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BY CLEM. C. MOOR?:.
CRA WFORDVILLE, GEORGIA..
Entered al the poetoffic* at Crawfordville,
Osoig », u w-'find-r.la,, mail tnatter.
There are SO, 000 children in Ragland
ytho receive no eduta’ion, owing to the
Sundering habit* of their parent*.
A conference to be held at Ih
this September under the auspice,, of
the Swiss government, having lor its
object the ameiioratio® of the conditi >i ,j
of the working classes.
Eire • 18 IS f h- Frciiiti Ini cron, nil
5,00“ eon 000 „ acre- ..f , v. . l.ml- , into . , . r
ests, j,, ilncinp $1.75 -re annually.
Pails burns (he limber of 50,000 acres
yearly, repining an
acres of forest to keep up the supply.
AVI,on U i . iol I that Dune were at one
time , lost .'{5,000,000 , \o^ in ^ t he
season
river nver at nt Hk,in niiow Icr-m M». \T, ...... ' <)..,» din, ,i„. liny v
went through the, boom at the rate of
6,000,000 a day, one gets an dea i hat
therc i-, cows id, ■ruble 1 umber left in Sew
England.
Two cut inu» facts have recently .been
brought out in reference to state taxa¬
tion. Nevada with no public , 1 , 1,1 ,t
all ha* tin: highest rati; of taxation —IK)
cent* per $100. M i ochusnttH which,
except Virginia, lias the larger! debt,
$31,000,000, has the lowest rab: of ! \
xtion, 11 1-2 cents on $100.
. The private detectives of a railroad
con, pan. v must l,r constantly hiftrd so
that their fares may not litom fnmil
iur to the employes an I nrous, -u-|,u cm.
The cost of secret , vice I-- a rullroid
isoften , iargf observes tin ,
etS very
evil Advert .\du>t,» i, r lull but ran run oocr u u. comju coir,Pi t <
with the proportions of adroit aud >uc
c-cssful frtdght robbing.
i
Statisticians estimate the wealth of
the United States to be nearly fifty l it
*» a................a
(|B0,000,000,000). 1. i, MSS I,,
•omit that at the end of the present
century it wdl f,.ot up *7«,00,.,000,000.
wc “ Uh ° r U,e ” atioU ^
ra P ia, y- vhlh '
oi hard tiunH coiiVinn dly. Madiincrv,
railroad, , sin,.....leCrici.y, . 01 . >, .killed la
bor, , millions of immigrants and many
.....................................
Wealth of the nation, Labor in t he
•ourco of national wraith, and mnclmi
ery labor is a producer the hud as hnnd
l*bor, or the labor of ,1
m&L.
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It is noteworthy that in Ihiglatui
tbcrc are iadications tin if is though'*
u«eetftary to l>t* prepared »r au emor*
genry in tin* fuel that tin* in aim factories
of firearms ut Hinninghnni uro omploy
ing luhlitional hands to moot a presum¬
able demand for th*ir products. i >ne
firm is engaged in erecting a hydraulic
forge capable of pre >duciug 10.000
'
it eel shells of vari ous weekly, . ami ,
there u hIho greatly incrrasnl ucttvitv
in tbr msnufaiTuro of revolver tor|M'
doe* ami new pattern* vith'*, while
a plant it itts of mututulion art* being
tunietl out by tin linns with wli >in tho
iro vein meat ha f *ntr iots for auch sup
plies,
Tlu* Ameri : in arm is now roachiiu;
into Chili, >\ s ;v Amorioan contract.or**
arc accepting t 115,000,000 railroad
contract It is felt in Per = whore t!m
building of 600 inlltv t of l 2 ail road on*
tract od w t govern meat for
$22, Ul OOtl beginning* It is
present Porto H o, whore Brooklyn,
cap U\ hive purchased immense cof
foe an 'U’*unti plant it ton It D work
ing in Ycnrue \vh Now York
com pan •» iwn the c v r It has
pushed mi roads into 'l \ wo r
ing there ' w»- j
and the 1 e y in
iron, and has j
supplyini*. Mexican >v itu
and lights for a pc
The M (
tains ri n
disunev
nn n of 1
posi . ■
gOTVTuifieat rc
for that ira'ioi
tkti sex \vU', i th 9
«lcal!v quail fie V
xncas -S v
w ( ::
♦V to a
>. irs w
:
SJ t
?. .1*1 SIC. c uffr 4 IV
of woman. It i*
xute out ot every tea women consider
jsoliiic* a xiuivinoe aad a bore, and re
yard the svdlrage as something entirely
sdetirabia.
THE DEMOCRAT, CRAW DVTLLE. GEORGIA.
f EIj 17 \ V T I/Jl. r lAiiJLA'^rj, r A I %| kd-'X I’
.
TEE BROOKLYN DIVINE’S SUN
DAY SERMON.
Sii.j-rt “Drunkenness the .Nation’*
Gurne.” (Trenched at Helena
Montana.)
Tic XT •' Who s/e *j all theseF —II Kings,
j 10.
I so a long row of baskets coming up to¬
ward the } ala.-eof King Jehu, I am some
svhat inquisitive to ftwl oni what is in the
baskets. I look in ami I-find the gory heads
t of seventy slain Frinces As the baskets
•irriv* /.t tin gate of the pala<e, the tiea/isare
thrown into two heaps, one on either sidothe
gate. In tie morning the King comes out,
Hid h*- took upon ih« hiGeding, ^hautlv
heads of tho:uassacred fVinces. Looking rm
either side the : ate. he cries out. with a nng
j mgemphasi* We have, friends, Who slow all thess! '’
• my Jived to see a more
! fearful massacre There is ac use of my
takihg . rour time m trying , to g:vo you «f«
duties about the devastation and ruin and
d-aOiwhvh dioeg drink I*. wrought In
this count, ry Slat,r.ti<sdo not seem to mean
anything t\ - arc so ha, de,m-l under these
.uturf-te.- that th f..ct that fifty thorn-ami
■<“*» *>•«,. bun U-» or make fifty thousand positive less
men are reins no im
-f." »;•» h”hh Hufliea it to
.
7 S 5 PT. ■znz&'sr* ztsrs
! vf*ry j -•iglihorli^xHl t-neir nro two hoaps f#l
t he slam; and at the floor *of the liousehold
i lltwe UkjY of are the two legislative heaps of the hall slain; there and are at two the
heaps miversity of the there Jaiij; and at heaps the door of the
are t wu of the slain;
a ,„| *, , h .. g , (a „ f this nation there are two
, limps of ihe slain. When 1 look nTXm
I ho desolation l am almost fran
lie with the geeue, while X I
<-ry out: 1 Who slew ali these-” I can answer
lhat question in half a minute. The minis
tors of Ciirist who have given no warning
t he courts of In w i hat have offered the liceh
sure, t he women who give strong drink on i
•few V..,n the father* and mothers !
who have nun mi the sideboard, the hundreds ]
of thousands of Christian men tiieir and women in '
the lur. I win ire stolid in indifferenr— I
ni this subjjct—they slaw all these 1 l | '
I prop.- : in this discourse to tell you what
drunkard, 1 think aro the sorrows and the doom of tiie
so that , ■, to I peak mav
not come to torment
- £, , I'H V „, 7’s 1 I It., t H . .1 t:
!'! a l!T'"^?"T reply, U r, ’] reaglet " iy
strong drink," I are.
^"hul" wlu.n“'' s Unds ‘hh/ckiul ‘ nj^tho
th* '/h«lr ijtd'nl ?j«W
i ' l,.,r,1 require 1 nw '
-
hands
...... much .. ,"'f by V*"-'"' ,1m mernment 1 ,u *" 1 ’'*« people N* 1 make bft l' k
very I u^d
H ' a,n *'- v s ^ on « rirmU. to
v, ' r y n"*!’>;y Ih ™ ! 1 having a
Iuv .,1 senile...f the hide rous. !Cirii° There was some-
2T a f oS^
-bweU. of I’liiiadelphin a sight that changed
srfc- 1 TJ, —,--f S!:, ..... tSS «A
,
,«?! whU^nt’h te U'very nSli- thTit^
,‘SJfnt
to tho door, ami tbe door was I'Tl'** opened his
”*>?? tut took Tn all T the comedy out ' of I he scene. " ry
Since that Imie when I « a man walking
aud heartbreak* Sever make am fun
around me about the grotnnquouess of a
drunkard. Alas for his home!
Ihe in . siiffcnng of the ilrunkfiid is m
r*n"cd S it'that no'iuaiT'evitr lo'sesliis'^ cishI
imtml name except through and all his tlio own assaults act. All devils tin.
of men of
t'&imot destroy a nmn’a good name if he
really maintains his integrity. It' a man is
iwiustrions and pur*- ami Christian, Clod
looks after huu Although ho may l>e bom
t>anlail for twenty or thirty Ids years, his integ
sacrificed. rfty is never No lost uiid good name is never hell
forco on earth or in
™ Wi TZX-.’S.TA
be proved, then what employer wants
him for workman wind store Wants him
for a clerk? what church wants him for n
fneiiil^er who will trust him? what dying
man would have apjKiiiit him his oxc<*utor? building Ho
may Ihhui forty years in up
hfe mvtitsdion it irtx*s down. Lett*‘i> ot
lw#Mlmw „i*tioti the I«.-Iting up ..1 Imsim ss
firms, tt brilliant aucc-trv «not save him.
The world shies oil Why :- is is w-UiK|x*rt\!
all through the community, ‘ He drinks; ho
drinks.” That bhists him. When a man loses
his r, |..ita1 ion for -. t., iot v lie might as well l.„
at the bottom of the sea l'here are men
here who have tlieii uixjd name si tlu-ir only
capital. livelihood, You under arc God. now achieving by vour' your right ow n
own
arm. Now look out that there is no doubt
i>f your subnet % 1),. not .-rente »nv sus
pirion by going odor in and out of hrefIh, immoral places,
tu* by any el „ur ... bv any
•u you
of vour check. A ou cannot afford to do it
for Four good is Wasted namo is with Jfqur the only capital, and of
when that reputation
taking strong drink, all is gone.
Another loss which the inebriate suffers is
that of self respect Just as soon as a man
wakes up and find that he Is the captive of
strong drink he feels deraeane.1. I do not
-.nr*'bow nx'kless lit* Hcrji. He mav snv. “I
don’t t aro:” he docs emre He cannot look «
pure man in the eye. unless it is with positive
i uve ot resolution Throe-fourths of his nat uro
destroyed: his self respect gone; ho says
t lun its he would m>t otherwise snv; lie docs
ihiiigs he would net otherwise ,|n When a
iubu i> nine tenth.* gone with strong iwrsuade driuk,
t },. nrst th ing he w ants to do is to you
that Tie ran stop any time he wants to U
cannot The Philistines lnivebound him hand
foct, i:uul shorn his looks, and put out h s
SJ ml are making him grind in the mill of
*- t horror lie cannot stop bringing twV.lp
lie knows r«ii» that his course is Hi*
; .Vi x* Jl ml upon himself. He love* hit:
If he could stop h? would. UU J.ie knew*
his course is bringing Tie ruin upon family.
H» loves them would stop if be could.
lie cannot. Perhaps he could threejMOttths
t»r » year not now Just ask him to
for a month He cannot; he knows he
‘‘Rimot, I • -l- not trv. 1 hsd*a friend
'a I 10 far lift <^11 w as going down under
this evil haidt. lie had large means. He had
en thotssiUHls of dot lam to Biblo «x*wti *
.. 1 reformatory inst it ations of all
ami was very lovable, genial and >vb and ver> erlietalk'l gviiei - -
very habit he vrouh “I
nit this evil ginog’ sav: own
slap any time ’ But lu pt u. poinc
on. down, Uown, down Hi- fa" lv would
WTi \ % *| wish you would •'tt*}'.* u i
Id reply, “I can * 'p auj Tini
Afte a " i lifii] tlclR'lUO) t! ;
be had it tw o. aiixl yet after that 1 SSUvl
rid st anv time 1 wanted t*> "
ul now kilUvl hin Uum ?
Kara ye am ins last eraxtt ■i
was oaJi stop at any tim<
tnK'ause Ue cvukl St
there is a t r in Inchrtatic ■ be :id whk
man goaa, lie cannot sioo
victims said to a Christian
nuui “Sir. if 1 were ,oW Ui.it I couldn't
jrt a druiIt until to-nmnviv nicUt tin
hs 1 had all my fingers cut off. I would
sav: ‘Bring the hatches and cut them
off now.'" I h.ve » d.ar fnenJ in ITi-Ja
deh'hi*. ami whose iw-phew ,*m# to him one dav. evil
when he was exfeerted about his
haWt. nalil: “Chela, 1 can't give it up.
If tbare stood a cannon, and it was loaded.
and a gUu» at n ine at on the mouth of
that cannon, and I ki*w that you would
lire it off just as I came up ; r and took
the glass, l would stijrt, for I must have
it.’ Oh, it i* a a<l tiling for a man to
wake up in tkis life and feel that rii
is a captive. He says: “I could have got
of this once, nut 1 can't, now. I might
•iveil an hcaoraUe life and died a
Christian deaEh; but there is no hope for me
now; there is no escape forme. Dead. but
r.ot buried. I am a walking corpse. X am
caged an apparation immortal, of treating what I against once w as. the I am a
wires of
my . age in this direction and in that diref;
tn,n: treating against the cage until there is
bl* * cl on the wires and blood upon mv soul,
yet not able to get out. Destroyed, without
*
i go further and say that the inebriate
suffers from the lows of his usefulness. Do
you not recognize the fact that many of those
i U t t WZ v.lillc ,W,:alMv ^ o£ •‘^gdrmkmdya
id e ago ,v.re Ihe darehes
. l\ m reformatory institutions? Do you
no9 sometimes they knelt in the
wivwl in^ni I' tt r^? 1 ^ *° n0f rae 0 tll0n lbat * ea >' tbe r!e( T |
O,.'‘ around H th,*me m on the wcramental very front rank, days?
tb r .r gradually felt away. And
wl, , * t do y° u «uppo«se is the feeling
u,, he thinks »*■« tiat when
of -us dishonored vows and the
«lwhouj*ed w,ial he might secrament-whcyi have been and of he v.hnt thinks ho of is
mPn-Tf^Ab^Mw!"? I, * Ah, t here is, down f 'f UKh i m a ^ the depths of
*££*• . 7,7 'ZZ ^ 2” "*
!; T f ™ tiv
you knew what they .suffer. Do not tell such
that there is no future punishment. Do
ijteVno Knows b, *h,*r« there is. i« *%?°t tie is “IV* there P now! 1 * 00 ,®* heU '
f K<> on, and say tiiat the inebriate suffers
,ossof Physical health. The older
>»«“ m „ the congregation may remember that
some years ago Dr. Howell went through this
r onntr 7 an d .electrified the people by hislec
tHros, in which , he showed the cifecte of alco
o.it.jio human stomach. He had seven
>> r e'ght diagrams by which he showed the
devastation of strong drink upon thephysi
coisystera. there were thousands of people
n,a T' turned back from that ulcerous sketch
eternal abstinence from everything
' ri cou ^ intoxicate,
God only ___ knows What , . the .. drunkard suf
, fers 1,in files over y nerve, and travels
'
every ** muscle, ?^ , and flame, gnaws every bone, and
Brns w 1 evory and stmgs with
torture. VVhat S'? reptiles Sands P t»* crawl *\ U over “ m hts creep- every
ing limbs! What stand by his mid
SttOSsSTrs &JS! ffli
you ever been in the ward of tiie hos
P ‘ stench* ^Tthri^'w^dT^S
f lm
tffoug^lmlflrht^ *S: "*«X Thfk^ 68 Bto^SuS SOUndh ‘ S
be stilh
ing all this noise!” But it is effectual oifly for
a moment, for as soon as the keeper Sod] is gone,
they bogin Rum! again: “Oh, God! oh, Help! Help!
help! Give me rum! Take
them off tne! Take them off me! Take them
me! Oli. God!” and then they .shriolc, and
they rave, and they pluck out their liajr quieU? by
ht.mlsful, and bite their nails into the
...d then they groan and they shriek,
^ UW'\hcm P "wab mef
Strangle itSSs^XSSSS9& me. Toko the devils off me!” OR
$SS2^uZSSSJS!&ft&X »««»'fell further that this is g^ing
you
outrageous u‘! ^and s sri^
j th6 tilings, if lu*
f / bondigo. o
wolj!(l st ,„ lis f(MnUy iuto terlla i
jj„ w many homos have been broken up in
'•tst’swr^afttsrra.^ "n, i* tlierr any tniug ttmt, win so destroy
tliat'ls to conic' i»,»c«ntret«l i hate that'strong drink*
with all the euerglw of my
soul, I hate it. Do you tell mothataman
in " ha PP- Y wheii he knows that hois
bf^cilfdi en wfth streets' r™s’ 9 "why *'°th«-e
aro on of our cities
to-day „ little iit children, tlll . barefooted, „ . , uri
combetl “1 thoir aud faded unkempt; dress ami want on every wrinkle patek of
their prematurely on every who
old countenances,
would nave been in churches to-day, and as
'veil clad as you are, but for the tact that
thou Sff^X'Ssas'fflJSK destroyer of homes, thou recruiting
officer But of the subject pit, I abhor takes thee! deepet* tone,
my a
and that is, that tlio inebriate suffers
from the loss of the soul. the Bible
hitiumtes that in the future world, if
wo are imfor given here, our bad passions
anil appetites, tinrestoaiuoil. will there. go along So
w ith us and make our torment
that 1. suppose when an inebriate wakes up
in this lost world he will fee 1 an in
tinito thirst clawing on him. Now, down
... the work), although he may have been
very poor, he eoukl lieg or he could steal
five cents with which to get that which
would slake his thirst for a little while: but
in eternity, whero in the nun to come from?
Divescould not get oue drop of water. From
w list olmlice of eternal tires will the hot lips
of the drunkard drain his draught? No one
to brew it. Xo one to mix it. No one to pour
it. No one to fetch it. Millions Of worlds
then for the dregs which the young man i
just now slung on the saw-dusted
floor of the restaurant. Millions
of thrown worlds out from now the for punch the bowl rind of j
>n earthly banquet. Dives cried for water. ]
The inebriate cries for rutu. Oh. the deep, I
..Hmttodteg exaa,.crating, everlasting thim ]
ot tlio ilrnnknnl in licit. Why, if a fiend
cam® up to earth for some infernal work in a |
grogshop, wing just and should drop of go that back for tal:h% which on tlio its
one ;
iiwbrite in th« lost, world lougs. what ex
citement it w-oald make there. But that one
.imp from off of the the fiend’s wing on the tip of
,lie tongue destroyed inebriate; let '
the let liquid the drop brightness be just ihk*!i it, 1
very small if j
it only have in it the smack of alcoholic)
drink, let that drop world, just touch would the lost spring ino
nnaw in the lost and lie
his feet and cry: “That is rum! ahs! thai ,
is rumam! it would wake up the echoes of j j
the damned: “Give sue rum! Give me rum!
Giya me ruju'.'' la the future world, I do
h t beUot’e that it will bo the absence of God
that will make the drunkard's sorrow; Ido
not believe that it will be the absence of
light: I do not believe that it will bo the ab- |
sonoe of holiness; I think it will be the ab- 1
seneo of strong drink Oh! “look moveth not upon it* j
the wine when it is red, when it
self aright in the cup. for at the last, it biteth
like a serpen an l it stingeth like an adder.”
But I want in conclusion to say one thing
personal, for l do not like a sermon this that has
noix'rsonaUties ini Perhaps has not
hasi that fault already. I want to say to
those who are the victims of strou; drink,
that while I declare tba; there was a point
beyond whlrlya tnan could not stop, I want
totell you That wl'.ile a man cannot stop in
his own sirasgih, the Lord ofli
by His graca. can help him to
«top at anv time. Years ago I in
a rev>m in Near York where there were
many men who had bean reclaimed from
virunkeunotv 1 Ueani their testimony, and
for the first :;nie n my life t here flashed CTEit
* truth ! no er undentedxl. Thai* sai I; *‘V» a
i re victims of strong drink, we tried to
give it up. but ftlwavs failed; but somehow,
Yw f gwve our hearts to Christ* He has
taken car# of us. ' I believe that th* tinw
will , 11 (-onie " hen the grace of God w ill
show its er bore not reconstruct, only to save purify, mans
scad, bat body, ami that.
elevate and •deem it* I verily boliev e
although you feel mfing af tl»
, root#* yow tongue* this an almost omnipotent give
: »hirs if you will moment your
hear to God He will help you. by His grace,
to < vruer. Try it. It is your last chance.
I hao looked off njxm the desolation. Sit-
1 ting under my ministry there are and, peopla in
• -?. fit peri’ from strung drink, there judging is
r .***&SSgi;t! nary circumstances, not
. , 'acSfteF J five thousand that they will
1 it. I see men in this congre
/vhom I must make the remark,
ey do they not will, change to their their course, bodies.
thk -fo{n in years drunkards’ as and to their
graves: perdition. as
wui-t i down in a drunkard’s I
kuov /iat it is an awful thing to say, but I
c<ml help saying it. Gh, beware! You have
I nofcfyet door been of captured. wine Beware! closet to-day, As ye
ope( the your
mat that decanter flash out upon you.
Seysre! and when you pour the the beverage
i n fc the glass, in the foam at top, in
w ye letters, let them be spelled out to jnde- your
, ^ “Beware!” When the books of
* are open and ten million drunkard
up to get their doom. I want you to
heZwitaas that love I, for to-day, in soul, the told fear of
wi(S and in the your you
»U affection, and with all kindness, to
^ be*are of that which lias already exerted its
■ ‘ “ nce upon your family, blowing out
rVjkness of its of* lighte-a premonition of the
darkness forever. Oh,
,, J£ V ou u Intemperance could only hear this
with drunk
"J! caskHie^DeadMar bones dricumiii" on the head of the
$*. llance ch of immortal souk
„rv of a wine color^f ctto
wo, Id make you shudder, and the
„ SodTtheTuL ijnuor would and^Mu.Whetoprf make Vou think of the
•»«* this service ami kneel ** »>» down
c . n rav y God that, rather than
yoir children should become captives
of his ovil habit, you would like to carry
then out some bright spring day to the cemli¬
ter ’ and put them away to the last sleep,
until at the call of the south wind the flowers
woild come up all over the grave—sweet
prtobecies of the resurrection. God has a
balrffor such a wound but what flower of
a toOrt over grew on the blasted heath of a
drunkard’s sepulcher?
Overland Tea.
inifndeil Tjis well known that most of the tea
Ittisia for consumption diverted from iu European
lias been the over
laafl route and now London goes to Russia direct by
gfefcuner, O'fcssa. either via tea of all, or owing to
The finest to a
pjkvsilent opinion that continues sea carriage im
>air8 the flavor, still to go over¬
laid; but though Russians for unheard are in the of hal>- in
it tils pf paying prices tea would lia\
country, the caravans e
lisle to depend the on now which if they still trusted for
m.pport land Russia. to tea They rely, however, goes over¬
to on
tile coarse brick tea which is consumed
ill Mongolia, Manchuria, and Siberia.
Cb my way buck to Pekiu from visiting
turned tie' Great Wall, I met camels, numerous laden large with
caravans of
tha, and often preceded horseman, by a picturesque, lance in
fiferco-looking Tartar
hand, t/ie who glared rather ferociously at
strange “foreign devil.” The de¬
mand for brick tea—manufactured at
Hankow, GOO miles up the Yang-Tse- Min,
Kiang, and Foo-Choo on the
whence it is shipped to Tien-Tsin—is
)jreat and annually increasing, the in¬
habitants of Mongolia, Manchuria, and
Siberia using it both as food and drink,
while sometimes it even takes the place
T* currency, the value of articles being
'ctilatod in bricks of tea. In spite of
a fact that this trade is so charges hopelessly for
• «*•*
Vvru 1 ‘^vtuiuo, the demand is so
that» HatrfiC,000,00.) pounds,
pnnotpally buck, were conveyed over-'
land in 1887 to Mongolia, Siberia, and
b.«k ™x. one-third the
amount equal to about of
total anmml therefore consumption difficult of Great Brit- irn
aim It is not to
ague the sudden development which
will take place in this trade nlone, when
» tuot inconsiderable proportion knocked of the
heavy bv the overland advent of charges railway. are And tea off is
a
only nn i» nnfl one ol n f fi, tbe ft many mnmr siwifif .} : it, «irrir-lp«* < tic ts nf ot
commerce for which tins lailway will
create an intensified demand. Coal, for
instance, which is found w ithin sixty
jjjjjpg m^y*. tlio capifc’il and now costs from
w» ably be reduced to considerably
m price
under $5.— Blackwood's Magazine.
Wonders of the Beetle.
Charles . TT H. T Lamsay , sends •, n, State , T Ento- x ,
mologist which Ijintnor is (‘merging from riowe from s and v>ave has a
beetle
completely riddled a painted ki chen
*' loavimr
t «<** i • a.i tbat * v - v numerous
liolesin tlio wood of ' f .1 iptai.ti ,;7, >1 an
toon in diameter. Ihe beetle is o\er an
inch long, its gray, 'whip-covers, with black and velvety has
dashes on
* l 0rnh 01 ™ nntonn-p in m fl,o “ mult* T,UUc si>\ S 1 nl> !U, nit, U
three 1 inches . .«mg. It proves to . 1 be , the
“long-horned I)ii el)ove:. ^ the Its injurious larva or
grub is the one that eftttses
j j, 1 unsightly burrows so often seen in
' • ' in this instu ee the
grubs , must , , nave , been in • the i lie logs
before they were sawed Hit
From some unknown reason the grubs
occasionally remain in a dormant or im
d ^ Ot ; lld ition lor a lorn: ti> e. when
4
tiie mater*al , » coniaiuing thorn . , ho heeii
used for building purpose- or in fur
uiture. In the museum of the IVabody
Academy of Science at Salem ’, Mass, ‘
one of those beetles is pusened winch
‘ ul< * eaten its way out ot the wood ol a
pine bureau which had 1 -ceil made
about fifteen years b fore. As showing
s ,m longer f.7, itn'ris"U“e 1 '.'I.,, t of beetl
"‘“j it) ■ 1 " i«rnituro it o is lehite.i that :::
l ; s * a m of (den. Israel Piiti in
sidiiu g in WiFiamstown, Mass., Is ad a
table made front one of his upjilo trees,
from which a lmic i rued b- -et ie •_ mi wed
its way out twenty years thereafter, and
a second one tiventv-eiffli after
the tree was cut down.—A.ban- (X,
Y.) Journal.
California Mud Sprinss.
The mud -printrs ali
forma southern part of
in the vallev of Hla RA
, '•
Th. tntiy to- Tf I'
t. am
land tn
, jS ar
Ciicui.
i supposed t
left bv the retreating gulf
1 rous little coves
r
1 ln’-ul i
T ik int
a up.
\
i
summer nine
GEORGIA RAILROAD COMPANi
--
•tone mm mountain ________ _ Route,
%
Office Genbkal Masao ■ T )
Augusta, Ga March 2. l -v f
( _ythe following paisetmi edules •3rd inst., will
be operated:
Trains run by 90 meridrm time.
No. 1 —West—Daii.t.
Ireave Augusta .... 1“ 4.1 5333=3
U Macon T
> illedgeville .... . 1 i
it Washington . . . . 9 10
Arrive Crawfordville . . , . 11 20
“ Athens . . . . 1 22
.... • . 5 15
Gainesville.............. 8 25 ~
Atlanta 5 45 R
No. 2 —East—Daily.
Leave Atlanta............. CO 00 ro> n:
U Gainesville.......... Cl 55
m
t t Ath i-ns 8 50
- m
l
<( Crawfordville 12 42 T IE
Arrive Washington.. 2 20 T IE
.. Miiledgeville 4 40 V- IE
Macon ..... .... 6 00 13 n;
a Augusta..... 3 35 53 xr '
No. 3 —West—Daily.
Leave Augusta .... .. 11:00 C. 3
( i Crawfordville 1:54 ci 3
Arrive Atlanta ... . . 6.50 d 3
No. 4 —Fast Daily. i
Leave Atlanta.......... 11:15 n J
Arrive Crawfordville...... a \ B
“ Augusta....... t>,*45
=
FAST LINE.
No. 37—West—Daily.
Leave Augusta................. t- 45 71 rr.
Arrive Washington......... 1 C7> 4 U 7*. m
Leave Washington......... te. trj t n>
Arrive Crawfordvili*........ ( ft rt ni
It Athens..........l 40 ? m
i
U Gainesville.. 8 25
■ m
If Atlanta..... 1 00
. Ml
No. 28 —East—Daily.
Leavo Atlanta........ ... 2 45 c*< ni
u Gainesville... 5 55
... rn
Arrive Athens......... T _ 00 cta,a m
Crawfordville .
a Washington. .... ‘ox 54 m
I 20
. . . m
Arrive Leave Washington. . 20 Aft m
Augusta........ CO 15 ID
STGUP2RB IMPROVED Sc.-eff.i:s
] Augusta, Atlanta and Charleston
j gusta Parlor and cars Atlanta. on 27 and 28 between Au
Train No. 27 and 28 will stop and rc
ceive passengers to and from the follow
ing points only: Grovetown, Harlem,
Dealing, Thomson, Norwood, Barnett.
Crawfordville, Union Point, Greensboro,
Madison, Rutledge, Social Circle, Cov¬
ington, Conyers, Lithonia, Stone Moun¬
tain and Decatur.
E. R. DORSEY, I. TV. GREENE,
Gen’l. Pass. Ag’t. Gen’l Manager.
Joe W. White,
General Traveling Passenger Agent.
S’l y. g;
!| ' ;
m 4 . ‘ |
W'J*
Sf ISyS--P flYi y-— |
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THE
Trio Feed Mill ! ;
CUTTER, GRINDER AUDI
Combined in SHELLER One Frame. TIt.< Onlv i !
Combined Feed Mill Made. .
Warranted to Give Satisfaction J
Can its* three different sized Orindcr3 upon tfc<
same Mill at any time. Really five machines in 3 i
one.
Send for circular to
FRAZER A TIAFY,
Williamsburg, Iml. r,
C XT IV * ; r*i *>— »' * A-» IS 2-i,
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25 Cis h* v ^ 1 1 ^ S V %
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REPAIR SHOP.
GEO. R. GILMER. Machinist,
Crawfordville, Ga.
Engines, Senaraters, and any kind of
Machinery repaired in best styie very
reasonable. Having had much experience
in this work I am now prepared to do best
of work.
-ATI-I A< TIOXGUARANTEED.
Old Stoves Made New—I will
haul vour old stove and make it "cod as
lew tor a very small stun Parties not
laving the money, I will do their work
aid wait a r« asonabletime for the money.
ivf*rup 1 trial Geo. It GlLtltEK
JBWBLi’S
-LADIES aud GENTh'
DXNXN&
l ICE CREAM
PARLOR.
Xo. 8 W. Hunter St..
Atlanta, C-ecrgia.
Meals at Ail Hoars. Repulars Dince
from 11:30 to 2 o'clock.
‘ Oysters in every *tyie.T_Game aad Fish
In season. «
ORGANS PIANOSj
'(rel'B'S.M.K »r
fsfth annual
CLEARANCE SALEi
June I to Aug. !, 1889 .
$ 25 , 000 ;
" orth of l’iauos aud Organs
out from best makers to be closed f |
regardless of cost or value.
Stock too Iarae. Mnstcouvert
Into cask or installment *
assets.
■Some, entirely NEW INSTItE
JWEy'TS not used a day.
Some, Nearly New—used a few i
months only.
Some, used a year or so.—Some,
used two to three years*
Some, tine Second Hands—taken
in exchange, and made new in
onr repair Factory. Ke.polished
str ."nB. Restored in Tone
and . Action, . and made good for
years of service.
bargains, every one.
EASY TERMS.
Your OWN TER3IS almost.
Very light Monthly Payments,
or „ small .. Cash Payment and bal¬
ance when you (ret ready.
CASH BUYS CHEAP.
(iive you all the time wanted
but SPOT CASH will save you
money. TRY US ON. We will
meet you every time.
$ PIANOS
50 , $ 75 , $ 100 , $ 150 .
ORGANS $
24 , $ 35 , $ 50 , $ 75 .
WRITE FOR BARGAIN SHEET.
CLEARANCE SALE
SUMER 1883*
LUDDEN&BATES, S.M.H.
S&VANKAH, GA.
Dobbins Sleet riG poap
THE BEST FAMILY Si^P
-IK THE WOBUJre
It is Strictly Pars. Uniform Ln Qaaiity.
T HE original formula for which w.: v.n t’ .'ied 50,000
twenty years ago has nevo: ; . or
changed in the slightest, 'i'lti* soj»j»
identical an quality with
that made twenty yoars
TT contains liolliisi^’ (1 b at <;?aai in*
* jnrethe finest iubriu. ' ;f<t
ens colors a nd bleaches whites.
i T washes flannels and blankets as m other sonp
in the world docs—without sarHiking— leaving
them soft and white and like new.
READ THIS TWICE
Mnaannin) ■ ni«— ■ mr *,a uimwtrs
- anummsumv-':: ar
fWHERE J is a great saving of ticn’, - f labor, Dob¬
of soap, of fuel, and of the fabric, vvi.- re
bins’ Electric Soap is used to <3irec*
tl051*i.
/^NJE trial will demonstrate its gre ■ ‘. ... it
will pay you to make thr.t trial.
J- IKE all best tliin^rs, it is ext ively imi
ttited and counterfeited.
Peware of Imitatlcns,
iCVkWW-lCA' ^
TNSIST upon nobhiBis’ F.; '•-n't take
A Magnetic, Electro-Magic, F . Electric,
or any other fraud, simply because c - ‘ . They for
will ruin clothes, and arc dear a: . yr Ask
—. 0.^.4 noBBiars’ Etscmit -— -
and take no other. Nearly even - r from Maine
to Mexico keeps it in stock. If hasn't it, he
will order from his nearest wholes; le ; each
EAD carefully the inside wrap: ml
J+- each bar, arui be careful to You folhnv casstfo* Ziord CUOBS to
on outride wrapper. :!. -u reliable,
wait longer before trying for yourself ■ •
v.nd truly derftil
Dobbins’ ^ Electric Soap.
»| instalment system, is. A
1 ■ a wholesale sjtot cask ^
J jeo-operatioa system to us.
club members sells * us CKfs ■
f 38 watches in each PH I LA.
.’J; ^5 i 83S\V;*tch Club, and we get cash from |§|pfj
R the Club for each watch before it g°u3
gl cut, though This each is member why cn.y give pa; 3 ft j|]te
^ $1 a week, we y.
more for your money than any one
■ c and why we are doing the Lai
>3*1 -Md watch business in the world. ®W<
only first quality others goods, cut
m j ! prices are about what get t-r «
i j ond substantial gual::y.OurSlOSitvertVatth SQver (not imitation (SfBE&t
. is a s.
I cZKJ kina) Stem-Wind American Lever*;
? Our Watch—either m Z3.(J O W huadng ntizit is caae a S : or :rr.-v 'iPt ■ 'Ilf?
OpeuFace. first quality, stiffened G: m:
?• 1 American Lever Watch. fully guaranteed equal
J c tear 20 years. It is t'
K ll watch sold for fyi by ethers. V,.-. m
a first-class SuScn&d Gold
more sari-factory and serviccabic th m
any Soft J Gold Case that can be soli
less than double the money, as civ: m
solid cases axe invariably d thicss thin, we £l*'
ot .ove : uaii r. ^ an w c: a: t. r
i. OufSbS W&tch. contains
surucrous im portnnt patented im-> ' ■
provemcats, of vital importance to accur- &
ate tira bag—Patent Ductfroof. Pate~:e c
» Find,cr=c .,which we cdctrcl-------
i is fully equal for accuracy, appearance, dura
bility Opea and FaceorH—.flag. service, to ar.v Od 44MOB«U-{ '*’• - -
road H atch is cspcciali
me m stexac::::z use, au
ad Watch raade, 'Oper. F:
< All these prices are either ir in •
81.00 a week. An AJ-erz w**t .i'
ip.* 4 Mti 7*cJfY. Gaffe
The Keystcae Walsh Cish
■ jin O^ce is Cc'« 2hr» EaU.ing
004 VAIH6T ST. PHIU?A. PJL
© Agents Wanted. ^
I Ajax Watch Insyiator, ■■siKu’rsss $*.00 \0 jjti
[Of ^rtee. C T w '- * <* «nijy****~r *ai