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TEOMASVTLLE, GEORGIA. FRIDAY MORNING. DECEMBER G, '.88H
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Around the World.
Miss Nellie Corcoran, better known
bv her pen name of “Nellie Bly, tbc
noted writer of the World newspaper,
has just received one of tbe most
remarkable assignments ever given
by an editor to a member of his re-
porlorial staff. Miss Corcoran has no
less a task to accomplish than 1.0 make
a circuit of the globe in the shortest
space of time possible to human ex
pedition and endurance. h>he has
already left New ^ ork by Steamer
bound for Southampton,. England.
She will endeavor to make her flying
journey around the world in seventy
days—or less, if such an unheard of
feat be at a'l feasible. When it was
made known to tbe public through
the co’umns of the World that Nellie
Bly was to circumnavigate the earth
and beat all previous records of trav
elers who had made the journey in a
limited number of days, the enter
prising publisher of the New T ork
magazine selected from among his
trusted staff of editors, a lady known
for her courage, tact, and ability to
travel rapidly and take care of herseL,
aud at once s-arted her on a similar
nussiou. Both ladies were given by
their respective journals carle blanc to
choose their own routes, and to draw
upon them to an unlimited amount
for the necessary funds required to
meet the expenses of the journey.
The magazine representative whose
name, by the way, is Miss Elizabeth
Bislaud, and Nellie Blv, have thus
become rivals in one of the most novel
undertakings in the history of jour
nalistic enterprise. Both ladies left
New Yo-k on the mornirg of the
14th inst., Miss Bisland going by way
of San Francisco westward and Nellie
Bly as intimated above, going east
ward. A peculiar feature of the
affair is that tbe ocean voyager is.not
awa r c that she lias a rival, and will
not learn tbc fact until lief steamer
touches port in England. The fact
that both travelers are women, and
both experienced writers and inex
perienced travelers, adds an intereet
to the unique contest, apart from tbe
general excitement felt by everyone
in the question of record-breaking
directly involved. The letters which
.will be indited by the two fair globe
trotters I.f.-om tbe various points at
which they must stop—if they stop
anywhere long enough to write at all
—will be read as they appear in their
respective ^periodicals with the great
est avidity, and the result of their
circumnavigations awaited with the
deepest interest and enthusiasm by the
many thousands of their readers.
A Despicable Father.
From the Minneapolis Tribune.
Thero was au educational scene
down at the depot the other day be
tween a man and a boy, but it was
tbe man who needed the education,
not the boy. The boy came there to
meet his father, and failed to bring
some piece of baggage which was ex
pected. “I did just ns you told me
to, papa,’ said the little fellow, who
was a manly little chap. “I told
John to get it and put it in the car
riage, and he didn’t do it.”
“I don’t believe you’re telling me
the truth,” said the father, in aj loud,
bullying tone. “You forgot to say
a word about it, and when I get home
I’ll settle with you.”
“But, father, I did ”
“Hush up,” said the man, sternly,
while the boy’s cheeks flushed and his
eyes filled with tears.
At that moment the man John,who
seemed to he a family factotum, or
coachman, came into the depot, and
the father asked him about the mat
ter.
“Ered is right, sir,” said the man,
candidly; “ho told me about it, but I
had a good bit to do, an’ it slipped my
mind. You can blame me, sir, if it’s
wrong.”
Did the father then turn to his sou
and ask to he excused for doubting
his word and speakiug so harshly?
Not a hit of it. He looked as angry
as if he wished his son had been wrong,
and the passengers waiting there were
sorry for tho future of that hoy.
Newspapers of the United Stales-
The last number of Current litera
ture gives an interesting sketch of the
history of newspapers of the United
S'ate-. Benjamin Harris pub’ished the
first American newspaper, and its ini
tial number was published in Boston,
Sept. 25, 1690. It was almost imme-
diate’y suppressed, because it criticised
the local government. The Boston
News Letter was the first paper that
achieved any considerable existence,
and it did not appear until April 24,
1704.
The Boston Gazette was issued first
on the 21st of December, 1719, and
the American Weekly Mercurie made
its appearance in the same city a day
later.
The fi-st lively venture in American
journalism, was the New England
Courant, published by James, the el
der brother of Benjamin Franklin.
Its first number was issued August 17,
1721.. James Franklin was an ag
gressive fellow and from the start be
gan to publish very plain talk in his
paper. His caustic criticisms on
church and state led to the passing of
a resolution in the Massachusetts
legislature, in 1722, forbidding him to
publish the Courant, or any other pa
per, unless it should be first supervised
by the secretary of foe province. The
paper was 'oned down to suit this
edict for a few mon hs, and then it
appeared with the name of Benjamin
Franklin,a boy of 16, and a compositor
in the office, as editor and proprietor.
The great Franklin did not stay there
long before leaving for Philadelphia.
New York did not have a newspaper
until Oct. 16, 1725, when the New
York Gazette, under the editorship of
William Bradford, appeared. In 1728
Benjamin Franklin established the
Pennsylvania Gazette, and this jrobust
old.papcr lived until 1845, when it was
merged into the North American,
wh'ch still thrives. Under Franklin,
the Gazette was the most famous and
influential paper in America.
The Virginia Gazette was the first
newspaper published in that slate and
was published in Williamsburg by
William Sparks. The Massachusetts
spy began in 1771. Four years later
it was removed to Worcester. It
still lives aud prospers.
The oldest paper south of Virginia
is the Augusta Chronicle, which was
founded in 1785. At the end of the
last century there only 200 newspa
pers in the United States. The
progress of the country is not shown
in anything more strikingly than in
the advance of its journalism. A
newspaper in the United Slates now
that is worthy of the name presents
to its rcade s every morning a record
of the most important transactions in
the civilized world. It is a daily his
tory of the deeds of mankind.
Science, literature, art., commerce,
gossip fill its columns and make it as
indispensable to the average man as
his breakfast, and often more enjoya
ble. In the memory of living men
10,000 copies was considered a big
dirculatiou for a newspaper in the
chief city of America. Now there is
a paper in New York which claims
to issue over 300,000 copies daily.
The newspaper is more than keeping
pace with the march of civilizationr
It is running ahead and is proving a
valuable pioneer.—Telegraph.
Corn and Hogs in Georgia.
Macon Telegraph. j,^
Hon. W. J. Northern, President of
the Georgia State Agricultural Society,
was in Macon yesterday. The day
before he spent in Perry, and there
saw something that was calculated to
gladden the heart of a patriotic Geor
gian. Several Houston county farm
ers came to town with wagon loads of
corn for sale, and in the same county
Mr. Northern says ho saw “fields full
of hogs.’’ These are hopeful signs
indeed. They are visible in many
another county besides Houston—arid
they show that the farmers of Georgia
are becoming independent of the gran
aries of the west. They raised more
cotton last year than they ever raised
before, but along with it they pro
duced a large portion of t heir own
supplies. Never in the history of the
state was there so much corn in Geor
gia cribs, or so much Georgia raised
meat. The farmers of the state will
have to buy less provisions for the
coming year than they ever bought
before. They have more to sell than
they ever had before. It is evident,
therefore, that they are better off. A
remarkable incident occurred in a
South Georgia county a few weeks
ago. A farmer who had hoarded sev
eral hundred dollars in his house was
robbed of the amount. His misfor
tune was noised throughout the vicinity,
and in a short time the farmers of that
county had deposited JSioo,ooo in the
bank. It was money which they had
saved up just as their unfortunate
neighbor had. Not one of them sup
posed that so much money was hoarded
by the farmers of the county until the e
came a prac'ical suggestion that they
should seek a safer place for its depos
it.
The farmers of Georgia haye lifted
and decreased many a mortgage this
fall. They are in better shape than
they have been since the war. They
have a larger surplus on which to be
gin the next year, and an outlook
which in all respects is more cheerful
than that they have faced with such
heroic courage for the past two de
cades.
Pearls of Thought.
Ideas are queer, hut none more so
than true ones.
■ We murmur because we are in
want, and, therefore, want because we
murmur.
The great men of the ancients un
derstood how to reconcile manual
labor with affaire ofstate.
A^charity^requires forgetfulness or
evil deeds so patience requires forget
fulness of evil accidents.
The emptiness of all things, from
politics to pastimes, a-e never so
striking to us as when we fail in
them.
Fnnatieism, to which men are so
much inclined, has always served not
only to render them more brutalized,
but more wicked.
Part with it as with money, spar
ingly ; pay-no moment hut in purchase
of its worth ; and what is its worth ?
Ask death-beds, they can tell.
If there were nothing hut showers,
we would conclude the world would
bo drowned. If nothing hut sunshine,
wo would fear tbe world would he
burned.
The esscnco of true nobility is neg
lect of self. Let the thought of cell
pass in, and tho beauty of greatactiou
is gone like tho bloom from a soiled
flower.
That which is easy to do, though it
may he worth doing, is not so impor
tant as that which is hard a-id disa
greeable, and which therefore finds
fewer workers.
Extinguish vanity in the mind, and
you naturally retrench the little super
fluities of garniture and equipage.
The blossoms will fall off themselves
when the root that nourishes them is
desiroyed.
It is the close observation of little
things which is the secret of success
in business, in art, in science, and in
every pursuit iu life. Human knowl
edge is hut an accumulation of small
facts, made by successive generations
of men, the little bits of knowledge
and experience carefully treasured up
by them growing at length into a
mighty pyramid.
“Been sawing wood?” inquired the
caller.
“Worse than that,” panted the
bank president, wiping the prespira-
tion from his brow and throwing him
self exhausted into a chair. “I have
been talking to a lady depositor.
Whew !”■—Chicago Herald.
The naan who resolves to quit drink
ing, must be in sober earnest.—Picay
une.
Thompson’s Pear Bonanza.
Dawson. Dec. 2.—A few evenings
since, I met Mr. W. W. Thompson,
or Smithville, the largest pear grower
and shipper in the state. As Mr.
Thompson is of a social temperament,
when not preoccupied with his busi
ness interests, it was no hard matter
to beguile him into a chat concerning
pears.
He shipped from his Smithville nurse
ry, the last season, 5,coo bushels of
LeConte and 1,000 bushels of Keiffer
pears. Mr. Thompson ships in crates
and barrels. This summer, however,
lie made an experiment gwhich may
revolutionize the method of shipping
pears in the future. lie shipped two
cars in bulk—sent one to Philadelphia
and one to Chicago- F'tve hundred
bushels were put in each car. Id
packing the car, the floor was covered
with oat straw, and the sides and ends
of the car padded with the same ma
terial by tacking cloth over it. These
cars arrived at their destination in
good condition. Mr. Thompson says
that Philadelphia excels all other cities
in its arrangements for handling fruits
on its arrival,
Mr. Thompson gathers LeConles
intended for shipping before ripe, as
they mellow better in bulk than on the
'rees but he ships them when packed,
as they will not keep over fifteen days.
The Keiffers a^e treated more hu
manely. They are alfowed to remain
on the tree unharmed as long as they
will. It pulled in an early stage they
will never mellow, hut when ripe, take
their, to the fruit house and keep in
bins at least ten or fifeen days. Dur
ing this mellowing process they color
up handsomely and become attractive
and edible.
While speaking of fruit, I will linger
long enough to say that the excellent
crop of this past summer has given an
impetus to fruit growing in this state.
At Winchester, several miles south of
Marshallsville, Col. Hamp Felton will
set out this winter 100 acres in fruit
trees. This large area will be mostly
planter!in the best varieties of peach.
The sma'ler industries are coming to
the front in Georgia.
It is stated, on information that is
alleged to be positive, that congress
man Blount, ol the Macon district, will
be a candidate for governor of Geor
gia next yea'. Col. Blount lias been
frequently asked to run for that office,
hue lie lias not seemed disposed to
relinquish his present very influential
position for an office that, would not
pay as much and that would not in
crease his reputation as a public man,
unless, indeed, he succeeded in step
ping out of it into the United States
Senate. The avowed candidates for
governor may be assured of one thing,
viz., that if Col. Blount concludes to
enter the race against them, lie will do
so with the expectation of being in the
lead on the home stretch.—News.
As to the Decay of Oratory.
Prom the New Orleans Picayune.
As the heroic period of a race is its
emergence from savagery and barba
rism, so the orator's functions ure to
stir people to great deeds, to arouse
them to war and revolution, to de
nounce tyrants, to preach a crusade,
to lead a great religious movement.
But when society reaches the dead
level of stagnation produced by a
great development ot physical comfort
of luxury and riches, there is no
longer place for sentiment or for
oratory- What was the life work of
the world’s orators? Demosthenes
was the denouncer of tyranny, Cicero
lived in the midst of a vast and terrible
civil war, Peter the Hermit shook the
earth with an eloquence that armed
Christendom for the crusades; Patrick
Henry lighted the camp-fires of the
American revolution; Clay, Webster
and Prentiss spent their lives in the
effort to consolidate the foundations of
the new republic, as did their succes-
ors in an effort to destroy those foun
dations, and whose eloquence precipi
tated a terrible and bloody war. No,
the orator can thrive only in turmoil.
We have just re
ceived 12 pieces of
Dress Goods in all
the leading colors.
These^ goods are
36 inches wide,and
we offer them at
the extremely low
price of 25 cts. per
yard. At this low
price we expect to
close them all out
this week.
10 new rolls ol
Carpets, entirely
new patterns, just
received.
Levys
Wills III
Mitchell House Block