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Senator Josbph K. Brown it Uthought
on «cqou|it ,of I
We are oppueed to the legblati
meddling with our present coni
tem. It cannot be Improved n]
Democrats should observe Thankagfo
lug day. The south haa muoh-tprjbe
thankhit fori In the defeat of radloajiqn.
We are toM.that senator Ikdarn mal;rt
1700 a day pWm hy aslag outlet labor
in htjmlnF*. Hy^an llTo|Uf **«*>-
ftomt iftMawrvwfc. I ^ ff?
Georgia, we believe, is Ufc.onlyi
in thhUufeinwl:
tvisrk;
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NO. XXVI.
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since his inan-
It MU be an outrage]
lion (f«ut legislature
e<l_^ r t _
i»li up their work and adjourn
-C Gov. Stephens haa gram
about twenty criminals tint* _
gu ration. It won’t take him long to
ilearthe penitentiary at thiarate.
We are happy to Inform the publlo
• that Sc want Mason Is still In .do*
rsuce vile, and that Bill Jones, bis
Imitator. Is likely to keep-him. com-
’ panT- -k i
Tliere will be 401 electoral votes ia
1884, and It wilt require 401 to elect.
Tho Southern States and New York,
New Jersey awl Indiana wW give that
majority. ’
Mr. Stephens haa at last Isaued.hlS
proclamation declaring the election of
congressmen. Mow let those Spcorites
either give up their money or take ont
an Injunction. i .
Every day we read of negro children
tmrnel to death In cabins'and limbs
gnawed up in ootton gins. In both in.
stances criminal carelessness is at the
bottom of the trouble.
Tliere is but little doubt that Mr. Em
ory Speer ia working to get back into
the democratic party. Well, be can take
bis place at the foot in the class and
work his way up again.
What right haa members of the Geor-
gia legislature to charge the state mile
age when they have thslr pockets filled
with iree peases over railroad* f Will
some of them please answer?
It is now proposed to run Hancock
and Stephens as the democratic stand-
ard-lhwrt is In 1884. The fallow that
suggested this ticket must-have snail-
nliitlhig faith in that Atlanta ring.
- We want to see something dong. J>y
the legislature toward reducing taxa
tion.! The people are tired of paying
as much or more to keep up the state
na to run their local government.
Gov. Colquitt has gone into the In-
8uraou« business again, having farm
ed a partnership with John C. nblt-
nor, the well known general agent.
Ho la the "company" of that firm.
During the past twenty-live yean
about flfty-flve thousand wrecks, caa.
uultios and collisions have occurred
on the British coasts, involving the
loss ot nearly twenty thousand lives.
The Macon Telegraph objects to
Georgia accepting Senator Brown’s
gilt to the University. We predict If
that Institution was located in Macon
Col. Lamar would sing another tune.
A bill has been Introduced in the Ala
bama legislature to punish public drunk
enness in the state. We think this a
temperance move In the right direction,
and would like to see the experiment
tried.
We arc getting tired of reading
about hut congressmen "sSrvfnfc fb|lt
- suto'atra-great person*! •settle#:"
Why don't they sing thla tune ' before
their election? and we guarantee that
the people would not require such a
"sacrillce.”
The fale prophet, of which aomuch
has been said and written, has at last
been discovered. He edits a. certain
Speer organ, and kept standing in his
paper a table by which he predicted the
election of "Our Emory" by 6,000 ma
jority.
The cilixeus of Athens would like the
editor of the Atlanta Phonograph to give
them the name of his informant for that
wilful lie he published. That' journal
istic talking maohine has no right to re
peat such slanders without first inform
ing himself as to their truth.
The Georgia legislature now con
templates ognvenlng another consti
tutional convention.- We wish they
would, so as ltoould be made a peni
tentiary oflense fqr a legislator to
move to amend the code, call au ad
journed session or to aooept a free
railroad pus.
There Is a disposition among certain
members of the legislature to abolish
the Agricultural Bureau. If left to
the votes of the farmers this expen
sive nuisance would have been dis
pensed with long ago. It is about as
much use to oar farmers aa news per
per agricultural advice.
It is truly ungrateful for the Speer or-
gaus to accuse Mat Davis of selling out
his friend, when we know to a certainty
that he did more (or "Our Emory” Gian
ail his other supporters combined in
Clarke county. Had Mr. Speer been
successful his "Dear Mat" would have
been a hero; as U Is lie is a traitor and
a thief, but such ia politic*. S
In mllatrictlng the state we kepi thn
legislature won't separate "the sun-
capped summit of Hog-Back mountain"
and "the rippling watate ofTIgar-Tall
creek,” for II “Cair Emory” dees run
agsia for congress they would} thus
ruthlessly destroy om of the most ex
quisitely beautiful passages lu hisstero-
typed oration. < ( J , /] / ,
The Washington Gaxetle says: "In
a bill which lias been Introduced in
the legislature to redlatrict the state,
Wilkes county has been put In • list
wfth Lincoln, Taliaferro, Greene, Put-
nsra, Oconee, Clarke, Jackson, Madi
son, Oglethorpe, Elbert, Hart and
Walton, and the district comprising
the hbove counties is to (is called the
eevehtb. This would thro * -Athena
in the same district with us. The bill
will likely be greatly changed, and
does pass." ’
The following Is the list of the new
Judges-eleet of the several circuits In
the state: Flint circuit, J. D.'Btew
art: Southern circuit, J. H. Mansell;
Augusta circuit, H. <V Roney; Rome
circuit, Joel Branham; Western cir
cuit, N. L. Hutchins; Ocmulgee cir
cuit, T.G. Lawson; Brunswick cir
cuit, M. I* Herebon ; v$l|ddk/e|KaU,
Carswell; Pataulacircuit, J. T.
i circuit, T.J. Simmons;
Southwestern circuit, Allon Fort;
Eastern circuit, A. P. Adams; AJbany
circuit, B. B. Bower; Northeastern cir
cuit, J. B. Estes.
A Had Dkath.—Mrs. E. P. Eber-
hart died - yesterday morning, she
h3
7lta8BSS4Sfisr , '"r
■
haul
wilful deatru
timber by sportsmen. Now we can
butlOok upon this move as a malicious
and premeditated blow aimed at the
inalienable rights of our free Ameri
can citizens of African descent, and
the mover of that law should be burnt
in effigy under every , |«rsimmon tree
In the Palmetto State. A man who
would propose such an enactment
must be some Imported Yankee states
man, of carpet-bag notoriety, for every
Into born southron well knows that a
’possum never climbs anything but a
ion tree, and we don’t «up-
■ou could get a thousand feet of
marketable lumber by sawing upevery
one south of Mason and Dixou’s line.
We never heard of this species of tree
being fit for anything but to grow ’slm-
mons and’possums; for it is a well-
known superstition that to burn one
brings bad luck on the offending fain
tly. Again the average nigger had
much sooner saoriflee one of hie lov
ing children than a good, healthy per
simmon bush. Id fact, this tree
we have always believed to be the
missing link between the darkey and
the vegetable kingdom. He will un
hesitatingly fet! the stateliest giant of
the forest to secure a little five-pound
coon, but the darkey holds the ’slm-
mon tree as too sacred for the touch of
his axe. The luscious ’possum is not
captured in any such way. Sambo
invariably ascends the trunk of the
sappling aud carefully unwinds the
caudal appendage of bis game from a
friendly limb and drops It to the
ground. The tree is in no manner in
jured, but is left to bear auother crop
some future night. No; we will bit
terly oppose any aud all legislation
looking to this trespass upon the
rights of our colored population. We
believe the Lord created the ’possum
especially for the benefit of the nigger,
and the persimmon tree for the ben
efit of the ’possum. If anything would
give just ground for a general exodus
of the darkies it is this ’possum bill,
aud we know of a good many whites
who would follow them. There is no
possible danger of exterminating the
possum tribe, either. You cau clear
our forests of all manner of game, our
Streams of fish and even the air of
birds; but the ’possum remaius with
UB In undlminlshed numbers. In
foot, It is said there are more in the
country now than when the foot of the
first pioneer was planted upon our soil.
So we unequivocally denounce the
bill aud hope there are enough patri
ots in the South Carolina legislature
to kill both it and the fellow who in
troduced such a villainous enaotment.
PETROLEUM.
This is the age of petroleum. Its
use is universal, and not only is it
found in the cabin of the pioneer and
of the poor, in the mansion pf the re-
BfcRTon.t
Mr. T. L. ~
Watchman-:
vnMMtoyawbv
nice suit of clothing,
Srtaia:r
your services re
Speer contest,
district, but many
were here. We sii
lndependentlsm ia
you much sucoei
25,1882.
B.inner-
have for- -
. express a
it to you by
in Elbert,
appreciation of
‘ in iateCandler-
rere not in your
supporters
trust that
Wishing
On tha Brink of & Strn Chasm.
of
display fast night,*’ said the astron
omer to the reporter on Monday,
“pertrapB you would like toTook' at
Ji>r M«.| |
-ill i
■ |«dt
'fill !
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IAO lilJO 10TM3M»Dfl*jn»
| tab toil i»«tl uO
(infill* ni 3"q liiw
|y/ ;»ilmiii 'nil
Ill ssiatu* /tdi.i ililu
■ Jiiw'i♦iqilll IU vjuiblui
.i.-n|jh;kiv>*h »H«l-s-Jmil it if '»l«>
ir»’ai|f]|UAui ->> liiw SKhqvMie
f lM »<) > ,|1W nil :ii-)U vln j
•Hil* .mi itUlsi* .yA«iUAkssnn
too Ail iKtqqus luolJ*).Oiii^fMAk
■ I ttuss had
craz
■ what came 'next. It was
wntdi'idhftihs: The chaiiis I waft to
eell ptany pripe, from «2.W 4o any
thing above that one-wanted to
gitfia tilling? them * tH8 iflfflF’the
more-they paid-the batter itwonld
bo for thorn. I hinted that the
rifcfclfdi ^ouldcome : n«v1,'-Mid this
~ * .en.
i jwe are,
Youra truly,
A
fours tr
Swift Bros,
Monday evening we received the
above letter by mail and a splendid
IMMtWalatMHby express,} presented
by our friends In Elbert, Never was
a gift more highly appreciated, com
ing, aw this did, from friends of our
boyhood—men who have known us
since a youth. Aside from the intrin
sic value of the present, this fact great
ly enhances I he gift In our eyes. While
net a native of Elbert county, we
moved there when a youth aud spent
the happiest part of our life anioug its
generous people, who have ever prov
ed the same warm, noble-hearted
friends that we fl nd them to-day. El
bert is the only’ county in Georgia,
and we believe in the south, that lias
never bowed to the yoke of radical
ism. . When her sister sections were
groaning beneath this despotic tyran
ny she was ruled by men of her own
choioe. No where upon the American
continent do you flftd purer democra
cy than within her border*.. Kfom the
days qf reconstruction up to the pres
ent hour her galiaut people have ac
cepted no party yoke save this. Never
haa any officer but nu acknowledged
democrat represented ha? In either lo
cal affairs or the halls Of-- l*'gillln$tof>.
We mean no dispayngement to othpr
sections when we c|&.im for filbert tie
ohampion democratic county o( G«or-
gla. : 'But while thus faoved sirs has
never for an instant forgotten h*rwin
ter counties and states who
for she has ever
ery aid iu her power to redeem
from radical rule. Wfpjeshe was not
in the ninth district, we have felt that
we bad the sympathy of her people on
our side, and their noble record served
assn incentive to nerve the arm of
the democracy of the ninth to throw
off the yoke of independence.
It is Indeed an honot to be thus re
membered by such a galiaut people.
We aoeept with our warmest thanks
their handsome present, which is
greatly enhanced by the flattering mo
tive that prompted it. We have ever
claimed old Elbert as our home, and
may npr j||fe|haudwrltiMr and drop
from our body if we ever pen a line or
perform an act that will cause our
friends there to blush at the mark of
esteem and confidence they have in
this act shown us.
BOGUS GOVERNOR BULLOCK AND
HfS BOGUS BONDS.
netic storm
“Well, to be more accurate, per
haps I should say that the
Sixty or seventy years ago, my
friends, father was a pioneer in the
the Ohio
sun spots are most numerosa ^j^nd
largest, then auroras and
storms are most frequent ancT most
violent This has been strikingly
exemplified daring the present
year; we have had two or three
magnetic storms, enditnnlleiMiniiiii
ly with each ot tbs atamanminatnfai
of tatrwmBimry
been visible. I caught sight of the
present great spot jnst coming
around the edge of the sun on Nov.
13th, and since then there been
more or less electrio or magnetic
disturbances, culminating in the
marvellous auroral outburst of last
Friday. I think this spot is iden
tical with the one which made ito
appearance during the
of the great comet, but it
great comet, but it has chang
ed greatly in appearance."
4><» im!. ..... ..... -r-T-l.. .
reinu.1-4. ftetfajrt.Brefilfr , .
BufasiMallonq'who retained &
J ' ” since from a trip around
they wo:
ey worked.
or nye years oh
near them v'
on the time c
WesrethatBufis B. Bullock, acres-
flmdMMl wrolthy.o. clviliz-l people, ZjSjUSHSfSmSmSi
batII..aperiarillumln*t|o,qg^illw
have caused even' half' civilised and
barbarous people to adopt it. It is, at
any price asked for it during the past
few years, the cheapest illuminating
fluid known, and its cheapness has
enabled It to drive all others from the
market. During less than a quarter
of a century the annual consumption
of petroleum has increased from a few
hundred barrels to over thirty million
barrels, and it ranks third in value as
an arf'-le of export, bread-stuffs and
ootton alone exceeding it. The pres
ent productive oil field, so far us
know, is confined to eight counties in
Pennsylvania, aud it is said by ex
perts that it is only a question of
few years when these oil fields will be
exhausted. The eight counties of
Pennsylvania embracing the petrole
um territory are Butler, Armstrong,
Clarion, Veuango, Crawford, Forest,
Warren and McKean. The available
territory in the first five has been
practically exhausted, though there
are a few small wells still producing.
McKean is on the decline, and is more
than half exhausted. Warren and
Forest yet contain virgin fields, but
at the present rate of drilling the en
tire territory will be opened up within
three or four years. A good many oil
operators are reported to be oi the
opinion that the present Cherry
Grove development in Warren coun
ty will be the last big field that will
ever be opened up to the drilling pub
lic. Several of the best known civil
engineers of Pennsylvania have de
clared that the petroleum supply of
Pennsylvania Is more than half ex
hausted. There are a few large land
owners, however, who, witli an eye
en it ia visible without a tele*
ipe?”. ’ | v j '
‘Easily. Smoke a piece of win
dow glass to protect the eye, and
you can see the great spot as a con
spicuous block dot on tho sun.” J
“It must be very large.”
“Large! Enormous doesn’t be
gin to express itl Counting the
whole surface covered by the vari
ous nuclei and the penumbrsl net
in which they appear to be entan
gled, it is not lees than 60,000miles
miles long by 40,000 miles wide.
Take all the continents and is
lands of the earth together, add to
them all the oceans, and spread the
whole out flat, and they would not
cover one-twelfth of the area in
cluded in that tremendous conge
ries of son chasmB." • ‘ 5,1 /W -
Let mo see it,” said the report
er. “Don't keep me waiting.*;
The astronomer laughed and
pointed the telescope at the sun.
After the reporter had recovered
somewhat from his astonishment he
began to ask questions.
“So those clearly. shaped black
iota' are holos in the sun are
ey?”
“Yes,” replied the astronomer.
“And what is the shadow veil that
surrounds "
Bun’s surface, but not so deep as the
black holes.”
What are the white
around the spot?”
SkFteWljFMisruFli'Wsjdrity ofthh T gk£.
tors, ami who fled the state like a thief
in the night wlion the democratic party
regained possession of {the government,
is out in acard In tip Allan D> Constitu
tion advocating the re-opening of the
bogus bond quesGsa in Georgia. It will
be remembered that this man Bullock,
while usurping power in Geergla, had
ever ton million dollars of bonds issued
under his administration. They were
fraudulently Issued and the mouey de
rived from their sale stolen by Bullock
and fellow conspirators. The people re
ceived no benefit whatever from their
sale, and after • fair and thorough in
▼rstigalion . the courts and legislature
repudiated them. In order to prevent
the matter ever again being brought up
acliuae was dratfed in the new consti'
tntion forbidding their payment. While
their validity was being inve^tigat
where was ex-Governor Bullock? > Did
he appear togive testimony as to their
solvency? No; he was a fugitive frosi
justice, seeking safety In auother etaie.
If he felt that he was innocent <j£jmy
crime against the State ot Geoi
had in Iris possession evidence t
bonds were legally issued, whj
ha not then come forward'Hke
his trial and tell th
the matte:
his. ' Rufus
, and so by
rerdict ac-
wliat be knew about
did not see fit to do
lock knew that It w{
(or him then to revi
had so lately conspi
a quiet acceptam
knowledge^ tho rl|
But loug afterwar
nesses to his high crimes and mil
meanors had been silenced, and the evi
dence against him destroyed, he again
invades Georgia aud with an audacity
uid not be liealti]
the state 1
I to rob, i
tho
ht pf the deejsie
to the ffiture, have bought large tracts wUliaut , p , ra ]nd takes up a pe^
'Xtr-S *sr - our capital. VVe
- **-"— **~ lims lhat. there was
er tha
_ _ i a prtc
will make It highly profitable for them
to sell. The price of petroleum haa
doubled within a few montba, and if
the preseut rate of advance continues
a very short time will probably see
their reserved territory opened up.
When the petroleum supply of Penn
sylvania has been exhausted, the at
tention of the oil nieu will doubtless
be turned to the uil fields of West Vir-
g lnla, Kentucky, Tennessee and Cali
irtila, but they are thought to be in
significant in comparison with the
petroleum deposits of Pennsylvania.
Its present cheapness is increasing
the consumption enormously, and is
thereby hastening the day when it
will be exhausted.
THE TROUBLED OIL MARKET.
Tbs Puls r»Uow*d Bj Dtasawr asMaStsa Im
to darks, Boys, soS Borraata.
B.W- O
Clarke;
On. City, Not. 24.—This has been a
o 1 unusual excitement In the Oi
Exchange. Contrary to all expectation
at the close of business on Thursday, the
market depreciated yet lower in the
scale, dropping as low as K&c.iu Its rap
id deeconn Tho scene at this point
battled description. Never In the history
of the trade had there been such a Babel
•fcutilusioa and terror. Brokers aud
speculators were fairly tianilysed. and
the market (ell so faai that they could
not get up margins quick enough to
aave themselves. Many men laborers,
mechanics, clerks, boys, and even wo
men aud shop girls, were carrying a
thought at the
something deeper tjhan a love for the
"Sunny South'* that brought this man
again in our midst. Ho 4<tst have
known the repugnance that all honest
people would feel for him, and that he
could not look for congenial companion
ship. His mission bus been at length
demonstrated by that curd. He emues
among us agaiu as tlie agent of the hol
lers of those repudiated bonds, ami
anxious to (aha advantage- oliny change
oi public opinion that nflwht give a loop
by w hich the questiou of tiidr payment
might be reopened. We remember
that about one veer, .a certain paper in
tbia congressional district suggested his
name for Governor again, anu we hon
estly baNtro that ha4_lhgJallow revel v-
Kina, the savings of years, In antieipa
tinn of a rise. All went down before
cyclone of depreciation. Only
y huge failure iaao far reported,
mom
path
one
very huge failure is so far reported, but
at this moment it is impossible to tell the
extent ot the disaster. Men who loatall
left the Exchange wi.h blanched faces,
and several women were seen to leave
the railleries weeping bitterly ever their
misfortune*. Judging from the amount
ot oil told out under the rules, the
wrecks among speculators and brokers
most have been vsw numerous. The
Clearing House is nor yet at this writing
through with the day’s clearances. On
’ the completion of their work the worst
n lo:
newspaper In Geei
with an offer **'
payment of tl
insulting bri*
The people
for Bogus
proves that a
be made to re-open the question,
holders of these bonds
leading
proactive
ocate the
nils, but the
autly refused
on tlie alert,
Biillnck’s car.
less i non
The
will not scruple
to go home-Polly was no where to
be seen- g s
“That’s strange,* said her father.
“She always obeys so welL I don’t
see how sneoonld have strayed off.”
“She wouldn’t have gone home
without telling os,” said her-broth-
“Look! here’s her sun-bonnet
some
where around.”
They looked again in every direc
tion. tailing “Polly! Polly!’ r but all
tn vain. There were no Indians
living near, but wolves and pan
thers were plenty, and only the
winter before the father and son
had killed two bears in an attack
'on the bow house. So they began
to feel seriously alarmed. i
So the brother, looking anxiously
about, espied an odd-looxing heap
of leaves on the farther slope of the
hill, where no wind could possibly
have tossed them. He went to have
a, closer look at it. Carelessly
throwing aside a portion of the
heap, he uncovered, to his joyous
surprise, a bit of Polly’s red frock
“Father, come here," he called,
and in a moment more they had
the child safe and sound, bat fast
asleep in their arms.
“That’s strange,” said her father,
once more. “John, take Polly
home. I’m going to stay here and
find ont what this means. She
never covered herself up this way,
I’m certain. Comeback as quick
aa you can and bring your rifle with
you. Here, hand me mine before
you ga”
So saying he piled the leaves up
neatly onoe more, putting a small
log of wood in the place where the
child had lain. He then crouched
down beside a fallen tree near by
to see what would happen.
He did not have long to wait.
John had scarcely bad time to re
turn, almost out of breath with the
baste he had made, when the soft
.tterof paws was heard on the dry
ves, and they saw tliree gray
ith
rroundsthem?” another slightly in advance leading
‘That is also a depression in the
ridges
parison with the size of which the
size of the Himalayas or Andes are
rows of mere ant-hills.”
What are those white, feathery-
king pointe projecting here and
there over the chasms?”
“Clouds in which iron and other
metals are floating in the form of
metalic vapor. What do you sup
pose yotf could see if you could
stand upon one of those projecting
points suspended over a sun
chasm?”
The reporter couldn't tell.
“Let ns make the abuurd suppo
sition that yonr body would not, in
the millionth part of a second, be
turned into vapor,” said the astron
omer, “and let ns also suppose that
you oould for an instant retain con
scious existence amid the crash and
roar of solar action, where the
noise of the bursting of a world
into fragments would be indistin
guishable from the universal clan
gor, and I will try to give you a no
tion of tthat you would see. Your
barizon, supposing that immediate
ly around yon comparative quiet
could prevail, would bap circle of
fire, heaving, tossing, spurting,
casting up showers of not metallic
spray, while hi
geysers, shot up wnn inconceivable
velocity, would rise a thousand, ten
thousand, twenty thousand miles,
and, condensing, fall back in an
unimaginable blaring rain. The
sides of the chasm over which you
hung, gaping wide euoughr to swal
low this whole earth, would appear
as cataracts of gloving vapors, par
tiallyoondeosedaiidtumbGiigdO'fen-
ard to an awful depth. Some stu
dents of the sun have attempted to
measure, or pjltMr to approximate
ly estimate, the depth of nun spbts,
and - they put itril 8,000 to
6,000 milee.' In the case of so large
a spot as this one we may safely as
sume that its depth is equal to the;
maximum estimate. You would
cyclonic morions in this Bea
of fire producing fearful whirlpools,
and the rushing and clashing of;
vaporized elements, driven by~hu
ricanes that would make playthings
of moon tains. The fiery clond
bridge upon which you stood would
be likely to be shattered to frag
ments at any time. I have seen
such bridges disappear in a few
minntes. Then, if you fell into the
chasm, still assuming that
would not instantly be turned to
TOpoj, yon would, after your tum-
:h a foot oould
al any tnds to carry their point. They
will spend millions, if necessary, iii
bribing the pr.ss and legislators. " Bul
lock is a sentinel un me watch-tower
and lie is kept in Atlanta for no other
purpose tkan to feel
and start the move w
tuinty offers. We d
Georgia legislature
enough, il they wen
face public opinion s
looking to this infi
attempt such a thin|
people rise In thrir
worthy law-givers cri
spiral
found brave
rruptenough, to
naot any bill
nd. Did they
see the
the un-
were the
tors in the Yssoo fraud. Let
us be on our guard, however, and send
none but pare and incorruptible men to
represent ns in the general assembly.
gases, in which, probably, all of the
elements that compose the solid
earth would be represented. Aa
you arnk lower and lower the gases
while yet retaining their other
propemmL' would resist your de-
scent like an ocean oftar t t]ie riSS«t
of the tremeudons temperature and
pressure to which they are subject
ed.”
. "But would I find nothing be-
Aldtti gna ia the sun?” T^poiior
asked.
“Probably not,” the astronomer
replied, “but you must recollect
that this is a matter of theory. As
tronomers are only trying to ac
count far what they seem ways
$hW appeav most consistent and
reasonable. It ia a long step from
the gaseous theory of the sun which
is now widely aooepted, though in
somewhat varied forms, to the the-
theway.
The wolf in front led his com
rades straight to the heap of leaves,
and stretching eagerly, quickly un
buried log. His dis-
i«et ooreiAol—*o~ behold.
He snified, and smelled, and turned
his head this way and that in utter
bewilderment How a dainty little
girl, plnmp and soft, and just suit
ed to the taste of a wolf who enjoys
id dinner, could suddenly turn
a great uneatable log of wood,
was too mnch for him to under
stand. He finally gave the problem
np in despair, and turned to bis
companions, cowering like a beaten
hound.
There were some sharp barks of
disappointment, followed by snarls,
e three guests, who had evi
dently been bidden to a feast which
was not forthcoming, expressed
their indignation at the supposed
hoax.
The other wolf only whined dole
fully, but in vain, for the three fell
upon him, and in less time than it
takes to tell of it, tore him into
)ieces and began to devour him.
Hey did not finish the meal, how*
ever, for the two rifles behind the
log cracked once and again, and all
three wolves lay dead beside the
comrade whom they had punished
110 terribly.
tialieveea.
-.•jri-s-A'.a ;jah a]
:e Egyptians, wiser tban wp in
ng with the Mississippi, never
leveed the Nile. They dug canals,
ope of these, in a former age, when
was the world’s granary,
ing the river with the Bed
Sea. How rich the Nile’s alluvial
valley may be is inferrible from
the fact that each acre pays a tax
of (6. The crop depends so much
on the Nile that one foot difference
in flood-level is worth $10,000,000;
aking a fair average of about
,000 acres, the value of the
maize, wheat, cotton, rice, and oth
er crops may be estimated at $224,-
■ 000. Great efforts have been
le of late to supply artificial
means fur irrigation in dry or de-
ficient seasons, each as steam
ps and water wheels. The
be have a great prejudice
Cgainst windmills, or much more
might be accomplished in this di
ion. The customs revenue of
oountry is small, being about
$5,000,000. The railways and tele-
tphs bring abont $6,250,000.
e Government expenditure u
limited to $17,250,000, any balanoe
‘ ing devoted to the payment of
ibt The tribute to Turkey is
more than 8 per cent, of the gross
revenue.
It ia ncrw stated that the loss by
* overflow of the sugar planta
in Louisiana last Spring was
ly over-estimated. The crop
in Iberia parish will be nearly
double that of last year—say 225,-
000 hogsheads of sugar to
last year’s crop. This year's crop
may reach 250,000 hogsheads.
According to the Census returns of
1880 the number of manufacturing es-
tabllshmeutsln the state was. 3,693,
capital Invested 120,672,410, males em
ployed 18,937, females 3,610, children
and youths 2,310—total amount paid
In teages, $0,252,952; value of mate
rials consumed $24,010,239, and value
of the products $36,447,448. The nUm-
berofs|iecific cotton factories in ttu
state la forty, with a capital of $6,348,
667,198,666 spindles and 4,493 looms,
In which there are employed 0,349 op
erative* and officers. 71,380 bales ol
cotton were consumed In;1880, weigh
ing 88,767.196 pounds, and costing $3,-
601,654. The goods manufactured
veje^O^lOjjJ yards of the value of
:i l ' JULES VERRE; OUTDONE. ^ I
« W<tS&i"*- »I" IS5218SSJ
Ixii TEE dimiWAiY QAiULd |
argKfT jtinmM I mills w tiro
▼as last inferi*
a Standard reporters:
whom bo furnished the foil
synopsis of his voyage: He
Portland May 31, ana sailed from
San Francisco on the steamer QoO-
anic, June 6, arriving at Yokohama
on the 25th. Spent < a few days
there and visited ToBo, the capital
anese empire. From Yo-
ie went to> Shanghai, on 1
*4 the way touching at Kobe and N*-
sasakif. From Shanghai' he went man near -
by way of Hong Kong to Singapore,
to visit which place was the object
of his visit. Finding that he would
the trip home more quickly
: — ahead than by turning
ok passage on a French
steamer from Singapore to Naples.
The steamer caDea Colombo, where
“balmy breezes blow softly o’er
GeyJOn’s fele ? and then at Aden, in
Arabi, then a Snezjmd then through
the Suez canal to Port Said, and
across the Mediterranean to Na
ples. He passed Ismalia the day
the battle was fought near by, but
did not take a hand. He had in
tended to cross Egypt and have a
look at the Pyramids and Spinx,
but Arabi Pasha had all the rolling
stock of the railroad corraled, so he
went straight to Naples, arriving
there August 31st
During the time spent in Italy he
cended Vesuvius, visited Pompeii
and Herculaneum and stayed sev
eral days at Rome. From the Eter
nal City he went to Pisa, as every
body knows, to see the leaning tow
er and after viewing the landscape
from the top of it went to Venice
and Btood upon the Bridge of Sighs
and had a sail in a gondola, then
passed on to Florence and thence
to Milan and over the Alps by the
pass of St Gothord, preferring that
route to going through the tunnel.
He next visited Metz «nii thence to
Paris and on to London. Spent
ten days in this immense. city and
saw as much of it as was possible
in that time. From London to
Liverpool and thence home is an
evety day trip'. The steamer Alas
ka, on which ne took passage from
Liverpool to New York, was not an
every day affair, however, as her
rate of speed was from 425 to 435
miles per,day.
From reading Jules Verne one is
led to believe that it is a great feat
to go round the woald in eighty
days, bat the time, spent by Mr.
Mallory in actual travel was less
than that and he is confident be
can moke the trip in seventy days.
ajuaHije
-<* mhV i (hum TffTTTi niisiii* vuiJri
“Dq you know;’’ saidra jnan.who
n«*i Bettiag* I jewelry»from.: & d y '
—“da bo* .to’a reporter,“that the
ericana are the easiest humbi
r lOfany people inlfraworld?
is true and I have helped to hum-
bag them about as much as tlie av-
erage mu!':- .Somebody..(had. just
been readings*accountcitbeLou-
isriUfe lottery drawing whioh
brought forth this- speech,
i i‘!Can’t youtell us some of youi;
experience in that line?” asked a
■* mniu ri suidjun
Well vou would laugh fa know
what fools people make of them 1
selves sometimes. About two years
ago I was down in Brunswick,
where I saw s fellow running a per
fectly square game, but which waa
the moat out And out ateel lever*
heard of, His .plan was simple and
bw^roi!B,ofthe yeKy hart people in
fie .rented a stee a^eSow
case across the counter in the cen
tre. In the show case ho had, I
know, my hat fu’I of,ten and twenty
dollar gold coins, piled, in a heap in
one corner, and in the other about
the same-size pile of silver dol
lars. A. dice box and six dice com-
S leted his outfit By paying half a
ollar a man had one throw with the
dice. If he threw six sixes he took
the entire pile of gold; if he threw
six aces he was entitled to all the
silver. Of course no one ever
threw all the sixes, neither was it
possible to get the aces to come all
in a bnneh. A man might as well
expect to get struck by. lightning on
from a cloudless sky at noonday as
to throw six aces; it, is almost an
impossibility, that’s all Well, the
fellow made several hundred dol
lars and left”. ,,,
“Did you ever hear of how easy
it is to tool a man with soap?” con-
•tinued the speaker. “We street
men knew that as an old story, of
course. I was down to Troy, Ala.,
several months ago when a fellow
ONE MORE UNFORTUNATE.
A Sad Suicide at the Markham—Wea
ry of Ufa'* Journey—-At Rest. {
(i Atlanta Herald
iturday evening later® -rettier
neat and attractive-looking gentle
man came to the Markham house
to seek lodging. He registered as
D. Stewart, Scooba, Kemper oounty
Mo. Upon inquiry of Mr. Henry
Glover, the courteous night clerk,
if he had any baggage, and reply
ing in the negative, he was informed
that he would have to pay in ad
vance, as was the custom of the
house in every instance. Paying
the amount he was consigned to
room No. 13, bat did not retire a$
the time, appearing to have busi
ness outside. It was at this junc
ture that he probably secured the
means whereby he was to end his
apparently sad and disappointed
lue. At a late hour he returned,
and as nothing was heard from him
during the day suspicions were
aroused as to what had become of
the stranger.
About six o’clock the night watch
man, by means of a step ladder,
procured entrance through the tran
som and found the poor unfortu
nate man dead, relief probably hav
ing come to him at least twelve
hours before it was discovered he
had taken his life.
Coroner Hilbnm was summoned
immediately, and procuring a jury,
an inquest was held developing tna
fact that the deceased came to his
death by an over dose of morphine,
administered with suicidal intent.
In the room on the table were
found three letters, one from his
mother, giving a parent’s tender
and affectionate advice. The other
two, apparently written with delib
eration, one of which was addressed
to Mr. Huff, the proprietor, as fol
lows : *
Dear 8ir—If I should die you will confer a fa
vor by sending proof of my death to my mother
nt Hcnoba, Kemper county. Mo.: and If you will
have me decently buried »be,viUpey nil ex
pense* cheerfully. Direct your letter, with the
proof, Mr*. J. A. Me Cal ebb, Scooba. Kemper
county. Mo. Respectfully. Leon Stewart.
Please forward the pther letters also. L. 8.
The other to liis absent wife, full
of lore and-tender solicitude. in
which he spoke of his best endeav
ors and his futile attempt to get
aiding in life! It appeare that the
party, had beconqq morbid and sad
in conseqnence of not being able to
obtain employment. and had so
worked upon his mind that the only
Way out hia misery'was to end: .hia
life. .noli’. i..i' -
Leon Stewart, as he registered,
was to all intents passive, quiet,
unobtrusive man, courteous in hia
bearing and possessing a fait edu
cation, as his letter gave, evidence
in the general tette/aad tenor^ t/So
extietuar wan he isrihe 4t*dil
itness of things that after having
written his-letters he left fifteen
cento, on the • Mfe to pay for the
postage'brithb same. MOreaH«
m
will be disposed of as was requested
by the deceased.: aomfcnv:!J3H
ahd os soon obi thei chains
sold'Itoekthd ‘jfiffiUff. khd,
of tho crowd, tie4 it
er, and after flunking a
to throw ■ tile bun-
in the crowd for the best'man
to take. While talking-1 purposely
'the bundle into my.iittle
box by my side in which I had the
other handkerchief. i.I* itUs»Was
ten dollars in silver and some pa-
“r to make it stand out and look
;e the one I had: dropped: ■: All
this had been arranged beforehand,
of coarse. With sewoop I swung
the bag arotmd my heed after atoop-
: toipiek it np where I first drop-
itand up it went into the .air.
reat heavens. 1 you should have
seen the .mob ! I never' saw . any
thing like it. They fought likadi-
~ara over then handkerohief^: while
took occasion to: leave fhe spot; I
had also arranged to hrisgilrething
to a climax about the time tbSjAl-
bany train left; so I was driven'nt
once to the depot. I was just $280
ahead. But I got very weak in, the
knees while waiting at the depot* I
was a little too soon and about a
dozen young men ran up . raisinc
the very mischief of a noise, which
I thought was for me and it proved
to be true. They saw me nnd.caoie
around me laughing knocking
each other like crazy mom I didn’t
know what on earth was .the matter
until they finally told me it waa the
best joke that had ever been played
on Brunswick, and, altfiougntney
had been victimized, they wanted
to assure me that it was all right.,
“I had sold the phains to nearly
all the best nw^i ip, —'—'
some of them paying me . as pigp as
five dollars for them. I was satis
fied to leave and had ..my revenge.
Yon may put it down for a fact that
any average American, cro^ pon
be humbugged the same way every
day in the year.**, ‘
LATE NEWS.
transparent soap,
cut it into small pieces about the
size of one’s thumb, wrapped it in
colored tisane paper very neatly,
and then covered the paper with
tin foil, sprinkling the whole with
a bottle of cologne to give it a good
smell. Well, sir, that fellow got on
a box and soon gathered a crowd by
some nice talking, and proposed to
take ont all the grease from hats,
coats, Ac^ that'oould be brought in.
The firat case presented was the city
marshal, who walked up with a
great- spot ou his coat which he
wanted taken out The fellow car
ried a sponge well saturated with
benzine and arnica, which of itself
wiU take out most anything, and by
using a bit of the soap soon the mar-
grease. That started uie feoa]
and in two or three hours, it being
Saturday and a crowd in town, the
soap man had sold $36 worth, near
ly all of which was clear profit"
Stopping to draw a long breath
the jewelry man continued his in
teresting story: “I tell you you can
humbug anybody. I am not unlike
the rest of the world. I believe I
would bite at my own tricks if I
conld only get in the crowd."
While I was at Brunswick, Ga.,
some time ago, I took revenge on
the town by playing what we term
the give away racket.’ It is a
mighty fine thing to play, but very
dangeronB one in some localities. I
had been using a big umbrella,
large enough to cover fifty people,
when one night on the street a crowd
of sailors, lea on by the town boys,
threw rotten eggs at the umbrella
and broke np tne crowd. Then I
resolved on the ‘give away racket’
A fellow has to be mighty careful
abont working it or he will get
caught. It can only be played once
in a town.
“The way to do it is this: Get a
lot of fine gold rings which cost
about a dollar a dozen and pro
pose to be advertising some big
gold concern in New York. I call
ed mine the big brazed gold of San
Francisco, stated that I would show
the crowd a thing or two, and Boon
got them interested. First, I made
a speech in which I stated my bus
iness; then I commenced to offer
the rings at any price from two cents
np, telling them they conld not be
bought for less than four dollars
apiece at a jeweler’s. I let about
twenty rings at abont two cents, and
then asked everybody who had
bought rings to hold them up.
ly every ring was in
r. ‘Now,’ stud .. - . mii, j f
as strops reasoning faculties as an,”
people i
Ret Into a cireusjthat a child wascrush
ed to death.' , |f{ ,;ilrf ?—
A St. Louis man claims to haveun-
dorgone no less than. sixteen attacks
of delirium tremens. . .
The Infant son of King Tbeodareiof
Burraah is rocked to sleep ina . mil-
llob-dollar crad’e.
. There is no small-pox among the
convicts at the Dade coal mines, but
it exists4n that vicinity. '
A fire at Calhoun, Ga., on Saturday
destroyed ten stores, nearly every one
in the place. Loss ubout $20,000. |,«
The liquidation of the City of Glas-
co hank has been finished. AU the
depositors received twenty shillings
on the pound. ^ 1*mof•!•
Reports irotu Alexandria to Oct, 6,
states that the Egyptiau ootton crop
Vineyards pay Just ten times as
much as wheat lands in California. It
is estimated that 6,000,000 gallons of
wine will be made there this year.
Stingy Ole was Shea’s nickname, for
be was a miser, and after he died iu a
miserable cellar at Richland, Minn.,
$9,740 in gold was found hidden In
crackg and holes. ,|,1 " v
The veteran contractor, Colonel Dan
Callahan, is in Cnrtersville, building
a tour mile railroad in Bartow county
to the extensive iron ore beds of Gov.
Joseph E. Brown.
Mr. John P. Fort, of Macon, run
more plows than any other piunter in
Georgia, it is said. During the plow
ing season he keeps one hundred and
fifty going all the time. hna
Two or three months ago the jail at
Fouda. N. Y„ was burned to.,the
ground by a prisoner who set tire to
the celling of his cell, and on Tuesday
night two prisoners burned the jail at
Talbotton, Ga. . ■ --»«I •.. t
Deputy Sheriff Hunt, of Pulaski
county, went out ten miles from Ilaw-
kinsville on Saturday night j$st. and
arrested two negroes for whom he had
warrants, at a night party, and started
with them to HawkinsviUe, when a
gang of negroes surrounded him,
punched him all over with pistols and
a posse ol thirty men for the arrest 'df
the parties. ..ti
A distressing affair occurred recent
ly in Butler coanty. The wife of El] as
Thornton, a colored man living, tberp,
went away from her house one day
last week, and on returning after some
time fonnd the cabin burnt to the
round and the remains of her three
Rle children whom sho had left at
home charred almost beyond recogni
tion. This sad accident seems to hare
been the result of the criminal' care
lessness of the mother. .i< it., ,i* te
Dawsonvllle Monitor: "Dawson
county possesses one of .the greatest
Jiving wonders iu the st:
iu .the south. It is a woman t
eight years old, measuring In
thlrty-foor inches, and weight!
oi
made of paper werecwntqgjnto.i^a
Aopd^maijjr pf uq.,received,,pve news
with, .feelings: akin to disbelief, be
when we are told that by a cbemledl
ipHk^skMtet^’tlre IWtoa
.White, as hard and as dorabteas iypty
we may as well accept the first 4Wd»-
thentic and dismiss' doubts iu regard
to the last.
p: t’ .ftuq •j.LL.iA ;ui i i'A*
Athens gave birth to threw cbH terittJn
i singleyear-^twins and then one. An-
womap gnve birth td four ChBdri"
iti«!j>\ 1-kI .'ll I si
money, is it?’ ‘Yes,’ .said a dozen
‘And you gpve it up (reely fqr' .th^
rings?’. ‘Yes,’ came agnin in cho
rus. ‘Vary, well, i here’s twenty
cents for you, sir, and twenty gents
for you, sir,’ and so on around the!
-.ssi 1 J ' ■ jR A
in til’
drazy ,
things; but I only told them that
I was advertising goods for my
house and had plenty more things
to give away. Nett I'took np some
of my hsndsome dikmdnd stild&t
which I explained were Lake
Georgd diamonds, equal to any on
earth, Ac., and> that x was coiner to
sell 'tB6b ffoih 25 oente mp j 'the
one paid* the better it would
be, of course, for hith.' ‘Tlrejity
studs’ were sold 1AH *th»’ tOM
a^edCh ’made. 1 Tltetf I ’inade 'the
crowd hold up tite'dMftittfidrf, and
efiefr man got fifty cents ‘baek t who
jieMwisciil 1 "* •> ‘ ■" • o«i* v .i i
’ "Th^tidhg bfeghfl to’getre**yin
teresting And the crowd numbered
300 or 400. Then I’got some pold
plated sleeve bnttonk; whioh' lex-
plaihed oould ! not be bought for
Infertlmw fid ^''Iheee 1 I propMed
tobeitfrir 1 fifty cents ’ eaeaV’Kvrian
to hll-whobwightdolhtr.>ad£
Aiottal^ dpdnlteBV 'danhstiaM d—t>
ting the money gifte* The buttons
eddfr< went'<off as did- the otfam
things, uad i *wah 'tOady *forl4lle
final “bite’ at the Ortord. The twen-
beektereatysilrext
iwjMW jram**#'*Md!
by saying m
ay morning wltl
for the arrest 'C
one. an.
ken to:
her name—is no
will talk fluently when tfp£
Miss Reney—Seuey Payne Is
doi ‘ ‘
doubt the smallest
woman in the. state, and would
vastly, to tire Collection of aqy museu
in Americ
A consignment of fifty wometi w'iU
be dlspatehed In a few day* from Bor
deaux to Numea at the expense of the
French Government and on the;dis
tinct understanding that on. reaching
the|r destination they must contract
marriage with'those convicts' wMm
the fecal authorities wish 4>.- reward
(or good conduct fry conferring wives
upon them. It should be; ox plained
> ‘‘‘esc women havanot been nm«-
nto the service. Although old ot
ters, they are going to Vumti of
tttelr'Cwn free wilUo settle down as
i<nwoctahls>coav|cte’ wiv*at> JhwMw
. ■ Curirta SoBArti.—Monday night,
about -nine o’clock, a stt ahge «aaihMk
named NewfenO and Mr. Boh«Chil
ders,- of Athene, got into an altercation
•it Wall *tv«et,'i vMi the -frewl«r
slightly out the latter. Newland was
arrested, but Childers was out. (again
yegteateytid.* 1 ^ >«-ta .< * w*twi anti
■mauri»g411afeea*Bia»W itewwMgi
visited Washington, Wilkea'county,
last Monday, aeverelaasuaities .result
ed from the heavy. weight of H anow
upon the’bbttdlngs dTtiie' eltysl Gen.
IIW
damaged, a portion of the be