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—PUBLISHED WEEKLY AT—
HAMILTON, GEORGIA.
THE NATIONAL GAME.
Dunlap is said to be for sale by Pittsburg.
Baseball has become a fixture in Aus¬
tralia.
Kelly, of Boston, leads the League in
sacrifice hitting.
Duryka, of Cincinnati, still leads the
Association pitchers.
The Boston club has already cleared ex¬
penses on the season.
Hartford, Conn., is trying to support an
amateur baseball league.
Every Pittsburg player caught drinking
will have to pay a fine of $50.
Columbus has released Catcher Peoples
and signed Rudolph Keinmler.
The Boston club lias purchased the release
of Shortstop Smith, of Pittsburg.
Gumuekt, of the Chicago team, Is the
champion home-runner of the season.
Keefe, of New York, leads the League
pitchers still, on the number of strike outs.
In the Hawaiian Islands they are so far
advanced as to use the double umpire sys¬
tem.
Boston paid St. Paul $2500 for Pitcher
Sowdmfs release and received $1000 from
Pittsburg.
Thuef. triple plays have been recorded in
the official statistics one each by Cleveland,
Washington ntirl Chicago.
It is a remarkable fact that Boston has
never been quite right at short field since
George Wright left the club.
Boston recently led the League in the
total of bases, average 878, with New York
only a marginal point behind.
The sum of $7500 and Shortstop Quinn,
was the offer made by the Bostons for Glass¬
cock, of the Indianapolis club.
Senator Gorman, of Maryland, has a
passion base for baseball, and once played second
on the Nationals, of Washington.
John Irwin, brother of Arthur Irwin,
Captain replaced unci shortstop Sweeny of third the Washingtons, in that
has at base
team.
Chicago up to late date had made the
greatest number of double plays, sixty-nine;
Boston with sixty-one. sixty-four, and Indianapolis third,
The breaking of the Southern League
threw a host of players on the market and
most of them have been signed by the Inter¬
national and Western clubs.
Ramsey', the now St. Louis pitcher, is only
twenty-four years old. He has a record of
fifty strikeouts in three consecutive games,
and of seventeen in a single game.
Pitcher Whitney’s contract with Buffalo
is rather n peculiar one. He cannot be re¬
served at t he end of the season and must not
be pitched more than twice a week.
Burdock, tie: ex-Bostonian, never did bet¬
ter work in his life, both in batting and field¬
ing than he is now doing for New Haven,
and ho is also handling the team skilfully.
O’Brien, the Cleveland twirier, whose
mystifying worrimenf curves have been a source ot
to the heavy batsmen of the
League, New Yorks. Is a protege of Tim Keefe, of the
General Arthur Dixwell, of Boston, is
perhaps thusinst the most remarkable baseball en
in the country. He has retired with
a fortune from active business aud spends
every afternoon at a ball game.
No young player in either the League oi
Association lias made the “first year” record
cinnati that Holliday Club made has this mistake season. Tho Cin¬
no when it in¬
vested big money in this young player.
The Ni >v Yorks have signed Pitcher
O’Day, who played lute of in the the Washingtons, outfield and Lyons,
jersey with the dis¬
banded City the New club. Fielders Tiernan
sick ami Bliittcry, list. of Yorks, are on the
Secretary Busk and United States Sen¬
ator Kenan, of West \ irgiuia, were present
at, a recent, game between the New Yorks
aud the Washingtons in the National Capi¬
tal. The head <u the Agricultural Depart¬
ment frequently attends games.
1 As a sample of the expenses of a ball team
It may be i-fated that Cleveland’s 1888 team,
in which were McCormick, Dunlap, Glass¬
cock, Bush less rug, Daily and other stars, cost for
salaries than $10,000, and tho present
team, iu which there are no stars, costs
•UO.000.
PnOYh soli J. H. T arsoxs, who has just
boon eh :. n principal of the formerly high school of
Augusta, M v. and who was the princi¬ crack
pal of the Pittsfield Academy, in 1878, was ’79 and’80,
pitcher at Bates College college cham¬
m which years Bates won the
pionship. Association
In fielding Comiskey leads the
first basemen, McPhee the second baseman.
Kappel’s average is the best at third base.
Holland leads at short. Rornuug Corkbill easily in left field
La above all competitors. leads
among tlm centra fielders, and Dowio, ol
Baltimore, the right fielders.
LEAGUE RECORD.
K 'on. percentate
Boston...... .....49 .653
New York... 44 .608
Philadelphia..........43 .558
Cleveland.... 43 .5+4
Chicago...... 41 .513
Pittsburg_____ 83 .410
Indianapolis.. .. 80 .880
Washington.. .. 24 .S33
AMERICAN ASSOCIATION S O
St. Louisville... Brooklyn... Baltimore... Athletic_____ Cincinnati.. Kansas Columbus... Louis.... City Won. 43 32 57 32 53 47 19 4« 88£8SSStt8& T- .548 .876 .220 .671 .654 .566 .574 .395
S„„n,.J At bolls Housed.
Off the stage as well ns on Mr. Warren
won the affections of those with whom
he came sn contact. Not a few stories
HV told of him which show him in the
pleasaut light of a genial and witty kindly
gentleman, aud often as a one.
His retort to a lady who r monstrat d
with him for not going more into soe.ety
is worth recivr i:ig. “\\ hy should I go
about? Mr. \\ inr. n deunuided.
‘‘ifvouwoulTotdv'rivJ'iG
a chance we should be delighted to
lionize von ” “Oh, well," returned tin
comedian, “it’s much better ns it is; i
never knew of but one man who was no
spoiled bv Jjeiug lionized.’’ “Who was
that!” she asked. “The prophet Daniel.’
BUDGET OF FUN.
HUMOROUS SKETCHES FROM
VARIOUS SOURCES.
Marriage With Him Was a Failure—
An Early drop—Our Next-Door
Neighbors—A Little Too
Far, Etc., Etc.
He began with the first of the season,
But each in turn said i: no;”
Though every form of the question
He studied, to make it go.
And When this is the answer the he’ll give “quiz,” you,
“I don’t you know ask is marriage popular failure.
a
But I know that my getting there is.”
—Detroit Free. Press.
AN EABLY CHOP.
Neighbor—“Well, Higgins, wbat are
you raising?”
Amateur Gardener (sadly)—“Blisters.”
—Life.
OUR NEXT-DOOR NEIGHBORS.
Grace—“And yet, dear, how little we
Imve seen of each other lately—consider¬
ing there is only a partition-wall between
us!”
Emily—“But then, dear, it is such a
comfort to feel that you are on the other
side!”— Punch.
A LITTLE TOO FAIL
Mrs. Weary (reading)—“The body of
a book agent was found on Blank street
this morning. He had evidently been
murdered.”
Mr. Blank (meditatively)—“Um—er—
really, now, I think that was going most
too far .”—New York Weekly.
A BUSINESS YOUNG WOMAN.
“Hurry to the door, Mary, and let Mr.
Smith in. He has rung twice.”
“That isn’t Mr. Smith; it is the other
young gentleman.”
“Well, wait a minute, then. I must
change the photographs on the mantle.”
THE EIGHTH WONDER.
Gus—“Frank is an original man—”
Joe—“How so?”
Gus—“I met him. ITe was seedy and
I offered to lend him $50.”
j 0(J _“Well!”
Gus—“He said $10 would do.”
Epoth.
A GOOD LITTLE IlOY.
“Pa, you wouldn’t care if I gave
cripple part of the dollar you sent me
to change?”
i l No, my son. Why?”
“Because I gave fifty cents of it to the
one-legged man that sells tickets to the
circus.”— Time.
MISS MINNIE APOLISS OPINION.
“The subject of a national flower is
being discussed a great deal now, Miss
Minnie,” remarked a visitor at Minneapo¬
lis to a maiden of that city. “What do
you think about it?”
“Well,” replied Miss Minnie, “I think
papa’s Fancy Winter Wheat Flour rather
takes the biscuit.”
AN ADVANTAGE IN KNOWING FRENCH.
Brown (to Black, who is preparing for
a European trip)—“How do you get ou
with your languages, old fellow?”
Black—“Capitally. Why, I’ve got so
now I can think in French.”
Brown—“Well, that’s a blessing, for
it's more than vou could ever do iu Eng¬
*
lish.”— Time.
REWARD OF INDUSTRY.
Henry—“What makes you look so
gloomy, Dick? Anything gone wrong?”
Dick—“Anything gone wrong? Well,
l should say eo. I asked old Giggler for
more pay to-day, aud the old skinflint re¬
sponded by taking me into $500 the firm on
equal shares. That means off my
salary if it means a cent .”—Boston Tran
script.
THE Bl-MEDICINAL SYSTEM.
Wife of a Sick Man (much alarmed)—
“Doctor, by some mistake I gave him a
double dose of the medicine in the No. 1
bottle. Will it have a bad effect?”
Young Physician—“Not necessarily,
madam. Give him a double dose from
the No. 2 bottle. It will act as a sort of
-er-antidotc to the other .'"-Chicago
Tribune.
AM.* OK,™.
Wife—“Mr. Blower, you’re always
claimed to be a man of push, haven't
°
“ II usband— 1 * That's what I claim to
standXT^t ll ' Va ^ S ^
assertion.''
Wife—“Then what's the matter with
pushing this baby-carriage a little, pre
eious?”— Time.
UK KNEW THAT BEFORE.
Husbaad-.-'Wcll, my dear, what did
the magnetic physician say to you?”
Wife—“He says I am a sick woman,
and that my nervous system is not in
equilibrium. He says I am too posi
rive.”
Husband—“Humph! I could have
told you that aud saved a couple of dol
i ars ."—New York Sun.
-
high priced clothing.
VN* ■ do Bobby)—“That's a beauti
ful new pair of trousers you've got.
Bobby.”
Bobbv—“Yes; pa said he paid fifteen
dollars for them.”
Visitor—“Isn't that a big price, Bobby, '
to pay for a little bov's trousers?”
Bobby—“Is’pose so; but he
when he bought ’em for himself.”—
Harper's Bazar, -i*
“CALLED.” '
fool Von to-day, Doodlees—“Waggs called me a
don’tchewknaw.”
Van Simpre—“Aw, weally? What did
you do, deaw chawppie?”
Von Doodlees—“Oh, I got even with
him. I happened to have me old chest¬
nut-bell in me pawkket, and I wang it at
him weal hawd, don’tchewknaw.”
Van Simpre—“Baw Jawve! That was
awful good.”— Judge.
ONLY a SUGGESTION.
Judge (to prisoner, upon whom he is
about to pass sentence)—“Do you ever
think of your mother, sir?”
Prisoner (much affected)—“Ye-es,
Your Honor, but she’s dead.”
Judge (sympathetically)—“I did not
intend to hnrt your feelings. I hope you
will pardon me.”
Prisoner (brightening)—“Don't men¬
tion it, Your Honor. I hope you will
pardon me.”
Judge (catching his drift)—“Don’t
mention it .”—PhiladelpJna Press.
A BRIEF INTERMISSION.
They were seated in the parlor and he
was declaring his love in fervent tones.
All at ouce she stopped him with an im¬
perious gesture and a look of pain over¬
spread her wait!” countenance. exclaimed in short,
“Wait! she
sharp tones.
Iu a moment the sneeze came, and
Heloise, looking tenderly up into his
face, said: “Asyou were saying,George?”
— Judje.
AN UNDERSTANDING AT LAST.
Old Mr. Widower had been sitting
silently alone with Miss Autumn for
fifteen minutes. Finally he spoke: “Miss
Autumn, you are pretty-”
“Oh, Mr. Widower!”
“You are pret n
“How can you, Mr. Widower?”
“I started to say you werepretty
“Ob, you horrid man, stop!”
“Confound it all, woman,” shouted
Mr. Widower, rising and breaking for
the door. “I wanted to say that you
were pretty near as old as I am. How,
you're twice as old.' "-San Fran¬
cisco Examiner.
THE DIFFERENCE.
Small Boy—“Pa, what is the differ¬
ence between a pessimist and and an
optimist?”
Pa—“Well, let me see if I can illus¬
trate. You know I am often discour¬
aged, and things don’t look to me as if
they’d ever go right. Well, at such
times I can be said to be a pessimist.
But years ago when I was a young man
everything looked bright and rosy, and
I was always hopeful. Then I was an
optimist. Now, my son, cans you under¬
stand the difference between a pessimist
and an optimist?”
Small Boy—“Oh, } r es; one is married
and the other isn't .”—New York Weekly.
SAD FATE OF A JOURNALIST.
“You will remember,” said the old
gentleman who had called to see the
editor, “that after my son had taken his
degree of doctor of journalism that I se¬
cured him a position on your paper.”
“Yes,” answered the editor, “Well,”
continued the old man, “it has been three
weeks since I have heard a word from
him. Is he stiil connected with your
paper?” “I don’t know,” said the Chief,
“but if you will wait till I call in the
city editor I’ll see.” And that function¬
ary,. after consulting his note-book, re¬
marked: “Smithers—George W. Smith
era. Oh, yes. Why, the first werk he
was here we got him iuto the idiot
asylum to write the place up and there
appears to be some difficulty in securing
his release .”—Terre Haute Express,
--
LOGIC IN THE FAMILY CIRCLE.
Husband—“Now, here’s a thing, Nel
lie, that I wish to ask your opinion about.
j am reading some items of philosophy
here, and one of these items states that
there is a fool in every family?”
Wife—“Well, you lost $20 at poker
the other night, as you confessed to me?”
H W*.-“And —“Yes mv dear ”
you buy what is called
pools 1 sometimes in the expectation 1 of
, .
has that to do with there being ' a fool in
every family?”
lift yom ?Sf-the*
intern
IL—“That’s correct.”
W.—“Well, there’s no fool in your
family now.”
Then the husband fell into deep medi¬
tation, while the wife watched him out
of the comer of her eye .—Boston Courier.
EXrLANATORY.
As several versions of the incident that
occurred in our office Saturday night are
flying around town and have probably
been telegraphed all over the world, we
deem it but right to give the particulars
as they occurred: We were seated in the
editorial chair, writing a leader on the
European situation, when a rough char
aracter known around town as "Mike the
J Slayer” called iu. As we never had a
word with the man. we suspected no evil.
As a matter of fact, we reached for our
1 subscription book, supposing, of course,
that he wanted the best weekly in
i America for a year. The Slayer then an-
nounced that he had come to slay us, not
because we had ever done him harm, but
because the influence of the press was
driving out the good old times and cus¬
toms. We retreated toward the door oi
our harness department. He pursued us
with a drawn knife. We then felt it our
duty to draw our gun and let six streaks
of daylight through his body, and as he
went down we stepped to the door and
sent a boy for the coroner. It was a clear
case of self defence, and the inquest was
a mere formality. We lament the sad oc¬
currence, but no one can blame us. We
paid his burial expenses, and in another
column will be found his obituary, writ¬
ten in our best vein, and without regard
to space. No other Arizona editor has
done half as much .—Arizona Kicker, in
Detroit Free Press.
WORDS OF WISDOM.
Character is true wealth.
Any one can act natural by keeping
still.
Every throb of the heart is a new
birth.
None but the rich can afford “dear”
friends.
The only “fall of man” is when he
falls behind.
Competition is a necessity to the ac¬
tivity of life.
Education that restrains the desire tc
learn is false.
Nothing great was ever achieved with¬
out enthusiasm.
Charity and personal force are the only
investments worth anything.
Most people would succeed in small
things if they were not troubled with
great ambitions.
We do love beauty at first sight; and
we do cease to love it if it is not accom¬
panied by amiable qualities.
He who is false to present duty breaks
a thread in the loom, and will find the
flaw when he may have forgotten its
cause.
Candor is the seal of a noble mind,
the ornament and pride of man, the
sweetest charm of woman, the scorn oi
rascals and the rarest virtue of socia
bility.
The training a man gets is the staging
by which, if he chooses, he can build
himself up, but if the structure rises to
any great height it must support the
staging.
Whatever the number of man’s friends,
there will be times in his life when he
has one too few; but if he has only one
enemy, he is lucky indeed if he has nol
one too many.
People who speculate about the future
from their devoted study of the past,
may as well be pronounced dead, for
surely they do not live in the present,
which is all the time there is to exist in.
Great Earthquakes, Floods and Fires.
The Chicago Inter-Ocean gives a list of
great earthquakes, floods and fires. First
the earthquakes. In their chronological
order they were as follows: December 5,
1456, at Naples, 40,000 persons were de¬
stroyed; December 26, 1531, at Lisbon,
30,000; July 2, in Japan, several cities
and thousands of lives destroyed; July
30,1626, at Naples, 70,000; April 6,
1667, at Ragusa, 5000; during three
months, 1667, at Schamaki, 80,000; in
September, 1693, in Sicily, 100,000; in
1703, at Jeddo, 200,000; May and .Tune,
1716, at Algiers, 15,000; November 30,.
1731, at Pekin, 100,000; October 28,.
1746, at Lima and Callao, 18,000; Sep¬
tember, 1754, at Grand Cairo, 40,000;
7, 1775, at Kashan, Persia, 40,000;
1, 1755, at Lisbon, 50,000;
February 4, 1797, in the country lying
Santa Fe and Panama, 40,000;
14, 1851, at Melfii, Italy, 14,000;
December 10, 1857, at Calabria, 10,000;
March 20, 1860, at Mendoza, South
America, 7000; August 13 and 15, 1868,
in Peru and Ecuador, 25,000.
Among most destructive inundations
are those in April 17, 1421, when the sea
broke over Dort, drowing 100,000 peo¬
ple; in 1530, when Holland was over¬
whelmed and 450,000 persons drowned,
aad “ J 61 7 ’ "hen 50,000 were drowned
^ Catalonia. . There have been numerous
floods m ' v uc / 1 as ma ? y as 10C P®* s °p s
were drowned ' 3nd . those m , whlc \ the
loss of life was less are beyond , record.
Fires have been fatal to large numbers
at times, but have been more hurtful m
masses than in
d ® struc tl ®“ £ f * lfe ' „. DU J ^
hc Lo f dou J re . 2 the f? Were 3 ^ f
. h
P erha P s ’ themost destructlve Me in
history, 2000 lives being lost, In the
great Chicago fire of the same time there
were but 200 lives reported lost, though
it was impossible to ascertain whether
that was the maximum figure.
Early History of Street Corn.
The early history of what we call sweet
CO ru is rather obscure, but it was known
' m Yew England as early as 1779. when a
f cw ears were found among the Indians
on the border of the Susquehanna and
brought to Plymouth by an officer in Gen
e r:d Sullivan's expedition against them.
But the sweet or sugar corns were not
mentioned in seedmen's catalogues until
fifty yearn later or about 1832, when
Bridgeinan of this city offered a variety
as a great novelty. Twenty years later had
only two varieties were known; one
a red cob and the other a white one.—
jWir York Sun.
HELP IN TIME OF NEED.
When a man is drowning he will grasp at straws,
but straws will net save him. Extend to him a
life-boat and his rescue is certain.
Mr. James A. Greer, of Athens, Ga., (endorsed by
the editor of the Athens Banner-Watchman) makes
the following statement:
“I am first cousin of the late Ex-Governor Alex
ander H. Stephens, and have been postal clerk on
different railroads since 18GS. For ten years I lizve
CANCER been a sufferer from a cancer on
my face, which grew worse
until the discharge of matter became profuse and
very offensive. I became thoroughly disgusted with
blood purifiers and pronounced them humbugs, as
I had tried many without relief.
Finally I was induced to use Botanic Blood Balm,
(B. B. B.) The offensive discharge decreased at
once and the hardness disappeared. It became less
and less in size until nothing remains except a scar
I gained flesh and strength, and all who have seen
me bear testimony. I cannot say too much in its
praise.” V-G •' V
A. H. Morris, Pine Bluff, Ark., writes: v,
“Hot Springs failed entirely to cure me of several
terrible, indolent running ulcers on mv legs, with
which I have been troubled for many years. Sever¬
al doctors also attempted to cure me but failed. I
HOT SPRINGS have only used a few
bottles of B. B. B,
(made in Atlanta, Ga.,) and the effect has been truly
magical.as they have all healed and I am cured after
everything failed. Mygeneral health is also improve
ing, appetite and digestion good. I sleep soundly,
and never felt better. Doctors tcld me that I could
not be cured.
I refer to every mvchant or professional man of
Pine Bhiff.
EfcFYtny one inter ;sted who desires to know more
about the wonderful merit of B. B. B., will please
send address to Blocd Balm Co., Atlanta, Ga., for
their illustrated “Bosk of Wonders,” (a
S. G. RILEY
Physician anil Surgeon.
HAMILTON GEORGIA.
Office at the Drug store of Riley & Wil¬
liams. Calls promptly attended day or
night.
II. II. P.
Is an old reliable family medicine, that
lias been proven invaluable for Liver
and Bowel complaints. Guaranteed to
cure Sick Headache. Indigestion, Dyspep¬
sia Sour Stomach and Heartburn. Taken
rogurlarly it will cure tire most stubborn
case of Habitual Constipation.
No (hire, no pay.
Man’f by the Barret Drug Co.
For sale by Riley & Williams.
GILDERS LIVER PILLS.
These Pills are justly the most Cele¬
brated and highly Recommended of any
on the market today. Gentle but Effect¬
ive in their action, as a euro for Contipa
tion, Liver Complaint, Biliousness,
Indigestion, etc; tliey are unsurpassed.
Ail we ask is a trial, it" you are 'suffering
from any of these Complaints.
GUARANTEED, and .Man’f by the
Barrett Drug Co.
Augusta Ga.
For sale by Riley A Williams.
I W. HOWARD & CO
11-41—IS lit Avenue, Columbus, Ga.
——BUY
Bagging:, Furs, 7
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Beeswax,Old Metal.
Ootton in the Seed and Cotton Seed
—And dealers in —
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Bags, Twine, Etc. Orders
Promptly FBjed,
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One of the most important organs of the
human body isthe LIVER. When it fails to
properly perform its functions the entire
system becomes deranged. The BRAIN,
KIDNEYS, STOMACH, BOWELS, all refuse
io perform their work. DYSPEPSIA, CON¬
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it acts directly on the LIVER, STOMACH
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causes. It PURIFIES THE BLOOD, tones
up the system, and restores perfecttiealth.
If your druggist does not keep it ask him to
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