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The Democrat. ▲ live Wevtljr Paper on lire lane* Published Every Friday Morning at Orawfordvllle, G*. W • D- SULLIV AN > Proprietor RATES OF SUBSVRIPTIOX Single Single Copy, (one year,) . . . S a 00 Single Copy, Copy, (six (three months,) . . . 1 00 months,) . . . 50 G*T" Advertising rates liberal. BOOK and JOB PRINTING a specialty. Prices to suit the times. 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, -- «. 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¬ • -- 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.