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XO. 23 ATHENS, GEORGIA, APRIL 8, 1879. . VOL. 63
.■1 Homey ’. <J^Lau.
OUm vWCuiJfc, NMiereon is Co.
Athens, Georgia,
;:i !<rar-i,« in HiBn.w.rior Court* of l hi
COURT CALENDAR WESTERS CIBCT1T.
Alixixdx* S. Ebwis, of Athens, J
Albert L. Mitchell, of Athens, SoIic ; tor Gen
eral.
Bunlcs, first Monday in April and October.
Clarke, second Monday in May and No
vember. s
Franklin,second Monday in April and Oc
her.
Gwinnett, first Monday in March and Sep
temW.
Habcr-tham third Monday in April and Oc
tober .
Mali, third Monday In March and Septem
ber,
Jackson, third Monday in February and
An^ost.
Oconee, fourth Monday in Jannery end
July.
Kuban, lourth-Monday .in April and Oc*
tober.
Walton, third Monday in February and
An trust.
White, Monday after the fourth Monday in
Ap’ii and October.
K t-15.!8lS ,U -
-'G. G.
Tb.CYra.a.3.
ATTORNEY AT LAW.
M A nCB<SV;l4-K,;GA. j ; '
O FFICE IN' COURT-HOUSE, DEPOSIT!
i>rdia«rv'» 03ics. IVrw.al attention toali
jaciwon
/iTVOHNEY;
irrolCNEV AT LAW,
l Ad:c f ’ f! I
el bvL'iul
1
• fiv.tfcrlvjKvnpieJ bytTu.^pfe A. S.fKr.vin,
verstbr-.* «1* Childs, NlckCTsotl Co.
.24 Srn.
Wilbur F. ICllskt.
Georgia Bill Road Company
SUPERINTENDENT*!* Office, )
ArousTA, Ga., Jan. 17tb, 1879. (
On and after Sunday, 19th, inst^ Trains will
leave and arrive at Athens as follows:
Leave ATHENS 9.15 a m
Leave WinUrville 9.45 am
Leave Lexington .1<\20 a m
Leave Antioch 10.48 a m
Leave M axe vs 11.05 am
Leave Woodvillc 11.21 a m
Arrive Union Feint 11.45 am
Arrive Atlanta 5.00 r m.
Arrive Milled^eville S.SO r m
Arrive Macon 5.20 pm
Arrive Augusta 3.18 p y
Leave Aurusta 9.45 a m
Leave Maco* .....4.10 am
Leave Milied^cville 9.0S a m
lysave Atlanta 9.45 a m
Leave Union IV. nt 12.55 pm
Arrive Wo-slrille ■... 1.15 pm
Arrive Maveys 1.35 pm
Arrive Antioch 1.55 pm
Arrive Lexington 2.25 p m
Arrive Wiuterville S.0C p m
*Arrivc Athens 8.30 p m
Trains run daily, except to and fr**m Macon
vliich nr** daily except Sundays.
F* It. Dorset, Gen., Pass.,’Act.
S. K. Johnson, Snpt.
K-deut It.VTF »R
HaizoriL <5c XSolsa^,
-Vi Loriiers _ti t !'L,a\v.
ss con-
rernimr h'tK Intruder** promptly ejected
from, und cl4ari*ti up, nnd wild binds look-
^ \ af.i r generally, will buy and «elt lands, pay
tuxe** for nonresidents etc.’ Will practice in all
t id ou.it es eontinsfent 1L±Z.
U. B. orth-» Atlantic & and 1*. K. Goch\ re-
wise
July Hth.tf.
T. '• ll '}%
’OT'at’to^irrxTusor Sc JavgaUr,
At Sneads ’Shoe Store next door to Reese «fc
Iauc’s, Rmud >:root, Athens, Georgia. All
Hork warranted 12 months.
sv*>tl j-t f. ^
M-jS-MOllLE STABLE.
^L’blionCy GSoozgicu
GANN A REAVES, PROPRIETORS.
V,'ifi2*i found at their old aUnd, rear Frank-
1 In l!ou»« hnlldiitp, Tbotras street. Keep al
ways on hsud gootl Turnout* and ea.*einl dri
vers. Stock w«!l cared for when en* rusted to
our care. Stock on bind for sale o* *i!» *:mes.
declStf.
SCHOOL BOOKS!
.]// of the School Hooks in use (it the
Lucy Cobb Institute,
Ai Madame Sosncwski's Home School,
Schedule Hcrtheastero Railroad.
Change of Schedule.
On nnd after March 24th 1879, train* on
Northeastern Railroad will ruu us follows.
Traiu* daily except Sunday.
Lpnvt Athens 6.00 A. M.
.Arrive ut Lula 8.30 A. M.
^t.fwV»ariv«5iit Atlanta 12.40 P. M.
Arrive at N. Y. (’Second Dav) 1* .05 P. M.
Leave N. Y..... ’. 10.00 P. M.
Leave Atlanta 5.45 A. 51.
Leave Lula 9 50 A. M.
Arrive at Athens 12.15 P. M.
Passenpcrs going towards Atlanta have time
!tt Luhi for Breakfast and make close connection
at At auta with all roads. Close conr.ecfiou at
J.nla t« and from all Eastern Pities. Also to
and from Elbert on.
J. M. EDWARDS,
Superintendent.
AND AT TIIE
Various Schools iatfce City,
LOWEST yiGrTTIRElS,
Thonias’ ltlack. Blue or Violet Ink—the best in
the World—at 5 cents per boitle. For bargains in
•tvr;tninf, call at
- BURKE'S BOOK-STORE.
Southern Mai Insane
COMPANY,
ATHSlTd: 'GSOnGIA.
YOUNG I— O. HARRIS, President
MKYKNS TUOU iS, Sec retary.
Cro%a April 1, 1S;7, - - $7S«,5Jf «2
ATLANTA h CHARLOTTE
Air-Line Railway.
Passenger Department-
ATLANTA
—TO—
□53ASa'JL±,vRISr CIOTTJEGJaj !
. CHANGE OF SCHEDULE.
On Mid ofter Sunday December Sth, Double
Daily Trains will run on this road as lollows,
goiug East:
NIOUN MAX ASH PASSXN'OLR TT.AIN.
Arrive nt Lula 5.3*1 p x:
Leave Lula 5 37 r r
DAY PASSENGER THA N.
Arrive nt Lola 8.59 a m
Leave Lula S.59 a m
GOING WEST.
MGIIT MAIL AND PA'SXNGEU TRAIN.
Arrive at Lola 9.49 a m
Leave 9.50 a m
DAY rASSENtitB TCAlN.
Arritattt Lola 7.40 p m
Leave. 7.41 p m
GOING EAST.f
LOCAL FP.E1GIIT AND ACrOMVODATlON TRAIN.
Arrive at Lula 11.25 a m
Leave 11.39 p m
Tnr.oron freight train.
Arrive at Lula 3.36 p y
Leave 3.50 r m
GOING WEST.
LOCAL FREIGHT AND ACCOMMODATION TRAIN
Arrive »t Lnla 11.56 a m
Leave 12 10 p m
TKROrOII FREIGHT TRAIN.
Arrive at Lula 7.(5
Leave/. ".20 a m
Close connection at Atlanta tor all points
West, and at Charlotte for all points East.
G. J. FOREACRE, General Manager.
HOUSTON, Geo. Pa>5.<fcTicket Asrit
w h^bctrtxe:
LEAD u , and OILS,
DRUGS*
And $&ediciacs:
GARDEN SEED
GRASS SEKD.
Stock of Seed all Fresh.
For uny of al>ove or anything in
tho~Dtug Line call on.
E. C. LONG k €0.
V. II0LESAL5 AND RETaIL DRUGGISTS
A. Father’s Advice.
XT CUARLF8 B. BEBEXAS, TO HI9 ESTEEMED
FRIEND, PROF. H. B. PALSOXS.
Yt’re telliu’ yer father and mother goodbye,
To travel yoar fortune to make;
W.i holes in your pockets, an* hope in yer
A foine Jot uv baggage to take.
W e l, Micky, me sen, its s bit uv advice
l\i give ye to bear on the way;
Bcirember, the mmdc may be very nice,
But, so.1, if ye dance ye meat pay.
WeHe thried to be good to ye, Norah and I,
r Tho’ its little we had for to give;J
Yer stomach’s not ruined bv pound cake and
pie,
Yebe accustomed to live as we liv*.
But kie o it in mind, a hen yer fortune is made.
An’ die dollars se grandly ye spiod,
There’s only a span between plinty and naad,
It’s t^ie lookin’ glass shows ye yer triad.
It’s all very well to wear broadcloth an’ sich,
Wid a .-onld watch as big aa a plate;
It do*/* wry well lor the sous uv the nch,
V\ hin tlev travel in splendor aa* state.
But, son, lickallict wheu ye’re goin* so last,
An* putt.n’ on alathers uv style,
Ye’ll git U' the ind uv yer journey at last—
It’s tiie late that in»kes every pot bile.
tsrr
Ye’re a goed natured lad, an’ me son, don’t ye
mind,
It may cbiuce whin ye’re out in he wurld.
That some cay a jewel galore ve may fiud,
lu the shape of a nate looking gurL
Och! Mickey, me boy, keep ver head levil
thin.
It’s tho divil himself ye must fight;
Ouid Adam vould niver have fooled wid the
sin
If Ave nad Uhared herself right
But the wurst uv them all—It’s as true as the
world,
An* no matt ir what comes, ye kaa; clear
Uv that divil’* own fav’nte, all ill-omened
bard—
A widely wid nothin* a year.
Ah ! talk uv the hlaruev, au’ chattin’ an’ lies,
au’ callin’ ye *-aoaey” an’ “dear,”
Sure the Luzzy will fool ye right out uv ver
eyes
Wid a mt uv a sigh an’ a tear.
Yer taste ftr the litter is apblendid, me son,
^ Ye resemble yer father in that;
Ye cau tip yer glass nately to every wan,
An’ keep a cool head in yer bat.
So sthick to the priueerpuls taught ye, me
lad.
An’ call fur it straight—' oye hear ?
Mo-.t anT^straage g*:ne vriij deceive a man
Kaap away from the Dutch an’ their beer.
There’s one matter moTc, then me dooty is
di n—
I have saved it, me sou, till the last,
Because ye wont stop till yer race lif.a bean
run,
Thin ye »iav give a tu >wght to the past.
If iver ye fimf ye have n a le a mishtuke
In wantin’ to go au’ Ik fraa.
Remember the road to the shanty to take,
If ye have to walk over the sra.
Home Experience ot a News
paper Man.
Me. -
- Tries to Expt.aix to
Mrs. the Inner Mys
teries of a Printing Office,
and the Modus Operandi of
Making a Newspaper.
It was an excec-tliugl v di.-a^rcoable
night and Mr. and Mr*.
hugged the fire closely, lie passing
the time reading a paper, and she
sitting looking into the tire.
Without any preface whatever, she
dropped the poker. With fo much
force did it strike the hearth that
Mr. stopped his reading ab
ruptly, and looked over the top of
his paper inquiringly.
Mrs. had a happy thought;
quickly it was tran-milted to Mr.
“ My, dear,” said she, “ you re
member some time ago you promised
lo tell me how newspapers arc
made ”
“ Yes, yes; out some oilier time
love.”
“ No, now, please, my dear.”
Again he tried to content her with
a promise, but it was °f no avail; she
wanted to know, then, just “ how
papers are put together.’’
lie hesitated. The longer ho’hvsi-
tated the more impatient she grew,
and he tclt it. Seeing that a post
ponement was-of no avail, he heaved
a long si<-li, laid aside his paper and
rclnctantlv be<;an to unravel l r his
uifo’s edification the “inner life of a
uewspaper.’’
•* In the first place,” >ai 1 he, “ the
copy is sent to the composing
room—
“ Where does the copy co ne from?”
she queried.
“ From the editors and reporters,
of coarse.”
“Oil, I see”
“ Then it is given lo the ty,ie set
ters—’’
“Shoots the quoins ino their place
with the aid of a mellet.”
She did not quite understand, but
saw by the white of his eye that it
would not be well to question him too
much, so she abided her time and he
went on.
“ Sometimes the matt r is ‘pied’—’’
“ How’s that
“ Why, when some type is knocked
over or dropped on the fl .or, it is use
less, end is called by the fraternity
‘pie.’ ’’ —
He thought lie had gotten through,
hut the irrepressible wFe continued :
“ Where do they make the form I
up?”
“Oa ‘the stone,’” was the re
joiner.
“ What kind ot a stone—a round
one ?’’
“ No, a flat one—a piece of level
marble.”
“Ob, I si-e.”
“ Well, when the form is made up
it is put on the printing machine and
the edition goes to press.’’
“ What do they p'ess the papers
for?’’
“ They don’t press the papers;
press means planting; and alter they
are prin!ed, are circulate 1 through
out the city.”
“ Oh, I see.” Alter waiting some
little time for him to continue, .Mrs.
asked, “ Is that nU ?
“ Tliank heaven, ves!” he grum
bled from behind the paner he had
resumed. Silence followed. lie read
on undisturbed for fully an hour.
His wife having gained lo r hold on
the peker, was occupied in twirling
it, at tin same time murmuring, while
looking intently at the ashe<: “Types,
matter, ga'h-y, proofs, devils, veins,
presses.’’
New Banal Ot Sir John
use the
Given
Away on
Doclge.
His Own
Athens, Georgia.
•♦jA.lI.ly*
The Lowest Yet.
The mulcraigned now him on hand, at hi*
:«re over Reaves A NIcbo#m>nV on Broad St.,
a lar^e assortment of the
Very Best Furniture
Kv.r offere<l in tiiU market, nnd at the
LOWEST PRICES !
A large stock of all kind* of
Collins and Burial Cases
<*u hand, which can he had at any Uonr, day or
ni*ht,at
LOW PRICES
E7* AlKfcbay. jna Mcejaed tUa fluast Hearse
r
* arunnre, Ac., hefora paraliaainff elaewhere.
J. RfWlLSON. —
nur.U.Sm. , Brood at., Athens, Go.
O.i last tuonday morning, I was
suffering with severe Rheumatic pains
between my shoulders, when one
application ot Magic. Cure relieved
tne immediately, and I have had r.o
re. rn of the pains since.
A. D. CLINARD,
( , Proprietor Newton House.
.Tan, 4th. 1879.
I • can hearuiv recommend the
Magic Cure. I would not take one
l.uiul'cd doll .rs for the good it did
my wife on CI.ri-tmas day. One appli
cation cured her of Neuralgia in the
head in five minutes time nnd she has
had no pain since. '
J. A. GAREBOLD.
Jan. 4th. 1879.
II iving used Dr. G tllagei’s Slagic
Cure while suffering tiom a severe
nervous headache, an>l having found
it periectly efficacious (curing me
within three miuutt-s), I take pleasure
in recommending it tor any who may
l« similarly afflicted.
C D. CAMPBELL.
Pastor Baptist Church, Alh-us.Ga.
Jan. 15th, 1S79.
Dr Gali.ager :
I was suffering with
severe Nenra’gic pains in my slionlders
and hips, and had your Magic Cure
“ -d just between my shoulders;
relief was almost instataue us, and l
have not felt a twinge ol it since. It
is wonder.ul! A “ Magic Cure,’’
indeed !
Yours, truly,
T. A. SALE.
Jan. i£8th. 1879.
Prepared bv
HENRY GALLAGER.
College Avenue,
mar. 11.6m. Athens, Ga.
1 Detroit Free Press.]
The old raan Beadii^o keeps a
pretty sharp eye on his daughter
Mary, and maey a would-be lover
has taken a walk after a few minutes’
conversation with the hard-hearted
parent. The old chap is stuck this
time, however, and cards are out for
a wedding. Alter the lucky young
man had been sparking Mary for six
months tiie old gentleman stepped in
as usual, requested a private confab,
and led off with :
“ You seem like a nice young man,
and perhaps you are in lc ve with
Mary ?”
“Yes, I am,” was the honest rc-
ply.
•* Haven’t said anything ;o her yet,
have you ?
“ Weil, no; hut I think she recipro
cates my affection ’’
“ Does, eh ? Well, let me tell you
something. Her mother died a luna
tic, and there’s no doubt that Mary
has inherrited her insanity.’’
“ I’ n willing to take the chances,’’
ripped the lover.
** Yes, hut you see JI:iry has a ten.
nlile temper. She has twice drawn
a knife on me with intent to «umii:it
murder.”
“I’m used to that—got a sister
just like her,” was the answer.
“ And you should know that I’ve
sworn a suleinu oath not to give Mary
a cent of my property,’’ continued
the father.
“ Well, I’d rather start poor and
build up. There’s more romance in
it.”
The old nuu had one more shot in
his carbine, and he said.
“ Perhaps I ought to tell you that
Mary’s mother ran away from mv
home with a butcher, and that nil her
relations died in the jMior house.
copy,
then send it to the composition-room,
and the tyi>e setters put it in
type.’’
“ What! the copy ?”
“Yes; they set the types up s» that
th -y will read as the copy reads.”
*'Oii, I sec.”
A paused ensued.'
*'.\ly Dear”’ said Mrs. , “you
stopped at the compositors setting
the tvp.i. Wh-it do they set the type
in’?”'
“In a stick.’’
“A stick! What kind of a stick?”
“Oh, a stick is a device that is jusi
the width of the columns of the (taper
and holds seventeen lines of brevier.”
“And what is brevier ?”
“A kind of type that is pleasing to
the eye and easily read ”
“Oh, I sec.’’
“When the printers get a stick full,’’
he went on, “they empty”—
‘‘Are the printers different from the
compositors ?”
“No!” he replied, a little out of
temper, “they are one and the same.”
“Oh, I see.”
“When they get a stick <iili of type,
as I w s about to say, th-y empty it
on a galley”—
‘,And in throwing it upon a galley,
don’t it go all apart ?’’
“No; they lift it from the stick, and
place it gently, very gently, on a gal
ley’’—
— 1 And what’s a galley ?”
j Not a drum was hear
j drummer was not teeling vfrv
i and ask -d to be excused* norfa tuner-
.... . , | al note of an.- kind, as hisJcorpsc to
“ \\ hat do they do ; nt on n ?” lIu! ran| u , ve ,, u ’ rr ; e ,l ; single,
“No.-thunder, , no; ll, * v arc solitary son of a gun of a soldierdis-
coniFositors wu° si>t ,t up ” charged his iitrevvel! shot o’er the
Oh, they compose the copy, and 0 iv!ieri . ,, rL . maills (lf llie , ate
then set it up. But how does u | Mr . ;,{ oore u .,. re d|ipn< i tw i. Tiie
81 t ‘t j , , . , . farewell-shot business was omitted on
He drew ano l er long s-gh and accoul ,i of the great scarcity at am-
Ca '.?V. rcp !‘-f d ' I munition. We buried him darkly at
The editors compose the copy, dead of night, and did re bes£j„b
we could tor him under the circum*
>tance*. We could net borrow, Leg
or steal a pick or shovel in the entire
neighborhood, ami were obliged to
turn the s«»ds with our bayonets,
which by'ihtf^way, was tiie tir*t
thing that h id been turned by said
bayonets since we had been drafted.
We did this all by the struggling
moonbeam j’ misty light, and the lan
tern di.i.lv h*iriiin*«r f with just about
halt enough oil in it. and a strip of an
old flannel undershirt tor a wick. Few
an 1 >L >r, were the prayers we eai I,
the chapl-i5u ueing home on a fur-
lough, and no one within forty miles
to take his place. We spoke not a
word of sorrow, onr time being some
what limited, an the enemy was not
far and advancing with gigan
tic strides. We thought, as we hal
lowed his narrow bed and
Tiie Chessboard.
OWEN MEREDITH.
My littlo love, do you remember.
Ere we were growa so sadly wise,
Those evenings :a the bleak December,
Curtained w.trm from the snowy weather,
Wheu yon and I played chess together,
Checkmated by each other's eyes f
Ah ! still I see your seft white hand
Hovering warm over aueen and knight,
Brave pawns >n valiant battle stand,
The double castles guard the wine*,
The bishop, beat on distant things,
Moves sliding through the fight.
Oar fingers touch, our glances meet,
Aik! falter; falls your nut-brown hair
Against ray check ; jroar bosom sweet
1* heaving. Down the field jonr queen
Hides s ow her soldiery between
And checks me unaware.
Ah me! the little battle’s done.
Dispersed is all its chivalry,
Full ninny a move since then have we,
’Mid life’s perplexing checkers made.
And many a game with fortune play’d—
‘That is it we’have won!
This, * his at leant—If tliis alone—
That never, r ever, never trore.
As iu th' 5 *,* old etill nights of yore;
(Ere we had grown so sadly wi»e)
Can vou and 1 shut out the’skies,
Shut out the world and wintry weather,
And eyes exchanging warmth with eyes,
Play chess as then we played together.
What Bird’s Nest Pudding is
Made Of
Eiit ib’o Mr V nest are Iburnl for
the most part in t!ic Islands of Java
Borneo, Sumatra, ami tbe Celebes.
The bird which produces the nest is
caled tfie Salangane swallow. It flies
with wonderful speed and precision,
and on the Javan coast, where the
surge breaks wildly against the precip
itous cliffs and caverned rocks, these
birds may be seem in swamps darting
hither anil thither. Their nests are
fixed to tho cliffs or just inside the
caverns. What sort of a thing, then,
is the eatable bird’s nest that the
wealthy Chinese are so fond of? It
is that portion of the fabric which
serves as a s-irt of bracket, on which
the r- al ne-t (made of grass, sea-
weed fibres.small leaves, etc.) is built
is transparent, something like isin
glass. was formerly supposed that this
gelatine-like substance was prepared
by the bird from seaweed and other
marine plants. This, however, is a
mistake. Dr. Bernstein has found
that the glands under the. tongue of
the bird are of a great size. On
opening the bill there are seen two
large swellings, one on either side, and
thise chiefly supply the material for
makirg the brackets. The bin!secrets
in them a soft gum like sub.-tance,
which can be drawn out of the mouth
in long threads, and in the air it soon
dries and is found to be the same,
even when viewed through the micro
scope, as the bracket material. Such
is toe demand for this dainty, and so
hi-h i-i its market value, that hundreds
of men spend their lives in the perils
ous work of collecting these so called
nests from the frightful cliffs, prreipi-
ci s and caverr.s;’aiid the Chinese spend
about a mil.ion and a half of dollars
annually in the purchase of this dainty,
which, when rendered into s mp or
j -l!y, they regard as the most delicious
of food.
Salem (Oregon) Ties? Shore.
An Appalling Pestilence.
Northern Brazil Devastated —
Horrible Scenes of Disease and
Death—Five Hundred j iioc-
saxd Persons Succumb.
The Zulu war, the yellow fever vis
itation, the Indian famine, the distress
among English workingmen, are infin
itesimal compared with the horrible
scenes of diseases and death iu North
ern Brazil. They are as trivial skin
eruptions to the gangrene which has
eaten up Serotoa, a region as large as
France. The long account aiven to
the New York Herald by a Rio Ja-
neiro correspondent, tells an awful
tale. Serotoa is not a matted forest
flat, but a rolling country, sprinkled
with woods. The rainy season is
from January to July’ not a drop ot
water being attainable at other times
except by digging; and when the
whole year is dry the most terrible
suffering ensues. The people arc ag
ricultural and pastoral. Not 100,
000 out of the 2,500,000 inhabitants
are otherwise than starving’y poor,
and the majority are described as a
degraded mass of mixed white, black
and Indian blood. The Serotoa aver
ages 500 miles iu width along the coast
from the Parabypa river to the San
Francisco, and turns southward lo
Minas Genies. The black sp>t of the
famine of 1877-8 was Ceara, an area
equal to the Middle States. Three
wet winters were succeeded by the
drought of 1878. Tiie unthrifty and
starving population began to eat dis
ease-breeding roots. Crushing pen
ances, (tillage and crime.were inaugu
rated. Children were left tc die, and
filthy carcasses of aoima’s were greed
ily devoured. People crowded into
the town-, dying right and left by the
way—and this was only the begins
u::ig.
A cruel feature ot tins time was the
unrelenting exaction by creditors, and
nude girls beirged on the pavements
for food, their bones straining their
skin to bunting. Lists of the dead
could not be made fast enough to
keep pi.-e with 'the hecatombs of fam
ished bodies. Women sold them
selves for a meal. Tiie defaulting
sahinet of llie Brazilian government
had left a debt of 850,000,000, and
private charity was soon exhausted.
In the most favorable time a man’s
living in Northern Brazil costs twen
ty cents a day, and now, when pros
visions were exorbitantly dear, the
utmost money subscriptions did not
average one dol ar per jear tor each
man Smallpox, yellow fever, beri
beri ( a local paralytic disease ), and
new sorts of wasting fevers became
epidemic. Cries, groans, shrieks,
curses, mingled w'ilii the sickening
odor of decaying bodies, for the liv
ing could net bury the dead fa-t
enough.
One hundred and fifty thousand
people fell dead in March, in Ceara,
as they hurried over the stones with
bleeding feet. A lather killed,
cooked and ate his own child, and
cannibalism became common. Graiu
was locked in magazines by the au
thorities, until a sudden distribution
of money and plenteous food bred
new diseases. The wretches were
shipped to other places like ctttle,
died like vermhi and were thrown
iuto the sea. Tiie government neg
lected its grand opportunity to put
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Pretty and Young.—In every
:ootlicd j feature but the hair, which had grown
down his lonely pillow with a can-1 utiiite from fever. This lady at 35
teen, that the foe and the stranger j writes ns: ** I have used Parker’s
would tread o’er his head and we j H a i r Balsam six months and am more
far away on the billow; but not | than pleased with it. It has restored
too far, however, as tiie enemy 11 the natural brown color of tny hair ■ the pcop'e of Court under military
outnumbered us about seven to ;; .,j piven it a silky softne-s, nicer j surveillance and to civilize them. A
one. Lightly they’ll taU o the j than ever lie ore. There is no Dand- j second dry season came, and although
spirit that’s gone, an 1 ^ wonder ■ ru (( i no foiling hair, ami it leaves the - - * -
where they can 1 anotlioi llask filled ! scalp so clean and nice and cool, that
with t’r* s-t!)! '. and o’er bis cahl ashes ! J a la ever so much pleased, and I
upbraid hi- \ knowing, of course, that j f,, e j ;in d look like myself again. '
he is fi no ition to defend him- Disinfectant properties that
-e! ; bin ’i h.-'il reck i. they let him ; chemically into this preparatio
enter
preparation ren-
h ep on in a grave where a Brito has ; j er (j, healing, cleansing and healthful,
“A long article”made of bris S i„ L * i,i l,i : ,! * ; . md MOt bo 1 l!,t T . l im l ® S 61 and the beautiful, fresh and vigorous
which the matter is proved”- ! U K : \ ui l! ‘ ke 0l,t a llUr,a . 1 '^ , f m,t ° r j hmr u produces, together with its
- r -- - a-x him to |iay ground-rent. We I property of restoring tho hair to its
i wish here to correct the impression ' natural youthful color, leaving the
that slowly and sadly we laid him j head entirely freed from Dandruff,
dewn from the field o* his fame fresh j clean and healthy, surprises no less
What kind of matter, and how do
they prove it ?”
“ Will yon wait a moment ? if so, I
will Iry and explain—but give me
time,” be said, nettled a little at her
cross-examination.
“ All right, go on.”
Ty|»e, wh' n it is set up, is called
These things might lie thrown "P in 1 matter.’ and when the first imtires-
after years, and I now warn you.” j ^o,, „f ; t ; 3 taken, they call it”—
Mr. Bendigo,’’ replied the lover,
“ I’ve heard all this before, and also
that you weie on trial of forgery, had
lo jump Chicago for Ligauiy, and
served a year in State prison for cat
tle-stealing. I’m going to marry
into your family to give yen a decent
reputation ! There— no thanks—
good-bye!”
Sir. Bendigo looked after the
voting tnan with his mouth wide open,
and when he could get bis jaws to
gether he said:
“ Some infernal hyena has went and
given me away on my own dodge
A Judge Arraigns His Son.—
There was a remarkable scene in the
Cleveland Police Court on Saturday.
A son ol Judge Tilden. a widely
known and highly respected lawyer,
arraigned on a charge of petit larce
ny. His venerable father, who has
been the honored Judge ol the coun
ty for twenty-tour years, appeared
and asked that l e might prosecute
his own son as a mailer of duty ow
ing lo himself and the State. He lh?n
conducted the examination, and at its
close said he was satisfied beyond a
donbt that liisjson was guilty,and when
referred to the aid spectacle of a
father prosecuting his own son he
burst into tears, while bis powerful
frame shook with the violence of his
grief. The Police Judge found tiie
bov guilty of stealing a coat from a
Common Pleas juryman, and then
pawning it for money, but re-etved
sentence until to-da y.—Dayton
(Ohio) Journal, March 17ti
Pottery Pictures!
Tho largest and handsomest assortment of
PICTURES FOR POTTERY DECORATION,
ever brought to Athens,
AT PANIC PRICES,
i---
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SQg.13.tf.
BURKE’S BOOK STORE.
Mrs- Pnrti.pgton, in illustration of
the proverb “A soft answer tornctb
away wrath, ’’ says that “It is better
to speak paregorically of a person than
to be all tbe time flinging eptUpbs at
him*”
Impression of what ?”
On. bother—the type ! when it is
first printed on tiie galley, that is
called a proof, and they call it ‘prov
ing the matter.’ ”
“Oh, I see. Docs the g dley print
it?”
“ No, the ‘devil!’ *
“ Oh! My dear!” she cried in tones
of reproach. “ Why will you use
eucli words ?”
“I was not swearing. The ap
prentice around a printing office is
known a- ‘the devil.’”
“Oh r
“ The proof sheet which he makes
after going to the proof-reader, is re
turned to the printers and the correc
tions are made.’’
* Corrections made in what ?”
'Die m-tter, my dear. It is then
given t„ the foreman.*’
What, the proof ?”
No, the matter.’’
And wlial docs he do wllll it?”
Will you wait a minute?’’
The foreman lakes the matter and
places in tiie lorin.”
What kind of a form.”
Air iron chase, which, when it
lias all the news in it which is in
type, and it is locked up, is called a
form.”
“ Locked up! How
” With quoins and side-sticks.”
“ Slicks and qoins—ha, lia, ha- -
what kind ot coins ?”
“Not coins, but quoins, q-O-o—
I-n-s ”
“ And what ire they ?”
*• Goodness gracious, any more
question- ? A quoin,” he resumed,
“ is a small block and is wedged in
between tbe chasa and side-sticks with
a ‘shooting-stick.’”
•‘A shooting-stick! How Joes it
shoot?”
and gory. We did no 8'*ch tiling, than it pleases. Buy a bottle from
The corpse was washed and put in ; VO ur druugist, R. T. Brumby & Co,
good shape, ami we defy any man to ‘ J,,,,] t0 st Its merits.
show that there was a drop of gore ! —
about him. It is true that we carved I Some practical jokeis encased the
not a line and we raised not a stone, j carcass of a horse iu red flannel, set it
because there was no stone-mason | afloat in tbe Ohio just above Madison,
handy who would do the j 4> at rea
sonable figures. About this time we
heard the distant and random gun
that the tbe was su'len'y fh'iug; so we
adjourned the funeral, left tiie de
ceased alone iu his glory, ami made
ourselves scarce in that vie nitv.
Itid , and passed the word by wire
down the banks of the river tha t Boyn
ton was coming. Skiffs shot on t for miles
along the river as tbe dead steed
drifted down, and at Madison the en
tire populace crowded to the warves.
The sell v as a success.
Kis Preference.
\ sanitary policeman who had
business on Divi-ion street yesterday
had his attention attracted to the
conduct of a two-headed hoy of 10
who dodged out ot a liou-e, crossed
the street and returned and went ov>t
the same route several times. The
officer asked if his mother vva3 sick,
and the lad chuckled end replied:
“Not very sick! She’s mad at the
woman over there, and I’m earryiiur
telegrams between ,em Mother first
asked her to take it ha' k. but she
wouldn't, then mother dared her out,
but she wouldn’t come, then she
called mo* her names, and now I’m
going over to tell her that mother says
that her sister is in the Work House.
I think that will .start her.”
“Are you anxious for peace between
them?’’ a-ked the the ofSc r
“Well, kinder, but as long as ma
has got her mad up and a towel tied
over ber hair, I’d a leetle rather sec
the show open!”
. There is a pocket telephone stretched
acro-s from the house of a young man
in this town lo the window ot his
sweetheart jnst op(>osite. They are to
be married soon, and it is a touching
sight to watch the little sparrows perch
on the string and peck at the taffy as
it slides along between-their toes.—
Waterloo Observer.
The Death-rate of
Our country is getting to be fear
fully alarming, the average of life
being lessened every year, without
any reasonable cause, death resulting
ceuerally Iroin the most insignificaut
origin. At this season of the year
especially, a cold is such a common
thing that in the burry of every day
life we are apt to overlook the dan
gers extendin'! it and often find too
late, that a Fever or Lung trouble
has already set iu. Thousands lose
fowl was now plenty; disease was un
checked. and deaths continued to ih-
crease in number per diem. Twenty
thousand corpse, filthy masses ofsores,
lay emittting a horrible stench be
neath a few feet of gravelly soil
Those who dug the trenches were
often asphyxiated. Whole families
lay dying and dead together, and the
terrible scone was like one which
George Elliot describes in “Romola.”
At Pacatuha, with 3.500 population,
tbe deathrate was 120 a day. The
loss in population has be ;n over 500,
000—sixty per cent, —and a new
plunge, called the “black smallpox,”
threatens to renew these horrors.
It seems that the devastation might
have been stayed by vaccinnation,
by discreet feeding under military
direction, by c'.ear.iug and _ burning
contaminated huts and bedding, and
decent burial. But the government
was criminally remiss in its duty.
All the good done emanated from a
fow courageous and generous men.
We have no reason to think that the
narrative of there facts, the details of
which are sickening, is at all exagger
ated. A more horrible combination
of all the miseries of famine aud pes
tilence is not recorded in history, and
the plunges of Athens and of London
scarcely deserve mention beside this
one. And yet the world was igno
rant of all this, and the ignorant aud
willful ueg'igence of the government
of Brazil seems to have afforded every
means for t' e spread aud fatality^ of
the pestilential famine, while opening
no way for its correction.
Ax ediur’s life is full ol sunny spots
—sunny as the south side of a straw
stack iu May—and one of them is
^vhen, in the gratitude of his heart,
he stands treat to a man who praised
his paper, announced himself a sup-
potter. and a constant reader of it and
promised to advise all of his frieuda to
support it in tbe same way, only to
discover the enthtinastic man s snppoit
Why Will You
Allow a cold to advance in your
system and thus encourage more seri
ous maladies, such as Pueumonia,
Hemorrhages and Lung troubles
when a i immediate relief can be so
readily attained, lioschee's German
Sump has gained the largest sale in
The Thin Mau from Dayton.
Yesterday morning, soou alter the
eating stands on the Central Market
had been thrown open t" the maw of
the hungry publit, and while Mix
Jiagruder was telling a small I ov
that she could hold up her hand and
swear that she never used beans in
her coffee, a stranger came along and
asked if he could get a bile lo eat.
Mrs. Magruder has been on the mar
ket for many years, and she thinks
she knows a thing or two. She has
flattered heisclf that she could tell to
a bite just liow much a customer
could e: t, and she has for years li: d
an undisguised contempt tor thin
bodied, spare-faced men. who try to
chew their coffee and mince their
toast.
This stranger w.is a little better
than a eixtbot shadow. His fore
ground consisted of a shirt-collar and
a mouth as big as a mince-pic, and the
perspective revealed not hitg but two
hollow eyes set below a thin line of
sandy eyebrows. He remai ked that
lie had just arrived from Dayton, aud
was somewhat hungry, but wanted
first to inquire how much his break-
last would cost him, as he was rather
short of funds.
“Oh! I suppose you may be able to
worry down six or seven cents’ worth
of provisions and a cup of coffee, ” she
replied-
‘Suppose you say twenty-five cents
tor all I want to eat ?” he said, as the
corners of his eyes began to twitch. ’
Mrs- Magruder looked him over
and meutally calculated that she
would make just thirteen cents by tiie
bargain, and she replied:
‘•1 must have my money in advance,
you know. ’’
“Oh, certainly—here it is. Now,
then. I’m to eat my fill for the
quarter?”
She said that was the undfrstand-*
ing, and winked at the woman in the
next stall. The thin man from Day-
ton doubled up on a stool, opened his
mouth, and a fried sausage went out
of sight so quickly that the last end
seemed to smoke. A fried cake fol
lowed, then a secoud sausage, and
after a gulp or two the man handed
out his cup with the words;
“That tastes like real coffee—gimme
some more. ”
While she was tilling the cup he
got away with two hot biscuits and a
slice of beef, and the coffee came just
in time lo wa-h down a hunk of mince
pie. lie could use loth aims and his
mouth nt once, and he atteudi-d-s'.r.ci-
ly to business. When Mrs. Magruder
had filled the third cup tier-smile had
quite vanished. She saw that she
wouldn’t come out even, without re
sorting to strategy, and she began
asking questions. The man answered
none ot them except by a mournful
shake ot the head. Crash! crash!
went his jaws, and he reached out
from the shoulder like clock work.
M rs Magruder called his attention to
a dog fight across the way, but he
eat faster than ever. The bell struck
9 and she remarked that a big con
flagration was raging at the Union
depot, but the man did not raise his
eyes.
When Mrs. Magruder discovered
that she was at least six shillings
behind she said that she was a “poor
widow with five children lo sup
port. ”
How I do pity you 1” replied the
tu-.in as lie passed his cup with one
haod and raked in a biscuit with the
oilier.
Then Mrs. Magruder told a story
about a man dropping dead on the
market the day before on accouut of
overeating, bit the raan got away
with two fried cakes and replied:
“Curious how some folks will make
hogs of themselves.”
At length Mrs Magruder wanted
to know how much longer he could
stand it, and the thin man from Day-
ton gave her a reproachful glance and
answered:
Have I thus early fallen in with
swindlers and falsifiers?’’
She let him go on for three or four
minutes more, and then she hinted
that a detective was prowling around
there evidently “spotting” some one.
“If he’ll only give me twenty-five
minutes to finish my breakfast, he
can take me and be hanged!” an
swered the man, and his arms worked
faster than ever.
Mrs Magruder was cornered. Sha
laid his money down and asked him
for the sake of her poor orphans to
move on and leave her at least one
fried-cake as a business foundation.
He paused with his cup held out for
the seventh time, and perhaps some
thing in her tearful look reminded
him of bis poor dead mother, for he
said :
Well, I am only human, and I
admit that my heart is tender. I
don’t like to break off in the middle
of my breakfast, but I’ll take the
money and move on for four chil
dren’s sake. *
He got up looking just as mnch
like a lath as when he sat down, and
when he was out of sight Mrs. Ma-
gruder turned to the desolate ruins
and groaned out:
“I’ll Like my solemn oath if four
dollars would make me good for this,
and I must tell my husband that I
fitted out a schooner on trust ?”
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Throat and Lungs, Boschee's German
Syrup has proven itself to be the
greatest discovery of its kind in med
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try will tell you of its wonderful ef
fect. Over 950,000 battles sold last
year without a single failure known,
tfold by R. T. Bruinby & Co.
To promote kappines in the domes-
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prescription, and is prepared with
the greatest care, and no fear peed
be entertained in administering it to
the youngest child, a* per directions.
The sale of this medicine is unprece
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has been a constant increasing demand
and without a single report ot a fail
ure to do its work in any case. Ask
vour Druggist as to the truth of
these remarks. Large size 75 cents.
Try it and be convinced. Sold by
B,T. Brumb)- «fc Co,
Running matches ot ten and twenty
miles took place in Gilmore’s Garden,
New York, on Saturday night. Juhu
Simpson; of Englahd, one of Rowell’s
trainers; Noruian Taylor, of Vermont;
John E. Owens, of Virginia; John
Raine, of Canada; Henry Naylor, of
New York, and Dominique Yerau’.t,
ol Canada, where the contestant lor
two prizes, each of $250. Simpson
covered 10 miles in 1 hocrSOi seconds,
and won the first prize, and Taylor
made 20 miles in 2 horns 9 minutes
and 58§ seconds, taking the second
prize. Owens was the only other
. man to keep np well, but he 'dropped
I out on his 16th mile wheli Taylor was
on his 19{h.