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About The democrat. (Crawfordville, Ga.) 1877-1881 | View Entire Issue (Oct. 10, 1879)
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I propose, after the first of January , dev»A«! my e *Urs attention to mvean-f**! shall attend'Vccuiariy^eaeh tenu of the Superior v Courts and Glascock, in the Augusta Circuit : a!s0 - ' * rr(> n of tin Northern of Circuit, the Middle and Circuit. Washington and Jef ferson, all fnenrt? I ask my to give my successor a a mo' arUeSt bU January " agent' wm GIBSON C. Myers is tbe for Smith’s celebrated Cotton XYess Calicoes 5 c. per yarn at C. Myers’. Crawford ville, Georgia, October 10, 1879. Poetry. - - - Tile l.ittle Tow n ol Tailholt. You can boast about your cities and their And stidily brag about crowtli and size, and business enterprise. your country seats And railroads and factories and all sich But foolery— the little town o’ Tailliolt is big enough for me. You kin harp about your churches, with their steeples in the < juds, And gas about your graded streets, and blow about your crowds ; You kin talk about your theaters, and all the you’ve got to see— But little' town o’ Tailholt is show enough for me. They ain’t like and no style in our town—hit’s little¬ small— They ain’t no churches, nuther—just the meeting’ house is all There’s no sidewalks to speak of, but the And the high-way's little alius free, town of Tailholt is wide enough for me. Some finds it discommodin' like, I'm will¬ To liev ing to admit, but one post-office and a women And keupln, the drug-store hit, ail three— and shoe-shop and But tiie grocery little town o' Tailholt is handy ’nough for me. You can smile and turn your nose up, and And joke and hev your fun, laugh and holler “Tail-holts is better holt '11 none I” Ef the city suits yon better, w’y, It’s whur But the you'd ovtcrbe, little town of Tailholt is good enough for me. —Indianapolis Herald. Miscellaneous. THE FACTORY FOREMAN. It rf was just . , such . an American , village as you see in pictures. A background of superb, bold mountain, all clothed in blue-green cedars, w ith a torrent thun dering down a deep gorge and falling in billows of foam; a river reflecting the azure of the aky, and a knot of houses, with a church spire at one end, a thicket of factory chimneys at the other, whose black smoke wrote ever-changing liiero glyphics against the brilliancy of the sky, This was Dapplevale. And in the rosy sunsetof this blossomy June day the % °v Ut % U ‘ e d °° r ' way, while Gerald Blake, the f foreman, sat behind Ins desk, a pen behind his ear, and his small, black thsiSBtjfe hh "*<'>•, ii» Mis * precipice One 6i ftiaggy eytsDiDws. re-1 by one the girls stopped and ceived their pay for one week’s work, for this was Saturday night. One by one they filed out, with fretful, discontented faces, until the last one paused in front of the high-railed desk. She was slight and tall, with large velvety blue eyes, a complexion as deli cately colored grained and transparent as rose wax, and an abundance of glossy hair of so dark a brown that the casual observer would have pronounced it black, and there was something in the way the blue ribbon at her throat was tied and the manner in which the simple details oflier dress were arranged that bespoke her of foreign birth. I fc Well, Mile. Annette,” said Mr. Blake, “and how do you like factory life V” “It is not disagree;!We,’’she answered, a slight accent dinging to her tones, like fragrance to a flower, as she ex tended her hand for the money the fore man “You wa3 have counting out. given me but $4,” she said. “It was to be $8 by the contract.” Mr. Biake shrugged his shouldersdisa greeably. “Ilumph !” he grunted; “you ain’t much accustomed to our way of doing things, are you, Mademoiselle? Eight —of course ; but we deduct two for a fee—” “A fee!—for wliat?” Annette de manded, with flushed cheeks and spark hug eyes. ‘For getting you the situation, Mademoiselle, Blake, to be sure,” said Mr. in a superior sort of way. “Such places don’t grow on every bush. And folks expect to pay something b for the privilege.” “I did not,” flashed out Annette Duvelle. “Oh—well—ali right. Because, 0bllg<<1 t0 8tay ‘•Do you mean,” hesitated “that if I do not pay you this money ,n “You can’t expect to stay at works,” said Mr. Blake, hitching up his collar. “But the other two dollars?” “Oh,” said Mr, Blake, “that’s a per eentage the girls all pay.” “But what is it for ?” Mr. Blake laughed. ‘‘Well, it helps out my salary. Of course, you know, the girls expect to pay something every week for keeping their situations in a place where there’s so many anxious to get in.” Blake. “Hehasn’t much to do with it. I am master at the Dapplevale Calico Works.” Elderslie owns it, I believe.” the age'eyerytbi’ng utmost confidence 6 °Mg SiftSS, ^ in my capacity, ability, and— and—responsibility. Mr. Elderslie is a good business man. He understands bis own interest. And now, if you've any more questions to “I have none,” said Annette wistfully, '‘But—I need this money myself. I work hard for it. I earn it righteously, I cannot afford, an? more than the others among these poor laboring girls, to pay it to your greed” “Eh ?” ejaculated Mr. Blake, jumping h » as if some insect bad stung 11 “And I will not pay it,” calmnly con eluded Mile, Annette. j like, “Very Mademoiselle,” well—very well. Just as you j i turning r-d cried the foreman, in the face. "Only if you won’t conform to the rules of the Dapple vale Works-—” "These “Are the rules ?” scornfully demauiit-t Annette. “Pray book!” consider your name crossed off the went on Mr. Blake. “You evening,*' are no longer Mademoiselle in my employ. Whatever-you- G <oa may-cali„vourself. ” And Mr. Blake slammed down the cover of jiis desk as if it were a patent guillotine weft: and poor Annette Duvelle’s neck under it. Two or three of the factory girls who had boyreil til- around the open J or to hear discussion, looked with awe striekeuTaces witrf at Annette, as» she came out “Youfve £4 which she had received from th your°pl'ace, whisper/d lost Ma’mselle,” little Jenny Purton, a pale, dark eyed thing, who supported a crip pled mother and two little sisters out of i0 wi ».» added Mary Rose. “He’s as vindictive as “It possible.” BRitters not,” said Annette. “He &3tfc»sa.sF’ ‘Tiutiou can’t starye,” said Jenny, “Look ‘ here, Ma’mselle. home come witi- m'. It’s a poor place, but we’ll wSe tiyo U urftt C ndT’ till-tU1 y ° U ^ Anmlte turned anil impulsively kissed Jenny “I"thank ai her lips. she said “but r you,” ; do And Annette Duvelle went back to the little red brick cottage, all thatched with the growth of the woodbine, where TJXt IXpX vale vrviks. “Does be cheat you, too, of your money ?” she asked, when Simon Pet tengill ftftuie home, smoke-stained and grimyeat his supper. “Oii-sixtlt I have to pay to him,” said Slnon with an involuntary groan, as he boil'd. Loked at the five little ones around his “Yes, Miss, he’s a villian, butrtiif world is fuii of such. And I find it a pretty hard world to get on with, i Mr. Elderslie never comes here or ma.'be things would bea bit different, Mr. .’ilderslie lives abroad; in Paris, they sty.” “He is in this country now,” said Annexe. “I intend to write to him.” “’^T ,tdo , , ° fi od mis 8 ;” “Ye4 it will,” , , said Annette, t quietly. im *< * * * * * * ,-etals of the Juue roses had wd t»ip.T)aj^levaie’'Vi’‘6yitg along .tlie edge drttiiVwoodl, , wore their holiday guise, even down to Simon Pettengill’s newly brightened steam engine, for Mr. Elderslie and bis bride were to visit the works ou his tour. “It’s a pity Ma’mselle Annette went away so soon,” said Simon to his assis taut; “’cause they say the master’s kind-hearted in the main, and she might have spoken up for herself.” Mr. Gerald Blake, in las best broad cloth suit, and mustache newly dyed, stood smiling in the broad doorway as the carriage drove up to the entrance, and Mr. Elderslie, a handsome blonde browed man, sprang out and assisted a young lady, in a dove-colored travelling suit, to alight. you!” said, with “Blake, how are he the carelessness of conscious superiority, Blake, “Annette, my love, this is my foreman.” “Mademoiselle Annette ?” And Mr. Gerald Blake found himself cringing before the slight French girl whom he had turned from the factory door a month before. “I must beg to look at the books, Blake,” said Elderslie, authoritatively, “My wife tells me some strange stories about the way things are managed here, It became so "notorious that the rumors reached her even at Blythesdale Springs, and she ch <se to come and see for her self. Annette, my darling tiie best wedding gift we can make to these poor working girls is a new foreman. Blake, you may consider yourself dismissed.” sir ” “Rot another word,” cried slie, with lowering brow, and Mr. Gerald Blake crept away, with an uncomfort able consciousness of Annette’s scorn fid blue eves following him. Elderslie turned to his wife. “You were right, my love,” said be. iS SU “ eVid * aCC And a new reign began for poor Jenny Purton and tiie working girls, as well as for Simon Pettengill. And Annette never regretted her week’s apprenticeship in the Dapplevale Calico Works - . .. The Coming’ . Russo-German According to the Mmiteur Universel, tiie coolness which has lately arisen be tween Germany and Russia has been partly caused by the discovery of a care fully prepared plan for tiie invasion of Russia by the German army. Details of this plan were contained in some private Petersburg Colonel Von Liegnitz, and it is regarded as a signibcant fact that, al though many things of value must have It is also alleged that in sp/te of the rep resentations of tbe German Government, the Russian authorities have displayed but little zeal in endeayoring to trace and arrest the culprit. In Germany it j, contended, tbe Monileur Universel adds, that it is the duty of all military attaches to assume that a conflict he tweeu their own country and the one to which they are sent may at any moment arise, and that, therefore, tbe fact that the stolen notes contained a nuinlier of observations made apparently in templation of a war between the empires does not in any way indicate that many at the present moment is by any hostile feeling toward Russia. No. 40. An Unskillful Rope-Walker Drops a Boy Fifty Feet. A few day's ago the Herald casually mentioned that an Ogden tight-rope walker would undertake the feat of breaking his neck if a sufficient collection could be raised to pay his funeral expen¬ ses. Though tiie intimation did not prove true, it is rather a matter of re¬ gret, as one younger and proportion¬ ately more innocent suffers from the foolhardy exhibition. Last night was the time set for the feat, and, in addi J height, 10 ”, „ 10 , Megginson, .. Walkln ... « _ 4 .. he the. ro P° rope at professor, “ K roat itfomised to tarry a twelve-year old boy on bis back across this rope, ti> stand on |' is head u j* m !t > ta lie dnwn on his face balancing the pole over his back, aud to carry two pails of water from one build ing to an other. The rope was stretched “"“"‘'-v"*"»«< «■ exhibition, and while endeavoring to carry the boy across he lost his balance and dropped him to the pavement fifty *“ in ten feet of the end. The lope was on an incline of about three feet. In step ping on this incline the Professor seemed to Io8e his balrtnce ’ his P ;de ringing to *"* ie Perpendicular, and almost instantly after the immense concourse of people who had assembled to witness the affair ,h. whlrtlw, enough tiie an, striking his head with a sickening thud. Megginson threw himself over, catching the rope with one few i"*» d <- °nds "* mid Wn* a sec in air succeeded in gaining a window, going hand over hand. The boy, whose name is stated as William Allen, ’ is ’ said to be a sou of .. . T _ u e Giiy Maisiiai or Junction .. City, Kan sas - It is alleged that he ran away from home and was taken up by the traveling J “' Del-former ** manv “ any evt.ihlHnnn ^ been , given , successfully. , Tli# hoy struck the pavement on the right shoulder and head, partially dislocating the neck and causinc eonciiasion of [ ' } a l ' ile iS 81,111 «hve, hut no hopes are entertained of his recovery Meggin- 30 » is anested.-M Lake (Utuh) llerald. --- I How a 850 Bill Was Returned in ! Halves to ♦« Ita r*. n Owner. we-bur* the romance of a #Ml bill! Several years ago Mr. Camp died and left a comfortable estate. Dr. E. J. Camp, now of Rome, Georgia, was the executor of the estate. A few weeks ago he noticed an advertisement in the ten cent column of the Atlanta Consli Camp tution asking for the administrator of the estate, signed by no one, but ask ing that tiie address be sent to the Con stitution. Mr. E. J. Camp advertised his address. In a few days he received a letter signed “Amos” and written inatremn lous hand, enclosing a half of a fifty dollar bill. The bill had been neatly clipped in two, and the writer desired to pay $50 to the Camp estate, and that as soon as the receipt of the first half of the bill was acknowledged, lie would send the other half. He asked that ac knowledgment be made in the ten cent column of the Constitutwa. Mr. Camp advertised as desired, that piece of the bill had been received, and asked that the other half be forwarded. The advertisement was put at the foot of the column, but in a few days Mr. Camp re ceived another letter in which waswr.t ten: “I inclose you the other half of the fifty dollar hill.” Signed “Amos.” Mr. Camp has no clue to the sender of this money, or to the occasion of it. He supposes that it comes from some person who, during the life of Mr. Camp, had defrauded him of this money, and who took this secret method of re turning it after years of remorse or pen itence.—Atlanta Comlitutvm. - m --- A Burglary Story from Texas. A rr Texas newspaper gives the follow in . 8 news paragraph from Johnson <: ' n ! nly - 1,1 that State: “A lady was V1 *>fcd by two other lady friends, who ; SZml a ; BUW * ^oney, and that the absence of * ,er husband annoyed her j because she was afraid of being robbed. hou8e n ’K and hl a during granger the stopped night, at being ! 1,jr - awakened by a noise in the lady’s room, he looked through the window and saw two negroes choking her in her bed. He fired on them and killed both, and just then two persons fled from near the house. On investigation it was found ^}&t disguised, the negroes and it were is supposed the lady’s that guests tbe two who tied were their husbands.” ----»-•—*»-- An Electric Light for the Dome, «• W -«* - - « placed in the dome of the Capitol has been completed, and will be placed in potion in tbe next two months. It is grounds, ^ hiectnc lights are also ^ to be placed in tbe .Senate Chamber and Hall 0 f tbe House of Representatives For ,fl years an me gas jets in the Gapi- . _ any tol building have been lighted with electricity; consequently there is a j ar r, e quantity of electrical apparatus. ‘ UAIU , ,„ ,au< uea • clre toe th , largest t ' in the country, and are sufficient to keep the new light burning. __ „ »how wbe „ Sait Artemu8 Lake Ward City, waa his complimentary exhibiting his in I—“Admit , tickets to the city officials read as follows bearer and one wife.” The Democrat. advertising maths : One Square, first insertion 510 ft Gne Square,eachsul>se*)uent.insertion . . 'in*' Square, ,'.T three months 10 <10 One Square, twelve months IS 0<» Quarter Column, . . Half twelve months . . 20 00 Column twelve months . so 00 Oui- Column . twelve months . . loo oq BT One Inch or laws considered as a square. We have no fractions of a square, all fractions of squares will be counted as uhvral deductions made ou Con* tra#t Advertising. • Interesting Scientific Facta. Air is about 81B times lighter than common water. The pressure of the atmosphere upon* every square foot of the earth amounts to 4,160 jxiunds. An ordinary sized man, supposing his surface to be fourteen square feet, sus¬ tains the enormous pressure of 30,840 pounds. Heat rarifles air to such an extent that it can be made to occupy 5,300 times the space it did before. The violence of the expansion of water when freezing is sufficient to cleave a globe of copper of such thickness as to require a force of 23,000 pounds to pro¬ duce like effect. ihiring the Conversion of ice into water, 140 degrees of beat are absorbed. water, when converted into steam increases in bulk 18,000 times. One hundred i<ounds of Dead sea water contains forty-six pounds of salt. The mean annual depth of rain that falls at the equator is ninety-six inches. Tiie explosive force of close confined gunpowder is six and a half toils to tba square inch. * The greatest artificial cold ever pro¬ duced is ninety-one degrees Fahrenheit. Sound travels at the rate of 1,142 feet p r second in the ail, 4,960 in the water, 11.000* in cast iron, 17,000 in steel,.18,000 17,000 in glass and from 4,036 to in wood. Water obstructs one-half of the per¬ pendicular rays of the sun In seventeen feet and three-fourths in thirty-four feet, and less than one-thousandth part Teaches the depth of 200 feet; hence the bottom of deep water is in total dark¬ ness. A Mysterious Murder. Information Columbia, S. C., September 27.— from Edgefield Court House says a report of a gun was heard by one of the neighbors in the direction of the farm house of John Simpkins, in that found locality. Upon examination it was that Simpkins and his wife were both in bed, the woman dead with a bul¬ let hole through her brain. The hus¬ band is a confirmed invalid. When questioned declined about the murder, he nation. answering A or giving an expla¬ the bed few shot-gun was found under a minutes after the discov¬ ery of the crime. This morning Simp¬ kins said to his father-in-law that he did not shoot his wife, neither did she shoot herself. The matter is enveloped in mystery .—Augusta Hews. The depth of the water in the gorge below Niagara Falls has just been meaa ured for the first time. The swiftness of the stream baffled all previous efforts, 'tut n corps of government engineers ae complislied thereat! The£ embarked iff a small boat not far below the falls. An old guide accompanied the party. With great difficulty they approached within a short distance of the American falls, which darted great jets of water on them. The roar was so terrible that no voice or sound could be heard. Thft leadsman cast the line, which rapidly passed down eighty-three feet. This was near the shore. Fussing out of the friendly eddy which bad enabled them to get so near the falls they shot rapidly down stream. The next cast of the lead told off one hundred feet, deepen¬ ing to one hundred and ninety-two feet a little further down. The average dojith to tiie Swift Drift—where the river suddenly becomes narrow, with a velocity too great to be measured—is one hundred and fifty-three feet. Just under the lower bridge the whirlpool rapids set in, aud so violently are the waters moved that they rise like ocean waves to the height of twenty feet. At this point they computed the depth at two hundred and ten feet. — As an indication of the increased « P tlvitv y in various ' ' flM.artmpr.tK J ‘ ( .f bn«i. ness . throughout the country, it is stated the Western Union Company has sent and received at Its principal office in Aew New York York city r-il v Horni from 4 «.W0 K«ki to to 4 48,000 H ikki messages per day, and the present week was inaugurated with tiie handling of 5^541 messages on Monday. The *v<*age »«« been 10,000 Per day above the corresponding period of hunt year* when the business was considered large. tliisi Is doubtless due to the steady sieauy mowth g owin of 01 the uie leiegrapn teleeranh business Dusmess, but much of it must be attributed to 111 creased activity in trade. A singular freak of nature is shown in a marble mantel at the Cincinnati Exhibition. In one of the onyx pilas seen the ou tunes of a womans form, produced ages ago, when the marble first assumed its growth and consistence. Its discovery was the re - - ** men turned tbe pilaster upside down, and the strange beauty of the features of the face at once attracted his utten anu “J' the pilaster reversed ™ is now the chief ornament of the mantel, The Washington Post says: “While SO me of our people are growing red in the face in their terrible excitement over the fact that we have nine hundred tons silver dollars on hand, vre don’t bear of any row among tbe T rench although there are nine thousand tons of .silver in the Bank of France. Our silver is doing its extended work quite effectually, A good deal of it is working into tbe ^"" C0unl3 el Lli?f. B'® same as e Lu gold in tiie coin re serve, there is no occasion for any agony on this score.”
