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GRIFFIN, GA., FEB. 1, 1880.
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TELEPHONE NO. 22.
J. P. A B. B. BAWTELL,
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Official Paper of the Ordinary
of Spalding county and the City
if Griffin,
William Peakes, last survivor of the
once famous Peakes family of Swiss
bellringers, died in Brooklyn a few
days ago at a good old age. This
family a generation ago furnished one
of the moat successful entertainments
then on the road.
"I vumf” is considered swearing in
New England, and an Arkansas debat
ing society has decided that “gee
whilikins” is profanity Meanwhile
our courts hold that a man can say
“d—n it" without violating the law
against cussing. It mostly depends
on where you are.
Tiie Philadelphia Ledger say* :
"Scarcely a day passes that some state
legislature does not adopt resolutions
opposing the sealing of a polygamist
in the congress of the United States.
The voice of the country is being
raised strongly and with unanimous
sentiment on this subject."
Among the prominent men who
have approved the project to erect in
Richmond a Confederate memoral
hall are President McKinley and ex-
President Cleveland and Harrison,
Secretaries Gage, Alger, Long, Bliss
and Hay, Postmaster General Smith,
ex-Secretariea Sherman, Whitney,
Carlisle and Lamont and ex-postmas
ter General James Many of them
have contributed to the object.
It must surely he with a shiv r, suja
the Wesminster Gazette, that the
alumni of the older universities will
hear that there is a proposal to est#’"
lish and endow at the new Birming
ham University a chair of Brewing
and Malting! Birmingham has Bru
ton-on Trent within its sphere of
influence, and the idea of a brewing
chair has struck its citizens as so good
that already £22,000 has been raised
toward its realization.
"Cuba is bad enough, but it is not
the worst," says the Baltimore Sun :
"The Philippine Islands have a more
deadly climate, they are further from
home, and as it now appears the bush
whacking natives promise to be troub
leiooie. This will require the constant
prisviiceofa large army. To reduce
those people to order will be a long
and tedious task, and to send our
young men there to disease and death
for that purpose would be another and
not the leisl crime committed in ti e
name of freedom.’’
A Connecticut inventor lias gone to
England to interest foieign capitalists
in an apparatus, or a method, of burn
ing coal so as to realize 80 per cent of
the caloric energy, instead of 10 to 15
per cent, the amount which is obtain
ed from coal by the present, methods
of burning it. If this inventor has
succeeded in finding away to make a
pound of coal do six or seven times
the work that a pound now does, he
baa laid the foundation for a fabulous
fortune for himself and done the world
a aervice, says the Savannah News.
A bill making the keeping of a crap
game a felony received 49 affirmative
to 30 negative votes in the Tennessee
House, but failed because the affirma
tive vote lacked one of being a consti
tutional majority. Some novel ideas
ware advanced during the debate. One
member did not like to see the white
game, but he
THE GAM EOiyIOITS
CAN BE PLAYED ANY PLACE AND IS
SPLENDID EXERCISE.
It la n Very Ancient ICnallah l’«"-
tlnx-. and Its B»al»nlss« ''■<• I.oxi
In the Mist of A»es—Fine Training
For the Eye and Arm.
There are Home games which have
never had their boom. and qnoits is one
of them. .Still, as nothing happens but
the unexpected, it may be that the time
is nearly ripe for quoits to be taken out
of its undeserved obscurity, to be exalt
ed to the status of a national game, to
have weekly papers named after it and
to have columns in the sporting press
devoted to the doings of its champions.
Stranger things have happened. Who.
for instance, would have said when nt
the end of the sixties a few energetic
sportsmen went wobbling about on bone
shaking bicycles which it would have
lieen far easier to push than to ride
that at the end of the century consider
ably more than 100,000 bicycles would
be manufactured annually in Great
Britain alone and that a great part
of the population would adopt this
means of locomotion? One cannot im
agine that quoits will ever attain such
popularity as the bicycle, but the un
prejudiced person can see no reason
why it should not become as favorite a
pastime as golf, which a very few years
ago was almost unheard of south of the
Tweed.
Qnoits is a very fine game, especially
in the winter time. It is splendid oxer
else and trains the eye and the hand to
act together in away that few other
sports can do, for the very essence of it
is accuracy of aim at a mark placed be
low the level of the hand. It has been
objected that throwing quoits makes
the player lopsided, but, after all, that
is easily remedied, for there is nothing
to prevent the player throwing the
quoit with bis left hand if ho so pleases,
and such a change would make a varia
tion in the game and also afford an ex
cellent method of handicapping the men I
of unequal skill. Quoits strengthens the
arms and shoulders, but it is not a pas
time which primarily demands strength.
A great advantage of the game is that
it can be played in any small space and
that the ground need not bo particular
ly level. Any rough Hold or waste bit
of ground is good enough for a quoits
pitch, and no rolling or cutting is re
quired to satisfy the demands of the
most exigent. For cricket you need a
carefully prepared wicket, for lawn
tennis and croquet a piece of turf like
a billiard table and for golf the best
part of a country all to yourself, but for
quoits you only need a few yards of
rough ground, and yon have as good a
place for throwing as any one can pos
sibly require.
People certainly might play qnoits
more ♦bun they do, but the taking up
jf a game is usually a matter of fancy,
ind perhaps two things stand in the
way of qnoits. First, there is an idea
that it is a “rustic” sport and can only
ae played by the rough country lads,
and, second, there is the legend that
the game is derived from the classical
discus throwing, a suspicion which it
must be confessed is enough to throw a
slur on any well regulated game.
No treatise on qnoits can begin with
out the time honored pedigree of the
quoit from the discus. Strutt, who lived
at the end of the last century, of course
dealt with it, and equally of course he
dragged in the discus even if he did not
invent the descent of quoits from the
sports of ancient Greece. The thing, of
course, is absurd. To make a discus,
the artisan did not, in the words of the
immortal Irishman, take a hole and put
some iron around it. The discus was
more like a flattened Dutch cheese and
was a solid missile. Moreover, it was
not held in the same manner as a quoit,
but was bowled underhand, in which
indeed it alone, differs from putting the
weight. That qnoits is now played
chiefly in the country is the fault of
those who do not play it ami bring it
into fashion.
It is no doubt a very ancient English
game, anil its beginnings are lost in the
mist of ages. Hakluyt mentions it in
his book of “Voyages, ” so it was well
known in Queen Elizabeth’s time, when
it probably was one of the favorite
sports of Merrie England. In some
parts of the country the rustics used to
employ horseshoes for want of properly
made quoits, and there are districts in
which the quoit is called a “shoe” even
to this day. This gives ns the clew to
the most probable origin of the sport
and hints that the first game of qnoits
was started by throwing old horseshoes
at the hob or mark, and from this grad
ually grew up tlie practice of having
quoits specially made for throwing. So
much for the discus legend. As for the
word “quoit” itself, its etymology is
more than doubtful, and it gives us no
clew whatever to the origin of the
game.
Shakespeare, who mentions every
thing except tobacco, of course has a
reference to the sport, and as Hakluyt
was a contemporary of his it may be
held to show that the spacious times of
Great Elizabeth were the palmy period
of quoits. It is true that he does not
speak of the sport in very reputable
connection, for the only mention of it
occurs in the scene in which Prince
Henry. Falstaff, Poins and the rest
were in the Boar’s Head tavern, in
Eastchepc. Falstaff, in giving a char
acter sketch of the young prince, ob
serves that he plays quoits well, but the
context very clearly shows that in
Queen Elizabeth’s time at any rate
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for his benefit. Here are the particulars:
Policy No. 1,233. Issued March 5, 1845. Amount $5,000.
Age 40. Annual premium, $l6O. Life Plan
Original insurance in 1845, $5,000
Dividend additions paid in 1898,12,028.00
Amount of death claim $17,028,00
54 Premiums paid by insured 8,640.00
Realized to estate over premiums paid $8.388 00
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Ripans Tabules recommended very
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Farm, by a Person Who is
Land Poor. r
Mr. Fditor: Some ycars ago I took an '
idea that land was the safest investment
that a man could make in Georgia, and as q
a consequence, lam now land poor; have 1
more than I can profitably make use of,
and consequently want to get rid of some, r
or all of it, and I have decided to adopt ,
the following measpre to get rid of it: r
I will say, in the first place, that the ,
land is the best in Monroe county, is fine
ly watered, and is adapted to raising cat
tle, sheep and hogs, and is the best lor
cotton, corn, wheat, oats and other grains
in the county. There are a number of
tenant houses on the place, and a home
recently built that cost me over <3,000 to
build. The land, in the first place, cost
me from $25 down- to $4 per acre-saying
altogether, about $lO per acre, without
improvements ; and to get rid of it, I will
average the whole place at $lO per acre,
in the following way : I will have the
entire place, 1,600 acres, sub-divided into
50-acre lots, at $lO per acre, giving more
than 50 acres to one party, if desired, and
less than 50 to another, according to his
ability to pay for it, as the case may be,
the entire quantity tobs drawn for.
In other words, the number of lots and
quantity of land to be put in a hat or box,
and drawn out under approval of a com
mittee of gentlemen, at some stated time,
so that all shall have a fair chance to get a
home at a low price, and no one has a
chance of losing their m mey, or failing to
get their value, as paid, and some get a
farm at far less than cost.
The land is 12 miles from Macon, a city
of some 50,000 or 60,000 people, and is
adapted to market gardening, and for
northern people who know how to work,
it offers a fine opportunity for a colony of
energetic citizens.
It is all together, and would make a fine
settlement,having the best- of pastures,
water, springs, creeks, etc. The land is
timbered with hickory, beach, oak and
pine, and some cedar; in fact, it is the best
place I know of, and I am satisfied the ed
itor of the Call will vouch for what I
say.
I would be glad to have any parties who
mean business, to go over the plantation,
familiarize themselves with the advan
tages, and communicate with me at
Barnesville, before going into the matter,
assuring them that I mean what I say.
I have also a farm of 50 acres near
Barnesville for sale, on good terms.
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