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tie Crawford Oiiiy Herald
PUBLISHED WEEKLY.
W. J. McAFEE, Editor aad Proprietor.
SUBSCRIPTION, $1.00 PER ANNUM.
Official Organ of Crawford County.
KNOXVILLE, GEORGIA.^
Entered at the postoffice at Knoxville,
Ga., as second-class matter.
The London Financial News says that
^‘existing conditions are distinctly favor¬
able to cheap money, aud if we are not
quite on the eve of a three per cent,
standard, we are, at all events, within
measurable distance of a reduction of at
least one-half per cent, of the present
minimum.”
A floating American exposition is the
scheme proposed by George S. Bowen,of
New York, for the edification of South
America. He wants merchants and man¬
ufacturers to fit out a ship with a varied
collection of American products and
send an expedition to South American
ports to display aud introduce these
goods.
The Prairie Farmer believes that
farmers are most all interested in having
the census figures of agriculture as near
the truth as possible. Speculators and
others make the most when they can
keep farmers and others in the dark
about the yield of crops. The truth
never yet suffered from the light; evil¬
doers always seek darkness.”
One good word for the grip is surely
in order, remarks the New York World,
after all the evil that has been deservedly
said about the hateful thing. The Su¬
perintendent of the State Insane Asylum,
at Westboro, Mass., says that seven of
his lunatic patients have had their in¬
tellects righted by a severe attack of the
grip. It was a blessing in disguise for
them.
■Says the Washington Star: Kentucky
is still progressing. A railroad is ex¬
pected to reach Big Sandy Gap one of
these days, and the Herald of that town
announces that Peter Kidd will give $500
for the privilege of putting a tent over
the first locomotive and train of cars for
twenty-four hours and charging the raw
mountaineers twenty-five cents each to
come in and see it.
Says the Macon (Ga.) Telegraph: It
will not be long before the horse car will
have become a thing of the past, save in
very sleepy communities. Electricity,
as a motive power for street transit, seems
to be carrying the day everywhere. In
St. Louis aloue they are now equipping
seven electric street car lines with ninety-
two miles of track at a cost of $3,500,-
000. It is believed that by the end of
the present year the last horse car will
have disappeared from that city.
D. Low her Smith, cx-Coramrssioner of
Public Works, recently gave some start-
ling testimony before the General Law’s
Committee in regard to escaping gas in
New York city. In many places, he
said, the prevalence of gas w r as such, that
by simply forcing a crowbar into the
earth, between the paving stones, the gas
which escaped was so strong that it
could be lighted with a match. “Some
great disaster is likely to result from this
condition” is the comment of the New
York News.
In the good old Bible times the cutting
off of Samson’s hair brought great tribu¬
lation upon the dwellers in Gath and in
the land of Askelon, but down in Ken¬
tucky it seems, states the Philadelphia
Press, the bloody Howard-Turner feud
originated in the burning off of the
snaky locks of one of the mountaineer’s
during a night of joviality. As a tonso-
vial accessory fire is not quite the thing,
and the Kentucky backwoodsmen evi¬
dently believe the best hair cut is to be
obtained by using a tin basin and sheep
shears.
The population of the United States in
the year 1880 was 50,000,000 and about
one-seventh. It is estimated that the
population in 1890 will be nearly 64,500-
Ci'O. The exact figures put down by the
surmisers are 64.442,807. They, how¬
ever, reckon that three of the divisions of
the country which they have estimated
are too small; they put down Oregon at
about 282,000, Washington at 225,000
and Wyoming at 36,000, and say that
they are all too small. The probabilities
therefore are, says Gath in the Cincinnati
Enquirer, that the American census, if
correctly surmised, may be something
like 64,700,000 people.
ANECDOTES OF
TRAITS THAT HAVE MADE
GREATEST OF EXPLORERS.
His Mastery of the Art of
the Untutored Savages of the
Hark Continent.
Probably nothing has contributed more
! largely^*) the wonderful success of Stan¬
ley than his mastery of the art of manag¬
ing that child-man, the untutored sav¬
age. The many tights that Stanley has
had with the natives of Africa have given
rise to the utterly erroneous notion that
he is indifferent to human life, and that
he has even shot down natives in pure
wantonness. All students of his work
know that he never fired a shot at a na¬
tive unless he was driven to it by the dan¬
gers that threatened himself and his ex¬
pedition. When H. H. Johnston, who
wrote the first book, after Stanley’s, on
the Congo, was about to start up the
liver the great explorer said to him:
“Pat a native, slap him if you will with
the open hand, but never strike him with
the clenched fist, and never shoot until
you are first attacked and escape seems
hopeless.”
Stanley’s policy from first to last in
dealing with the natives could not be
more tersely summed up than in these
words. He has always been, willing to
waste any amount of time in stopping to
talk, to argue, to cajole, to disarm hos¬
tility with wheedling words and humor¬
ous tricks, and he has resorted to fire¬
arms only as a last resort. illustrating
Herbert Ward tells a story
Stanley’s readiness of resources in dealing
with a crafty savage trying to overreach
him. When the explorer reached Stan-
ley Pool ou his last expedition the big
Bateke chief Ngalyema, who figured con¬
spicuously in Stanley’s book on the
Congo State, came to him demanding a
big present on the ground that some of
his carriers hau taken bananas from his
plantation. Stanley had good reason to
believe the wily ivory trader was lying,
and he did not propose to fall into his
trap. Almost any one else would have
told the chief he was a prevaricator, and
there would have been an angry discus-
sion and bad feeling ou all sides; but that
was not Stanley’s way. He at once sum¬
moned all his men into line and walked
up and down in front of it with the
chief, asking him to pick out the cul-
prits. Ngalyema said he could not do it.
“Now look here, Ngalyema,” said
Stanley, “how can I pay you for stolen
bauanas unless you give me proof that
my men have stolen them; and how can
I punish thieves unless I know who they
are? Wait a minute.”
Stanley withdrew into his tent and
presently emerged with a piece of chalk.
“See here, Ngalyema,” he said, “this
little thing in my hand makes a white
mark on the black skin. Take it. The
next time you catch my men stealing
your bananas you mark the thieves on
the back with this piece of chalk. Then
I will know who the thieves are. and can
punish them, aud I will pay you for the
bunauas they have stolen.”
The chief was not quite empty handed
when he went away, for he had the
chalk.
There are men who have served with
Stanley who do not like him, for he came
to believe them inefficient, and he has no
patience with incompetency.
though they complain of his harsh and
supercilious treatment, they one and all
bear testimony to his kinduess to the na¬
tives. “In liis dealings with the na¬
tives,” writes Braconnier, “he is invar -
ably kind, merciful aud polite. jj e
palavers with them. He respects their
customs, their religions and their tradi-
tions. There is .rat an atom ot truth in
the accusations of cruelty against him.
The same policy has guided Stanley in
his dealings with the semi-savages who
by hundreds have been in his service as
porters. A more rascally, ungovernable
mob than the crowd of Zanzibaris who
have sometimes followed Stanley’s leader-
ship could hardly be conceived. It is a
fact that on one occasion, at least, the
jails of Zanzibar were emptied to supply
Stanley with the porters he required,
But he has always sought to have his
men regard him as a kiud, considerate
father. They have involved him in
many a dilemma, and he cau be very
severe when necessary-; but in his career
he has never executed but four of his
foliow-ers, all in his last expedition.
Besides being a strict disciplinarian
and a master in the art of bending the
natives to his will, Stanley owes his suc¬
cess in large part to his remarkable
organizing and administrative ability.
He never undertakes a mission in Africa
without having it clearly understood be¬
fore he consents to act what his actual
orders , and - what , , to . . be the limits ..
are are
of ,, his . discretion. .. ,. ™, This . done , , he t fulhls ....
, . , . sacrifice, and ,, pends , every
ms auty at any
resource to its accomplishment. But he
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never undertakes more than he has
promised to accomplish. the
During bis founding of Congo
State he made it a point never to push a
mile forward until he had thoroughly or-
ganized the mile behind him. Some-
times he was confronted by difficulties
that seemed insuperable. Then he would
retire to his tent to think the matter
over, aud the chances were nine in ten
that in a few hours he had hit upon some
way out of the situation. He was never
chummy with his subordinates, nor even
ordinarily sociable, when his load of care
was heavy, though at rare intervals he
would be delightfully entertaining in
conversation. He had the confidence and
esteem of every man who ever served
under him. but they did not love him.
^ “He lives apart from us. I would never
think of asking him for reasons. Some¬
times he would say to me, ‘Strike your
tents; we start in teD minutes.’ Had I
been foolish enough to say, ‘Where are
you going?’ he would have answered,
•Mine business, not mine.’ ”
your own mission¬
Father Schynze, the Catholic
ary who returned to the coast with Stan¬
ley and Emin from the south of Victoria
Nyanza, draws this graphic picture of the
commander:
“Stanley is a leader, a commander. He
keeps strict order. At sunrise a shrill
whistle, sounded by Stanley himself, or¬
ders everybody to take his place in the
caravan and march, lie maintains the
strictest discipline, and his men know
him. Scarcely has the last sound of the
whistle died away before all stand ready
to march, with their burdens on their
shoulders. Stanley lights his short pipe,
and, armed with a long cane, walks at
the head of the caravan, followed by a
boy with a parasol, his servant with a
Winchester rifle, aud a Wangwana who
leads his ass. Then follows the caravan.
After an hour or two Stanley mounts his
ass, and the speed of the march vs then
much increased, but none of Stanley’s
men lag behind. Even in running, Stan¬
ley’s two companies always keep close or¬
der. With the Soudanese it is difficult.
They are forced ahead by the third com¬
pany in the rear. But the great traveler
can also be merry. He sits under a tree,
smoking his pipe and watching the
pitching of his tent. When this is done
he disappears into it, aud does not ap-
P ear a al n untl1 after s " ns(: t - I think he
o day 1
^ , ^ the . writing
s P en s t ia ^ P art in
^is uotes > for whenever I have entered!
^ave found him sitting by a huge book.
If Stanley is in a cheerful frame of mind,
then the minutes we spend while the
tents are being pitched are the most in¬
teresting of the whole day. He then
tells incident after incident from his ad-
venturous life with such fire and such
vigorous expression that we forget how
broken his French is .”—New York Sun.
SELECT SIFTINGS.
Hard rubber (ebonite) was invented in
1S19 by C. Goodyear,
The cry of a baby in New York city
prevented the burning of a house fired by
an incendiary,
The heaviest gun weighs 1S5 tons,
is 40 feet long and in diameter, and
will shoot ten miles. It is in Russia,
made by Krupp.
Congress appropriates annually the
sum of $8000 for White House stationery,
telegrams, books aad other such con¬
tingent expenses.
The largest body of fresh water in the
world is Lake Victoria Nyanza, in Africa,
which has an area of 40,000 square miles.
The area of Lake Superior is 32,000
square miles.
In making soundings for the new rail¬
road bridge at Astor, Fla., the engineers
struck au arterian flow of sulphur water
in midstream. It comes from a depth of
fifty feet and is quite a curiosity.
The great Chinese wall -was built in
215 B. C. It is built of blue brick, is
fifty feet wide, thirty feet high and 1500
miles long. The modern Chinese wall is
the great American protective tariff,
The uncovering of ancient Rome dur-
lng jj the last few years has yielded no
re es confirming the theory that a pre-
historic people lived on the site of the
city long before the days of Romulus.
Sitka, Alaska, is one of the rainiest
places in the w orld outside of the tropics.
The annual precipitation is from sixtv-
„ v e . luue . . ^ lncl . , ?'" s * The number of
. I> er J“ r “ from M 9n . *» 285.
A man who was arrested in London for
intoxication gave his occupation as that
°f a worm-eater. When pressed employed for an
explanation he said that he was
by a furniture manufacturer to fire shot at
furniture so as to give to it a worm-eaten
appearance.
One of the annual frequenters of Casco
Bay, Fla., is a monster whale that plays
in its waters every summer, and has been
named “Old Creedmoor,” from the fact
that military companies ou excursions
down the bay have often used his black
sides as a target,
The cane recently presented to Presi¬
dent Harrison by Colonel A. L. Snowden,
Minister to Greece, was made from the
oaken yoke that held the bell on Inde¬
pendence Hall in 1776. The gold cap
ou the eud of the stick is inscribed with
a brief history of it.
The greatest ascertained depth of the
ocean is midway between the island of
Tristan d’Acunha and the mouth of the
Rio de la Plata. The bottom was there
found , , to . . be Q 84 A _ miles below the surface, .
0 bouth of the Bermuda , T Islands i a depth of t
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r
64 * miles has been found,
Near Boston, Ga., there lives an ex*
t e nsive family by the name of Groover.
0ne peculiarity about them is their inter-
marriage. W ithin a radius of five miles
Rmre reside seven separate families, and
ea ch head of the family married a lady of
same name, and the kinship of none
run l° wer than third cousin,
The small letter “i” was formerly writ-
ten without the dot over it. The dot
was introduced in the tourteenth century
to distinguish “i” from “e” in hasty an4
indistinct writing, Tbe letter “i” was
originally used where “j” is now em-
ployed, the distinction between the two
having been introduced by the Dutch
waters in comparative modern times,
The “j” was dotted because the “I ,*
from which it is derived, is written witk
a dot-
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pEORGIA— James A. Moore Crawford and John Count J. Cham- y.—
t ui>n, executors of James Roberts, de¬
ceased. have applied to me for letters of
dismission from their executorship. Urn
ic-ss good objections are filed, I will
graut them letters dismissory on the liist
Monday in June, 1890. Witness my
hand officially this the 4th day of
Match. 1890. O. P. WRIGHT,
Ordinary.
p E( )RGIA— Crawford C o u n t y.—
jjW, K. Eubanks Executor due of form Eligah
Eubanks, deceased, has iu from ap¬
plied to me for letters of dismission
liis executorship. Unless good objec¬
tions thereto are filed. I will grant to said
W. K. Eubanks such letters dismissory ou
the 1st Monday in June. 1890. Witness
my hand officially. WRIGHT,
O. P.
Ordinary.
p EORGIA— Crawford County. —W.
U-M. Taylor, administrator of estate of
Rufus Carter, deceased, has administration applied for
letters dismissory from the
of said estate, and such letters will be
granted on the first Monday iu May next,
unless good objections are filed. Witness
my hand officially, this January 27th,
1890. O. P. WRIGHT,
jan 31-13 Ordinary.
EORGIA— Crawford County. —A.
C. Sanders and James M. Sanders,
executors of the will ofThos. J. Sanders,
deceased, have applied to me lor letters
dismissory from their executorship;
therefore all persons concerned are here¬
by required to show cause, if any they
have, on the first Monday in May granted. next,
why such letters should not be
Witness my hand ofticiallv, January
27th, 1890. O. P. WRIGHT,
Jau. 31— 13t Ordinary.
G EORGIA— Crawford County. —H.
M. Burnett, administrator on estate
of Mrs. Martha Stembridge, deceased,
has applied to me for letters ot dismis¬
sion from the administration of said es¬
tate, and same will be granted ou good the
first Monday in July next, unless
objections are filed. Witness my hand
officially this April 1st. 1890. WEIGHT.
O. P.
Ordinary.
A EORGIA— Crawford County. —W.
U J. Sloeuinb. as administrator of the
estate of S. P. Williamson, deceased, has
applied for letters of dismission from
said trust. This is therefore to cite all
persons concerned to show cause, if any
they have, within the time should prescribed
by law why said application not
be granted. this,
Witness my hand officially the
31st day of March, 1890.
O. P. WRIGHT,
Ordinary.
A BOLD ROBBERY.
A STAMP DEPUTY IS RELIEVED OF A CHECK
$44,647.20.
A dispatch of Monday from Lawrence-
ville, Ky., says: Early last week T. B.
Ripley gave to Stamp Deputy. W. C.
Patty, a check for $44,647.20 in payment
for tax on others whisky. Patty placed the hia
check with in a drawer in
office. At night he carried them to hie
residence, where he kept them. Having
qo stamps at the time to receipt the check,
he heid it a few days. When he began
Vo issue these stamps he found that the
check was missing, and a'l search for it
proved , fruitless, . . , ^.ererai „ . Other . ,
aruciea
of value were missing, clearly proving
tobberr.
PE0FESSI0NAL CARDS.
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SMITH & BLASINGAME,
ATTORNEYS AT LAW,
Knoxville, Ga,
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OB.W.F. BLASINGAME
DENTIST,
Knoxville, - - Georgia.
I respectfully tender my services in the
Practice of Dentistry to the citizens of
Knoxville and stirrounding country, and
will spare no effort to secure my patrons
competent work and perfect satisfaction.
Charges Reasonable.
KBOXVIllF
HIGH SCHOOL
SPRING TERM.
Opens January 13
Closes ... June 27
FALL TERM.
Opens September 1.
Closes December 19.
Rate of tuition for All Classes, $2 per
month. A pro rata allowance will be
made for Public Fund.
Each pupil will be taught by the most
modern methods.
I cordially solicit your patronage. Fur¬
ther information will be cheerfully fur¬
nished by
C. C. POWER,
Princiual.
THE HARRIS HOUSE,
KNOXVILLE, GEORGIA.
Always open to public patronage. We
try to please our guests. Comfortable
Room aud good Fare. Free hack to aud
from Depot,
Z, T. HARRIS,
Proprietor.
Kxisbr ilhk&m has summoned a confer¬
ence of eminent scholars to discuss the sub-
iect of a fixed uniform German Berlin. orthography, Aus-
The conference will be held in
tria and Switzerland have been invited to
send delegates.