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About The democrat. (Crawfordville, Ga.) 1877-1881 | View Entire Issue (May 26, 1880)
The Democrat. A Live Weekly Paper on Live Issues Published Every Wednesday Morning, at Crawfordville, Ga. Iff. Z. Andrews, Proprietor. RATES OF SUBSCRIPTION: Single Single Copy, (one months,) year,) . . . 3 3 00 Single Copy, Copy, (six months,) . 1 00 (three . . 50 £-#* Advertising rates liberaW BOOK and JOB PRINTING a specialty. Prices to suit the-times. Hotel Cards. j^BHOLD'S GLOBE HOTEL, CORNER EIGHTH AND BROAD STREETS, AUGUSTA, GA. This is one of the leading first-class no of eonnected interest; by Banks, St reet Ra Telegraph i7w a y' w i thatfplaces and Post Office. Communication by Telephone with all parts of the City The Table is supplied with the best that our home and the Northern markets afford. tion Hates, 32.00 and 32.50, according to k>ca of room. FRANK ARNOLD, Proprietor. • J^tTGUSTA HOTEL, AUGUSTA, GEORGIA. „ Centrally , located. Telegraph office in the building. Large, Airy Rooms. Rates 32.00 ,Kr Ward MURPHY, Proprietor: ^NLINARD HOUSE, CLAYTON STREET, NEAR POST-OFFICE, ATHENS, GEORGIA. Rooms all carpeted. Good sample rooms for Commercial Travelers. A. D. CL1NARD, Proprietor. jy£APP HOUSE, GREENESBORO, GA. I have now taken charge of the above named Hotel, already so renowned for con¬ venience, comfort and neatness, and I pledge myself to keep it up to its high reputation by the keeping market my table supplied with the best affords, attention to the comfort of my guests, and politeness to all. My charges will in all cases beequal and reasonable. By this course of conduct I hope to merit aud receive a liberal share of the public patronage. A trialissolicited. Jan.l7.187!).t-o-o L. AGREE. Railroad Notices. Georgia Railroad -AND BANKING Co. Sr. • wth^fs n “ F CE ' /voMtiiwcivi’' AuQBm «t4vn aS,?gcr \ 79 •'’ > lie C p b Y ’ S ch t edile ta , wi , i operand: saTwTw so. t wssT— - F daily. * 11 .v--------- Aoj « io* KAT-PA h v— ,.* iw. n v I.v. i 7:45:a,m BS : Macon Millecig’II a no “ T. U:15 aim : 8:Ut,a’mi A , “ Mill'll ... . . m : iziiolp , r r,:| Ar.G’rdv’li ‘ : : AUanta nioo ! ’• Acosta |Mn » m NO. 3 WEST—DAI I.V. -,'-r—-—-----—— KoTElar Znlv .—t-t— S r-—- K 75 V 'vCPfv l 1 -,p in aI'™ Ai.!, t Il\ d •-■n -.l a a n! ill AL AHan fai J i O O a lajAr^i'gi^ta bOOsm NoenmiecUim to or from Washing ten on .SUN DA>h.______ S. K. JOHNSON', E. It. DORSEY, Tass'ger Agent. - 1 Magnolia Passenger Route. ‘Tort Kotal & Acousta Railway, ) Augusta,Ga., Oct. 4, 1879. ( rpHE X FOLLOWING SCHEDULE will be operated, on and after Oct. fist, 1879: going south; ^ (Join<Unorti ir Train No. l. Train No. 2, ______ S.bbpm _ Roy’j Lv Augusta LvT’t lLOOpni ArEllenton 9.51 piniLv Beaufort 11.23pm Ar Allendale 11.23 am’Ar Yemassee l.OOarq ArYemasse 1.30 am i jV Charleston 8.30-piji Lv Yemassee 2-30,'iin i jV J’sonvTle 5.15pm Ar „ Savannah , (>.35 am L §*vanoah 4.10 'q, Ar Savannah 8.20am ArJ y He7.15am pm v Savannah 9.00 pm ksonv j Ar Ye massee 1.20am Ar Ch arleston 8.00 atn,[ jV Yemassee 2.00am Lv Yemassee 2.20 am Lv Allendale 3.45 am Ar Beaufort 3.43 am Lv Ellenton 5.18am Ar Tort Royal 4.00 am Ar Augusta 0.30 am GOItfo SOUTH.—Connections made with Georgia Railroad for Savannah, Charles ton. Bcaufort, and Port Royal. Also, with Central Railroad for Charleston, Beaufort and Port Royal. GOING NORTH,—Connections made with Charlotte Columbia & Augusta Railroad for all points North, and East with Georgia Railroad for Atlanta and the West. Also, with South Carolina Railroad for Aiken and points on line of said Road. WOODRUFF SLEEPING CARS of the most improved style and elegance will be operated AUGUSTA by this line onlv, BETWEEN AND SAVANNAH, without ■change. Baggage, cheeked through. ISP Through tickets for sale at Union Depot Ticket Ticket Office, Augusta, Ga., and at *11 priucipal Offices, General R. G. Superintendent. FLEMING, J. S. DAY ANT, General Passenger Agent oct.l3,-t-f. 1,000 MILE TICKETS. Georgia Railroad Comp ant, Office General Passenger A cent. S COMMENCING Augusta, MONDAY, April 5th, 1879. 7th inst., AND this MILE Company TICKETS, will sell ONE THOUS¬ gooff o\er main line and branches, at TWENTY-FIVE DOLLARS each. These tickets will be issued to individuals, firms or families, but not to firms and families combined. E. R. DORSEY, MavD.1879. General Passenger Agent. 500 MILE TICKETS. GEORGIA „ RAILROAD . rr ^ COMPANY , , rTr , j Office Genek’l Passenger Agt’, V Augusta, March 2, 1880. } V.- /TOMMENCING this date, this Com pany will sell FIVE HUNDRED MILE TICKETS, good over main line and branches, at THIRTEEN 75-100 DOLLARS each. These tickets will be issued to individuals, firms, or families, but not to firms and families combined. E. R. DORSEY, General Passenger Agent. Marehl0,1880. t-o-o tittil’ici HIKLt> Improved Root Beer Package, 25 ct*. Makes five gallons of . 1 . whofe S D teiHpSte in |old e ^ ra |ru7 JsSfo“sentbrm^onreceipt wme and of 25 cts. Address, CHAS. E. HIRES, Manufacturer, 215 Market Street, Philadelphia. Fa Feb.ll,1880.b-m. Yol. 4. INVADED. Her room -the casket of my pearl!— ! The shrine and temple of her grace j ‘ ! The which to claim, were I an earl, I would exchange all rank and place. B H!remelthertlstonfUr^iThe dav'* ’ that holy * 1 ’ Here shines pure and light j Which haloes vestals when they pray. And like one treading hallowed ground, I stir the echoes slumbering here sound ; And speak her name, to woo the 1 Which every moment grows more dear. | A name which ever on my lips I must not, dare not, bravely tell ; Though like some criminal it slips cell. Sometimes from out its guarded From Was her lately white drawn—’t hand this is little shapely glove yet; | 1 Aud It faintly like all things about my love, smells of mignonette. Here swept her rustling silken robe; ! Here noils her bullfinch in his cage ; Her pretty goldfish in his glbbe DartS and fr ° mi “ Uc raSC ' ; All things speak of her to my heart; | The air is perfumed with her sighs ; | Yet no two worlds so far apart j As we e’er wandered through the skies. Nor ever shall we nearer tread, ! Nor will she ever feel or know, Perchance, until we both are doad, That hopelessly I loved her so. “ A Crapping Mortgage.” «> Al ,,i 1 ' tint ? >> asked * the stranger > “ \viiv ” said the old man “ do von I pretend to tell us that you don’t know W what a rraDniii" metentioni morttrace is 9 ” . Wh we™ « “Then vou’re no Southerner,” the old man continued ; “so i ll tell you some thinf wellfl about it. A crapping mortgage gin one of them dum things once myself. The way of it was just this You see, I alters managed to keep a lit-’ tie money ahead to buy a few little things we needed on the plantation; and I gen erally went down to our little town to buy them about once a week. Well, as tUe store-keeper he said to me, sez he . (t ( 1 'ever^week^payi g'o" alon«rtlds ‘ ° 1 ,? way jL aj ev t your small change o Ml iim by don j t you . give ■ down down °w when h en you vo u‘wan want t' ^ anything m v t hi n tr* °'ll .indict Viet l 0l t e ch°inse ^nd° hi your'in^ 2 atont th e yim’can ^nd thenwhen youl crai comes in you can senu down uown a ,1 ^o° ” ^ s P ¥ ’ V, e n lt s. d,dn t l”ok i like __, a bad idea ’ sounded , so iter easy like, so I told him I | thought 1 d do it. ho he tilled out a i crapping mortgage which he had already ; Pimted, and as 1 couldat lead ieiy well \ 1-21 0,1 1,18 WOld t?mt 11 ' VaS a11 ! !' . s “ CU110( 1S ? l lIMLr r .' «>*•“ 'i’' | ,c gapping / ole ‘/ k<>t mortstagj* hall-way | ‘ home with . , load 1 got to studying my storekeeper a J M,u f, told f° me U m that f now my name tl,e was g0 ^ d in his store for anything I wanted, and to send right along as eased. U s what I was studying about, and then pretty soon l got to stud ying about wlipt l wanted and what I needed, and that infernal crapping mort gage, or something else, made me thick of tilings that I had never wanted be of debt ^ all < '!! 1 my si e ’, life, l ia , but d all the neighbors was a trying hands on crapping mort gages, and so 1 thought I would go in a little, too. Well, I did. “ 1 kept on wanting things. W r e all got along fine, and our storekeeper sold the old woman lots of good things that we never wanted before, but that we was bound to have after I signed the crap¬ ping mortgage. They breeds wants, they do. “ At last the crap came in, aud I sent a bale of cotton down to tho store to pay off the crapping mortgage. It did not do it. Then I sent dotvn another bale—that wasn’t enough. Ngxt I sent down all the cotton I had, and finally all my corn and fodder, and as it still was not paid the old woman got up all her chickens and ducks and turkeys and sent them down—still that miserable crap¬ ping mortgage wasn’t satisfied ; so I went down to see about it. The store¬ keeper said it was all right; all paid up but about two hundred dollars, and that didn’t make any difference ; I could still have whatever I wanted on it. “ But, sir, somehow or other I didn’t like how things was going. So I took out my wallet and paid the balance on that crapping mortgage, and took the blamed tiling home with me, though I couldn’t help thanking the storekeeper for offering to still let me have goods after my crap was all gone.*. When I got home me and the old woman we put on our specks and took a look at that crap¬ ping mortgage, and what do you think ? Why, I’ll be dad burned if that crapping mortgage hadn’t been spread over all my lands, my horses, my mules, household my stock, my farming utensils, my and kitchen furniture—everything I had in the world was flung into it, and if it had stayed there another year I’ll bet high that everything I had would you—don’t have gone through it. Well, let me tell never sign one. \ ou never will get through paying it, and when them store fellows tells you how easy it is to get things now and pay for them in tho fall, you remember what I tell you about a crapping mortgage.” of And haying finished his description these little engines of oppression, he pulled out a twist of home-made tobac-■ co. that looked as rich and brown as walnut wood, cut off a chew with his : horn-handle knife, put it into his mouth, put the knife and tobacco back into his : breeches pocket, and waked away. He ! turned round after walking a little way i and said reflectively: “Don’t you never sign one in the world; if you do vou will'never get through paying it off.” He might have ■added: “ P'or the reason that you will be sure to buy hundreds of things that ■ V ou would get along without huving did vou !iave to , iay ttlf . cash down.” That thing called “ good credit ” is a remark able thing! The ‘drowned while bathing” season has commenced. The Democrat CRAWFORDVILLE, GEORGIA, YEMESDAY, MAY 26, 1880. A Fuddlfd Elephant. “I saw little Betsy as drunk as a fid dler one time, and she was a funny sight. We were showing late in the fall in Indiana, in very severe weather, Some mon keys, and birds, and snakes, had already frozen, and Betsy showed that she was suffering greatly front the cold. Long John went to Manager Older and said to him : (ft ft You’d better get some whisky for j Betsy, or she’ll freeze.’ ! “ ‘How much ?’ “ ‘Her ears are just beginning fco freeze ; get three buckets.” \ “Well, they knew that was two for Betsy, and one elephants, for Long John ; but when it came to he was the boss, and the whisky was got as- seen* he. ordered* Only you should have the tavern-keeper’s eyes stand mitt when they ordered three buckets of whisky for two drinks. Betsy drank all they gave her, and got staving drunk, She’d stagger, and roll over, and pick | herself up, and pick Long John up aud : I toss him on her back, and sort of laugh, and he’d laugh, and it was nip and tuck j j between them which was the drunker, Elephants are vety fond of whisky, orany i sort of liquor, especially if it has lots of red pepper in it, and they are not only fond of getting drunk themselves, but they are very considerate of drunken men. I never yet knew of an elephant hurting a drunken man. That Long John, when he was staggering drunk, W0ldd 2° ri 2' lt «P to Sultan or Canada, when nobody else dared to go near them, and would fool round them, and swing °“ alx > u ut . ,eir and \ usks go ' to and sleep to8S right . the ir down trunks by their feet, : and they would not only do h ! m any har " 1 ’ but J™ ,Wn * let anybody ‘ ,lse S» nmr him until he chose to wmke «P‘ And “>>7 real drunken man cap^do < . t T ,ucl » what he l ,u ’ asts wit, an elephant. A etc lorkSun. ‘ ^ — . An Ante-Bellum Relic. M. J. L. Morgan, of the National lie tel, i has shown us a copy of tho Whuj % -N m \Z I 8- * P 1 - ri,, 1 It t t ed was in AugUSta a campaign °" Novem paper . b the . er size of the Daily Post ami contained no advertiwn f'hut was filled up entiro ly with political matter. At the mast ;u,d I,e ?i d J Theodore ippe i u ' th 1-re 0 mimes of Henry Clay iughuysen as the nom lliees f,, r president and Vice-Presi de "‘: There were then eight Congress- 10,1 iL districts in Georgia Among the candidates for Congress there appear sev eral names sti u. prominent in politics. Jiobert Toombs was a candidate in the 8thi A IL Stephens in the 7th, H. M. ^filler in the 5th and William II. Crnw ford 4S,?mUs. in the‘2d. ^ ^5«°ujtjK The B.macr 'fouftft contained a |in e ,j w ith “thirty reasons why James K. poH^ should not be elected President.” Those were the good old days of barbe Tuv, Kindi cnlherinini were an. „ounced in this issue of the Banner, to which all citizens without distinction of party were invited to attend. “The la dies particularly invited to attend” Among the speakers announced for one Q f these occasions we flml the names of 1Ion , Waiter T. Colquitt, Hon. A. II. u a mpbell and Col. Holiert IJ.Y. Johnson for Col. the Democratic and Toombs, Jas n j^mpkin, and Hon. A. II. Ste heHS £or Uie W higs ° —Atlanta Daily ‘ . Hard to Believe. One of tbe prominent citizens of a sub¬ urb of Ciiicago promised a mflney ladies’ sewing society a certain sum of for their treasury if they could meet for one-after¬ noon, each with her own individual work, and attending strictly to business refrain from speaking one word during tlie time allotted to society work. The great effort was made with success, show¬ ing what perseverance and will-power can do in this rough world. The local paper says: “ Though the sighs and groans were many arid heart-rending, the laughing grew quite dangerous funereal, ; though at times tlie quiet was quite again tho click of the knitting-needles, the rustle of tiie fancy work or the wind¬ ing of yarn would make it quite lively. Only tlie tongues literally forced were still. Though some were to place a mar¬ ble or a lozenge or a thimble in their mouths, although the bottle of mucilage was several times passed around and the strips of court-plaster were oil hand— taking them all together, nothing of the kind was required save the word and the will of the ladies, who bad pledged them¬ selves to earn in that way the requisite amount for their treasury.” , Some Fast Railroad TravelintT' - A special express train of four cars, pulled „ . . by a _ Baldwin _ _ . locomotive . . whici* lias but one 6j feet driving wheel on each side, was run on a trial trip by the Central Railroad of New Jersey yester¬ day between Philadelphia and Jersey City, and the time was better than Iras j ever before been made in this country.’ Tlie trip from Philadelphia to Bound Brook, 59 2-10 miles, was made in 03 minutes, and from Bound Brook to Jer S ey City, 30 2-10 miles, in 34 minutes— a total run of 894 miles In 97 minutes, Returning to Philadelphia with five cars the traill i eft j ersey City yesterday after nnon at 2:11.25. arrivin'* at Bound j> rook at 2: 45, and Philadelphia at 3:42 rnak j n g the distance of 894 miles in 1 1)our 3 q Republican. m ji n ,te 3 and 3seconds— ' sprinatifM 1 ^ _ _______ Selling a Girl. / of'Watkins, 1 Grandfather’ Y., Ackley, had of the village : A. rather a novel experience recently while “ crying off ” a vendue. After disposing of the arti dies on the sate list there was a lull in i business, and the crowd was getting itn- 1 patient for the announcement of the , close of the sale, when a pretty, plump, ; rosy girl asked him to offer her to the highest bidder. sodie He declined, Tfce but the ffirl insisted, proceeded. first bid was offered by a timid young man with a pianissimo voice, who weakly of fered 875. A baldheaded man went him 350 and the bidding went along lively j ml.il 8-2,000 was offered At this aawsss aar Aggravated Case of Cat. i west end man had the flat roof of thtL of his house iarred’ and when six or even cats got on it, the following ni- t, they could yell and arch their ba< .s and try to get a pull on all four silts f»j<at once, but they couldn’t lift them fuyand free, and their sighing was fright gatilo people in the neighborhood be chuck things at them, and the oft Jr of the house, forgot about the tar and vent barefooted and in his robe de nuitupon the roof to chase them off, and prehg soon he found he couldn’t stir, tn«*?e began to whoop and swear, and f&ystman got a ladder and climbed up £ >be roof, and when he came up omd.be bid edsre, on his hands and knees, he to remain in that posture, an d he used very emphatic language. M ean tine, the bootjacks were falling in a show»r about and upon them, and the mats mother-in-law, in looking out of an upper window that overlooked the L roof to ask them if they were not ashtlfited to he out on a roof playing cat at MyH time of eight, unfortuuately. MuK%4ier wig off, and it fell in the tttr andW^nf jjiuidlthen out on she the rushed roof down to get a it, flight and coupirt hamlSuek pull the wig up but got her it^nnd to it; so she couldn’t let go of of course her position and her bald head made a dead give away as It was quite light, when some one Anally came with boards to put down outlie voofJoTlUomi wer® ^.tfee tote fiom the got tar to and vvheu the they old ife ad’ gf fa tht;\ i ablt to ^orte walk than through the the po streets -with V W, knees of his trowsers cut * oc anu .ystiuck V.fi on t0 the ff roof l and and the Mntjon. y/, a reprimand And the when houseowner he reached h.m self b isteied _ his feet Lying to melt the hot sbwe. and Aen° tKts^wKnt loose* jirom the roof and put on the ffrmin.l they tried to gnaw the tar from their «i*ws and got their paws stuck in their mouths and rolled about and yawleu and carried on so that folks thought they were mail and killed them And tot householder’s mother-in-law hasn’t yet got over iawing him about that ter toot.—Baltimrrrc Sun • — I raathing Living Flame. A. V, Underwood, the colored man, whose oicath sets combustibles on tire, was interviewed by a Courier reporter on Tuesd •’ * evening. He is twenty-four yc;f-' When about twelvo years old he h ols handkerchief to his mouth ■>■39*.) i*"fc “ imii it look Are. He K’iyA- u. unable to account for it ; says that physicians have examined him and they are as much in the dark as himself. Ho set apiece of paper on fire at the Dyckman House, on Tuesday evening last, before a large crowd. A respecta¬ ble citizen of Paw-Haw says that this fel¬ low was out with him at a hunting party l ist summer and none of the party had any matches, and that Underwood took up both hands full of dry leaves, breathed upon them a while, and set them on fire, from which they built a fire in tbe woods. He seemed much ex¬ hausted last evening after his effort, and says that he could not endure more than yyice ill one day. Parties present last evening said they had examined his hands, had him rinse his month out and drink a glass of water, and then saw him set a paper of cloth on fire by bis breath.— Paut-Paw {Mich.) Courier Her Face is Her Fortune. “Do you see that pretty acquaintance girl at tlie cat’> tfeslt ?” said an at tiiemost fashionable millinery estab¬ lishment in New York. Branscombe “Well, they and talk about Maude Mary Anderson being the most pictured women in America, but that girl beats them both combined. She poses as a hat block before the camera several times every week of her life. The fash¬ ions shown in the plates used by half the milliners in the United States, as well as in the millinery pictures in three of the leading fashion weeklies, are all pro¬ vided by this concern. They are ob¬ tained by photographing the, hats that are regarded as best illustrating the new styles. This girl, as you see, has what may be called a negative face. Her features are small, regular, and without any strong characteristics, making a face that is both pretty and commonplace. With such a face, any possible style of hat or bonnet is becom n *" and use her in a11 u,e l ,lloto ' graphing. The engraver sometimes, in jurf« the likeness, yet she is recogniza b i„ i n all the pictures. Her face is her fortune—or, at least, it is good for about 810 a week.” A Terrapin Tale. Tins not snake story, but verita- . is a a ble terrapin tale. One of our neighbors had a guinea hen’s nest Hear his resi dence, with six guinea eggs and one hen egg in it. One of his daughters on vis itirig it found a terrapin at the nest, and the old fellow had been feeding on the by puncturing a hole in the shell and sucking out the contents. He was hilled. The daughter, on visiting the nest a second time found another terra pin in it. That one was dispatched. A third visit found still another terrapin a t the nest, and another terrapin went U P- AH tlie precincts are not in, and it is impossible to say how many more ter r apins are to be counted, before the tale ig concluded .—MilledyenHe Union and R rVlT ,jcr. --—•»—• -— A little child in Jacksonville, Hor ida, was in the habit of playing Near upon the piazza of her father’s house. by a mocking bird had its nest in the orange trees, and the child would throw crumbs to the bird daily. After a while the child was taken sick Mid died. While the child’s body was lying in the coffin the bird was seen to perch upon the slat of the window blind, pour forth one of its most brilliant songs, and then No. 21. flit away. Some hours after this tie placed ss ssrt •s ara - upon the coffin of its little friend and was interred with it in the grave. Fashion Notes. Pointed waists are peaking out every where. The newest shade of deep red is called oxblood. white costumes will lie worn in the street this season. selles Triangular cards are edging them into society. A brilliant color .combination ip that of tea rose with peacock. Cheviots of pure wool, loosely woven, will serve for traveling dresses during the summer. In some of the new style parasols, the folds, when closed, are kept iu place by old style sliding rings. The newest corsages are pointed in front rounded over the hips, aud form a postillion iu the back. Chinese embroidery representing Chi¬ nese letters, flying birds and even hu¬ man mings. figures, is one of the now trim¬ The wild purple geranium, called the craue’s bill, is expected to make a big figure in tho toilet—but the milliner's bill is expected to beat it. A style of dress worn over thirty years ago, infant waists with sash, and short skirt milled to the belt, will lie very fashionable for thiu summer fabrics. looking Hanging baskets filled with delicious wax fruits are now suspended by cardinal ribbons from dining room chandeliers. It makes one wax hungry to see them. Little banners of gold or silver tinted in four colors, are boing exchanged as keepsakes In fashionable society. “Long may you wave,” is tho sentiment which accompanies them. Wedding favors for ladles arc made of jasmine sprigs and myrtle inter¬ spersed witli silver leaves and tied with a knot of white satin ribbon. A gentle¬ man’s favor should bo of green and sil¬ ver oak leaves and acorns. No ribbon. Very little false hair is worn, the coif¬ feurs being low and scant. To have much hair on tho top or back of the head is a confession of advanced agv, us only elderly ladies dress their hair elabo¬ rately. Some of the striped stockings this spring are made with one continuous spiral stripe, so that when the' wearer stalks across iii a muddy street the specta¬ cle creates minds of the sjieeta t«ro the imi‘»-*Aion of a pair of twin augers mortising the crosswalk. A Heavy Man. About two weeks ago, George I,. Tay¬ lor, a well to-do citizen of Denver, Colo¬ rado, checks. began The to muscles feel a weightiness appeared to in bis be growing stiff, and the skin certainly bad become hardened. Mr. Taylor’s friends made jocose remarks ulxiut hits “cheeks” when tho hardening began, but the sufferer himself was In no mood for fun. Before the expiration of a week both sides of the man’s face had assumed tho solidity of marble, lie was unable to hold up his head. JJis eyes took a stony glitter. One siilo of the neck also grew hard, and died. on Tues¬ day of last week the victim The Denver physicians pronounced the ease one of decided petrifaction Mr. Tay¬ lor was 82 years of age, and just before the apjiearatice of tho singular disease, weighed 1(15 pounds. After death the jietrifaction continued, so that the weight of the old man’s body is now 000 pounds. Mr. Taylor bad tbe use of his tongue until tho hour of his death, and realizing the oddity of his taking off, re¬ quested that his body be sent to the Smithsonian Institute. What a Drive Pump Brought Up. Twenty years ago Missouri the steamer Ara¬ bian sank in the river, with (500 barrels of whisky on board. The current of the river went on changing, and now tlie place where the steamer sailed is dry laud, and the forgotten wreck is buried forty feet deep in the sand. The other day the man who owns the place put down a drive pump, and the lirst liquid lie found was the whisky in one of the 000 buried barrels. For a while after lie had tasted the vein his pipe had struck, land in tiie yicinity was held at 8475,0(X) an acre. But by and by some one remembered about the old wreck, and the-price fell. A trust¬ worthy and constant vein of twenty years old whisky on any Missouri farm has a tendency to increase the demand for it rapidly. Alexander Stephens. Recently the Atlanta Daily Pont an¬ nounced tho arrival of Alexander Ste¬ phens at the National Hotel in that city, creating quite a sensation, and the num¬ erous callers during the evening on the distinguished statesman found him rep¬ resented by a bright little boy but a few months old, whose parents brought him to Atlanta to buy his baptismal cloak, in which he was to bo baptized by the name of Alexander Stephens, in honor of Georgia’s great Commoner. The child is the sou of the Rev. Thomas Bollings worte, of Iioeky Springs. Fulton county, Ga. • An Indian House. Near Big Greek church, in tin's coun¬ ty, can be seen a smooth, flat stone, ele¬ vated from the ground upon four pillars. It has ever been known as the Indian House. Some treasure hunter had the curiosity to excavate the dirt some four feet beneath this slab, but he was only rewarded by finding some pottery and other relics of a past race. Near this singular stone is a line of fortifications. This is said to Is: an exact counterpart of some of the Druidieal stones in gland, and is a rare curiosity -Oyk j thorpe Echo. The Democrat Ai)VKIiTISISO RATKS ! Oue Square, first insertion . S 1 OS Oue Square, each subsequent insertion. to One Square, three numtliH 10 00 One S<|uare, twelve months . IS 00 Quarter Column, twelve months . . 20 00 Half Golnnin twelve months . . 00 00 Oue Column twelve months . • 100 00 l-vf One Inch or Loss considered as a square. We have no fractions of a square, all fractions of squares will be counted a* squares. Liberal deductions made on Con¬ tract Advertising. Gossip for tho Ladies. I have watched you long, Avice— WatcUeu you so, I have found your secret out: ns And I know That the restless ribboned things. Where your slope of shoulder spriugs, Are but undeveloped wings That will grow. When a woman vows that she never flirts, she is flirting. Age is venerable in man and would 1)0. in woman—if she ever lieciime old. Women make Sunday a dress parade; men make it a day of elegant leisure, Maud (an aristocratic child)—’‘IIow pretty and clever you are, mother I I’m so glad you married into our family.” The Boston Pont says that “Detroit women yell the loudest at sight of a rat, but Buffalo girls jump the highest, so tho honors are even.” Helling kisses to swell the Irish relief fund threatens to be inaugurated by the girls. II’m; if complimentary tickets are issued to editors wo favor the plan. An exchange says: “Matrimony is a holy institution. Not only does it unite man to his best friend, but it finds a good living for thousands of divorce lawyers.” Do not weep for Sister Susan ; Let this fact a comfort seem ; That her young life was not ended Till the fourteenth dish of cream. A young man who sneers at a girl’s false teeth hasn’t a well-balanced bead. Let him neuralgia marry a girl who him toothache and and he will see where was lame. Liberty should never have been repre¬ sented by a goddess at all. What lias the female sex done for liberty, and what eau they do ? Put tho figure of a fat matt oil our dollars. Tho biggest bustle of tho season was detected at tho custom-house in New York the other day. A steamship pass¬ enger had forty yards of broadcloth wrapped around her. , Hickory dickory dock, Maud 1ms wound up the clock ; She bangs her brown lmlr On yanks the back of-a chair, And off her barber-pole sock. An old man in Virginia his jumped into the well to spite wife for running him into debt. She let him stand In throe feet of ice-cold water until he agreed to deed her tho whole farm. Two female census takers have been appointed in Kentucky, ns ltn man dares to ask a woman her ago in that enlight¬ ened community. waiting Now tho men are ly¬ ing back aud to see the fun, when those two women come round to ask the others their ages. “ What do you suppose we’ll say when • “Say? we meet in f'know heaven, George ? ” hay, said she. what you’ll dar¬ ling.” “Mu say! What Y ” “Why, you’ll say, would ‘I bo told you so. I know just how it up here.’ ” A ranchman's daughter, She McWhorter shot McWhorter; he fell Close A II praise by an to old the well, gal. Whose front name D Sal. A dastardly outrngo was recently per¬ petrated at Galveston, Ind., upon Jumea fined Brown, 815 a respectable citizen, he the being for stealing it kiss from pre¬ sumably ruby lips of Miss Lucy Casey. 'This oppressive protection system is rap¬ idly paralyzing all our industries. A good joke is told concerning a Bur¬ lington lady who recently rotmned from a Southern trip. At a hotel In Augus¬ ta, Ga., Woodcock.” on a bill of fare appeared “ Bos¬ ton Our heroine ordered some, and our readers can imagine hec utter astonishment when a dish of pork and beans was set before her. “ Mother,” said a seven-year-old son of an energetic mother, tho other (lay, as he watched her vigorous manipulation of a kitchen utensil, “ you ought not to go to Heaven.” “ Why not, my son ? ” in a surprised manner. “ Because you would wear out your harp before eterni¬ ty was half over,” was the quiet reply of the young philosopher. Tell me, ye winged winds, Around my pathway roaring, Is thcro no place on earth Where im ii-folk cense from snoring? If such there be, Pray let me know, And to that place I’ll quickly go ; I’ll pack my trunk Tills very night; I’ll go alone, This very night. I’ll crawl clear there Before Upon I’ll all-fours, wfio marry I A man snores Mrs. jJcott-Siddonssays : “ f have trav¬ eled through the United States for elev¬ en years, and know all phases of society. The women here are very in itch better informed than English women, Ameri¬ can women possess a certain grace and ease, what the French call chic, that you will not find even in the highest English society. A servant girl liete will dress herself in a graceful, natty way that ail English duchess knows nothing about.” ft is wonderful what fools boys are. A charming widow of Stillwater owns a nice bov, and a man from St. Paul wants to be appointed deputy father to tlm lad. jt wa s only last Sunday that while tho st. Paul man was walking down (’best nut street with the lad, he a«ted : “Bub, ,| 0 es your mamma bang her hair '( ” and that foolish boy answered, “ O no ; but you ought to see her hang dad’s head. Guess the minister didn’t know every¬ thing when lie told pa to prepare to die. Prepare ! why he was aching to die.” TO A WIFE. The world goes up and the world goes down, And the sunslune follows the rain ; A nd yesterday's sneer and yesterday’s frown Can never come, over again, Sweet wife, No, never come over again. For woman is warm, thougirman bn rold, Til! Ami tho the heart night which will hallow tbe day ; and at even was weary ,ll< * Can rise.in tlie morning gay, Sweet wife, To its work in the morning gay. t —Rev. Charles Kingsley.
