The Middle Georgia argus. (Indian Springs, Ga.) 18??-1893, April 07, 1881, Image 1

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W. F. SMITH, Pablisher. VOLUME VIII. NEWS GLEANINGS, The grain trade of New Orleans is aleadily increasing. There are 368 preachers in the North Alabama Conference. A lame beggar of New York makes on an average about $1,140 ayer. John Sherman is worth $1,500,000, mostly Washington real estate. An oleomargarine manufactory has been established at New Orleans. The artesian well in Corsicana, Texas, has reached the depth of 910 feet. Four North Carolina papers note an increase of crop mortgages in their sev eral localities. The farmers of Alabama and Georgia have sowed oats this season more gen erally than ever before. Bishop Fabre, of Montreal, condemns as a sin the practice of swearing Roman Catholic witnesses on a Protestant Bible. In the Arkansas House of Representa tives there are twenty-four natives of Tennessee and twenty-three natives of Arkansas. The State Agricultural Department of North Carolina has been experimenting in the cultivation of jute with the most satisfactory results. Atlanta, Savannah, Augusta and Ma con, four Georgia cities, have an aggre gate population of 100,860, and an ag gregate indebtedness of $8,387,000. The firat cotton factory built in South Carolina was one erected in Sumter county by Mr. Durant. It was driven foj horse-power, but was* not a success. The Knoxville Tribune says that there are numbers of faring in Tennessee upon which the fences amount to fifty per cent, of the value of the property. It is that during the period 1870-75 or,e-fifth of the entire area of the State of Mississippi has been forfoitcd for unpaid taxes—6,soo,ooo acres, 10,000 square miles. The English government intends stop ping the rum ration to naval officers and to boys up to twenty. Chocolate will be substituted. The glory of the English navy may now depart. Rabbi feonneschein, of St. Louis, advo cates a union of Jews and Unitarians. He says there is not‘the slightest differ ence in character, standing, human worth or dignity between Jew and Chris tian. “Kordig Essence” is the name of a newly-disc,overed mineral essence which produce's light without heat. One can plunge, his hand or head in the burning liqui'l and have no unpleasant sensa tion is. Austin (Tex.) Statesman: A fierce dog ran after Emma Grutzrier, a bright little eleven-year-old girl of San Antonio, and when the brute reached the horror *tricken child, she fell lifeless to the earth. She was absolutely frightened to death. The County Commissioners of Bullock •county, Ala., after six years of econmi -cal management, have paid over $30,000 which the county owed, and retire from office leaving a cash balance in the treasury. The Montgomery Advertiser says that the joint committee of the South and North Alabama Conference will meet in Birmingham to consider the establish ment of a Methodist paper, to be the bigan of that denomination in Alabama. The Covington (Ga.) Enterprise says it is beyond doubt that a coal mine has been discovered within six miles of Cov ington, and not more than three miles from the Georgia railroad. The samples of coal are said to be equal to that of the Coal Creek. ||The latest novelty in spiritualism* ia tbe production of ghostly lights in dark seances. The luminous shapes are crostias, circles, triangles, and other emblems, and they float mysteriously over the heads of the spectators. A Boston me dium is the producer. Spencer F. Baird intends to offer to the Atlanta Exposition the use of the celebrated and wonderful exhibit of cot ton fibre and fabrics made by the Chi nese empire at the Centennial, and sub sequently acquired by the Smithsonian Institute at Washington. Richmond State: The corn crop in irginia last fall was unusually large, while the W estern corn erop showed a decided falling ofl. It is generally the C * Be that grain-producing Illinois can place corn in this market at a much wer figure than Virginia c*n, but this year it is just the other way. Atlanta Constitution : The telephone Dlttittle (ficorgm Devoted to Mistrial Interest the Diffusion of Troth, the Establishment of Justice, and the Preservation of a People’s Government. is in complete working condition from Gainesville to Auraria, nineteen miles; Dahlonega, six miles, and Dawsonville, sixteen miles—forty miles in all. The hearing and recognition of voice over the whole line is as clear and distinct as if only a short distance away. An Oneida Indian, who is an ordained c l er gyman, preached in New York Sun day, and in the course of his sermon quaintly rebuked the sin of profanity. He said he was thankful that “the Creator did not give the Indian enough language to allow him to be profane without first learning English.” Speaking in the West Virginia House of Delegates Wednesday, on the dog bill, Mr. Lowry presented a table sent him by Gen. Walker, Superintendent of the Census, showing the number of sheep killed by dogs in West Virginia in 1879, and the total number is 10,209. The bill was passed. Yeas, sixty; nays, three. Wilmington (N. C.) Star: Lane’s North Carolina brigade, during the cam paign of 1863, lost in killed, wounded and missing 1,640 men. In the campaign beyond the Potomac the brigade num bered but 1,355 men. It lost 731 men. This tells the story. There were few such brigades in the army of Northern Virginia. About 800 laborers are employed in the rolling mill, furnaces and foundries of Birmingham, Ala.; about 400 in the coal mines of Coketon, six miles distant, and about 100 at Oxmoor, also six miles distant. The country around Birming ham is said to produce more corn, cotton, wheat, oats and potatoes, acre for acre, than the cane-brake. Mrs. Schneider, of St. Charles, Mo., slapped her twelve-year-old son Willie because he was naughty, and when Mr. Schneider came home to dinner he whipped Willie. Willie then went to the barn crying. When they found him an hour or two later he was hanging dead, suspended by a leather strap from a beam in the hay loft. The Atlanta Constitution: The rail ioads leading south from the Ohio river are blocked with corn, pork, weat, hay and other articles destined for Southern consumption, all of which should have been produced in the South itself. The very fact of the blockade is a sad com* mentary upon the agricultural enterprise of the South. The railroads cannot sup ply us with articles that our owh soil would gladly produce if it was tackled with the plow and the hoe. Chattanooga Times : The project for anew railroad to the top of Lookout is succinctly this: A horse track to the foot; go up on an incline to the point by stationary-engine power, taking car, horses and all; then a horse road back from the point to say near Chickamauga bluff, which has many advantages over the point as a hotel site, being well watered and having a large tract of fine surface in the vicinity. The matter is in the hands of live, energetic men of means. The proposed prohibition amendment to the State constitution of Texas reads as follows: The importation into and the manufacture or sale within this State of intoxicating liquors as a beverage is prohibited; provided, that the Legisla ture may exempt beer and native wines, unmixed with alcoholic liquors, from the provision of this section, and the Legislature shall at the first session after the adoption of this amendment enact laws to carry out the provisions hereof. The President of the New Orleans Board of Health says that part of the sickness and mortality in the rear of the city must be referred to the cultivation of rice, and that the Legislature of Lou isiana, the Board of Health and tne City Council of New Orleans should consider the subject of rice culture in its relations to the health of the city of New Orleans; and such ordinances should be considered and passed as will protect the inhabi tants from the effects of the destructive emanations of rice fields. The condition of the levees on the Lou isiana side of the Mississippi river from the Arkansas line, down as far as Pensas parish, is reported precarious. At Al satia the caving has cut out the apex of the triangle made by the levee, but the fall of the water prevents immediate further damage. At Millikin’s Bend the caving has cut to the top of the levee for three-eights of a mile, and in three places has cut the levee half in two. The town of Millikin’s Bend is in the active process of removal. A large force is throwing up a second levee. Americus (Ga.) Republican: The mem bers of Georgia in the United States INDIAN SPRINGS, GEORGIA. Congress of 1843, were: Senators, John McPherson, Berrien and Walter T. Col quitt ; Representatives, Edward J. Blacfc* Hugh A. Harrison, John H. Lumpkin, Howell Cobb, Wm. H. Stiles, Absalom H. Chappell and Alexander H. Stephens. Of all that delegation, Mr. Stephens, physically the frailest and who never had a well day, is the only one living now. Who would have not have picked him out then as the first, and not the last, victim to the insatiate archer s ar row. In a discussion of the divorce laws of Massachusetts before a legislative com mittee, Charles Cowley, of Lowell, men tioned that “a Judge of the Supericr Court of New York, often serving on the Supreme Bench, had gone abroad to marry when it would have been criminal to do sounder the New York laws, and had then returned. An adulterer was now wearing the judicial ermine in New York, and passing on divorce suits.” Alfred E. Giles argued in behalf of men marrying as many women as they loved, and declared monogomy to be the source of the worst evils.” A New York detective declares that physiognomies of criminals do not usually betray their occupation. To a Sun re porter he said : “Look over the 1,600 pictures in the Rogues’ Gallery, and you will see that there are types of some of the most prominent and unquestionably honest men in the United States. It would be unpleasant to name these un fortunate resemblances. Begging your pardon, I could show you the picture of a well-known pickpocket which might be taken for a poor likeness of yourself. Begging their pardon, I could show two of our police Captains their counterparty .n the gallery.” The Tyranny of Buttons. Among all the nnsaii fui woman’s natural inferiority to man the only one having real force has never been formulated; this is her meek and unquestioning submission to buttons. The buttons of the male habiliments are always coming off—notably before breakfast, when the average husband is about as amiable as a bear with a sore head. At this time, if he finds a button loose, he gives it a “yank,” and then looks about helplessly for his victim— the first woman coming into his field of vision. He holds the button up before her, says it has “come” off, and she is expected to sew it on straightway. Gen erally the Victim is his wife; and, though the baby may be crying, and the break fast preparations in need of supervision, while the tyrant himself has nothing on earth to do but make his toilet, and has, moreover, sewing materials right before him on the bureau or dressing-table, he never rises to the conception of his possible competence to supply bis own wants. Woman, in his eyes, is the pre ordained supervisor of buttons ; and a delicate consideration for her rights and prerogatives is his motive for relegating the task to her ; at least this is the way he apologizes, when in a playful mood, for his lack of deftnesß with the needle, which, as a rule, is wholly the fault of the women who had charge of his boy hood. They should have taught him to noplace the buttons he is forever wrench ing off with his rude fingering. One or two lessons about the time the boy be gins to go to school, a little work-box placed in his room, containing needles, thread, two or three kinds of buttons and an open-top thimble—the only kind that ever should be worn—and the prob lem is solved for a l: feiim6; for whatever one is accustomed to do from childhood one does easily and dexterously. Wom en have shown their capacity for accom plishments and attainments supposed to be exclusively masculine. It is time for a corresponding display of ambition and adaptability on the part of men ; and they cannot make a better beginning than by learning to sew on their own buttons. Unde Mose Tams Ore? a New Leaf. A neighbor, with a coffee-cup in her hand, called in on Uncle Mose, remark ing : “Unele Mose, I wants to borjy a cup ob parched Coffee from you for breakfas’ till to-morrer.” “Go right to de box on de shef and hep yersef.” The neighbor did as requested, but discovered the box to be as empty as the head of a Legislator. “ Uncle Mose, dar’s no parched coffee in dis heah box.” “Does yer know why dar ain’t no coffee in dat ar box ? ” “ No, doesn’t know nuffin’ abont it.” “ Dar ain’t no coffee in dat ar box,” said the old man, solemnly, “ bekase dat ar am de returned coffee-box. Ef yer had brang back all de coffee yer bor rowed last year hit would be plum full.” —Galveston News. Conversation between two schoo boys: First boy—“l have been down to have my head felt of by a phrenolo gist ” Second boy—“ What did he say?” First boy—“Oh, he said I had a great brain, but my body wasn’t equal to it, and he told my Guv’nor hed orter take me out o’ school for a year, and just let me play to rest and develop my physique, and Guv’nor s going to do it * Second boy is now pestering his father to take him to the phrenologist’s. Cigarettes. A few years ago cigarettes in their present form were unknown. Cigarettes, so-called, were of Spanish make, so loosely rolled that they required reroll ing by resident smokers. Then was in vogue, and is now to a less extent, the practice of making one’s own cigarettes. Properly shaped and sized papers were furnished, in which Turkish tobacco was rolled by the ostentatious young smoker. Then sprang up manufactories of cigar ettes already rolled and prepared for the smoker. Th/a increase in manufacture has hardly kept pace with the demand, for it is said that during last summer the supply at some watering places fell short. Cigarettes used more in summer than in winter, as the bare hand finds it un comfortable jy*cf the gloved hand comes clumsily Id*the business. At first cigar ettes were simply rolled and papered later, mouthpieces were added of paste board, wood, corn husk and glass, the latter being last year’s addition Facto ries are in New York, Baltimore Roches ter and elsewhere, and the larger ones employ from five hundred to one thous and operatives in rolling cigarettes. One cigarette-making firm has an automatic machine that performs the labor of many operatives. Paper and tobacco are fed in at one end, and from the other comes out cigarettes ready for use. The perique cigarettes are made in Louisiana. Per ique tobacco grows only in certain parts of this State. It is put into rolls and al lowed to remain until cured, and satur ated to the requisite state of blackness and strengths The wooden mouthpiece cigarettes come from Virginia; those with glass ends are made in Baltimore, and the brisk variety in New Orleans. Turkish cigarettes from Dresden, St. Petersburg and Odessa and other places, made from tobacco grown in both Asiatic and Euro pean Turkey, have limited sale, owing to the increased cost, which is a hundred per centum greater than American cigar ettes. The sale, as already intimated, in creases. Ail classes smoke cigarettes. The old smoker may be wedded to liis cigar, but in Ids moments of brief leisure, or snort interim in business, suggest the quickly consumed little cigar, unless he is like a noted literary man who collected stumps, and then made it a rule to smoke so many cigar# and sdfpian? stuffibs Per day, Until the block of the latter was consumed. The objective point of the anti-tobacco society should be cigarettes, for they have aided, as nothing else has, to make youthful smokers. After a diet of sweet fern the boy passes to cigar ettes. From smokiiig a full power cigar he is likely to lie under the fence, for the greater part of a day, but the cigarette is not so mastering, and in time the young smoker passes to the strongest of tobacco stimulants. —Providence {R. Z) Journal. The Mining Prospects. Behold the prospector who wandereth over the face of the earth. He traversetk the hills and picketk the barren mountains with his pick. The pangs of hunger grip his bowels in the morning, and at night he lieth down with only a blanket to Cover him. And the graybacks come forth and rend him. And he lifteth up a voice of lamenta tion in the wilderness and cries aloud to heaven: “ Why has this affliction come upon me, and why do the terrors of hell com pass me round about ?” And while he sleeps the wolves devour liis substance. And when he findefeli the croppings he diggeth in tile ground and tacketh up the location notice on the board. Then he hieth to the valleys and say 'eth to the capitalist: " Itelirken unto me, for I have struck it big. Here are the samples from the ground, and behold the gold maketk lousy the rock with richness” And the twain return to find others coiling upon the claim. And the prospector graspeth his gun, saying : , , "“Getye gone from here, ior tins is holy ground.” Aud a fire coming out of the bush smites him on the hip, and he calleth with a loud voice ; “ I am done for; take off my boots.” And they hasten to take off his boots, and the fragrance of his socks reacheth unto heaven. And he giveth up his ghost and is gathered to his fathers. And behold, others work the mine. — Nevada Monthly. A Young Lady’s Heart Misplaced. A eurioas case of malposition of the heart was recently discovered by a phy sician in a patient who was consulting him for spinal trouble. The woman is about twenty years old, of good form, handsome face and pleasing disposition. A careful study of the precis© locality and form of the heart shows it to be trans ferred to the right side of the chest, and instead of the apex beating just below the breast, it stakes upward against the right collar-bone, near ite outer third. In this case there most be a double curb to the large vessels of the heart, and the base of the heart is doavnward. In other words, heart is on the wrong side of the bodv, and is upside down. This unnatural’ condition of things does not give rise to any inconvenience, except when moving too quickly or going up stairs, when the organ beats with painful violence against the ot>llar-bone, where its motion is plainly viable.— New York Mercury. A wjtjcr ssy s at the. majority of pytTi \j they could ha'gfe tfceir own way, rrffi-Md net house than onoe in ttbi veaxs. Thera maw be fellows as that, but _ IN A BEAR’S CLUTCHES. A Tonne Woman’s I>f*pernte Mtra(fl< at the MouU of a Cavn (Damascus Correspondence of the Ph-ladelpbla Time*.] Lottie Merrill, the female huntei of this section, has had another adventure worthy of record and one which came so near costing her her life that she will prob ably in the future never resume her masculine sport. Just after the great sleet storm which swept over the coun try, Lottie determined to go deer hunt ing. Donning her snow shoes she started to cross Drig Swamp, a dense mass of scrub oaks and laurel. When she had reached the centre of the marsh she dis covered the foot prints of a very largo bear on the crust. She followed the trial out of the swamp for about two miles, when she discovered the den which the animal inhabited. Entering the cave she found two little cubs on a bed of leaves in one corner. The cubs were about the size of kittens and were easily captured. Lottie was just emerging from the cave when she was met by an immense she bear. The bear had heard the cubs yell and was making all possible speed to rescue them. Before Lottie could draw her rifle to her shoulder the animal was upon her and grasping her in her paws gave her such a terrible squeeze that she faiuted, when the bear, thinking her dead, released her grip. She for tunately regained consciousness quickly, and while the old bear was playing with her cubs the plucky hunter drew her rifle and shot her in the side. The bul let did not strike the animal’s heart, and as the brute dashed at her again Lottie drew her hunting knife and with one bold stroke nearly served the bear’s head from the body. Lottie was just congratulating herself on her successful escape when the dead bear’s mate made his appearance. Lot tie’s rifle was unloaded and she was totally unprepared for a second encounter, but determined to “tight it out.” The struggle was a long one. Fortunately the young lady was not encumbered in her motion by petticoats, for in all her hunting expeditions she wears pantaloons of doeskin, with a long blouse. When, finally, Lottie thought the bear was dead she stooped over to cut his throat, and the animal. witl> ln “ iaonstrours paw, tore the clothing almost, completely from her body. During the protracted struggle the bear had reached the edge of a cliff fully a hundred feet high and sloping at an angle of more than forty-five degrees down to the Wal linpaupack Creek. As the animal grab bed Lottie he commenced sliding on the slippery crust down this almost per pendicular slope. Lottie was carried with him, and every foot of distance tra versed added to their velocity. When they reached the foot of the slope they struck against a tree, completely killing the. bear and breaking two of Lottie’s ribs, her left arm and one of her limbs. She managed, however, to crawl about a mile to a house, where she received medical teatment. The first bear killed weighed, when dressed, four hundred and three pounds, and the male one, four hundred and eighty-four pounds. Lot tie, who is improving slowly, has the cubs in her possession, but she says it Will be some time before she will take another expedition of this kind. He Had Reasons* One day last fall a queer sort of an old man hired a boat and rowed out on the river a little below Yonkers to fish. So far as could be observed from the banks he had no luck. He went out about 10 in the morning and at 4 in the afternoon he sat in the same position, held his fishpole the same way, and had evidently settled down to stay there all night; Pretty soon a steamboat came rushing along down the river. She was headed directly for the fisherman, who was in mid channel; She blew her whistle to warn him, but after a glance over his shoulder he resumed the old attitude. The steamer came nearer and nearer; and the old man, was observed to ye a sudden sintt and pay more attention io his line. When too late, the pilot tried to stop and avoid the accident. The skiff was struck broadside and splintered to pieces, and for two or three minutes it was believed that the old man was drowned. Then someone espied him in the wake of the boat, and he was fished out. “ Didn’t you hear us whistle ?” asked the Captain, as the dripping man stood before him. “Yes; andl whistled back!” was the reply, “We whistled for you to get out of the wav.” “ And I whistled to let you know that I’d be darned if I would. ” “ Had you any reasons for hanging to the channel ?” “ Reasons ! I guess I had ! I had fished there for six hours without a nib ble, and just as you came along I’d hooked a perch, which I honestly be lieve weighed mighty nigh a pound ! Drat your old steamboat, but I’ll make you pay for that fish as well as the dam ages ! I was six hours catching him, and I won’t settle for a farthing less than 50 cents.”— Wall Street Daily 2^ews. Inflammatory Information. The Louisville Courier-Journal, which is an authority on matches of all kinds, says : “It has been developed that 85,- 613,000,000 are consumed every year in the United States, or 700 for every man, woman, child, and baby. Adding to these the number of all that are made between the hard and soft sexes it is ap parent the inflammable business is gen erally pretty brisk in the nation. The Baltimorean says: “A painted woman is only a picture of health. SIWBCRIPTION--SI.SO. NUMBER 32. HUMORS OF THE DAT. A derrick is a bivalve because it is a hoister. The way for a bad boy to go on a ben der is over his mother’s knee. Most people that see trouble would be happier if they would close their eyes. “Teeth inserted without payin’—” remarked the tramp, as he bit into a stolen pie. Brigham Young had eleven ohildreu by his wife, Eliza, and ho called her his fertilize. Young people are always ready to adopt the “latest wrinkle. ” It is the'flrst wrinkle that they object to. No wonder we have white milk, ’cause the the kick of a cow is enough to turn the milk-pail. —Kokomo Tribune. “ You can’t comet,” sho remarked to him, as he tried to snatch a kiss from her rosy lips, as they were out star-gazing the other evening. The lad reached up for Auntie's cake, Rut quickly made a pause, l>'or something grasped his collar, and lie knew ’twas Antic's claws. —DankUoni Ult Sentinel. Curiosity shop—“ Oh, what a lovely vase. It’s antique, is it not?” “No, ma’am, it’s modern.” “ What a pity! it was so pretty.” The Baltimore Every Saturday com mences an item with “An old woman died in the west end last week. ” It is supposed the result was just as fatal as if she died all'over. An old bachelor who was called to an account for still remaining in single wretchedness gave as a reason that “ Congress hasn’t yet removed the tax on matches, you see.” A young man who lived at St. Paul Came here and attended a ball, He made love to a belle, W hen she said go to—well He drowned himself in the canawl. — Kokomo Tel bane. The father who punishes a lad for the pranks he himself has played usually takes a fair view of the case. At least he doesn’t take a “once-I-did” view of it.— Boston Post. “ Look here, boy, this is a miserable certificate your teacher sends me of your son. ” 'Taint my fault. I didn’t have the getting up of it, or it would have been all right.” “ Etiquette” writes to us to inquire if in our opinion it would be proper for him to support a young lady if she were taken with a faint—even if he hadn’t been introduced. Proper, young man, certainly—prop her by all means. The train had just rolled iuto the sta tion, and little Charley. Btood listening a moment to the sound of the Westing house escape. Then, turning to Ins father, he said: “Pa, the engine’s all out o’ breath, ain’t it?”— Boston Tran script. Just why a man should be ashamed to own that he is injured by a fall we don’t see, but ninety-nine men out of a hundred on getting up from a slippery spot, will lie like butchers, and say: “Not hurt at all,” when in truth they are bruised and skim in over twenty places. —Boston Post. Tiie cliild of a very fashion able family was sick, and the colored servant was sent to the drug store with a prescription. “If the child can not keep the first pow der on its stomach, you must give it an other one,” remarked the clerk as he pasted on the label. “ You don’t reckon we would give him the same powder ober again, does yer ? We ain’t no poor folks, we ain’t. ” —• Medical Journal. Here is a good illustration of the mo tives by which most men are moved: A Sunday school teacher said: “Now, children, if a boy should strike you on your ivay to school, it would be your duty to forgive him, wouldn’t it?” “Yes, ma’am,” from the whole class. “And yon would really forgive him, wouldn t you?” One little fellow answered with calm deliberation, “Yes, ma’am; I think I would, ’specially if he was bigger than lam.” Laughter. There is not the remotest corner or little inlet of the minute blood vessels of the human body that does not feel some wavelet from the convulsion occasioned by good hearty laughter. The life prin ciple, or the central man, is shaken to the innermost depths, sending new tides of life and strength to the surface, thus materially tending to insure good health to the persons who indulge therein. The blood moves more rapidly and con vevs a different impression to all the organs of the lx>dy, as it visits them on that particular mystic journey when the man is laughing, from what it does at other times. For this reason every good, hearty laugh in which a person indulges lengthens his life, conveying, as it does, new and distinct stimulus to the vital forces. Doubtless the time will come when physicians, conceding more im portance than they now do to the in fluence of the mind npon the vital forces of the body, will make up their prescrip tions more with reference to the mind and less to drugs for them; and will, in so doing, find the best and most effective method of producing the requir e effect upon the patient. For articles of rubber which have be come hard and brittle Dr. Pol recommends the following treatment. Immerse the articles in a mixture of water of ammonia one part and water two parts, for a time varying from five minutes to an hour, according to the circumstances of the case. When the mixture has acted enough on the rubber ft will be found to I have recovered all its elasticity, smooth* I ness, and softness.