertain
ment it affords is an acceptable relief to
anv wearied with the care of business. To
this are added the more substantial benefits
of tnatna 1 assistance in distress for which
the order is celebrated, so that the wonder
is rather that it does not increase faster
than it dw*«
A targe number of New York port office
employes were discharged on Saturday, <s
fe alleged, for political reason*-
A Herald Reporter Interviews Gen
Hancock— What He Says About Be
ing g Preridential Candidate.
A Hut aid reporter has recently iuter-
Hancock at Brainard, Min*.
ncßßota*»t which point are located, we
the headquarters of the depart
ment Qef. H i Commands. He has this to
Say of tfve General** persona! appearance,
at
days of 4 84< when active service and daily
firiillferj and iufantiy drills gave ns but
little opportunity to add to our avoirda'
pois. The respite from constant anxiety
and incessant toil iu the tented field has
told with good effect in the person of Gen*,
eral Hancock, and to day he present*
every evidence of sound health and a con
tended spirit. Lliscipliue, 1 bcliete, will
uot allow of discontent, aud soldiers must,
perforce, be contended whether they will
or not. The jaunty goatee and mustache
of olden days—slightly frosted now—still
adoffl that rather heavy face, and he re
mind* one more of the Third Napoleou—
minus the French cunning and dull, treach
erous eye—than any roan of efftiueuCe that
I can call to mind. I judge his ago to be
fifty, possibly fifty two, aud his weight
above two hundred.
Upon the point of being a candidate for
President, he delivered himself as follows :
Reporter—You are, of course, aware
that your name has been freely mentioned
as candidale for the Presidency.
Genera! Hancock—Yes ; lam atire to
what is transpiring around me ; but,• to be
frank; it does nut possess that interest that
people probably suppose. My position in
the army is assured. I can confidently
look to the future, I think, for further hoc*
or*; for it is possible that in the due
course of events my tnru will come. I
have been in the army thirty years, and at
my time of life it is a little late to seek a
new field of action. To be sure I would be
complimented by any evideuce of partiality
on the part us Pennsylvania ; it is my ns*
tive State, and I am triad to be honored at
her Ir&ftffs } ft ITumatter of State pride.
I would deem it a cotupHinet—nothiug
more.
Reporter—Am I wrong, then, iu suppos
ing you have no aspirations with regard to
the Presicleucy f
General Hancock —Well, I think that
there is no man in the couutry to*day that
can afford to ignore such a gift, coming
from the people.
Reporter —You have, I believe, express
ed your political views on different occa
sions ?
General Haucock—Yea, I have j but not
because I had any desire to mingle in pol.
itica or be thought a politician. What
ever views I may have expressed were
my sentiments with regard to the situa>
lion ; I was a war democrat j I am now a
conservative. I was auxious to retain ti e
esteem of the republican*—radical*—but
my course in New Orleans, unfortunately,
made me loose it* I was forced into a po
sition there iu which 1 had to assume a
cotirse of action that was bound to Make
roe sacrifice the esteem of either party. I
did not succeed iu pleasing the radicals.
A novel wedcing took place a few days
ago in a shoe manufactory in Cleveland
Two of the employees were placed cn an
elevator, and wefe married by the Rev* D.
C. Osborne.—This over, a spring was
touched, and the couple ascended to the
fourth story. Returning in a few mo
ments, Mr. Osborne congratulated them
on their happy bridal tonr. Cake was
tbeu served on large sole leather plates.
A householder !n Florida, in filling up
his ceusus schedule, under the beading
'where boro' described one of his children
•s ‘born in the parlor,* and the other 'up
stairs.' A strict return.
Justice* —Our conns, isl these latter
days of Radical moral progress, commit
grater crimes thau they punish. Yes,
courts are venerable institutions, and they
most not be told so. Iniquities and vices
may be punished and corrected like children
white they are little and impotent, but when
greataud grown they become incorrigible
and proof against anthority andJ QS, ' ce ’,
We are led into this train cf thought by
reading in the “Long Pery' some apology
for Judge Watt's light sentence oh the
fellou Stanly. in Jihn.ton dounty. Stanly
we .re teld, ha. robbed (be Untied Stolen
mail on two oSeanbme. He murdered a
m„„ ,n Jol.neton and 8"d to Georgia, where
be re tried and coneieted. and aenteuced to
months imprisonment. Hia great »tr.
is, that he i. a Radical, and that cor
e„ not only a ‘multitude of ain»‘ but as
many b>gb crimen.— Riletge Sentinel.
THINGS WORTH KNOWING.
A Substitute for Mllk or Cream.*—
Beat up the whole of a fresh egg in m ba
sin, and then pour boiling tea over it
gradually, to prevent its curdling. It is
difficult from the taste to distinguish the
Composition from rich ereaih.
Soft Cheese. —Take sulk just *6 it
JMtiWfc* tom Star; Jtaur over Itr «bcu*
one-fourth its bulk of scalding water, beat
ing the milk with a spoon, at the same
time to cause the whey to separate. Then
strain off as much of the liquid as possi
ble, finally washing the curd wiih clean
water. Add a little salt, and you have A
palatable and very nutritious article of
food.
Mock Venison of Corned Beef.— Cut
the beef in thin slices, and freshen by
Soaking for throe or four hours in tepid
water. When sufficiently fresh, lay the
slices on a gridiron, and heat through
quickly. Make a gravy of drawn butter ;
add a little pepper, and the yolh of an egg
chopped fine and pour over the meat; or
butter; pepper, and salt, like beefsteak.
This will be found a savory dish when
only salt meat CAii be procured, but it is
better with fresh beef.
Tare ENdtoH Sleep.—The time ‘sav
ed ' from necessary sleep is infallibly des
tructive of mind, body and estate. Give
yourself, yotir children, your servants, give
all that are under you, the fullest amount
Os sleep they Will take, by compelling them
to go to bed at some regular, early hour,
find to rise in the morning the moment
they wake ; and Vrithin a fortnight, nature
with aliriost the regularity of the rising
sun, will loose the bonds of sleep the mo
ment enough sleep has been secured for
the wants of the system. This is the only
safe and efficient rule ; and as to the ques
tion how much sleep aiiy one requires,
each must be a rule for himself—great na
ture will never fall to write it out to thd
observer under the regulation just given.
* UllajxsiJNu Tmrrtwswrt r> t.
fact illustrating the necessity of cleanli
ness, and of keeping the pores of the skin
open, that if a coat of varnish or other
substance impervious to moisture be ap
plied to the exterior of the body, death
will ensue in about six hours. The exper
iment Was once tried on a child at Flor
ence. On the occasion of Pope Leo the
Tenth’s accession to the Papal chair, it
Was- desired to have a living figure to rep
resent the Golden Age, and so a child was
gilded all over with varnish and gold leaf.
The child died in a few hours. If the fur
of a rabbit or the skin of a pig be covered
with a solution of India rubber In naptha,
the animal ceases to breathe in a couple
of hours.
A Few French chemist as
serts that if tea be ground like coffee be
fore hot water is poured upon it, it will
yield nearly double the amount of its ex
hilerating qualities. Another writer says,
if you put a piece of lump sugar, the size
of a walnut, into, a teapot, you will make
the tea infuse in half the time.
Wire clothes lines are getting to be
used by all persons who have found out
how much superior they are to common
rope. We have had one in use for more
than a year. It is never removed, and if
the supporting posts are firm there is no
sagging. Os course, it must be galvanized
wire, about the thickness of that used for
telegraphs/
Borax is said to be superior to every
thing else forexterminating the cockroach.
The smell or touch of borax, it is said, is
certain death to them.
To color a floor—to a strong lye of wood
ashes, add enough copperas for the re
quired oak shade/ Put this on with a
mop, and varnish afterwards.
The French have discovered that the
white of an egg, given in sweetened water,
is a sure cure for croup. The remedy is
to be repeated until a cure is effected.
Grease can be removed as follows i Put
on powder of French chalk, and place a
piece of blotting paper over it: then pass
a hot iron over the blotting paper. The
heat liquifies the grease, the chalk absorbs
H, and the excess of grease is absorbed by.
the Hotting paper.
Corn-starch makes the best paste for
scrap-books. Dissolve a small quantity-ia.
cold water, then cook it thoroughly. Be
careful and not get it too thick. When
cold it should be thiri enough to apply
with a brush. It will not mould nor stain
the paper. It is the kind used by photo
graphists on ‘gem’ pictures. ,
GENERAL KfiWa
There were five doatiu frcha yellow fe
nr ia Qurlwtoa yesterday. •>,< ?
The boiler of fee Westboro, Mass./
:■{ cheese factory exploded Nobody wifl
hurt. «
The Danish hhhttf of Finance propcM
see io meet a deficit by raising a loan and
increasing the income tadb
TMlargew»c«a*rngf* Wi*?. Render*
son, near Philadelphia, Win burned last
evening. Loss Heady;
Judge McKcnny of Dayton, Ohio, grant*
ed the convicted murderer, Tho&as Mo-
Gehan, a neW trial on the ground Os the
ground of the incompetency of one juror.
A fire at Houston, Texas, yesterday, on
the corner Os Gratis and Preston art*., de
stroyed six stores and one dwelling houses
Twenty-three thousand 'persona visited
the Cincinnati Industrial Exposition on
Saturday, making 122/000 during the
week.
Most of the business houses were insured*
All the persons injured by the fire in
San Fransisco on Saturday 1 bight are do- 1
ing woll.
Phillip Wilkes, keeper of a lager beef
saloon, stabbed and killed Randolph Win
terer in a saloon in New York. Wilkerf
fcaS been atrestedi
flic increase Os Otcfland freights will
stop the shipment of large quantities o t
grapes from California arranged for in the
early part of the season.-
A girl named Weaver, aged about four
years,Twas burned to death recently at
Reading by the explosion of a coal oil
lamp which she accidentally upset On thO
floor,.
The people of Monticcllo, Arkansas, ard
greatly excited ofer a report of the die*
covery of a gold iriine four ifiiles from that
town. Two similar reports com® front
Dallas, Polk county.
■ .. I ■')! '♦♦■'■■'■■l* '» '< >■«
> Ho# KtJOBNia Loons akp bow Sin Data**
BE3 ix Exils.—-Casell’a Magazine, last
issne, contains an article written by a lady
who baa recently fliakad and ecmverge and
WIITI
As to bow she looks and dresses in exile
the writer says}
Sho looks what. Teonfsntii calls *dfw
vinely fair/ bnt as one who han suffered
much. Thpro was a worn, weary loofc
inexpressibly pathetic in her eyes just
touched or**r the lower lids with blacky her
cheeks were thin and very pale, her fair
hair simply arranged low on the neck be—»
hind, drawn back at tho aides, and with
curls on the forehead, and it was her
own hair—distinctly atld palbaly her own.
Her dress was of black paramatta, self*-
trimmed, with a small tunic, and g gener
al look of scantiness about it. She word
a little white shirt collar and cuffs, and
not a single jewel/Save one diamond star
that held the little collar. Her manner
suits her imperial presence—simple, cour*»
teous, earnest. His as of a leady-witted
woman, Sweet tempered,full of human in*
tcrests and feelings, impressionable, mo*
bile, fascinating \ emphasizing all abe says
with her grandly cat Bpanieb eyes* that
might almost iudeed slaud her in lieu of
speech, so eloquently do they converse.
American Womdeis.—The greatest river
in the known woild is the Mississippi*
4,000 miles long.
The greatest efty park In the world is in
Philadelphia. It contains over two tfaoth
sand acres.
The best specimen of Grecian archie
tecta re in the world .is the Gifsrd College
Philadelphia.
The greateat cave in the world id th«
mamotb Cate of Kentucky, where one caw
make a voyage on a subterranean river,
and catch fish without syes.
The largest valley In the world is the
Valley of the Missieeippl* It contains
five hundred thousand square miles md iW
one of the most fertile regions on tbs
globe.
The largest lake Id the World, Lake Su
perior, which is trnly an islaud sea, being
four hondred and thirty miles bog a«d ons
thousand feet deep. : *■>•>
The greatest fttttfral bridge in the world
Is the natural bridge over Cedsr creek in
Viginia. It extends oter a chasm eighty
feet in width and fifty in depth, and at the
botom of which the creek flows*
The greatest cataraot is the world is the
falls of Niagara, where the water* ffom the
groat oper lakes form a river three forth*
of a mile in width, and taen being, ends
denly contracted, plunges over the foCktf
in columns to the depth of feet*
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