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Newspaper Page Texteekty Democrat. ■MM wtSm ISSF.U-i Editor ««t«i Prop’r CR ,n^NE 8.1882 r ijSUP - S 0 USCkTFtkJF] hH $2 00 ■" 1 00 76 Bainbridge Democrat. ■tbs py ••• blv in aJtancc. .10 BY BEN. E. RUSSELL. BAINBRIDGE, GA, THURSDAY, JUNE 8, 1882. } YOL. 11.—NO. 34. busing rates and rules. . e , s inserted at $2 per square sertion, sad $1 for each subse- ' eiebt solid lines of this type, nns ma le with contract adrerti- otices of eight lines are *15 per r #>0 per annum. Local notices n three months are subject to ^advertisers who desire their ad- .changed, must give us two ^advertisements, unless Other- Rated in contract, will be changed ts per square. - ,, ,n l obituary notices, tributesof nd other kindred notices, charged drertisenunts. isements most take the run or the do not contract to keep them rticular place. ■cements for candidates are $10, if ne insertion. c d«e upon the appearance of the merit, and the money will be col- needed by the proprietoi, * 11 adhere strictly to the aboverules, depart from them under no circum- T ESS <{• PROFESSIONAL. mTharrell, 0 r n e y At Law Bainbridok, Georgia, jo found at McGill # office. ^ll entrusted to his care will receive attention. Collections a specialty. 1882—6m. • - medicalcarb. -. M . J. N i c h h I s * o n , emoved to Twillglj*. Myif^coun A BASHFUL, nA.Tti DI- LEnnA. Rnsblag Bridewi Into a Roomful of inlds Bereft of His Breeches. rgm. Office J. S. MEDOL^W tfJb’s {eb.9,’82. E. J . dorian removed his office to the drug store, y occupied by Dr, Harrell. Resi n West street, south of Shotwell, calls at night will reach him. CHARLES C. BUSH, torn ey at Law COLQUITT, GA. pt attention given to all business cn- i me, dentistry: Curry, D.D. S be fouud daily at his office on South street, up stairs, in E. Johnson’s g, where he is ready to attend to the of the public at reasonable rates. dec-5-78 M. O’NEAI. McGILL & O’NEAL, orneys at Law BAINBRIDGE, GA. • office will be found over the post of* , PONALSON, BYRON B. BOWER BOWER & D0NALS0N. neys and Counsellers at Law i in the court house. Will practice -atur and adjoining counties, and i by special contract. a-26 7 CT O R M. L. B ATT L E Dentist. over Hinds Store, West side house. Has fine dental engine, and sve everything to make his office 'lass. Terms cash. Office hours 9 to 4 p. m. J*n. I3tf JEFF D. TALBERTT torney at Law, Bainbridge. Georgia, ill practice in all the court s, and busi- intrusted to his carq will be promptly Jed to. Office over store of M. E. ett <fc Son. feb.23,'82. DR. L. H. PEACOCK, ‘t fully tenders his professional serv- the people of Bainbridge and vicini- flice over store of J. D. Harrell & Bro dence on West eud of Broughton ;t. where he can be found at nigbt. 6.1881— RG1A. Miller ‘‘loanty : I whom it may concern : T. F. Jones ng made application to have the Clerk perior Court of said county appointed inisfrator of the estate of A. J. Miller, is therefore to cite all persons concern- i show cause if any they can within ihe allowed by law, why said application d not be granted. This April 19,1882, WM. GRIMES, Ordinary. MACON imm era ■ special instruction in bookkeeping, anship, business arithmetic, corres- ence, bill heading, telegraphy aud ’nil business routine. HcKAY, - - PRNICIPAL. °r terms, information'as to boardiDg a l i ply to the principal. P. O. box Maeon, Georgia. TKWILECKir -AT THE OLD- arfteld Store. -A NEW SUPPLY OF- ceries and Grain, Hardware & Wagon erial, Paints, Oil and Putty, Agent for Sashes and Blinds. Nashville Bannner. Seuator Sebastian, of Arkansas, was a native of Hickman county, Tennessee. On one occasion a member of Con gress was lamenting his bashfulness aud awkwardness. ‘Why/ said the Senator from Rackentack, ‘you don’t know what bashfulness is. Let me tell you a story, and when I am through I will stand the bob if you don’t agree that you never knew anything about bash- fulness and its baneful effeects. I was the most bashful boy west of the Alle- jhanies; I wouldn’t look at a girl, much Less speak to a maiden, but for all that, I fell deply in love with a sweet, beautiful neighbor girl. It was a'desirable match on both sides, and the old folks saw the drift and fixed it up. I thought I shoud die just think ing of it. 1 was a gawky,- awkred country lout, about nineteen years old. She was an intelligent, refined and fairly well educated girl in a country ay«(1kt ff^timp when the* girls had su perior advantages, and were therefore 'superior in cplture to the boys. I fixed the day as far off as I could have it p8t'off. v I‘lay'ai*ake in a cold per spiration as the time drew near and shivered i^ith agony as I thought of the terrible ordeal. The dreadful day came; 1 went through with the programme somehow in a dazed confused, mechanical sort of way. The guests one by one departed, and my hair began to stand on end. Beyond the awful curtain of Isis lay the terrible unknown. My blood grew cold and boiled by turns. I was in a fever and then an ague, pale and flush ed by turns- I felt like fleeing to the woods, spending the night in the barn, leaving for the west never to re turn. I was deeply devoted to Sallie. I loved her harder than a mule can kick, but that dreadful ordeal I could not, I dared not stand it. Fiually the last guest was gone, the bride retired, the family gone to bed, and I was left alone, horror of horrors, alone with the old man. ‘John,’ 6aid he, ‘you can take that candle, you will find your room just over this. Good-night John, and may the Lord have mercy on your soul,’ and with a mischievous twinkle of his fine grey eye the old man left the room. I mentally said ‘Amen to his ‘Heaven htlp yon,’ *Dd, when ] heard him close a distant door, stag gered to my feet and seized the farth ing dip with a nervous grasp. I stood for Rome minutes contemplating my terrible fate, and the inevitable and speedv doom about to overwhelm me l knew it could not be avoided, and yet I hesitated to meet my fate like a man. I stood so loDg that three love letters had grown on the tallow dip aod a winding sheet was decorating the side of the brass candle stick. A happy thought struck me. I basti ly climbed the stair, marked the posi lion of the landing and the door of the bridal chamber. I would have died before I would have disrobed in that holy chamber where waited me a trembling and beautiful girl, a blush* ing maiden, ‘clothed upon’ with ber own beauty and modesty, and her snowy robe de nuil. I would make the usual preparations without, blow out the light, open the door and friendly night would shield my shrinking modesty and bashfulness, and grateful darkness at least mitigate ihe horror of the situa tion. It was soon done, preparations for retiring were few and simple in their character in Hickman, altogether consisting of disrobing, and owing to scarcity of cloth in these days a naan was somewhere near the Adamic state wben prepared to woo sweet sleep. The dreadful hour had come ; I was ready. I blew out the light, grasped the door knob with a deathly grip and nervous clutch; one moment and it would be over. One moment and it wasn’t over by a d—n sight. I leaped within, and there around a glowing hickory fire, with candles brightly burning on the mantle and bureau was the blushing bride surrounded by the six lovely bridesmaids. What word in the English language pos sesses the greatest number of one parti cular latter? Possesses. A Model Marriage Letter. Tie following letter was written years ago by a lady of great literary distinct ion, to her cousin of New York, on the eve of his marriage, and accompanied by a pair of bine mixed stockings knit by herself as a present .*— Dear Cousin :—Herewith yon will re receive a present of pair of woolen stock- ing->, knit by my own hands, and* be assured that my friendship for yon is as war mas the material, active as the finger work, and generous as the dona tion. But I consider this present as pecu liarly apprepriate on the occasion of yonr marriage. You will remark in the first place that there are two individuals united in a pair, who are to walk side by side, guard against coldness, and giving comfort as long as they last. The thread of their texture is mixed and so also! is the thread of life. In these, however, the white predcmi- nates, expressing by desire and confi dence that thus it will be with the color of your existeutence. No black is used, for I believe your lives will be wholly free from the black passions of wrath and jealousy. The darkest color here is bine, which is excellent where we do not make it too blue. Other appropriate thoughts rise to my mind in regarding these stockings. The most indifferent sub jects when viewed by the mind in asuit* able frame, may furnish instructive in ferences ; as saith the poet: “The iron does, the fuel and tongs, The bellows that have leathern lungs, The firewood, ashes and the smoke, Do all to righteousness provoke.” But to the subject. You will per ceive the tops of these stockings (by which I suppose courtship to be repre sented) are seamed, and by means of seeming are drawn into a snarl; but afterwards comes a time when the whole is made plain, and continues so to the end and final toeing off. By this I wish to take occasion to congratulate you that you are now through with seeming and have come to the plain re ality. Again, as the whole of these comely stockings was not made at once, but by the addition of one little stitch after another, put in with skill and discre tion, until the whole presents the fair, equal pieces of work which you see, so life does not consist of one great action, but millions of little ones combined ; and so may it be with you—no stitch dropped when duties are to be perform- nied; no widening made when bad principles are to bo reproved or ceremony td be preserved—neither seaming or narowing, where truth and generosity are in question. Thus every stitch made right and set in the right place, none either too large or too small, too tight or too loose ; thus may your smooth and even coarse, making exLt* enc» fair and consistent piece, until to gether, having passed the heel, you come to the toe of life, and here in the final narrowing off and dropping the stitch of this emblematic pair of com panions, and comforting associates, nothing appears bat white, the token of innocence, purity, peace uDd light. May you, like these stockings, (the final stitch bciDg dropped, and the work being completed), go together from the place where yon were framed to a happier state of existence, a present from earth to Heaven. Hoping that these stockings and ad- monitious may meet a cordial reception, I remain in the trae-blue friendship, seemingly, yet without seeming. Yours, From Tip to Toe. The Cat Oat of Ihe Wallet. Jeff long, in his opening address to the colored political canenss at Macoo, let the cat out of the wallet, so far as the real object of the convention and the expectations of the Georgia Independents are concerned when he gave utterance to the following, which we extract from his speech as published in the Telegraph : l ‘A question prominent before ns on this occasion will be toe consideration of the claims of prospective independ ents to onr favor and suffrages. We will be advised that the independent movement now being organized differs materially from anything heretofore existing under that name; that its claims to our carefol consideration rest mainly upon the favor it has receiv ed at the hands of no less a personage than cur worthy pres dent, and that its principal aim ii to disenthrall the voters of this Stats and the South gen erally.” Letter From Miller Coaaty. Colquitt, Ga., May 30,1882. Editor Democrat :—Miller aud Deca tur lying contiguous, their interests are almost identical. Yonr city, Bainbridge, is the principal market for the sale of our cotton and other produce, and from whence our farmers get most of their supplies. The Dkmockat, published in our district, is the chief exponent of the principles of govern ment ad coca ted by our j*eople since the war. Hence I infer that a short letter from this section, weekly, giving the local news, crop prospects, political complexion of the county, etc., would not be uninteresting to the readers of The Democrat. The short dry Bpell has enabled our farmers to thoroughly clean their crops. Y'or the last few days the rain has fallen in copious showers over all this section. Nearly the entire oat crop is saved. A large area was planted, and the yields un precedented. The corn crop 13 the finest ever known in this section. The growth ot cotton was somewhat retarded by the last cold snap but , is improving and the prospect is good. The crops near Col quitt I hardly think can be beaten in the state. I have a fortyracre field in corn that good judges say will make 25 bushels per acre. In fact the crops are fine all over the county. Your merchants may look oat for a good supply of cotton and a fine trade from Miller this fall. We have had no disease among our hogs this year and should they continue to do well will be able to sell your merchants bacon in stead of buying. The political atmosphere is heating, little Alic I think stands in the van for Governor. We have four candidates for the Legislature; each expecting to be elected by a large majority. They are clever gentlemen and either will make a good worthy member. The candidates for county officers are numerous, and others are nosing around for a place to crawl in at. Our town is improving. Several have had their store houses aud dwellings re- modled and painted. We have a large Academy in course of construction, nearly fiuished. The Methodist Church here recently built, is a large bouse, nicely fin ished aud supplied with a good organ, and with the aid of that amiable and acorn plished lady, Mrs. Fudge, assisted occa sionally by another of Miller’s fairest daughters. Miss Dora Loving, our Sabbath school is furnished with delightful music. Uato. A Common Mistake. “I take your paper.” Jess so. But that does not entitle you to half a column of free advertising, nor an equal share in all our belongings. You take your own paper, not oors, if you pay for it; and you take it for your own benefit, and generally without the slightest idea that your pat ronage is of any advantage to us. We print newspapers as a business transac tion, and yon buy them because you need them. There is no debt of obligation in curred on either side. If you like the pa per and think you can afford to take it, you will continue to take it; and if we can afford it we will continue to furnish it, But when you then, or fancy you think, you have auy claim on us other than fair tieatment because of these business rela tions, you entirely mistake the plan of journalism, this is addressed to no es pecial person but, is given as a sort of gen eral reproof for what seems to be*a preva lent notion among no inconsiderable class who imagine that because they take the paper that they, therefore have a mortgage on the office and its editor.—Exchange. Jnst in ‘Time. It was also an Ohio man who, when a terrible storm set in one nigbt, rushed into the house of a neighbor and cried out: “Jone9, this is the ending up of the earth I” “I’m afraid so—I’m afraid so!” was the reply. “And what shall we do 7”' “Make our peace with Heaven I” The wind blew still stronger, the house began to shake, and the excited man ex claimed : “JoDes, you lost five bushels of wheat last fall T “Y C8.” “And you have your suspicions 7” “I have. The man who took my wheat had better own up.” “Can you forgive him7” “I can.” “Wei!—” Here tbe wind suddenly dropped, and after a look tbroogh the window the con science stricken man turned and finished ‘•Yes, if I ever meet him 111 advise him to call around.” We publish the following item for the benefit of tbe girls. Cat it out and parte it on tbe disb-pao: To wash dishes nicely fill your disb-pau full of hot water, and add a half a cup of milk. It softens the hard est water, gives the dish a dear, bright look, preserves the hand from chapping, which comes from using soap. It cleans the greasiest dishes without leaving the water covered with scum. Georgia Saake*. Detroit Free Press. We were sitting on the poet-offoe steps at Ringold Georgia when Judge Hallam winked me around the corner and whispered: “The old chap on that cracker-box is Colonel Slasher, the biggest liar in the State of Georgia. Ask him for a snake story/ I slid back, looking innocent and unconcerned, and at the first opportu nity 1 inquired : ‘Colonel, are there any moccasin snakes in this State V ‘Billions of ’em/ he replied. ‘Well, I reckon ! Yam I Don’t talk to me about big snakes 1’ Colonel, how long a snake did yon ever see. He rolled his quid over and over and got both hands over his left knee be fore replying ; ‘I’m afraid you would- not believe me/ ‘Yes, I—that is—yes, I would/ ‘You know that snakes grow mighty fast down here V Of course/ And that onr swamps offer them a secure retreat V “Certainly/ “I wouldn’t have you doubt my word,’ he remarked after a pause as he squinted his left eye at a spotted dog across the streets. ‘How could I colonel V H6 rose up slowly, stepped down over the sand and paced off about forty feet, going over the ground twice and count ing his steps When he had returned and taken his seat I asked ; Do yon mean to tell me, colonel, that yon have seen a snake forty feet long V ‘Oh, no, no 1’ he quickly replied. ‘I was simply pacing off to see if there was room to plant six hitching posts in there. The longest snake I ever saw measured exacty ten inches by the rule, and he had been dead three days to boot r The Farmer Army. Just at this time, says an exchange, the farmers all over the land are busy and astir. Think of it! During the car* rent year in the United States as many as 120,000,000 acres will be under grain! so many acres to be plowed, to be harrowed, to be sowed and planted, aod cultivated and reaped. How vast the army of our American farmers; and no stading army either. Does the heart almost grow sick at the thought of such an amount of plcddirg, plodding, plod ding. toil, toil, toil, involved in all this? But think too, how all this measureless labor is by no means a prosaic affair; it is capable of being cheered by all the hope tbit comes of nature’s annual pro phecy, and all the subtle gladness that springs from the felt poetry of the earth and sky and the advancing ever chang ing seasons. A North Carollaa Yarn. A colored woman in Cape Fear Tow- ship, having business in town on the day in question, left her five children at home. A rain coming on dating the afternoon, they all went into tbe house, spread a blankett upon the floor and all turned in, covered themselves up and went to sleep. In the meantime the tornado came, sent the body of the house whirling through tbe air, and left nothing but the floor to show that on the spot there once stood a dwelling. Some of the neighbors, know ing that the mother was absent from home, went to look after the children as soon as tbe hurricane bad subsided, and found them on their lodging still fast asleep. Dr. Cary Cox has a gold mine in Chero kee county. The otherdsy the hands were sinking a shaft, and when six feet below the surface'they came upon two pieces of marble hewn into the shape and size of the hitman bead. Tbe work bad evidently been done with good tools, and while not entir ely finished, showed that it was a skillful artist who bandied the chiseL The beads were found under six feet of clay, which to all appearance bod sever been disturbed; and lay direetly upon a bed of slate. Near the mine is a bed of marble such as the beads are hewn from Tbe question is who made the beads, aad how did they get se der six feet of clay7 They are now in the bands of Mr. Wm. M. Bofford, the’saperin- tendent of the mines. Tbe Czar never receives anybody after 1 o’clock. The remainder of the day he spends in the palace sob-cellar, locknd in a Marvingosvski fire proof safe clad in his cast iron ulster. He received Lieutenant Danenhower at two. however, on that gentleman making an affidavit that he wasn’t a nihilist, and could not play on the cornet. A DeadTarlcey Gobbler. "Oath. n There sire decided indications' that Ros- coe Cockling is passing not only ioto ob scurity, bat into dislike by the v’fcry men he has always been relyiog on to carry orit his purposes. I met an intimate friend of Governor Cornell to-day, who had just come from Albany, and asked him if there was any relation whatever between Cornell and Cockling. He replied: “None What ever rycra may rely upon that* And from my observation of the Governor’s charact er and temper, I do ndt think be wants any more to do with Mr. Conkliog.” It is noticeable here that Mr. Conklfng is hardly ever seen in the company of a strong character. He was standing up in the Fifth Avenue.Hotel a nigbt or two ago with a man who has been investigated by the House of Reoresentatives for under taking to strike for money when the Rus sian government sold us Alaska, aud was only saved from being shown up by the committee by Mr. Conkling himself going over to the House and asking as a personal favor that he be not molested. This man is in the lobby, and occupies a sinister and darksome . position at Washington : yet he is more with Mr. Conkling than any other man. Pensacola Advance-Gazette.] The railroad would have got no steel; there would have beec no n ilroad; Pensa cola would have been, until now, the mori bund sleepy hollow of twelve years ago, if tha marplots and imbeciles conld have stop ped the march of events by howling ’’Mono poly 1” Howling is cheap—it is natural; let the bowlers, therefore, howl! Did you ever see a (Simon-pure reform* er7—If yea, please state on your oath how many political parties this said reform er had belonged to previous to his reform ation. Is he yel alive 7—If yea, please state whether or not he is in the lnnatic asylum, and if not why not 7 If he is dead state if a post-mortem examination was held, and if not why not 7 Did he ever hold office 7 If yea, why 7—Florida Flap- jack. Those newspapers that are booming their section are making a sad mistake Pensa cola newspapers attempted this a year or two ago, and they nearly ruined the town so that within sixteen months more brick and wooden-houses hare been built, more capital has been invested, and more people have come here and gone into business than in any other two towns in the btate. Let the press take warning by onr fate and boom away. A committee apointed by the Legisla ture of Alabama to investigate and report upon certain charges of malfeasance in office against ex-Treasurer (and now Gov ernor Thomas J. Churchill, of that State whereby*he wft alleged to have defrauded thq State, have made their report, and find him indebted to the State in tbe sum of over $114,000. This verdict has great ly elated the Radical press, which is revel ing in such expressions as “the dishonor of a Sontbern Democratic Governor,” etc. These delighted patriots Bhonld not per mit themselves to go off in a transport of ec static delirium, however, Governor Church ill is not accused of stealing, only of mis management, and they should remember that whatever his offense it was invest igated and exposed by a Democratic Legia, latere. When carpetbagism reveled in plunder and robbery in that State the Radicals there and in the country gen erally, patted them on tbe back and did everything possible to shield and encour age them in their thieveries. Remem. brance ot this should tend to moderate the transports of onr Radical contemporaries Fogg says that he does not mind giving a half dollar to the thirsty wayfaring man who stops him on the street; but Fogg is always in a burry, aud it dries up all the milk of bumau kindness in bis sympathetic breast to have a fellow stand athwart his way with that everlasting formula. “I beg pardon, sir; I hope yoa will excuse me for stopping yoa in the street, sir; coaid yoa wait one moment, sir; 1*8 detain yon but a moment, sir.” and fa forth and so on, Fogg says if the fellow would only blurt out, “Give us a dime,” or something else eqnalloy as brief and equally to the point, he wouldn’t care. Of courso, be says, he shouldn’t give the money, but it would save him a great deal of vexation, and save time to both himself aod the way faring man. A Philadelphia girl was so thoughtless as to tell a friend that at her wedding the names of tbe donors would net be display ed With tbe presents. Of course the friend told. Her Wedding came off tbe other day, and the presents were not displayed either. They consisted of 721 plated sugar spoons and 1,380 salt eellere. A noted physician says the most prolific cause of woman’s nerroos diseases, hyster ics, spinal disease and sick headache, is high heeled boots. When he can persuade his patients to cease wearing them, they are patients no longer. WIT A2U» HUMOR* Perpetual shaking is what keeps up the price of quinine. Brio* of the Bible had his Ruth, bat modern bores are ruthless. Calling lot a division of the hbufle— Filing a petition for divorce. The first comer in Corn was when Jo seph a toted all the gain in Egypt. Society people, not engaged, repair to rammer resorts hi order to ife-e6rt. A famous race fiora6 & Earned little BroVru Jug. He is always full of spirit. Men Who join clubs find the does to pay there, and the dence to pay at home.' If yon wish to know the Climate of any high mountain, why go to it and climb it. What’s in a name? That which we Cauliflower by anf other Canoe ^ould taste is good: Traveling in Russia must HJri frying to’ one not verst in the measures of distance in that Country.’ The saddest consequences df a great man’s death are the vetsCe that are written to his memory: He said her hair Was dyed, arid when 1 She indignantly exclaimed, ‘TiS false 1‘ hS said he presumed so. Even the most ambitious of then are willing to' take second rather than first place in an affair of honor. What does the corner of a card turned down mean? Menus that the other fel low’s cheating. Watch him ! We knoW a few army officers who wilt never be whipped out of their boots. P. S/ •They always wear shoes. The bald-headed man’s idea of heaven is a place where bnrlesqtfe opera perform ances will go Off Filhofft end. Fashion at a' piCnih demands that a girf ehall get Wet sooner than hoist an umbrella 1 that doeri not match ber suit. Thera never was a law In New England forbidding a man kiss his wife on Sunday.’ It probably never was needed. A boy who was kept after school for bad orthography excursed h'maelf to his' parents by sayirig he Was spellbound. Ralph Waldo Emerson Amassed a for- tuhe of over $200,000. He didn’t make- money as fast as Billy Emerson, but he saved more. ‘You don’t seem to relish wit this morn ing,’ said a would-be wag to Foote. ‘You haven’t tried me yet,’ Was the cruel reply: The old proverb, ‘the better the day the better the deed,’ doesu’t apply to an in strument conveying real estate drawn up on Suuday. Young man, don’t triarry a gilded butter-' fly. Marry a good-looking girl. The but ter will fly fast enough when you get to house-keeping, ‘What is tbe national fishery question 7’ pompously exclaimed an orator; and e~ squeaking voice in tbe audience responded,' “It is, have you got a bite 7” ‘What is yonr income ?’ was once askedi a noted Parisian Bohemian. ‘It is hard 1 to tell,’ was the reply* ‘but in good years I can borrow at least 10,000 francs. Said a prudent friend: Why, three dollars fer a carriage is extravagance. Go' in a horse-car or take a herdic. And th<r extravagant man replied r I Can’t. Youf see the lady I’m going to take isn’t my wife. Sitting Ball is credited with remarking in a thoughtful manner s What a pity it, is that oar forefathers, the Doble sons of the forest, foile i to pass an anti European' biH early in the seventeenth century. A correspondent wants to know why a yonng widow is more fascinating than af young girl. We don’t know much abont tbe subject, bnt should suppose that it iff because tbe widow appreciates the value of time, A pretty girl u sweeden turned np her nose at her poor bat deserving lover, and it froze in that poetkm. Now she doesn’t' know whether to retire from tbe world or hire ont to stand in somebody’s hall for el hat raek. A gentleman giving a lecture to some boys was explaining how no one coaid live without air. He then eaid, ‘yon have heard of % man drowning; how does that happen?’ The ready answer was,‘cause be ean’tswim.’ A Unman Babe Clot’aed III aff Elephant’* Skin, Montezuma Weekly We have been to the borne of a color ed mother on one of onr back streetff and found a remarkable monstrosity iff a week old babe. It is partly envelop-' ed in an elephant’s skin, and conld not be told from tbe hide of the animal unlesff seen on the child. It has a thick, rough, scaly exterior, covered with jnst enough long hair to easily disera it. The ehild has a long pendant ear' on that side of tbe bead covered by thiff skin, we view it as a fac simile of the ear of a baby elephant. The skin pro trudes a quarter of an inch above the natural skin of the child. Itff cries are low and plaintive like aq ani- ma), not a human being. The mother states Chat she attended a circus last iUl, was frightened by the elephants^ alnd regards this as tbe' cause of the child's strange deforminty. This child,- or snanrel aw it may turn out to be, iff large and healty and seems likely tff live. What a curiosity it would bfe if it should live. One of our citizeus hatf offered the mother a thousand dollars' for it. It is daily visited by hundreds' of people.-

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The Bainbridge democrat. (Bainbridge, Ga.) 18??-????, June 08, 1882, Image 1