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Newspaper Page TextUNIVERSITY OF GEORGIA UBRMtg *j: TV •W-A-TS3te.I u !r A3ST, pnoPRiEToa r p»r Inch for lbs Urn In.crtlon, and •i lor rob .1 Idllional insertion. OONTRACf RATES: u*r$cr v-uiun i.l, volumir >u« Chanin.. ANCE Ao-ur!-.. .7*., Ueo. lu, 1881. j UuMuiCiuiiUK Smijijr, 11 fa* llio fnUwir* -' "* 1 ** 1 ^— PnaaeiuerSchedule-will oppertte as thi* road: . ' *■ i 1'niT.k.u i.8o - ...... ■ iiniinnnii o upnifiv*ii ATHENS, GEORGIA:, TUESDAY MORNING. FEBRUARY 14. 1882, Number 15 .editorial motes. Snow it eighteen indies deep in Boston. '1 shall have a glorious flight to Dealer, in F.vtry Description at Building Mat&ial Onitean. Belknap,Gram’s secretary of war, is practicing law in Washington. Gov. St. John, of Kansas, may fc'ad a national prohibition ticket in 1884.- The next senatorial contest will bo between B. H. Hill and W. H. Fel ton, if both are. alive. ■ Two white women eloped from Whenever a paper starts to be funny, Jt gets so utterly excruciating,, ly fanny that there is no enduring it. A San Francisco club declares for Thurman in 1884. It is well to be prompt. The old man may not last till that time. • The veterans of the war ot 1812, are comine to liie by scores. The emdl of a pension brings one or two out from under every bush. I 1 Learn; VllUUi. . ..1 9J0 aW 7 too p u*vi lViuurvi))e.,......lo.OBA *.7«pnr la ave Uumcton .7........10.50 A ■ 8 15pm Dave Antioch 11.17 AM 8 44 pm Leave M uxcva 11.14 a m 8 58 p m Leave W oodvilln 18.10 am 8 40pn. Arrive Union Point .8.8" am low ptn Arrive Atlanta 5.45 r u'. 5 00. m Artive at Wn«lungtoii,.....2 55 r m Arfive at-Milleef^evHle.... 4.49 r u Arrive Mais-n... ti.45 r m Arrive An.’ust* 4 OS r m S 80 a ni Leave Ani u-ta IoSOam 5 80 pm Leave Macon....-., 7 10 a M jj Leave lU|lm!gevillo..i' 9.05 am i Leave Waeui0|!tSu.. M ....ll.so am. Leave Atlanta.. 8.80 am 8 So p ni Leave Union Point 18 39 r a 5 00 u in Arruo Woodville 8.10pm 5 80a in Arrive Ma\c>» 8.48 pm 5 50am Arrive Antioch S.iO pm illia Arrive Lexington ..S.Sopm 8 40 am Arrive Wiuurville 4.14 pm 7 84am Arrive Athene .....450 pm 8 00 a m Train, run daily K. R. DOBSEY.Hcn., Paaa., Agt. JOHN W. GREEN. General Manacer. Northeastern Railroad, StmifflWMNti OrrioK, I Allien*, (la., Sept. 19, 1481. { On and after Momlay, December 19th, 1881, train* <»n t.»i* road will follow*: Leave Athena Arrive at Lula Arrive ut Atlanta.... NO. L • •?:0o a in I 9:15 a m 12:80 p in j no. sir NO. 8. 8:00 p in 6:80 p m liCuft a m NO. 4. 2:45 p m •>;40 p iu 8:00 p m lrcave Atlanta 7:00 a m Arrive at Lula 10:03 a in Arrive at Athena.........12:40 pm Trams uaily except Sunday . All train* connect cloafdv at Lula with pas- acntfvr trains both east and west on Richmond Danville Railroad. Cioae connection made at Atlanta both west and southwest. K1 rutnt car* and quiok transit on all train*. Ticket* on sale ut Athena to »U point*. U.K. BERNARD. Snp’t. .HOUSTON, Gen. l*as». and Ticket Afcenf* W.4 Clarkesville Schedule. Train* Leave Clarke*vilio at 8:00a. m. Train* Arrive at K G. J auction 8i46 a. m. Conneetinff with A. L. train for Athena, At lanta and all point* noUlu Train* Leave R..G. Junction at.... 11:15 a. in. Train* Arrive at Clarkeavilla at.... IStfti m. . Connecting with tram* from Athena, Atlanta, and all ixtMiU north. Daily, .Vnnduv*excepted, IL K. BhRNAitf). Snpt. V>\ J. HOUSTON, G. P. A. Richmond & Danville R.R. PASSENGER DEPARTMENT. On and after Nov/iOth, 1881, Passenger Train Service on the Atlanta and Charlotte Air-Liue di vision of this road will be a* follows: Past Bar Express Mail ~ “ |No.&3. Kastwahd. No.,53. No. 61. Leave Atlanta..}.. 8:15 p u Ar (sainnvilto J- 6:81 p m *• locro«.«., 7:26 p. " Seneca^.... “ " Green v f le.. ’• Spartsn-’g... " OsMonia .... •' Charlotte.... Lv. r »:30 a. in A r7:42 a. m 8:10 a. na 10:47 a. m 12.15 p. m 1:88 p. ni 4:04 p. u> 1 5:Uttp. ui l) 8 F’t M’£ Express l). 8. Mail'. No. 54. I. No.SO. veCk’lotte12:10 a. m 1 .10:25 p. m r Gaa1onta~... ~ 1:01 a. in ..H:20p. m ' .‘■parun’g...;... 2:57 u. in .. 1:50 No. 62. -12:80 p. a - 1:24 p. in - 3:45 p. m - 5:03 p. m . 6:60 p. m - 6:00 p. u - 9:14 p. n - 9:46 p. m -12:09 a. m T. M. I. 1LTALCOTT, Gen’l Msn’gV. - • flWB|8iHilBtii4(it. ' ~" 1 A. POPE, General Passenrer A rent. S uppHels. X. ' 310 Jackson Street GA. WINDOW GLASS. The Urgeat and beat a»sorted utoekJGlu** in the 4 f t ***y- i PUTTY. In bnl^, also in boxea of 1 to 5 lbs. White Leed and Zinc. Stricter Pare, made by the Kentucky Lead and |Ooi! Co., which we pnarantce a* pood as the best. Also the well known - Kussan W bite Lead- and 1m ported French Zinc. Prepared Paint The_’Celebratcd Paint, made by IV ads worth, Martinez <fc Loiipnai^ which we 'know to be good. Brushes. A{fu)l line of Paint and Whitewash Brcahes. Colors.' A Urge Jand' assorted stock of Colon in Oil, Also, Dry Colors. Tarnishes. White Demar, Coach, Copal, Furniture, Japan Asphaltnm, Ac. JKalsomiiie. Johnson's Celebrated PrepSted Kolsomlne, all .* shade*. ; oil. Lipaeod Oil, Raw and Boiled. Builders’ Hardware. A large variety of Locke, Kim and Mort ice Locks, Surface and Mortice Blind Hingca, All aizea and etvlcs of Door Butt*,. Inside Blind Bntta (brass and iron,) A fine lino ol Padlock*, YaletStore Door Lock*, Yale Night Latches, Screw* in any quantity and every ai». And everything you want in the Hardware line. Doors, Sash and Blinds. The largest atocK in Aneusta, at bottom flgnrea. Send for prioe lint. BALUSTERS, It RACKETS ASD MANTLES, And almost anything that ean be made out of - wood, we are prepared to mako it. Yellow Pine Lumber. In any quantity, rough or dreased. We pack anti deliver all of our gtftda free of charge. Thompson & HeindoL blS. 810 JACKSON STREET. DR. «T. P. HUNTLEY, 1D3S35T TIST 1.851-2 PtAC’HTREEST. ATLANTA, OA. TEETH FILLED BY ELECTRICITY*. One to four teeth inserted (on a new plan) without plate. *- 1 will pay .arc Hem Athena to Atlanta, should partita come tor the purpose of having dental work done, provided the work amount, to $15 or 380. Perfect aalitfaetton guaranteed. H* R. Ci Hum's flstiiHiTit Cure The only reliable awl tafe remedy for stBavacAVXSsc II taken according to 'directions it never fail*. Cure* cases of twenty or more years standing, rad removes al impurities of t K o blood and muscles. Thousands reioice over its marvelous cure*. HUTCHISON 4BRO. General Agents, Sold by all Druggist. Atlanta, Ga. novlS - r - TjHjR suriTrinr quality of KPECTACLEB and EYE r ULfteES iu G<ua, Silver and Steel, you will And the place at No. 5 Whitehall stresV Bo not induced to nay high prices for inferior goods. I guarantee % perfect «t of ovary pair J sell, and rs I only keep Vbo best of Lenses in WMto rad Tint- * rive satisfaction 16 * lore purehaadageii I. Ff PICKriST, and Retail Jowolei cd, guarantee every pair to rive saUsfatlion for 4 years. Gira mo a trial before where, amt Let the bots have ad roach Ian as they pleasa out of Felton nod tlie coalition. At the same time they should prepare for business. Albert Cox says that he is net going to be Independent candidate for congress and that bis letter does not mean that, ns some suppose. Tite reduction of the pnblic debt during January was $12,978,836, ami cash in the Treasury at the end of the month amour ted to $246,090- 000. Things are getting warm. The Post-Appeal tpeaks of‘the long-eared swell-head, blatherskite paragiapber of the Augusta Chronicle and Consti tutionalist. 1 Mr. Stephens is still hammering away at bis‘Stella’'coin. He has not yet adopted the suggestion made to him, to invent another new metal and call it ‘William Henry.’ CMS. F. STUBBS & CO, (Succcasora to Groovar, Stubbs A Co.) COTTON FACTORS Commission Merchants, Na 04 Bay Street, SA.VA2T2TAS, GA. cats. r. sti-bbs, JOBS K. GiRBETT, August», 1981. The commissioner of internal reve- jjyMgflHwi am __ its in distillery warehouses on Janu ary first was 73,806,914 taxable gal lons, which is about forty millions in excess of last year. Ab to to the uew apportionment bill, we are in favor of more con- gressmen—not to say belter con gressmen. The legislative body which immediately represents the people, should be a large one. Rubber’Stamps! . MANUFACTURED by E. W. DODGE, Fr op’r, AUGUSTA • STENCIL WORKS, 181 EIGHTH ST., AUGUSTA, GA. Rend for Catalogue mad prices. Agents wanted. compif with Ink »ud Brush 3 A Postmaster in Indiana, charged with being an infidel, sent the follow ing resignation to the President: To the President ot the United States: hereby tender my resignation be cause I don’t believe in hell or ghosts.’ Price, 60 cte. iunc7. Southern KuM ATHESTS, GEOn< YOU NO L. O. HAHR1S, President . 8TKVM8 THOHAS, ScmUry. « • tiroaa IwK, April 1, 1H77, . - $784,435 *8 Resident Directors. Voubg D G. Habub, 8tbtb*«Thomas Jon« fl. Nbwtob, KLiars L ItawTOB, b. n Cbiuomul fsuuiuD PeiBimi ALUS fc XiKASiae. I Db. J. A. Hcbeicbtt Col. Bobbst Imcmai. tnavSS-wlr OTIS ELEVATORS Steam & Hydraulic, t OFJALL JC1NDS. CHAPMAN EEOTHERS. (318 JACKSONJST-, AUGUSTA, 3A. Having acccplad the Agency ot the above.ara ‘ *tolb * ^ A petition, numerously signed, baa been presented to the Maryland legislature, asking the abolishment of the marriage license fee,on the ground that matrimony ie the foundation of all society, and any law that paraly< sms it, is monstrous in its execution. now pr*p»red mayip. j ' H. H -CARLTON, ATTORNEY AT LAW, THENS, Go. /YFFICE on Broad street, np ataira. Eatraneu U next door above Long’s Drug Store. Will Joni w. NicaoLto* attend promptly to all bnaineas entrusted to bis care. etl FINE JEWE LRY, WATCHES, AND LARGEST ASSORTMENT IN THE SOUTH, AT J. P. STEVENS & CO’S, 84 WHITEHALL STREET. ATLANTA, GEORGIA .H13T0RT OF SMALL FOX. A Plague that has held sway for twelve Cen turies. Of all the plagues which have aris en'from tjme to time, or infested cit ies or countries, none; ie more dread ed, none is more persistent, none is more communicable or latal'than was small-pox a .century ago. Bat whence or how the disease arose it is not easy to say. Other plagues have vexed the earth tor a rime and then passed away, leaving no vestige of their ravages, as did the great plague at Athena daring the Peloponnesian war, or the plague in the England of Charles IL, but small pox, not con tent with twelve centuries of swav, atilt holds ita own, despite the discov eries of science. It is unquestionably true that diseases of such contagious nature generally arise among filthy and Unconditioned people, confined in narrow quarters. This wns the- case in the Jewish quarters of European cities. Contagious diseases were com paratively rare among the Romans and Greeks of the illustrious periods, owing to the free public baths ami excellent sanitary and gymuastic habits of the times. It was reserved for the middle or dark ages to furnish the most dread ful examples ,of pestilence. Small pox arose in the very darkest period of mediaeval times. It first invaded England in the ninth century; it was common in Atahia in the tenth, the crusades carried it through all south* ern Europe; it reached Norway m the iourteentb century, in 1517 it was carried to St. Domiogo by the Span iards along with slavery, the inquisi tion, the rack, and a host of other blessings; three years later it crossed to Mexico and slew three millions, it invaded Iceland in 1707, and Green, land in 1733, slaying a four.h part of the residents in the formei and a large proportion of those in the latter country, and despite all that medical skill has done arid is doing to cast it trom the e-urth, it bids fair tbnetain its hold, in some measure, as long as popular ignorance, destitution, negh- geuce and carelessness continue to combat the physicians and the dic tates ol common sense. I’-a history is thus unique; other contagious diseases have proved as fatal under similar circumstances for limited periods; none have continued their blasting w ork tor ten centuries in all climates trom Mexico to Green- land. It is not unreasonable, there fore, that its approach should be bailed with terror as is the approach ot almost no other disease. Yellow fever and Asiatic <!holera, even, have caused no such potent and widespread destruction. The very air it taints carries infectiou; garments in oom fact with patients carry their baneful closets; it can be communicated by mail or by the wind, by railroad, by ocean voyage, by manifest means which cannovAe guarded against. It is not only dangerous, but loathsome in its progress; it drives away one’s friends, thrusts him into unutterable tortures and leaves him often a wreck for life, with ruined health and dis figured countenance. When to all this ie added its persistent reappear ance at almost definite perieda, it is not to be wondered at that small pox scares are so common. If a mambas four wives and says it is religion, and lives in Utah, ho all right. It he lives any where else, and marries four times just for the bin of it, he gone to iail; It ia cou- gress that makes (or allows) the dif ference. The House Las at last passed a bill declaring that no delegate who ia guilty of polygamy shall be entitled to a seat in the House. This is a good decision, though it has come late. Now it ia time to declare that polyga my ia as much a crime when called re ligion, as at any other time. Samuel B. Bullock, whom the Democrats nominated for ooonty clerk fa Fayette county, Ky., has died, and his wife ciairaa the success to the candidacy, which is equivalent to an election. The State attorney says there ie nothing in the laws to' forbid her discharging the duties of the office, and it looks very much as though the would get it. The building ot the Inman factorv at Augusta has been s&andoned. In man telegraphed to Augusta to drop the whole matter, as he wanted 12,000 feet along the canal, and the city would not allow him bnt 600 or 700. He was going to-put up a $500,000 factory within two years, and would probably have increased It to a mil lion. He thonght be was not treated as well as other manufacturers. It is now said that the Mormons have the raos$ powerful lobby in Washing ton, and that one ot their schemes to put detectives on the track of members of Congress, watch their movement* and show that many these representatives are Mormon* in practice, it not in principle. It is thought that this schema will frighten some members, and serve in a man ner to abate, or at least soften their opposition to the Mormons, I We of Oconee are both mud and water-bound, and hence are unable to gej to Athens or anywhere else. See ing little and hearing less,makes it al most impossible to get np a newspaper itejn, and but for the faithfulness and incorrigible energy of Mr. Gean, we ild be entirely cht off from the e world, he’s is nothing of importance going on in OcOnee ooonty. It wet to farm and too muddy to it, hence there is but little seen or done. Occasionally we hear, some of the sturdy old farmers making inquiries as to who will 1 run against Speer with the assurance that whoever he ia will be left behind by Emory. The writer has at last met one ‘bour bon’ who is really a citizen of Oco nee, and his reason for being one is that Emory Speer moved the court house from Watkinsville to Athens, and Emory is an independent; hence you see what little things are neces sary to make a bourbon. But the ins fiueuce ol this class or sect it) Oconee is not sufficient to turn a single vote, nor bourbonize a single independent. Mr. Speer can and will beat any man the 9ih district, it he continues on his old platform and keeps aloof from this ’new Felton; party.’ The best people in the 9th are now in the Inde pendent ranks, but they are nothing Ise bnt Democrats who claim that the best man should be the man elec ted, and each voter to be his own judge, but be this aa it may, Emory Speer will be his own successor, the ‘Macon Telegraph’ to the contrary notwithstanding. Dido. FROM MCNUTT. McNutt, Ga., Feb. 9, 1882. Mr. ST Benton has leit his puerile hearth, and is now his ow. house keeper. Poor Steve, we pity him iu his lone and awkward state. He can do better, bnt won’t; bo has no idols. Mr. Boh Wicr is convalescent after brief and serious illness ot gastric fever. ' One i-f *nr young men contemplates marrying, and asked wr.s Athens good plaee to go to get a wife. We told him of course, and to go, but we are living a life of a disappointed lov- ery-byrnmsg'to the same place. But j i everybody’* luck is not alike. New tdack'-mith shops and coal kiln are now seen at every farmers’ house. Wisdom iu you men of mus cle, stay at home and do not ask your neighbor to help to support your fam< ily. The orebardists are fructitying their orchards in a becoming and tasteful manner. CBD, Selling n WiTe. Among-the frequent instances of selling and exchanging wives none is more peculiar than that of Mrs. Bar- num of Peoria, III She and her hus band agreed that they bad better part. Neighbor Morris was known to be very much in love with her, and Bar- num said be would sell her for $100. The Barnurns having come to tbis amicable understanding, the next ■nose was to make an offer to Morris. Mhs. Barnum dressed herself careful ly, arranged be* hair in the most be coming style, and, thus looking Her very best, went with hy husband to Morris’s house. The matter wns ex plained to him and the price stated There was some haggling over the costs of a divorce, but a bargain was dosed without d'fficulty. The St. Johu Fleet. Eight yeaTB>go{there was only 8120- 000 invested in steamers on the St. Johns, Florida. Now there are twen- ht steamers plying on that river one of which ccst $240,000, aud to this fleet constant additions are mak ing. The Indian River and South Florida lakes and inlets are now dotted with sail boats, carrying freight to and fro. In a very short time tb?se will be supplemented by steamers, and then a new region will be opened of surpassing fertility and beauty. - Bestirs llllaati Glm. Minnie Madden and Grace Crary, Illinois girts ot 18 and 19, ara nja king a tour of the West on bicycles. They started early in the fall, and when cold weather aet in at the North they bad reached Jexas. They ara not doing it for abuw purposes, bdt for health and diversion. A man servant attend* them, and they carry a small quantity of baggage, their trunks being sent ahead by ex press. They intend to eross the conn- try to Florida by .spring, and then move up along the coast. Randall in Augusta Constitution al iat ‘Mr. Stephens keeps microscop ically informed of the least dal* at Liberty Hal). He knows, from day today, how many chickens, docks, pigs, etc., he baa in his yard, anc! takes aa lively an interest in these bbme matter* as be doe* in National or state affaire. He recently lost a mule that had attained the great age of 37 years, and he is now mnoh concerned about another, name ‘Old Bee,’ that bad become moribund.* General Gordon and his brothers, Walter and Eugene, have about dos ed another railroad transaction, lar ger and .more important than the Georgia Pacific, and it ia said netted them considerably over a million dol lars in cash. Eveiybody will be glad to hntr of their continued prosperity. Washington Post. Since Mr, Tilden was cheated out of the presidency, to which be was elected, a great many ot the men who assisted in the infamous fraud have one in an ignoble -way to their long ome. Zack'Chnndler died misera bly in a Chjgago hotel; Senator JUor* ton shuffled off his unfragrant coil before be could derive any benefit from tbe fraud; Gen. Garfield, who was pretty deep in the electoral swin dle, died from the blow of an assas sin, and the- other day Mr. Stonghton pawed away almost without a sigh. And yet the feeble pld man at Gram- mercy Park, who doesn’t look aa though he bad a day’s life in him, is still aa bright and cbipper to an ex tent, indeed, that some of the gossips say he has his eye firmly fixed on the term which begins in ’84 and ends in 88, and which would leave him,even it be should live to see the end of it, almost, a nonagenarian; while ns tor Hayes—bnt then he’s too dead to speak of. fooiT adulter at ions. Two MitVoa Pounds of Arsenic Imported Annually. v Food and Health. Committees of experts tell of adul teration ot food tha'- is simply appall ing. Were tbe ingredients which are mixed with food innocnous it would still be a very great hardship; but when it is known that the most vio lent poisons are employed, it is a mar vel that the whole country does riot - rise op and put a stop to such prac tices and punish all dealers who sell poisonous articles of tood. If confir mation of these startling statements were needed, one has only to read tbe facts recently brought to light in Chi cago, where it is impossible to find pure sugar aud where not 10 per cent of the milk is good. Io that city tbe bread, without exception, is poison ous ; the teas were never imported, but are made of leaves ‘faced’ with Prussian blue and chromate of lead Beventyfive per cent of tbe cream of tartar is white earth, and the coffee ia coated with lamp black. But Chica go is uo worse than other cities. Bak ing powders are largely composed ot alum. Pickling fluid is diluted with sulphuric acid, alum and verdigris to give it a peculiar flavor. The manufacture ot a great deal of our confectionery should be punish ed as a crime, tor much of the candy sold to children is simply a lump of white earth, made attractive to the eye-with arsenical paint and sweetened with glucose. Costly spices are coun terfeited in ft terribly grotesque man ner, tnenavoring being given by tbe rankest persona. In these and other adultera.iuns arsenic plays the largest part. We import annually two mil lion pounds ot this deadly poison— one cent’s worth of which would kill two thousand eight hundred people— and the bulk ot this import is used in the preparation ot food and clothing. A Woman worth Having. St. Louis Republican. There is a woman of Portcbhesta, N. Y., worth having in the house,— Mrs. Charles Vincent, One night lately, while her husband was out and nobody should hare been in but her- selt and a servant girl, she went into tbe hall and saw three men coming down stairs with big bundles.. She snatched tbebnndle from,the|firAt man, flung it into a comer, throttled the robber and threw him heavily on the floor, ghe then pushed the second man ovet the first.- Ho fell, and she tramped on him, got his bundle and threw it into the parlor. The third burglar knocked her down, but she rallied and got his bundle away^ from him. Then all three of the men 4 got frightened and ran, and she kick ed the last one getting out of the door, and the terrified servant girl stood back iu the hall and looked on in rapt admiration. In the bundle were two seaUkin sacqnes, a seal dol man, n camel’s hair shawl, several dresses, and things worth in all 81,* 200. COBS AND MEAT THIS YEAS. There is no question that corn and meat will command an unusually high price this year.. Even at this time, when the pork packing season is progressing, there is no ■ sensible weakening in prices for bacon, lard gad hog ptodnets generally. The west generally has made a greater or less R'ilure in the crop, and the wheat yield ie much less than for several years past. The consequent scarcity of hog fe: 2, augmented to some ex tent by the diminished wheat crop, has bad e telling effect on bog pro duction. JThe prices that corn and meat now command, and the prospective in crease next spring, will be such that farmers cannot neglect a single op portunity to make tbe most of what is on harid by the most careful feed ing and economical management. It is Tub Now York Sun tells it ^.hat the farmers of Hunterdon and Som erset countivs. New Jersey, use goats to protect their sheep from dogs. Two goats can drive away a dozen dog'-', aud two are about all each far mer puts in with his sheep. As soon ana dog enters tin? field at night the goats attack him, and their butting propensities are too much for the ca nine who soon finds himself rolling over and over. -A few repetitions ot this treatment cause the dog to nit the field limping and. yelping, formerly when a dog entered a sheep field at night the sheen would ran wildly around and cry piteously. Since tbe goats have been used to guard them, they fall into line behind tbe goa'fa and seem to enjoy the fan. The idea of utilizing goats in this way came from West, where they are pnt in sheep pens to drive away wolves.’ It is estimated that the entire ex, penses ot Gaiteau’s crime from tbe time he fired tbe shot to the hour of his execution will amount to 8250- 000. The trial will cost $85,000. The youth who fired tbe temple ot Diana at Ephesus had immense ca pacity for tuixcliief, but none, so tar [it We know, for good. Goiteau could destroy a precious life and cause an expenditure of a quarter of a million of, dollars, but oould not or would not earn enough to pay his board biilsi Tl>e productive classes of so ciety have to eai n a large surplus to pay for the support and the mischief, of the worthless. The Chinese government is going to build Borne railroads, and soon wil I be hehrd ie the land the vidcY of the Celestial .brakeman: ‘Hooppee! Yang-tze-kiang junction! Trainee ■topeeten minutes,eateeand drinkeel 1 an occasion that will justify the killing of every pork hog that can be made to weigh from seventy-five to-a hundred pounds. In this way, although a pretty heavy draft may have to bejmade on the corn crib to bring such young bogs into fair con dition, ths demand upon the limited supplies next spring will be much less —by so many less mouths to teed — and there will be lew bacon to buy. Farmers often lose monev by neg lecting to make a tew simple calcula tions. One year old hogs, as a rule, make the cheapest meat under our system of hog lairing. Or the rule may be stated than, the older the hog the more cosily tbe pork. A pig at nine months of age may be easily made to produce 150 to 200 pound's of pork; and even much higher re sults may be attained by good atten tion. If proper pasturage and cheap ly produced crops—such as ground peas, chulas and potatoes—are pro vided, there is no sense in keeping a bog beyond a year old. A hog should not be carried throng a winter under ordinary rircnmstances. Farmers ought to consider that it is poor econ omy to stint the feed note because it is scarce, and bn foroed to bay bacon at kighprices next spring and sntni raer. Tbe policy would be wise it corn should be dear and baoon (pros pectively) cheap.—[Col, R J Red ding, Georgia Department of Agri QUEER HAPPENINGS. As James Lindsay, of Bedford Co. Virginia. entered his barn, the floor' above; stored with - com in barrels, gave way, and crashed him to death. A liufe Bowie, Texas, girl who has been cross-eyed all her life, awoke recently with the defect entirely cur ed. No remedies had ever been bsed. _ Little Willie Harris, of Indiimapos lis got bis head entangled in the folds of a roller towel, and, his ferifc slip ping from under him, he was stran gled to death. ' ’. While walking behind a beer wag on that was ascending a hill, Mrs., Felix, of Cincinnati, was fatally in jured by a cask that fell from the wagon, knocked her down, and roll ed over her. - Miss Jnlia Test of Richmond, Iiid.,' has just recovered a watch lost iris Pullman sleeper three years ago. In rebuilding the car the workmen foond the watch wedged in a corner of the berth. ' •• An old braas pistol, supposed to be unloaded, was jammed into a rat bole by a Mrs,. Johnson of Harvede Grace and her eon Henry pulled it out. While handling it the weapon was discharged, the ball entering tbe cheek ot bis sister. • As William Lies, of Lincoln coun ty, Ark., was passing through his gate on returning from a hunt, tbo hammer of his gnn struck a weight attached to tbe gate, discharging the weapon and killing a negro woman who was walking behind him. Jonathan Breisford, aged 84, and Miss Elizabeth Kirby, aged 76, of Zanesville, are soon to be married. Sixty years ago they were lovers, and a lover’s quarrels parted them. Miss Kirby never married, but Mr Brew- tord is a widower with marriageable great-granddaughters. James Rowe, of Virginia City,-who was blown up at the Forman shaft and lost both his arm* and his eye-; sight, dreams every night of going through the same experience. No sooner does-he begin to doze than he hears tho walls caving and'then the explosion, and he awakes with a cry of terror. . A solemn injunction to the children of a rich man who died a number of years ago in Philadelphia, that so long as they lived they should see the old year out and the' new year in at the loot ol bis coffin,- has beep faith fully kept The children arq scatter ed through many Slates, from Ver mont to Nebraska. Four of those upon whom this grim behest was .Uid are dead. At a dairy farm tiear Berlin, where there are 100 cows, .to the consterna tion of the owners, the whole herd got drank. For two days the cows were wholly intractable, attempting to gore the milkers and bellowing in concert By some mistake tbe per son watering the cows turned the faucet of a barrel of corn brandy which happened to be placed near the water faucet; and the trough in stead of being iilled.with water re ceived braudy. Thomas Briley, of Jarrettsville, Mdfl died in a must singular manner. He bad occasion to enter a blade- smith shop, and finding the door looked and its proprietor absent, crawled in through tbe window. When the blacksmith entered the shop the next morning, Briley was foond hanging head downward frbm the window sill, bis foot having caught on a nail. He was still senslr ble, but died soon after being reieas 1 ed. ■ ‘ John Dubois edopted-a novet plan to get a pair pf boots tor nothing in St. Louis. He went to a store and ordered tbe finest pair that could be made. He wished them, sent to his hotel at a. certain time. Then he gave tbe same order in another store, except that the delivery was to be made half an hour later. The boy who brought the first pair was sent back to have tho left boot stretchod, and the boy with the second pair was sent back with ;he right one. Du bois then put on the, two remaining boots, for which be bad not paid, ana caught the next out-bound train. ( one lady of another, in a store reee ly. ‘There isn’t a bald hair in bis head,* was the hasty reply of the wife. Josh Billings says that altbongh 8)0,000 insurance on a man’s life will pot exactly cause bis corpse to smile on the widow, it has a powerful in fluence in causing some other'man to smile on her.; A French a-tist gave his bbt work to a porter to convey it to tho Salon. ‘Be careful, be careful,’ *said he ‘tbe picture is scarcely dry.* ‘Ob, never mind,* exclaimed [the porter, ‘my clothes areold.’ - Waiter,* said he, examining his reed bird (critically, ‘I .should judge from tbe bill that this was an Eng lish'sparrow.* He finished, find was banded his check. After a glance, he remarked, ‘Walter I Was .wrong. Judging from the bill, that was a Pocspeiisn nightingale.’ ‘Your husband require*' rest,’ said the doctor, as be name ifom the riolc chamber. 'He will soon berwell; he has a. bad attack ol tickerotia.’ ‘Tick- erosis, doctor! Why, that’s a new disease isn’t it?’ ‘Yes, quite new. It is caused by watching the tickers in the brokers’ offices. It affects tbe optic nerve and .the spinal column. A little girl has an uncle who has tanght her to open and shat his crush bat. The other evening, however, he appeared with an ordinary silk one. Suddenly be saw the child coming, with his new silk hat wrinkled like an accordeon. ‘Oh, uncle,’ she said, 'this one is very hard 1 I’ve had to sit on it; but t can’t get it more than half shut.’ ‘I must say that I very much dis like tbis ostentatious furnishing,’ re marked the elderly Miss Pringle, as she looked about her in thn new home of tho Bpankingtons.- ‘Now loqjc at that great, elaborately-framed mirror, I declare I can see nothing beantiltri in it.’ ‘Yon shouldn’t ex. peot impossibilities, Miss Pringle,’ re marked Fogg, the villaip. Pi anew the plan of keeping men out of barrooms by enticing them into coffee bonses. Tbey have opened what they call a coffee palace, and Gover nor Long ceremoniously drank the first cup of coffee. As an offset to the rnmsellers’ seductive free lunches all sorts of temperance comforts .for the stomach are provided at extreme- ly low prices. A smoking room, a billiard Toom, end rooms for reaaiog and games considered innocent-are free to all w;41 behaved men and bovs. i culture. A Delicious Dish tor Imwt A delicious dish for dessert, to be eaten cold with cake, is made of oranges. Pare live or six, and ent them in thin slices; pour a cup of pul verized sugar over them; boil one pint of milk; add while boiling the yolk of three eggs, and one table- spoonful of corn starch, which' you have first rubbed smooth in a little cold milk; yon must stir every mo ment till it begins to thicken like cus tard, then poar over the orange*; beat the whites of the eggs to a froth, ndd a table spoonful oPhugar, put tbis over the custard ami set it in the oven to brown. If yon dislike the taste ot corn starch substilute two eggs ora tableipoonful of gelatine. The ChamplM Kerjr for 1882. New Orleans Tinea. A friend sent a man iw Texas an ostrich. Aa tb^nao did' not know what to feed it <m he let it ran. In a short time it had devoured. oyster cans, a broken iron' pump-handle a pair of andirons, an old soy tite, a small coaFoil stove; a Tolling’pin and a joint of stovepipe, which Muck in its throat. The stove set fire to ti^e rolling-pin and tbe neighbors seeing- the smoke called out the firemen, who poured the Water down the stove- pipe, completely drowniog the bird. General Robert Toombs Was * %. tertaining a crowd on the new party, who had gathered areued him in the Kimball House the other night. In reply to a question as to What ha thought Of Dr. Miller’s connection -villi' it* lie raid: Miller U a man of sense, but! expected he would go with the New Party. Tie is full' of philanthropy and sympatiiyj and can always be focn<t with those in great distress.’. .< Tub papers might now iudnlgf in copious “advice to farmer-.’’ In this rainy season, the farmer< wogTd have ample time to read it. FACT AND 00RNENT. . To W W Gardner; now. of St. Lori*, has been awarded the oontrnct for the statue for the proposed Blair monument. The statue is to cost about 87,500. The publication of M. Zola’s ‘Naha’ in a Danish translation has been pro hibited at, Copenhagen, and criminal proceedings have lieen instituted agaiost the translator. One hundred and twenty thousand tnerioatograpevinSs have been plant ed on'-the island ef Monte Cristo, rendered so famous by Dumas’ novel; and.are growing finely/., A youth at Portland, Mc„ made $2,000 on a land speculation. This success turned hi* head, and he has' been-sent to an insane asylum, ab sorbed in fancied negotiations for all the towns in the state. Mr. Calvin Fletcher, tbe commis sioner of fisheries for Indiana, says that ten years hence there will be 25,000 carp ponds in that state. The rage for carp ponds is great in the southern states, success in recent ex periments having come quickly. In a small grove near Cincinnati an army .of crows take shelter every night. They assemb'e by thousands an hour before dark, and an old man living near tbe place says that to bis personal knowledge the sanie grove has been their dormitory, for sixty .ye*A ' Kind, a St. Louis murderer, has had four trials daring seven yearn, and is now at last to be hanged. He was cince convicted pf murder in the seconcl degree and sentenced to twen ty-five years’ imprisonment, but he thought ha could do better than that, and obtained a hew trial. People in San Francisco .are very mueh interested over an aDgel fish cangbt by Italian fishermen twenty miles ontside the Farallone Islands, It is the first of the species seen in Sin Francisco, aud is a handsomo specimen, it& wtng-like] fius, from which its name is token, measuring two feet from tip to tip. Three men are d igging for treasure near Enfaula, Ala. They think they are guided by spirit*, and every mid night they bold a seance, receiving a communication directing their labor tor the rest of the night. They have dug a hole fifty feet deep without get ting to eitherthrtreasurc or the end of their faith. * A'Philadelphia thief's* case was'be- fore tbe grand, jury, and his indict ment was sure to follow upless some obstacle could . be interposed.. His brother-in-law, who was in the ante- room, told the complainant that the hearing w*s adjourned. ‘ Hiring thus got rid of the chief witness, be per sonated him befpn the jurors;' giving such on acconntTis to clear the pris oner. , TV .7. a j l. -^W t • -IT, SMITH ORGAN C'OMPASV. Pianos and O ecax:* fine ; .instruments; A SPECIALTY. ... SOLD ON INSTALLMENTS. Call and wp Wara yaubur.' "' r, ! '8EN1> For CATAlOGlfis 27 Whiteiiali iSt.,Atlanta, Git.

Georgia Historic Newspapers

Southern weekly banner. (Athens, Ga.) 1881-1882, February 14, 1882, Image 1