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Preparatory to going North for my fall stock, I Will sell, for the next thirty days, my entire stock of summer clothing at ACTUAL COST. This is
a bona fide closing out sale, as the goods must be sold to make room for fall purchases. This sale will be for the Spot Cash only.
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The Morphia Fiend.
Under this very suggestive heading
a writer in the Pall Mall Gazette gives
us i very graphic description of the
morphia habit, which is apparently
growing among the community at an
alarming rate, and causing devasta
tion to body and soul in a degree
which can only be estimated and re
alized by those who have the misfor
tune to witness its effects upon the
unfortunate creatures addicatcd to its
use.
Imagine (says the writer) an instru
ment about the size of a pencil case,
constructed sgmewhat after the model
ol a wasp’# sting, and fitting into a
tiny case which will go with ease in
the muff, the waistcoat pocket, or the
bosom of the dtess. The instrument
itself may be of gold, and the case
may be fashioned like a jeweled scent
bottle or other trinket, and hang sus
pended from a golden chatelaine with
the most innocuous air. This is thq
injector, and a slight punctuation of
the skin with the waspish point is
sufficient to enable the required quan
tity of the magic liquid to be dis
charged into the system. Nor is the
term magic an exaggeration, for not
more magical was the effect produced
by the pills which the travelers swal
lowed in the cave of Monte Crisio
than that which results from the in
jection of morphia. It must be, how
ever, observed here that there arc
three distinct stages of morphia ab
sorption, all ol them brief in duration,
the last one briefest of all.
During the Vest stage the results
are purely pleasurable, they bring a
draught of fresh life into jaded limbs.
The faculties receive a sudden stimu
lus, the callous sense of pleasure is
sensitive oricc more, the vision of the
world cast on the mental eye is drawn
in rosy lines, the whole appreciation
of things earthly is that of one who is
prepared to drain the cup of life to
the bottom and enjoy it to the full
The subject lives in a glamorous
sense of vague happiness, her halt-
closed eyes reveal the state of exqui
site lassitude which laps her limbs, she
feels that her one enemy is exertion,
she is too happy to trouble about any
thing, all that she asks is that her
friends should he happy around her,
even as she is happy. Her hold on
eternity loosens as her desire for it
decreases. “Why take thought for
the morrow ?” would run her new
reading of the text, “Sufficient for the
day is the happiness thereof.”
In time, however, a change comes
o’er the spirit of this rose colored
dream. Its continuity becomes lircK
ken by dreadful intervals of reaction,
during which the victim is oppressed
by all the horrors of intense^ melan
choly and weakness, and from which
relief can only lie obtained by con -
linual repetition of the process of in
jection. The baneful habit acquires
a firmer hold by counter-irritations.
It is so easy to drive away the blue
devils that are making themselves
apparent, to check the reaction which
has begun to set in, to change the
dark shadows which are clouding
over the vision of life into the rainbow
hues ol the morning, to transform the
victim of melancholy, the prospective
suicide, into the laughing child of
pleasure whose creed is that ol the half
pagan l.eo.X., “Let us enjoy what
God have given us. v So easy —but
only by constant use of the fatal drug;
and as the former slight injections
have lost their power, larger doses of
the stimulant must be launched into
the system before the desired effect
can be produced .
The result, however, of the increase
of the quantity injected is to develop
the feeling of lassitude until in time—
such a brief period!—it completely
overpowers the senses, ancj the victim
becomes practically lost to the world.
She lives in a rose-colored world of
her own, in which happiness reigns
supreme and which she would not
leave it shecottld; for her reentry
into the life she-has forsaken can only
be accomplished by passing through
a period of intense mental and bodily
torture. She knows that she is slowly
dying, that she is slipping to extinc
tion in a soulless, mechanical way,
like a clock which inevitably runs
down when its motive power is ex
hausted ; but her appreciation of ab
stract ideas has become blurred; life
has lost its meaning, death its terrors,
better it is, she thinks, so far as she-
compares her condition at all, to fade
slowly and happily out of life without
a thought or a care to checker the
last brief period of existence than to
face the struggle by which alone she
could he saved. Indeed, it. is doubt
ful whether, even if she could he kept
by force from the use of the stimulant,
she would not leel its loss so acutely
that she would die in horrible agonies
almost as quickly.
I!y a curious perversion, therefore,
ol the original object, it has been
reserved for modern science to bring
into existence and use the dream of
the ancient poets —the drug which
conferred happiness uncheckerrd and
unalloyed. Were it possible, however,
to analyze the mental condition of. the
victim during the hours of reaction, it
might be possible to realize also the
.tortures of tlic damned in the mediae
val hell.—Scientific American.
A GREAT RAILWAY BOOM.
A Hot-Headed Editorial.
Ottawa, O.vt., Aug. 2.—The ( it-,
izen, the government organ here,
which hitherto has been silent in re
gard to the Beliri.ig sea question, to
day says editorially: “If the present
government at Washington fails to
bring about serious complications be
tween the imperial government and
the United .States, it will not he he
cause no effort lias been put forth to
produce so undesirable a result. The
truth is, statesmen of the caliber of
Webster and Clay do not reach, ma
turity in the southern portion of this
continent. Peddling politicians, seek
ers of notoriety and professors of brag
and duplicity appear to have monop
olized all the places of importance,
and are now intent upon forcing issues
with a country whose people are rap-
idiy’learning to despise, not fear them.
The recent shameful net of piracy
committed upon a Canadian vessel in
Behring sea is absolutely unjustifiable
and has only one redeeming* feature,
namely, that it will bring the whole
question under consideration, and the
Washington authorities will lie forced
to apologize, as well as to recoup the
owners of the vessels they interfered
with. If this is not done what is left
of Yankee naval effects will probably
disappear from more seas than j
Behring.”
In the Island ol Madagascar the
father of a family looks upon a home
ly daughter as the most valuable of
his assets. The family beauty only
brings suitors who swing on the gate,
consume torches, bribe watch dogs,
and arc as much a nuisance as in Yew
York; hut the ugly one is a treasure.
When the old man is hard up lie tics
a rope around her neck, trots her
down the street, picks an incipient
Gould or Vanderbilt and offers the
girl's hand in marriage. The horrified
dude declines, rind thereupon the
father demands and collect.- the line
of one hundred yams, which the law
exacts in ease of re fund. Finally,
after she has run the guantlet of all
the gilded yoilths, the maiden is
forced upon some poor, hut honest
mechanic of the isle, and her father
rctiies upon his savings, or falls back
upon another daughter, The old
gentleman who makes the laws in
Madagascar understands business.
FairTourist—“Oh, how interesting!
These are real cowboys, aren’t they r
What hardy, rugged creatures they
arc! I suppose their every-day life is
fraught with the greatest danger ?
Guide—“Yes, mum: 'twas only last
week we hyng three of them for horse
stealing."
Torn Wool folk has broken his fast
by eating some syrup. And it made
Quickening in Railway Building Predicted
For Georgia.
Coi.i Mms, Aug. 1.—The Tele
graph's correspondent had an inter
view this morning with Mr. W. 15.
Lowe, who was in the oily from At
lanta, on the railroad outlook gener
ally in Georgia, and for this section
in particular. lie is one of the most
prominent railroad men in the state
and a member of the Chattahoochee
I5riek Company. Mr. Lowe is of the
opinion that considerable improve
ments and extensions of the Georgia
system will take place within the next
two years.
To comitti-i WITH Tilt! CENTRA!.,
The idea of establishing a complete
sys'em of roads in competition with
the Central, by means of conncctin
the present independent lines, is gain
ing ground rapidly among prominent
railroad men and Northern capital
ists. I understand negotiations arc
now being carried or. between citizens
of Columbus and the authorities of
the 'Chattanooga, Home aud Colum
bus road with a view to the extension
of that road to a point on the Georgia
Midland in the neighborhood of
Warm .Springs. It, was the original
intention to build the road to this city,
but the requirements of President
Williamson were not acted upon by
tlio people. The project accordingly
fell through. It is to be hoped, bow
ever, that the efforts of the gcutlcmcn
who are now endeavoring to secure
this important northern outlet for
Columbus will be .successful.
To Bury Jute.
liiYCOL.VTOY, (».\., Aug. 4.—The News
nounces a novel ceremony ahead.
Messrs 1\ 1* Holliday & Co. have on hand
a‘roll of jute hugging which was left over
from last year. They propose to give it to
the fiimolu County Farmer’s 'Alliance and
let them bury it.
It is proposed to have a grand jubilee on
that occasion, and speeches from several
prominent men of the alliance. The speak
ers will be selected and the announcement
made in the future. The place will be at
the court house, and the time late ill August.
The exact date will lie given next week.
A grave will be dug on the square some
where near the courthouse, and a real funer
al. with appropriate ceremonies will be gone
through with. Fall-bearers will be selected
for the occasion, and all who favor the use
of jute bagging are expected to act as
A picnic is to be included in the ceremo
nies, and everybody is invited to attend and
bring a well-filled basket.
The mourners will he few—none
l.iit the monopolists. Bury it d-c-c-p.
“1 scarcely ever look at an electric
light," remarked Judge Payne, of
Atlanta some days ago, “without
thinking of Dr. Alexander Sloans.
All the old citizens remember Dr.
Means. He was an eminent Meth
odist divine aud a member of the fac
ulty of one of the medical colleges
here. During one of Dr. Means’
lectures to the students on electricity
lie produced a hrightspark by uniting
two wires and explained to the class
that that spark would in the near
future not only he used to light cities,
hut would he a motive power all over
the universe, and that was before
Edison was heard of. Dr. Means
made a deep study of electrical sub
jects, and knew what lie was talking
about.”
him sick.
It is said that the peach craze has
-truck noddle Georgia amid-ships.
A well informed gentleman, and a
close observer, who recently travelled
from Atlanta to this place, said, yes
terday : “The indications are that
a million peach trees will be propagat
ed, within the year, between Macon
and Amcricus. And they arc all
going to plant the Liberia, thetainous
Rump peach.”
It is not generally known, perhaps,
that this peach is named after Mr.
Rump’s wife. If every body goes
into the business the big profits will
disappear.
Thomasville merchants will have to
“git” up and “git” this season. A
word to the wise is sufficient.
A Bad State of Affairs.
Hon. John L. Harden, chairman
of the hoard of county commissioners,
urges the appeal for a special term of
the court, atul details more specifical
ly the unsettled condition of affairs in
Liberty county. He .-ays that Bell
came tliere some time ago claiming- to
be “a divine being, leading a vay
many negroes as his followers to the
number of between 200 and .‘100.’’
They have abandoned their crops and
houses and have committed the most
abominable crimes. It is reported
that since Bell lias been sent to the
lunatic asylum they have offered at
least one child in sacrifice, killed one
old woman and dangerously wounded
a colored man. They are said to he
advocates of.free love and hold per
fect orgies of sensuality. 1 lie officers
have arrested and there are now-
lodged in jail sixteen, and warrants
are out for nearly as many more. It
is represented that the county is in a
desperate condition and will suffer
financially unless a special term is
held to reduce the expenses of keeping
so many prisoners in jail for three
months. Mr. .Harden says if this
lawlessness continues there is no tell
ing how it may end, for the deluded
ones declare they are ready and will
ing to commit any crime their leaders
may direct.—News.
The Comet Crop.
There arc now five comets of ll.i#
year’s discovery in the sky under ob
servation, but four of them are tele
scopic. Prof. Barnard, formerly of
Nashville, Tonii,, hilt now of Lick,
who lias especially good eyes for that
kind of investigation, lias discovered
two of these—one on April Id, and
the other on June 23. Prof. W. Bt
Brooks, director at Hobart Smith’s
observatory in Geneva, N. Y., dis
covered one on Jan. 15, and another
on July C. This naked-eye comet,
called Davidson’s, recently discovered
by a Maryland star-gazer, is the fifth.
Besides these, Barnard discovered one
on Sept. 3, 1888, which Swift found
on July 5 as a new comet. This mis
take was caused l)y the fact that the
comet went behind the rays of the
sun in its obital motion about Decem
ber, and reappeared in its rays about
March. Faye’s comet, returned from
its wanderings after many years, was
also nil interesting object la-f winter.
Utilizing Niagara.
Alexandria, Va., Aug. 2.—A
meeting of the directors and stock
holders of the Niagara Hydraulic
Electric Company was held here to
day for the purpose of receiving re
ports in regard to plans for the utili
zation of the water power at Niagara
Falls. It is stated that the company
has secured front the Ontario govern
ment the right to use the water at the
Horse Shoo falls on the Canadian
side’, and that they intend to secuio
their power by tunneling through the
rocks to the lied of the river, thereby
obviating the danger from ice and
wreckage and also leaving undhligiiml
the beauty of the scenery.
The company proposes with the
power secured to furnish light power
and heat to various points within a
radius of forty miles. It also intends
to build electric railways to Buffalo,
Lockport, Clifton, Hamilton and oth
er places. Work, it is said, w ill com
mence this month, and a syndicate of
American and Canadian capitalists
has been formed to furnish the money.
Another meeting of the stockholders
will he held in New York on Tuesday
next.
It. is now thought that Gov. Lowry
will knock Sullivan out, in the mill
on the 12th inst., on the first round.
Bets of two to one arc freely offered
on Lowry. No takers.
Now the salt trust is on hand. If
it undertakes to run up prices, South
Georgia people can do as in war
times and run down to the Gulf
coast and make it for themselves.
We may have an alliance salt ware
house down there.—Camilla Clarion.
Midi;«!
PRICES!
AT-
LEYY’S
Our Mr, Levy is now
in New York making
Fall purchases, and
he has sent us word
to KNOCK DOWN
PRICES on all sum
mer goods, and make
room for our immense
Fall ami-Winter stock
that is coming. So,
from now on., all
Spring and Summer
g o o d s go at old
“Knocked Down
Prices.'’
Remnant table full
of choice bargains
every week.
Levys
IrjMsEoisi
Mildidl House Corner.