Jackson herald. (Jefferson, Jackson County, Ga.) 1881-current, August 26, 1881, Image 1
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ROBERT S. HOWARD,)
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VOLUME I.
Jugal’ JUpertiscments.
Notice to Contractors.
WILL be let, to the lowest bidder, before the
Court House door fn Jefferson, on Tuesday,
the Oth day of September, 1881, the contract f<r
building the bridge across the Walnut Fork of the
Oconee river at the old bridge location near Mad
dox’s mill, in accordance with the following speci
fications : Said bridge to be built with one queen
post truss span fifty feet and two end spans;
length of end spans to suit length of bridge. Tim
bers to truss span. 5 sleepers, 8 by 12 or 10 by 12,
fifty-foUr feet, long; two bolsters, 6 l>y r 12, 1C feet
long, to be placed one-third the length of span
apart, the same to extend across bottom of bridge
under sleepers, and be supported by main rods
running through from top of truss to bolster.
(Sec plans.) Truss timbers, 8 by 10, length to
suit one-third length of span; to be even notched
at the foot or lower end and well pinned and bolt
ed with iron bolts ; truss to be braced with two
braces on each side, extending from lower end of
bolster to top of truss, of 3 by 4 scantling; truss
to be framed 3 feet 3 inches from top edge of
sleepers to top of truss ; iron rods for trussing,
1 \ inch best round iron, with taps and washers.
Said span to extend from arch of trestle in water
on south side of river to bank; on opposite side,
trestle in water to be built on crib made of 10 by
12 inch timbers, notched in and well pinned at
each corner, extending up to surface of the water
and to be filled up with rock ; length and width
of said crib to suit heighth of trestle. Trestle on
bank to be let into the ground by digging trench
as deep as water will allow and filled in on with
rock and dirt. Each end span to extend from
trestles under truss span well out to short tres
tles, to he let into the ground three feet and filled
with rock and dirt; five sleepers to each span, 8
by 12 inches; two outside sleepers to each span,
at each end of sleeper to be rodded with 1 \ inch
iron rod, extending from mud sills tip through
sleepers Trestle timbers, mud sills to be 10 by
12, length to suit heighth of trestle ; uprights, 10
by 12, same length ; cap sills, 10 by 12, fifteen
feet long, morticed half through, to fit on tenant
on upright, and well pinned; mud sill on crib to
be well pinned and banded with iron to crib legs,
as seen in plans. Hand-rail to be placed on each
side of end spans; uprights to same to be 8 feet
apart and morticed through floor and keyed on
underside and braced on outside. Flooring, 2by
12, 14 feet long, well spiked down with forty pen
ny spikes, two in each end, right and left in inter
mediate sleepers. All timbers to be good heart,
and if hewn, to be well and smoothly done. Said
bridge to be completed in fifty days from time of
letting. Bond, with two good securities, in dou
ble the amount of the bid, will be required imme
diately after the letting, conditioned for a faithful
contplyancc of the contract. The work to be paid
for when completed in accordance with the speci
fications. Full and complete specifications can
be seen at this office.
Aug. 5. 11. W. BELL, Ord’y.
Jackson Sheriff’s Sale .
Wild, be sold, before the Court House door in
Jefferson, on the first Tuesday in Septem
ber, 1881, within the legal hours of sale, to the
highest bidder, the following property, to-wit:
A tract of land, situated in the 242d District G.
M. of said county, containing seventy acres, more
or less, adjoining lands of J. E. Arnold, Lee Mor
ris, Robert Morris and others. Levied on as the
property of J. 11. Eads a.id S. J, Eads, to satisfy
a R. fa. issued from the Justice’s Court of the
242d District G. M., in favor of J. It. Crane vs.
J. 11. and S. J. Eads. Levy made a< and returned
to me by J. C. Williamson, L. C. Notice given
the tenant in possession as the law directs.
T. A. McELHANNON, Sh’ff.
GlOKtiLt, Jackson County.
Whereas, the Road Commissioners, appointed
for the purpose of reviewing and reporting upon
the public utility of establishing as one of the pub
lic roads of said count y the road beginning at
Nicholson, on the North Eastern Rail Road, thence
by King's bridge, the residences of K. J. Wil
liams, T. W. Arnold, Crooked Creek church, T.
S. Smith, Lee Morehead, Mrs. Eades, J. E. Ar
nold, John Duncan and others, to the Athens and
Talasce bridge road. Also, the road beginning
near the residence of Jack Benton, on (he Jeffer
son and Danielsvillc road, and running to the vil
lage of Nicholson by the residences of S. L. Bond
and Arch Venable. Said Commissioners having
reported said roads of public utility, an order will
be granted Rnally establishing as public the
same, on Monday, the 19th day of September,
1881. if no good cause to the contrary he shown.
(iiven under my official signature, this Aug. IG,
1881. 11. W. BELL, Ord’y.
| j HOIKiiIA, Jackwoii County.
Whereas, 0. W. Ilood, E-xectitor of Z. S. Hood,
deceased, represents to this Court, by his petition
duly filed, that he has fully and completely ad
ministered said deceased’s estate, and is entitled
to a discharge from said administration—
This is to cite all concerned, kindred and cred
itors, to show cause, if any they can, on the first
Monday in September, ISBI, at the regular term
of the Court of Ordinary of said county, why Let
ters of Dismission should not be granted the ap
plicant from said trust.
(liven under my official signature, this May 30.
18S1. H. W. HELL, Ord’y. '
M hcrcas, J. 11. Maley, Administrator of the
estate of Johnson Maley, late of said count}',
dec’d, anplics for leave to sell the land and real
estate of said deceased—
This is to cite all concerned, kindred and cred
itors, to show cause, if any r , on the first Monday
in September. 1881, at the regular term of the Court
of Ordinary of said county, why said leave should
not be granted the applicant.
Given under mv official signature, this An". 3,
1881. ' 11. W. HELL, Ord’y.
Jackson County.
Whereas, John A. Booth makes application to
me in proper form for Letters of Administration
on the estate of Sarah Booth, late of said county,
deceased—
This is to cite all concerned, kindred and cred
itors, to show cause, if any, before the Court of
Ordinary of said county, on the Ist Monday in Sep
tember, 1881, why said Letters should not be
granted the applicant.
Given under my official signature, this Aug. 3,
1881. H. W. BELL, Ord’y.
EORGIA, Jackson County.
Whereas, M. J. Dowdy applies for Letters of
Guardianship of the persons and property of John
W. Dowdy and Joseph F. Dowdy, minors of W.
F. Dowdy, deceased—
This is to cite all concerned, the next of kin,
Arc., to show cause, if any, at the regular term of
the Court of Ordinary of said county, on the tirst
Monday in September, 1881, why said Letters
should not be granted the applicant.
Given under my official signature, this Aug. 3,
1881. 11. W. BELL, Ord’y.
To Debtors and Creditors.
ALL persons having demands against Stephen
Wilson, late of said county, deceased, are
hereby notilied and required to present them,
properly attested, to the undersigned, within the
time prescribed by law. and all persons indebted
to said deceased are hereby required to make im
mediate payment.
Z. W. HOOD. Adru’r,
with the will auucxed, of Stephen Wilson, dec’d.
August 5.
JackKon County.
Whereas. Martha J. Watson, Executrix of the
estate of Harriet A. Watson, late of said county,
dec’d, applies for leave to sell the real estate of
said deceased—
This is to cite all concerned, kindred and cred
itors, to show cause, if any, before the Court of
Ordinary of said county, on the Ist Monday in Sep
tember, 1881, why said leave should not be grant
ed the applicant.
Given under my official signature, this Aug. 3,
1881. 11. YY. BELL, Ord’y.
Jackson Comity.
Whereas, T. S. Shanklc and S. S. Smith, Execu
tors of the estate of D. W. Smith, late of said coun
ty, deceased, applies for leave to sell the land be
longing to the estate of said deceased —
This is to cite all concerned, kindred and cred
itors, to show cause, if any, at the regular term
of the Court of Ordinary of said county, on the
first Monday in September, 1881, why said leave
should not be granted the applicant.
Given under my official signature, this Aug. 3,
1881. H. W. BELL, Ord’y.
Jackson County.
V> liereas, E. J. Sharp, Guardian of his minor
children, applies for leave to sell one share of
stock in the Georgia Rail Road and Banking Com
pany belonging to said minors—
This is to cite all concerned, the next of kin.
Ac., to show cause, if any, at the regular term of
the Court of Ordinary of said county, on the first
Monday in September, 1 SSI , why said leave should
not be granted the applicant.
Given under my official signature, this Aug. 3,
1881. H. W. BELL, Ord’y.
Jackson Coiinly,
\\ hereas, C. M. Wood, Administrator on the
estate of A. M,- Loggins, late of said county, de
ceased, represents to the Court, by his petition
duly filed, that lie has fully administered said es
tate, and is entitled to a discharge—
This is to cite all concerned, kindred and cred
itors, to show r cause, at the Court of Ordinary of
said county, on the first Monday in October, 1881,
why said applicant should not have Letters of Dis
mission from his .said trust.
Given under my official signature, this June 28,
1881. H. YV. BELL, Ord’y.
Jackson County.
Whereas, W. P. Cosby, Administrator on the
estate of Frances C. Coshy, late of said county,
deceased, represents to the Court that he has fully
administered said estate, and is therefore entitled
to Letters of Dismission—
This is to cite all concerned, kindred and cred
itors, to show cause, at the Court of Ordinary of
said county, on the first Monday in October, 1881,
why said letters should not he granted the appli
cant.
Given under my official signature, this June 28,
1881. Jl/\V. BELL, Ord’y.
.Professional k business (Ends.
IK. If. ADAIK,
DENTIST,
Junclo-*Bl. Gainesville, Ga.
Jon\ j. sTitioaAm
ATTORNEY-A T-L AW,
Danielsville, Ga.,
Will promptly attend to all business entrusted to
him. dec 17, ’BO.
DIS. IV If. CASH,
NICHOLSON, GA.,
Tenders his professional services to the surround
ing country. Rheumatism, Neuralgia and the dis
eases of women a specialty.
Feb. 13th, ISBO. ly
Howard thompsoa 7 ,
ATTORNEY-AT-LAW,
Gainesville, Ga.
Prompt and faithful attention given to all busi
ness placed in his hands.
WiiiEY c. Howard,
Attorney and Counselor at Law,
JEFFERSON, GA.
Will attend faithfully’ to all business entrusted
to his care. mch4,
SII.AIAA & THOMPSON,
ATTORNEYS-AT-LAW,
. Jefferson,Ga,
Will practice in Jackson and adjoining counties.
Home Manufacture.
SHOES! HARNESS!! LEATHER!!!
WE arc now making the very best quality of
the above articles right here at home, and
they arc for sale. We do not expect to sell them
merely because they arc home manufacture, hut
because of their excellent quality and low price.
We are making regular
of the very best material and workmanship, and
ottering them for 25 per cent, less than the usual
price.
Our BROGANS cannot he beaten in excel
lence, or cheapness for the quality. These sell
only by the case. Bridles, Collars and Harness,
double or single, always on hand, or made to or
der. We have the most experienced workmen.
All we ask is a trial.
ATKINS. CARR & CO.
Maysville, Ga., June 17th, 18S1.
Martin Institute,
Fall Term, 1881, Opens Anpst 25th.
LET the citizens of Jackson county, who would
secure the lowest (possibly free) tuition, pa
tronize the School this fai l.
The Martin Fund pays a larger proportion in
the fall than in the spring.
To students from other counties wc promise
lower rates of Board and Tuition than almost any
other Collegiate Institute.
For further information, apply to
aug 12 4t JNO. A\ . GLENN, Prin.
NEW ROCKS!
I HAVE just put in operation a NEW SET of
WHEAT ROCKS at the
Long stills,
and all of the machinery is in order to make first
class flour. Send your NEW WHEAT right
along, and 1 will give satisfaction.
JAMES E. RANDOLPH.
Jefferson, Ga., July Ist, 1881.
JEFFERSON, JACKSON COUNTY, GA., FRIDAY, AUGUST 26, ISSI.
Bill Arp’s Letter.
Fence or no fence—that is the question.
I had about given it up and become recon
ciled, but I see now that some few counties
have determined to try it, and it encourages
me to hope. It is a big thing and it is no
joke to say there's millions in it, for there
is. There are a power of things to worry a
man in this snbloonary life, and he can
stand the big troubles pretty well, but these
little troubles that come along every day
and can’t he helped will bring the crow's
feet to the corner of his eyes after while-
Mere I*vc been farming for four years and
never lePmy stock run out to annoy my nabors
nary day’, and some of ’em treat me the same
way, but some don’t. I’ve built fences, and
made water gates, and fixed up everything as
near to bomb proof as possible, but still my
nabors’ hogs keep getting in my premises.
There are a passel on one side and a passcl
on the other side, a mile or so apart, and they
look upon my fields as their property, and they
roam up and down the big road every day, and
they root at the farm gate until they root it
open some way, or they get in at the water
gate, or they lie around and watch until the
children leave a gate unlatched, and first
thing we know the infernal nuisances
are in the field or the garden or the melon
patch and if you dog cm you hear of it, and
if you kill em you have to pay three times as
much as they are worth and itgetsupa breach
of good feeling and a neighborhood quarrel.
But a man cant stand everything. These are
the first hogs I ever heard of that are too good
to be dog’d. I thought that biting hogs was
part of a dog’s business, and I thought it was
part of a hog’s business to be dog’d.
Whether it is so or not, I’ll be dog’d if I
don’t dog em as long as they keep annoying
me, dog on em. 1 had a encumber patch and
a bean patch in the upper field and they were
just coming on nice and ready for the table,
and this morning when I went out to gather
vegetables there wasen’t a bean or a cucumber
vine left and the hogs were stepping around
as big as Watch and looked at me with a
grunt of impudence as much as to say : “ You
see we are in here again don’t you.” Well
human nature is Immun nature the world over,
and 1 just stepped over to the house and got
my doubled barreled gun and called the dog
and as they dident seem inclined to go and
showed fight, I thought I would hurry ’em up
a little, and I let fly and they’ve gone home
with their noses like a pepper box, and I
reckon they can’t root very much for a few
day’s anyhow. Well, of course my nabor will
be powerful mad but I don't care, I’m powerful
mad too. Now the law tells exactly what
kind of a fence a man must have to be a
lawful fence, but it don’t tell what kind of
hogs a man must keep to be a lawful hog and
that’s where the trouble comes in. These
here hogs are like the confederate scouts*
always on the go hunting something to eat.
They get nothing at home and they have to
forage on the naborhood, and here they go
and they go up and down a mile and a half
of boulevard, perusing the country and watch
ing for an opening into my premises. If they
were well fed at home they would lie round
the front gate and sleep and breed fleas, which
they ought to do for anybody who lets cm go
loose and vagabonize over the country.
Now, there is a law about public roads
that I am going to try and enforce whenever
an3’body forces me to go to law about hogs.
The supreme court says the big road in front
of my house is my land if I own on both sides
of it and the public only has the right to pass
over it in a peaceable manner. They shan’t
stop and hitch to my shade trees, nor cuss me,
nor use bad language in the big road, no
more than they could in my own yard, for the
road is mine and the traveler must keep
moving. That’s what the road is for. Its a
passover. Its a trespass to use it for any*
thing else. Now I’m going to make a point
on these hogs. I want ’em made to tell
where they are going and what for. I’m going
to see if they’ve got the right to lay in wait
at my gate. I can prove according to reason
that when they left home before day this
morning they meditated devilment upon me
and it was a trespass the minute they stopped
traveling and turned aside into m3’ bean patch.
Judge Bleckley told me that was good law —
that swine was a historic nuisance, that the
devil took refuge in ’em 1850 years ago,
according to scripter, when they run down
into the sea—that they was a nuisance per
sea then, and the3* are a nuisance on the land
now, and if folks let ’em run about nosing
into other people’s business it was right to
kill ’em whether in the abstract or the concrete
and that’s the law. I would bu3 r these hogs
and put em up and kill era, but the owners
would get another set as mean or meaner
right away. Nabor Freeman and I and Lowry
and Munford and Allan all join lands, and
wc have no trouble with our stock for we keep
it up, and it saves a power of fencing, and
my hope is that the law will work so well in
these counties that adopt it that it will spread
and keep spreading till it covers the State.
I’m glad the president didn’t die. I like
him better than I thought I did. lie is
nothing more than any other man to me but
FOR TIIE PEOPLE.
thieves and plunderers as Grant had around
him, and therefore I was hopeful of his
making a pretty good president. May the
good Lord deliver us all from any dynasty
controlled by Grant and Conkling and Arthur
is my prayer and if General Garlicld lives I
shall feel that the country is safe for awhile
whether the democrats get any 7 offices or not.
I wish they could get a few. Good sakes !
ain’t it been a long time since they got a
nubbin out of the national corn crib. But it’s
all right I reckon or it wouldn’t be so and its
best to be reconciled to what we cannot help.
May be if wc had the offices somebody
would be shooting at us, and that’s a perquisite
of office I don’t like. Now if Mr. Garfield
had been away off on a little farm he wouldent
have been shot at, which proves that it is
safer to farm than be president. Young men,
go to farming or take the consequences.
Your3, Bill Arp.
A United States Boundary Line.
The northern boundary of this country is
marked by some cairns, iron pillars, wood
pillars, earth mounds and timber posts. A
stone cairn is 7|xß feet, an earth mound 7x14
feet, an iron pillar 8 feet high, 8 inches square
at the bottom, and 4 inches at the top; tim
ber posts 5 feet high and 8 inches square.
There are 382 of these marks between the
Lake of the Woods and the base of the Rocky
mountains. That portion of the boundary
which lies cast and west of the Red river val
ley i3 marked by cast-iron pillars at even
mile intervals. The British place one every
two miles and the United States one between
each two British posts. Our pillars or mark
ers were made at Detroit, Mich. They are
hollow iron castings, three-eighths of an inch
in thickness, in the form of a truncated pyra
mid, 8 feet high, 8 inches square at the bot
tom and 4 inches at the top, as before stated.
They have at the top a solid pyramidal cap,
and at the bottom an octagonal flange one
inch in thickness, Upon the opposite faces
are cast in letters two inches high the inscrip
tions, “ Convention of London” and “ Oct.
20, 1818.” The inscriptions begin about four
feet six inches above the base, and read up
ward. The interiors of the hollow posts are
filled with well-seasoned cedar posts, sawed
to fit, and securely spiked through spike-holes
cast in the pillars for that purpose. The
average weight of each pillar when completed
is eighty five pounds. The pillars are set
four feet in the ground, with their inscription
faces to the north and south, and the earth is
well settled and stamped about them. For
the wooden posts well-seasoned logs are se
lected, and the portion above the ground
painted red, to prevent swelling and shrink
ing. These posts do very well, but the Indi
ans cut them down for fuel, and nothing but
iron will last ver}' long. Where the line
crosses lakes, monuments of stone have been
built, the bases being in some places eighteen
feet under water and the tops projecting eight
feet above the lake’s surface at high-water
mark. In forests the line is marked by fell
ing the timber a rod wide and clearing away
the underbrush. The work of cutting through
the timbered swamps was very great, but it
has been well done and the boundary dis
tinctly marked by the Commissioners the
whole distance from Michigan to Alaska.
I’m for anybody that a brute tries to assas
sinate and I wish the brute could be hung
for it, crazy or not crazy. Its them kind of
crazy folks that ain’t fitten to live, and it only
shortens thoir lives a few day’s to hang ’em,
as Guitcau said about the president. I reckon
lie is crazy after a fashion, and I don’t sec as
how the stalwarts or Conkling or Arthur, or
anybody is responsible for it any more than
the rebels were responsible for Booth killing
Mr. Lincoln. It was the devil and mean
whisky that got into the feiler, and that’s the
whole of it. I believe that General Garfield
was going to try’ to purify the administration
of the government—but he wasent going out
of his party to find any help to do it. I don’t
think he would tolerate such a crowd of
The English Sparrow
Reports from different quarters upon the
depredations of these birds in the Gelds,
gardens and orchards, wherever the birds have
largely increased in numbers, begin to bo
serious. If they are really the besom of
destruction among fruits, as represented, it
is high time farmers, vegetable and fruit
growers were moving for their extermination.
In this country, especially at the South, they
are not yet very numerous, and are conGned
chiefly to a few cities and towns, where they
were carried to give life and ornament to parks
and lawns. In some localities of the North
they are far more numerous, and already begin
to give trouble. It will be too late to be sorry
when the growth of the evil has passed all
bounds, and to make sure work in the destruc
tion of a pest which threatens calamity to
important industries of the country, some
effective method should be speedily adopted.
Hundreds of Men, Women and Children
Rescued from beds of pain, sickness and
almost death and made strong and hearty by
Parker’s Ginger Tonic are the best evidences
in the world of its sterling worth. You can
find these in every community. Post. See
advertisement.
The Lime-Kiln Club.
“ Let me warn y 7 e,” began the old man, as
Pickles Smith hung up the water dipper and
sat down with a heavy jar, “ let me warn ye
dat de man who has de mos’ inimies am de
man who flatters hisself on his bluntness,
truthfulness an’ common sense. De grandest
motto on airth am de one which says : ‘Spoke
de truf at all times,’ but it ain’t the wisest
one to foller. I has foun’ dat exaggerashun
pleases wliar’ truf hurts, an’ dat flattery
amuses whar’ truf engenders anger. Spoke
de truf of your nayburs, an’one of ye will
have to move inside of a y’ar. Spoke de truf
of your friends, and you will be confronted
by a legion of inimies. You may know in
ycr own mind dat dis man am a rogue, dat
one a rascal an’ de odder one right up an’
down wicked, but y 7 ou rnusn’t talk what ye
know. One blunt word will upsot a whole
nayburhood. One truful statement will raise
up a Lost of howlin’ inimies. Dc pusson who
won't flatter and cajole am avoided and sus
pected. De biggest inimies I have in all dis
world am people who have had my honest
opinyun, an’ to whom I have spoken de plain
truf. Only one man out of fifty axes yer
honest opinyun wid any ideah of’eeptin’ it
if it differs from his. Not one in 100 axes
yer advice wid any ideah of fullerin' it unless
it jibes wid his plans.
“ Darfore, I say to you, be blunt only wdien
you have no keer for friendship. Be truful
only when you am ready 7 to make inimies.
Condemn only when you ain all packed up
and ready to become a hermit. Tell a lie
about a man an’ lie’ll grin ober it. Hit him
wid de truf an’ he will fuller you until he has
secured revenge. In walkin’ aroun’ for half
a day I can make a score of men friends by
praisin’ de looks of a hat, dc set of a coat, dc
grace of a step or de fit of anew p’ar of butes.
Months and months ago I dropped a word of
praise fur a cur dog which was t.rottin’ ’long
behind a citizen. De odder day dat same
man walked past twenty to gib inc a jod of
whitewashin’. Fact is, though I’m old an’
bald-headed an’ stoop shouldered, it does me
a heap of good to have some man stop me on
de street an’ lie to me like blazes in sayin’
dat I’m looking as y 7 oung as a man of 30.”
Detroit Free Press.
[communicated.]
Who Was the Founder of Sunday Schools?
This question has been discussed of late
and different conclusions arrived at, for the
honor has been ascribed to different persons.
Not long ago there was a great celebration in
London, glorifying Robert Raikes as the foun
der of the present Sunday School system.
More recently, at the meeting of the Jackson
County Sunday School Association, on the
30th ult., the writer understood one of the
speakers of that interesting occasion to at
tribute this honor to a Miss Hannah Ball, be
ing connected in the matter with John Wesley.
Now, I do not regard this as a question of
vital importance, still we are to render to all
their dues—“ honor to whom honor,” &c.—
nor Is it my purpose to enter into this dis
cussion. I would, however, direct attention
to an article in the Soiitliem Presbyterian of
September 9, 1880, taken from the Sunday
Magazine, which attributes said coveted hon
or to St. Charles Borromeo, of Milan, who
died September 22d, 1631, and who had,
during his life, been instrumental in estab
lishing 740 schools, in which were 3,040 cat
echists and 40,098 scholars.
Now, as Miss Ball organized her Sunday
School in 17G9 and Mr. Raikes in 1780, it
will he seen that St. Borroraeo’s claim to the
honor alluded to is more than a century older
than either, for, as he died in 1631, his work,
of course, was accomplished previous to that
date. J. R. B.
Walnut , Jackson Cos., Ga., Aug. 1881.
A Cannon to Shoot Ten Miles.
The making of the patterns for the Lyman-
Ilaskell accelerating or multicharge gun, at
the Scott Foundry of the Reading Iron Works,
was begun this morning. The gun will be
twenty-five feet long and have a bore six
inches in diameter. Along the bore four
pockets will bo located, in each of which a
charge of powder will be placed, with the
view of accelerating the speed of the ball after
it leaves the chamber gun and during
its progress through the bore. Experts who
have seen the drawing and have given the
subject of the manufacture of heavy ordnance
a study, have expressed the opinion that the
gun will throw a ball a distance of ten to
twelve miles, whereas five miles is a good
range for the best cannon. The charge of
powder will be 130 pounds, and the weight of
shot 150 pounds. It is calculated that a shot
from the gun will penetrate through two feet
of solid wrough iron. —Reading Eagle.
An endeavor to abolish the teaching of
Spanish in the San Francisco evening schools
has just failed. The language is found to be
too useful to business in that region to be
given up.
The unpleasant belief is expressed by a
Niagara newspaper that the facilities of Nia
gara Falls for murder and suicide are em
ployed to a far greater extent thau is gene
rally suspected.
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The people drove Clemens out of Terr}',
Ala., because he took a second wife three
days after the death of his first.
A girl opened a barber shop at Homer, Ul. r
and closed it in a month, having already mar
ried one of the men whom she shaved.
M. Rouhcr, Napoleon lll.’s right-hand
man, says that there is no longer hope of the-
Bonapartists recovering power in France.
It has come to light that a number of rob
beries at Independence, Mo., were committed
by young men of excellent connections.
A nine-year-old Boston girl, of good train
ing and pleasant home surroundings, volun
tarily went off with a blind beggar, to lead
him and hold his cup.
A woman hanged herself three times in one*
night in a Springfield cell, using strips of her
clothing to make nooses, and each time was
cut down before she was quite dead.
The tramp who would, for a meal or a lodg
ing. and sometimes for a drink, drive a pin
full length into his leg, is now in an Ohio
hospital. The punctures caused symptoms
of lockjaw.
Mrs. Jones is writing anew Bible, under
the inspiration, she says, of the spirits of able
saints. She has been six years at the work
already, and is now giving readings from it
at the Lake Pleasant Spiritualist camp meet
ing.
A ship canal across the peninsula of Mary
land and Delaware, shortening the distance
by water from Baltimore to the Atlantic, is.
an old project, but now it is to be speedily
carried out, the necessary $8,000,000 having
been raised.
Mrs. Reeves heard the doctrine of sanctifi
cation preached at a camp meeting at Harri
son. Ind., and not only believed it, but was
sure that she was sanctified. Being thus fully
convinced of her fitness to die, she at oucq
committed suicide.
A policeman saw a woman digging in her
garden at Paris, Ky., before daylight. She
was not noted for industrious habits, and
therefore lie covertly watched her until she
brought out a box containing $20,0Q0, the
proceeds of a recent bank robbery.
Another American custom, baggage check
ing, is likely soon to be adopted in England.
The London and Northwestern Railroad sent
an emissary here specially to report on our
system. It is asserted that 35,000 pieces of
baggage were lost or. stolen in England last
year.
While in some parts of Europe intenso
heat has been experienced this summer, in .
others severe cold has occurred. In Switzer
land, during June, vegetables froze in the
fields and grass in the meadows. In the
north of Scotland potatoes and turnips were •
badly damaged.
The Turkish Government recently express
ed its intention to abolish the foreign Post
Offices in Turkey. Germany at once protest
ed strongly against the step, and negotiations
are now being carried on among the great \
powers to prevent this plan of the Porte being '
carried into effect.
A blind man applied to the Mayor of
Philadelphia for permission to carry a pistol.
Being asked how he expected to hit a robber,
in case of attack, lie replied that he had
practised firing at a bell until he could make
a bull’s eye at nearly every trial, provided
the bell was a noisy one.
. Virginia, which paid no attention to cotton ,
culture until recently, is now turning to it on
a considerable scale, and with pronounced
success. Cotton plantations now exist in all
of the southern counties of tho State, and i
thousands of bales were produced last year.
It has been found that the cultivation of
tobacco has been growing unprofitable, besides
exhausting the soil, and this is likely to make
cotton.growing general throughout the State.
A writer in a West Virginia paper saya,
that the Shenandoah Valley, when first settled 1 ,.
1 GO years ago, was an open prairie like region*
covered with tall grass, on which herds of
deer, buffalo, and elk fed, and devoid of
timber except on occasional ridges ; but that.-
after it became settled trees sprang up almost
as thickly and regularly as if seed had been
planted. These forests, having been preserved
by the farmers, cover now a large part of tho
surface of the valley with hard wood trees of
superior excellence. The explanation of this
change is that previous to the settlement of
the valley annual fires, negligently started by
Indians, burned up the young trees, and,
prevented the formation of forests, but with,
the arrival of settlers these fires were prevent
ed ; and the opinion is asserted that tho
treeless character of the Western prairies is
owing to the Indiart pract ; cc of annually burn?
ing the grass. Were it not for that, dense
forests would have covered these vast plains
for centuries.
Capt. Amos Shirley, the fallen command*
er of the Salvation Army in Philadelphia,
could keep a congregation together during a
meeting nine hours long, and that was taken,
as proof of his greatness as an evangelist/
Under his guidance the army prospered,
growing rapidly in numbers, and getting all'
the financial aid that was needed. In the
midst of one of his exhortations a young girl
burst into tears. He asked her to step for
ward, and a pretty woman, scarcely 20 years
of age and richly dressed, went to the platform
and begged the preacher to pray for her.
She was almost in hysterics, and wished to
be received into the Salvation Army. Shirley,
pointing grimly at the bright colors in her
bonnet, commanded her to take it off. Sho
obe3’ed, and fell on her knees before tho as
semblage to receive the red crown of the army.
The Captain’s dowufall was brought about
through his interesting convert. He is a
runaway from his wife, children, and tho,
Salvation Army.
NUMBER 27.