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n.ifrfiTL,
ip* discovery, the microphone, a little in
^!' 1Ch bec, ™ ea L the ear
Great BrHa^w^wh^exiiedmonUne element!
With the telephone found a new
through fecting which he has succeeded in per
and instrument by which sound
is magnified or increased, and conveyed
by a wire in a wonderful manner. The
microphone of Mr. Fallon’s, imported
from England, is a simple little affair,
bvih r ri,l&TvreaSs corner Ve oi n ?onr
bits which of rubber reits°to one at thifS each attaehed°a on
B
small ordinary battery; a small piece
Of pure carbon is fastened with a bit of
Wire to the board, aud another piece of
carbon like an inch and a half pipe-stem
is pivoted near the centre from little
supports, one end resting upon the piece
t0 ’ tlie wires by
Cached kWum cofn^ted toedher^ othe^ corned , w”res of° the''toa^ Yhe
and by with
carbon vibrator and the battery ; the
as
mercury, of possesses the power not only
conductivity and of reproducing
sound, but of vastly increasing its power,
nvirtt 11 ^' ie ” most aicr .°? msi co l 8 ,e n T l6c ® vea nnt \ 8 of nature the e y«
s
to ou’r hearing 16
sound.
Mr. Fallon has connected with h is
microphone some 600 feet of wire, aud
in the room at the other end an ordl
nary Bell telephone attachment. Dur
ing the experiments which we made
^it anilthm^mh the assistance ot‘ Mr. Hideout,
noariv nn. ear^not 'the
of wire came to the onlv
separate ticking, °of resounding like th
heavy beating a marine or tower
clock, but we could clearly detect the
whirr of tlie minute wheels, the buzz
and friction of the delicate machinery
of the watch. Then the watch was re
moved, and the gentlest sweep of the
own of a feather, brushed as lightly as
eTm^So 4 ^ Uke r<
grating heavy of a file or the scraping of a
brush. Then a small wire cage,
the was placed on the instrument, and to
tinctly listening ear, 600 feet away, dis
came the soft and irregular pat
ter of the tiny feet, as the flies walked
V;, 1R b< ’ al d - and a8 tb f y fr om
°S e ° J . he r Cag t t0 rXu'pmetalhc tlie other the
ring altogether like that of the hammer
of a boiler-maker as he rivets the bolts
of the iron cylinder. We were some
what skeptical in relation to this last
experiment, it seemed so much beyond
credence, and the vvires were detached,
ment" with nn?v “ft °nf UlsU ' U ,'
iDGnt^ \\ ith only ji few w w f(-ofc of \v nc. «ind
we sat down in front of the little won
der and with our eves nnide pertain
that there was no possibility of deceit as
the source of ttie marvelous sounds to
which wc listened ; but there was no
difference, with the footfalls of the fly came
no seeming greater distinctness
than When transmitted through 600 feet
of wire, and we see no reason why miles
may not lie added with the same result.
Conversation in the room where the in¬
strument was located, without the in¬
tervention of a mouth-piece, as in the
telephone, was distinctly heard at the
other end of the wire.
A Relic of Gettysburg.
We have received a letter from
Geneva, N. Y., saying that a Mr. Henry
M. Mingay, ofPennYan, N. Y. had
just returned from a visit to the battle
field of Gettysburg. Among the relics
brought back by him was an ambro
type, found upon the remains of a Con
federate soldier, buried on the right
flank of the Union lines. It is a clear
and distinct picture, now, although
buried fifteen years. The figures are a
mother and two beautiful daughters,
the children being apparently about
twelve and seven years of age. It was
found on the farm of Mr. David Blocker,
on Blocker’s Hill, about one mile from
Gettysburg, on ground occupied by
Gordon’s brigade, on the morning of
July 1, 1863. Mr. Mingay believes it
was the grave of a member of the Thir
as n ® a rl ? a11
ed 8 to 4 that‘^particular P soldier YegimentT r Comi>an’v . l °Mr"
Mingay was a in vohirfteo^ D
Sixty-Ninth New York
during the war. He intends to have
the picture engraved and published in
one of the New York illustrated papers,
for recognition, so that friends picture may shall re
claim the remains, if this
be recognized. Should this meet tilO
eye of any who had relatives in iiiit,.
regiment, it would no doubt prove a
source of mournful pleasure to see these
isststk sssssw
the claimant .—Augusta News.
m Agjg-.---.j_- a London pajier. A cat belonging to
the V icar ot wootton had given birth
7Y not seem
. 11 M
Vm^wd Uct tr nnib! o,
she went about In
**• 3 “«■«• ornamental *"">• fV>
into the , pond in front of
the house. She was quickly rescued,
and a little brandy gi'en her. As she
e ” Se ?”!dZ. a ! -nl. S wa ? Iet
i.„ Li
ever Af «he theboni sn’Min ♦
out ran driJL J a
»nH ri! inv Ir ’
ana, piun mr fe ing in, ™ was arownea
.
Eight masked robbers stopped a rail
road train in the West the other day.
As the train contained an excursion
party of editors, the only loss was a loss
Qf time to robbers.
The Democrat
Vol. 2.
\ Miscellaneous:
bt boodiemuth.
“Is It possible, Rita, that you have really
dismissed Guy Danton for such a trifle ?”
"»o you call it a trifle, Rosa, for Guy to
te, ‘ Re S« ie IIar<lrock that 1 was lovin * hiu *
to kill > aud that he had ent *‘ rt ‘ d int0 an
engagement with me to humor me, but it
was merely a temporary consignment on
his part, do you call that a trifle ?”
“Whose word have you for all this, and
are you perfectly convinced of the truth of
this? ”
“Reggie told me last Sunday. Shall I
•«"«** ‘ be day ’ ** 2 *‘ b day * **
lms - Ab 1 Rosa, to doubt its truth would
madden me. I dare not doubt now ; indeed,
to know it is the truth would help me to
rouse my pride. For it is donefnow, and we
are parted.”
“Not forever if you love each other ; you
] 0ve Guy, but your pride is greater than
^ur love, or .you would tell Guy the whole
affair ”
“Tell Guy the whole affair ! You surely
can’t realize my position. Suppose it is
true, and it must be true, how would it look
now for me to go to him and say, Guy I
have been told you are flirting with ine, is
it true? Would that not be equivalent to
, ay j np I love you, S and here I am ready «?
for you to * ake ~ « want me and
you don’t marry me it will kill me. No, a
thousand times no ! If Guy is true to me,
God hl l P me, for I shall never be the same
again. If he is false, as I’ve been told, lie
shall never know that I regret his loss. He
shall think that I am the one who was
tiirtiug. But, oh ’ Rosa, it is a heavy burden
tobl>a r. The future is sodarkand drear. I
s,lal1 never lov e another as I loved him.
Uo was my lloro ’ “> ideal of everything
that w “ a nol) 1 c> g ood and true, and now to
1ind bim tliat most contemptible of things—
a male flirt—hurts me to tlie death. When
I see him I avoid looking at him, for 1 can’t
bear it. Yet 1 know I over-reach myself in
the reckless gayety J indulge in when I am
where he is, but there are no close observers,
thank ’ bUt ’ ° h : K -’. 1 -»«“ ^
my sou 8 10 P es °f eternal bliss just to be
as 1 was a week ago.”
“Yes, 1 believe Guy to be true to you.
Have you ever thought of the fact that Mr.
Hardrock is a suitor for your hand, and do
you suppose he did not think there would
be more chance for him than if Guy was
not ip the way, besides I’ve thought months
a ^lmt.half Mr. H said .UouM luAakoh
Wlth a pinch ot ® a,t -
tell you what I thought IM never
divulge to any human, but perhaps it may
comfort you to know that others have
suffered sorrows like unto yours and vet
i ivc . 1 once was engaged to a young man
to whom I was devotedly attached, though
'l“ r enga « e " UM ’ . was swcct t
our(, "“ SL ' W( ' -
There was another young man coming to
see me » who was cousin to my lover, one
day he told me ho knew of my engagement
to this young man ; on being pressed to tell
how lie gained his knowledge, he told me
that my lover—his cousin—informed him,
and also told him furthermore that he had
no idea of marrying me. He said he felt it
his duty to tell me how matters stood.
Right then I caine near marrying him out
of sheer gratitude for his generous warn¬
ing. However, I did not, and matters went
Oh till I began to doubt this fine story with
which he had parted us. So about two years
after our parting we met and he spoke to
me - He told he had been miserable for
c, i?ht months after we parted, and desired my
marriage above all things, and seemed to
talk as if his love had burned out at the
end of the eight months.
-.-sun “ 1,1 t 1 8tiflcd my pr,de - for 1 f *' ]t that . , 1
iRht . 1 1,ave wron8ed hlra m the basty
coring of the ., engagement, and I thought
it due both to him and myself that I should
explain why I had acted as I did. I -lid not
spare myself, telling him the whole circum
stances, how truly I loved him but I was
made to believe him fatso to me I also
tohl him T nmv w-in ?' m-ii-vo i 1 w* as
' '
dec , « lv( , \ d , , and , that . I was very sorry ; asked
hls pardon and wo have been friends ever
amce -
“But, Kosa, did he never say anything
al)0llt coming back as a suitor again? If
hedidn,t thpn 1 doubt if yon " ere far
wron f? in breaking with him. 1 tell you, true
>°y ‘ U1 e obstacles, will overcome condone ail difficulties, all offences, surmount and over
look a11 imperfections. It is chicfest of all
blessings, and if I were in your place I’d
nQt w, ‘ ar the willow another hour. Depend
upon it, if he had really loved you, he would
have only boeu too glad to accept your ex
planation.
“1 suppose then if it be ten years and you
fi d wronging Guv and you make
„»« b„l,«
them to remain constant to one face, and
when the tide turns th« other way, we may
expect nothing but for them to be on with
the new love, before they are off with the
#,d - I should esteem a man who had been
uld esteem him above all ,! ‘T othere, «»* it
matters not how old or how ugly he might
be, if he ^could convince me that he
wa * or could be true and constant
to one woman under the belief that she did
notlovehirn * I would make a throne in
my heart and seat him upon it to fall down
before it, and do homage thereto, as to the
latest and eighth wonder of the world .
But casting all sarcasm aside, I am sorry you
were so hasty, for remembering my case, if
you truly love Guy it will be bad, for it
will perhaps end as mine did, and’’—
Crawfordville, Georgia, Se&tembt. 27,1878.
wSil'JK'SSiT?
if I have been deceived, bow am I ever to
find out whether Guy was true or false!
1 merely wrote him a note breaking the
engagement, and hinting pretty strongly
that he mi * ht h »« sometime ago that
1 was tini of ». and requesting my letters,
promising his in return. I never deceived
him but once in my life, and that was In
reply to his note, that he wrote in answer
to mine, when I tried to put him on the
wrong track ; for above all things I dreaded
for him to think that 1 had found out he
was trifling, for in that case he could have
-« d ’ «» '’ictory is mine anyway, for she
never would have turned me adrift if she
bad not learned that I was after the same,
One moment 1 want him to think that I do
not love him, the next I am nearly dead to
put my hand in his, and tell himthat I love
him better than aught else on earth. Well if I
ever get over this love fever I’ll never love
again. There is but one man on earth
outside of <!u >’ 1 wouId ^cr marry. I do
not say I will marry him, but if 1 do not
™ a rry cither Guy or Elbert Thines, I'll
never marry. I loved Elbert when 1 was a
child and I know that ho loves me ; but I ex
Pect to marry no one, but to become an old
m »‘d, and go about waiting on the sick and
try to make others happy if I am not.”
“Do not be so down-hearted, Rita Jif yon
and Guy really love each other it will come
out all right. The darkest hour is just be
fore dawn. Here dismiss the whole affair
from your mind and come lie down in my
room al ‘d take a nap, you were weeping all
night.”
Hita Morris was a bright eyed, clierrv
cheeked, warm-hearted Southern girl, (from
dear old Georgia) on a six months visit to
her cousin Rosa Beaufort, whose home
among the mountains of the old Vermont,
had seemed an earthly paradise, since here
it was she was wooed an won by the man
of her choice ! Guy Danton.
As we see by her conversation with Rosa,
she and Guy are parted, and ’twas with a
heavy heart that she followed Rosa’s ho^nglt ad
a " d take a sleep,
would benefit her head which was paining
her terribly. But she little dreamed the
mission Rosa was gone on. But Rosa was
determined her cousin’s happiness should
not, be marred if through her agency it might
h*' averted. So she resolved tliat while Rita
8 le P t > slic would see Guy Danton herself,
and slle believed she would be shrewd
^ gh t„ d^et r r tvny w.d ^on tfiflmg
" il h R,ta - st “‘ had a 1 w!i y a kt >own Guv, for
t " 0,r t P aront; s had always resided in the
village nestling at tlie foot of the
TO0Untains of Western Vermont; hence she
felt less diffioult ybroaching the subject
t° her old time friend and playmate than
if he had been an ap 1 uai ntanco of recent
ilstfi a! So win!<* nji*) qIpdi mc^t i»
^ W ay to Guv’s Ull > * omce, office for 101 he he was was the the most
pr ® mln . ®" t P hy ^ cial ^ ,n tlle P la cc.
Knocking at the office door, No. 39, CJuy’s
vo ’°° her enter, and she was glad to
bnd that she was so fortunate to find Guy
a ' on< ' ' ooked surprised to see her, but
the moment Rosa saw the haggard, troubled
expression on his face her heart gave a
throb of pity and she resolved she would
plunge into the subject, though she bad
thought to approach it with caution, and to
be \ ery plain with him, but she could not
believe him guilty with that face.
“Ah, Rosa, I am glad to see yon, that Is if
1 can be glad of anything, I thought of
calling to see you, btit ttie is there and I did
not wish to tiieet her in my present frame
of mind.”
“ Wh y did you not wish to see Rita, Guy ?
I thought you quite fond of meeting her.”
“Fond of seeing her! when sho made
Heaven for me. Ah, how I loved her Rosa !
We were engaged and I thought b her r so
noble s0 tnie . , wouW havp ani
loved me, but all at once without cause
whatever she threw me n w w eve„
rniifii ®| uch f nn 8 ammr one word i of f explanation, i
f do 1 " not 08 th sing, . e " thC all S is . U ” dull, haS not gray sho and ' M, ‘ tbo cheerless, birds
I have lived ray life; there is nothing life
holds for me now. Would that I could
forget her since she cares nothing for me ;
but I see her face in every flower-I hear
her voice in every bird that trills his song.
When I lift my eyes to the heavens I see
ber fare in every star, and her name is
graven in letters of fire in my heart, and
on my brain. Oh! Rosa, why is it that
some men would give their life for bless
ings denied, while others throw them aside
as worthless, can have without even asking
that for which others would barter their
very soul, and deem them cheaply pur
chased? Can you tell me, Rosa, why Rita
treated me as she has, trampled on my
honest love and not deem it of enough im
P°rUncoto even give me an excuse for her
»«*
., k . „, „
So forthwith Rosa detailed the circum
stances to him, and as she proceeded relief,
W and bo P e came ov er Guy’s face, but
when she spoke of Hardrock’s agency in the
affair, his face grew dark as a midnight
“rciSo7h.teb.nd I’r, c I a I ‘"I od
in tones of concentrated passion:
“The cowardly, dastardly traitor ; how
dare he tell *uch a contemptible falsehood 1
He shall feel my vengeance, swift and sure,
He shall eat every word of it, or he or I one
i will never see the sunrise or set aealn ”
“No, no, Guy, do nothing of the kind
’ Remember you have Rita’s name to think
of now and it would greatly distress Rita
for such a thing to gain publicity.
j shaft his of envy head, and and falsehood will recoil
on own when he sees and
just do so quietly, .ml you had better marry
now as soon atisCT; ns possible, so as to prevent
another not from that quarter but
*>»d from others W-f -.or if they wish toj>*rt’vou
assured that they will not be
content with this rupture, and but for me
wJuld hav made this attempt a per
(£et success. You were both too proud, but
it was you >'41 ice to insist on an explana
Hob- R c< u . not have hurt you anv worse
even had si * en flirting, and if she was
true, as ah, t you would have found out
the troubh *>oaer, and saved you both
much unharness; and tha, would have
been better., .11 letting pride rule you to
your own so 1 w. Slie could not seek
and you,
most an# oue would have done as she
did.” “I recoguh j the truth
of all your re
marks, ami hall lose not another day In
persuading lots to marry me immediately
I shall accoi pany yon home, for l cannot
^ for ane.her sun to set on our estrange
ment. It n|ust go down on our perfeet
reconcihatio,!’’
Wc must.lmrry then, we esn talk as we
go on ; and icy, i believe you do love Rita
devotedly n< . but suppose this explana
tion should »ve been delayed for two or
three years, iould you have fftrgiven now! Rita
and taken h , hack again as you w«l
saying that! bjf ee bad become convinced that
she had duped, and come to you her
self and jut explained how it happened,
would you?
“If it had «ecn two years or ten, It would
not have ms tered. I don’t think I should
'l u ^^ have waited Ion# enough to have ask
f 1 kcrif t!l * <u»rrel had made any difference
ln her feelings before I should have opened
T “ y * rl " 8 r, J d hf ' art and uke “ 'mr Into
tkem ’ YeSFSosa, I love Rita, and no one
e and 1,1 d be <m * y° ar ,,r twenty, I
sign'd ‘'Fortune lovs * ' er Rita just I the Oh!-Guy, same.” why is it,
1
ti ,a t somo w.unan spend their life craving
tliat which fttjiers recklessly throw away?
R * s the way of the world—
‘How easily things in this world go wrong,
A kiss too sVort, or a sigh too long,
Their comes a mist, and a sweeping rain,
And life is never the same again.’
However .-.at is too dismal a turn to give
your thoughts. We are home bow, you
come In th« parlor, and I’ll send Rita. I
left her as' w, she cried all nlglit, so be
seated till- comes.”
>vn ,• V ’|jpwsM »hi* f(' cc**(\p '»’*
“Nona- she will come, If she don’t,
I’ll he greatly deceived. I wish I was as
sure of seeing the ono I love, as I am that
you will see Rita in half and hour.”
liosa left, him, and running up to Rila's
room, she lightly pushed open the door, nnd
saw Rita sitting up on tlie lounge, her
hands tightly clasped her head, but in a
listening attitude while her face was pale
as death.
“Rosa, Itosa, I thought, he was here, I
thought 1 heard his voice, I must hare
dreamed”—
“No, Rita, dear, you did not dream it, he
Is here now, dying to see you and be re¬
conciled. It is all false, every word of
Hardrock's story, so go down to him my
dear, he is awfully impatient, counting the
minutes till lie meets you, so go my dear
and relieve his suspense, and secure your
own happiness.”
“Rosa, my darling, J know I have you to
thank for this, you shall tell me all when I
s«e him, hut I’ll say this now, may God
bless you my friend, and what more can I
wish you? I know you said nothing hut
what I could sanction.”
Rita, left the room, but before slie entered
the parlor, she stood a fsw moments to col
lect her self possesion, and to stop the
trembling of her hands, before she entered,
(i " y T H
standing by the mantle, but on hearing her
step he turned, and advanced to meet her,
opened his arms and folded her to nis heart,
while he bowed his head and offered up a
a silent thanksgiving, for his recovered
happiness. They were united again, and
no pen or tongue, can tell of their hah
piness. It beggars description, and indeed
the scene is too sacred, for our intrusion,
Need we say more, than tell how tho arch
wafsTffi? was sufficient r punishment, Wit r " l 8 and T m«y C “ every nC8
one who so far forgets all honor and
decency as to plot, to sever two loving
hearts, fail as signally as they did in this
instance.
Fat Mail Made llapyy. —J.omis IJI lb«.
r * , kAttvili.e, Ala., July 20th, 1878.
Botanic Medicine Co., Buffalo, N. Y.i
Gentlemen —About three months ago
I commenced using your “Anti-Fat,”
at which time my weight was 219
mTSttHroTS?
y0 suits ur of medicine, I had purchased two
fine clothes at a high price, and
find, to my dismay, that they are en
tirely useless to me now. When I put
the pants on—well, description fails.
lishment "lit j".r where medS £n«,““£2 similarly
situated, your patrons, useless
could exchange these
garments for others that would fit. I
think you ought to have something of
the kind, as it would be an inducement
for many to use the Anti-Fat, who now
objeet to using it, in consequence of the
U,ey would 8 UBtai P in throwing aside
tS’Sm In”^‘Clothing
Exchange” is what you want business. in con
nection with your Anti-Fat
Your 3 truly, GEOEGE ROYD-
No. 38.
!° r * hum “ d s
ing sugar from sorXin and‘from °it
mon cornstalks. Notwithstanding
has been asserted that as a result of tlm
fJJnSfadK experiments it c has “ n S been ak e shown its ,°, wn that the
to-dav Mi'. ’ Frotussor t Gollier said
t w £ hu8 far
made are aumrS’ T!?® 0D ] y
fact proved is that vvfth
from Indian corn and sorahnm
er any lie process can bo devised an that tt
can made cheap enough undrtiSS for practical
a ? W * tk ' n yet
Professor Collier hopes to know w ithin
XZtm-iments thus f h , *V J’ , een
V erv crude n'itliI»v , “'luff
provided even rnM ii^t
trading stalks’in juice and being comi l °
cut the an ordinary ooundinlr h iv^tt
and to extract the juice bv
cut stalks in a mortar. It is demon
strated, however, that Indian corn con
tains from eight to ten ,^r cent. ofiU
I? g “ ^ u ! ce - What per centage
j' a detwmi'ned^^ ‘‘mor* 1 ***'
miSne^ „ ot hSffn obi untd nmTwhiM
be this week. The cliiof moiit
lies in clarifying the sugar so that it will
crystalize. That this cau lie done is
proved by the sample* of excellent brown
Bugar which the chemist SS has WeTkshe obtained
jXjP *"*«>»*? ten ® ay f. times that in more about the
—nth" can onTv y confl f "
,i.,...... ,. t . , rnfaJ
Ire successfullv and iwnflbddo UU lroni
indiau corn and sorghum b
Singular Phenomenon.
About 2 o’clock p. m. a young man,
who works on tho Shepard ditch, stepped
out of Mr. Yokum’s store, and was
pelted with an immense lot of small fish,
say from one to three inches in length,
and consisting of a great variety—sun
Perch, flying fish, and many others that
do not lielong to tho scale family. Tim
young man called those in tho store to
come and see tho wonder, when more
than a dozen men wont out and saw
them dropping thick and fast. They
covered the roof of the store and ex¬
tended for a circumference of two or
three acres, and perhaps more, I
thought at first that a flock of traveling
pelicans were unloading their pounches
for the purpose of attaining a higher
stratum of atmosphere, that would take
them more rapidly to their destination.
But I gased for a long tim.o in tho clenr
blue sky in every direction, without
being rewarded with tlie sign of a single
pelican. Thou 1 weakened on the
pelican theory, and I am led to believe
If it were tlie work of pelicans they
must have been so high tliat they were
out. of sight. The fishes were Very wet
when they first fell, but soon dried
the ground. I Understand
that William Phillips, laboring under
the impression tliat all good things come
from above, devoured ono of the finest
ones of t he lot, and said it tasted so
good that he sadly regre.tted not harvested
more of them. Such line epicurean
frenzies are very rare in the community
Eli Brumim has preserved quite a lot of
them in a bottle of gi Ui—Chico (dal.)
llecordi
—
Cork.
In 1828, quantities of acorns from the
cork-oak were procured from the
South of Spain, and distributed from
the patent office to these sections ffif the
country where it was <svo.rf thought they
would thrive. In nearly instance
the acorns planted have resulted well.
Some trees in parts of South Carolina
have reached a height of over twenty
ur fret. The cork-tree requires a
wa J rn ebiriato ; hut the southern states
adanted tf'fts' live-oak! W, are “
evergreen, like the and it is of
slow growth. An acorn of the cork-oak
planted has in 1862, at Santa Barbara, Cal.’
grown to twenty feet in height, and
covers more than this breadth of ground,
The bark of this tree in an inch and a
half thick, and the cork apparently of
tf| e best quality. In its native countries
the cork-tree is peeled once in eight or
ten years, beginning twenty-five or thirty
?7' lirs o!d * aad ? aro i® tak< ’» not to injure
SanXtored^ iork im^rt^ Into un- the
United Stales during 1866-77, was worth
over $600 000 .
No SunBtroko in California.
The San Francisco Clirnnir.le says there
has never been a well-authenticated case
ot sunstroke in California, although it <s
not unusual for the thermometer to rise
to 112 degrees in some parts of the State,
and to 106 degrees and 108 degrees in
Sacramento and Marysville. In June,
1859, from the Colorado desert, tho ther¬
mometer marked 122 degrees in Stanislaus
county, and 133 degrees in the shade at
various places in San Bernardino and
couatiefl. At tbo a,i„e, 110
st
dry is the atmosphere there that thou
sands of miners have worked a 9 day in
the sun, during the greatest heat, with
out prostration,
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«. M.„„,„d, ot tho Howard..
chcountered a horrible scene UjKin en
tering a house on Commerce street last
Sunday. *Up#n a bed lay the living and
the dead—a husband coid and stiff a wife
in the agony of disolution. On the
floor, tossing in delirium, were two
children of this pair, and beside them
their cousins, two little girls, themselves
tlmsceJe a’drunken »n“S drfinken
horror, man and a
woman, parents of the little fever flaked
girls, were reeling and cursing and
stumbling over the dying and the dead.
The Democrat.
iOVERTISIBiQ Ra ;
S quare, drat insertion . a 1 M
One X®* each aubeeque&t insertion Of
One Square, Square, tbiee months 10 00
Quarter twelve months U 00
Half Column Golumn, twelve mouths . » 00
One Column twelve months •0 00
twelve months 100 00
rW One Inch or Leas as a
*9 u *r*- _ We have fractions of
no a square,
all fractions of squares will he counted as
sqnaret. Liberal deductions made on Corn*
tract Advertising.
ow„ c— or r e „^ Bon .
*? the . to weU 8ay ’ °" tl,ey e above a11 a "°ther, turnpd and. to
whilS 116 ’. are ( ect to-day
’ u |)er as
^s" alwut^two , . The
top cask ‘of fwd bdow
surface, and a curb comm™ Wds
is set over the well, running down to
meet the casks. Several of these curbs
bave ^ttesi away, and been replaced,
the oak casks “PI*’* 1 likely to stand
» f ol ^T er * 8 there here hint for well
‘ a
18 ’ ° T *** eAUsesof petrifaction
Waiy
.
Memphi?/bJd Mr O T K..». k , ,■
»>y thieves, who raided his place atnieht
carrying Wednesday off night his last valuable stock Oil
he armed himseli
'V '*’ 1 a dl,ulde barrel shotgun, and took
dencu ^ is 8ta, ’d witil ,n ^* his stable, l of near-his protecting reei
’ le v pw his
alld capturing the thieves if
ayounlf min !ivin!'wftl?Mr y'S
R° out to the stable and IntteTSd relievo ber
! been ,U8ban,, notified. > of which Mr. Hall went to not the
)dal, lc, and on opening the door cau
t ' 0UNl y w as fired at by Mr. Kennedy, the
of both barrels riddling his
'" >dy a ' ld causing instant death. Mr.
gSTKiSC l« his mls
( H ^ 0 WHS -iwieknd iKisomfrS*. ,,,,1
They of were
the same Masonic Lodge.
building Flood, the California tnilionaire, is
what will, it Is mud, bo ths
boost private residence in America.
The grounds Include 1,500 acres on .San
r rancisco Bey, comprising a natural
park ready for improvements to any da
sired extent. The house is 100 by 200 in
Kiea, and resembles a French chateau
of tlie old style. Verandas surround it,
and the roof is broken witli many gables
and two towers 140 feet high. Tlie en¬
tire exterior is very ornate. Among tha
apartments are several parlors, music
room, billiard dining room, breakfast room,
ttie later room, being of library and wine room,
dining uncommon size. Tho
room is olio hundred feet long,
so that great dinners may be given in it;
but most of it can be siiut off, leaving a
room of comparatively small size for
ordinary use. Five years will be con
sumnd in completing the hduso and its
surroundings. templates Mr. Flood also con¬
ing magutftuucn. a city residence of correspond¬
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One Man Shoots 117 Alligators.
James Lastinger, whilo walking
a flmall branch in .Bulloch county, Ga.,
the other day, entile acioss quite a ho*t
of alligators, which he commenced
killing with his gim. After completing
tho Work of rlentli ho counted the slain,
which footed up 117, The largest whs
ton feet and a half long.- Escebrior
News,
The Charleston Nmat <f: Vuurinr says a
singular looking and irregularly shaped
flint, rock, weighing about twenty-live
pounds, Imvlng the appearance of a molten
muss under lutunwe heat, was picked up on
Ladles Island, below Beaufort, by •ome
colored persons nud taken to that town. It
is said to have fallen as a blazing meteor
during a late storm. It Is pure flint
throughout, except tlie outside aurfa-e,
which has a thin coating as of lava.
Eastman Times says; “Seymour Is a
colored minister of this place, anil says
he has studied very closely the character¬
istics of tho different races, having
devoted seven months exclusively to this
investigation, and now is fully prepared
to say tliat the ‘Sarcassian’ is the ‘lead¬
ing He race’ ‘thar’s known to the civilized worlii.
says none in dis country;
dey lib near China, and is noted as great
warriors.’ ”
Wiille grubbing up a stump, a Ilunt
county (Texas) farmer struck an old
iron pot, holding $426 ln silver and
fifteen |20 gold pieces. On top of tne
money was a silver goblet,, marked
Myrick, the name of a family which
disappeared during the war.
Ex-Goyernor Brown is in favor of
a college similar in all res|>ect to that
at Dahlonega being established at the
old capitol at Miliedgevlllo. He thinks
the property of the State there could not
be put to anything like so valuable a
use.
Judge Win. M. Reese, trustee under
the second mortgage on t he Macon and
Augusta Railroad, has offered the road
for sale at public outcry, for cash, to
the highest bidder, tbo sale to take place
in Augusta on the first Tuesday in De¬
cern tier next.
Rome of the Memphis physicia is
declare that the prevailing disease, which
is killing faster than volleys of shot and
shell, is not yellow {pver and not a con¬
tagious disease.
There is a married woman named
»> .'“™,
times twins, twice triplets, and once
four at a birth,
In the stomach of a large fish recently
caught in the river near Port Washing
ton, Ohio, was found the watch and
chain lost bv a man wading the river
over two years ago.
An active valcano has just put in an
appearance in Humboldt county. Cal.,
ahd is in harmony with the periodical
earthquake experienced on the I’acific
coast.