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TWO STORMS.
[Somerville Journal.]
Tons-rolling surges of a falling sea,
r°. jfi,,.- The sheer cliflfiof an unknown shore,
’’ l i,, „ iaggoil rook, swaying helplessly,
\ Imist with broken cordage—nothing more.
if,.falling flakes of a dark, dreary storm;
‘ „ s w-itli uncertain hand his door;
' a'dock a. m.; he sees the white form
waiting wife-we nee 1 toll no more.
PETER COOPER’S GOODNESS.
Ilu- l iiorimm* Public Heading Room If©
Provided— How Managed.
I Ah-x. K. Sweet in Texan Sifting.)
That great and good old man. Peter
cioucr, "'as particularly anxious that
lie poor class of New Vorkers should
what was going on. In the
''econd story of the large Cooper
building, which lie presented to
ihe city of New York, is an
•nornious room devoted entirely to
iiewspigHirs and books, and accessible to
,h.* public. There is only one entrance,
md in front of it sits a boy at a desk,
who hands you a gutta perclia check
(bout the size of a dollar aud a quarter,
which you return to him when you
•unrge, the ml vantage or utility of
which check sjstem is not apparent to
i ho ordinary intellect. The room is
lillod with stands and tables on which
me all the principal American and
foreign newspapers and periodicals.
I he walls are lined with shelves filled
with books.
In summer tho reading-room is not
very well patronized, but in winter there
:ir / hundred of persons seeking for
knowledge. The reason why there is
greater thirst tor literature in winter
Than in summer is owing to the climate,
mid the high price of coal. The reading-
room is nice and warm, and there seems
to boa large class of people who put ofF
nil their reading until cold weather sets
in. Thev have been out in the cold so
long that they usually prefer to improve
Ihmr minds by reoding those journals
nearest the heaters, no matter in what
language they are printed. Old Peter
i ooner did not intend to establish a
lodging house for tramps, so a stalwart
policeman goes around and separates
ihe sheep from the goats.
A placard is put up to the etTect that
frequent visitors must obtain a perman-
int card from tho clerk, who, before
issuing it, requires references. Tho
\ ictim of adverse circumstances whose
hair sticks out through tho top of his
hat, and whose garments cry aloud for
repairs is not likely to apply for a card
of admission, hence when he undertakes
i„ store his mind with useful knowledge
Horn a foreign magazine near the
heater, notwithstanding the fact that it
is a free library, the policeman marches
him out as if lie was a malefactor. 1
don't wonder that tho tramps go south
in winter, for the jiolice here make it
too hot for them during the cold sea
son.
These free reading rooms and libraries
are of incalculable benefit to students
and literary people, unless they happen
to be tramps.
I.incoln'a Despondency.
KYoffut’* Letter.]
Mr. Colfax told me a new story of
Mr. Lincoln recently. “I have never
used it in my lecture,”he said, ‘‘and
never printed it, for I was afraid it
might be misunderstood.” I do not con
cur in this view, for it reveals nothing
new in tho great emancipator's charac
ter. "It was in the spring of is#;] that
I called one day at tho White House and
found Mr. Lincoln plunged in the depths
of despair. He looked haggard and
wretched and I thought had been
weeping. ‘Our armies are making
no progress!’ he exclaimed. ‘New
York is opjKjsing the draft.
What if the war for the Union should
tail' What if tho rebellion should sue
• ced' Might not posterity hold mo re-
qmtisiblo for the rivers of blood shed
ami the army of widows and orphans?
Might ’ ot my fate Imi that of Varus,
who du.light lie could Humanize the
iiertmus? It was said the country can
not. ovist, half slave and half free.
, Might 1 not bo regarded as tho author
of all calamities? However,’ he broke
"lit again after a pause,’ ‘I have decreed
the abolition of slavery, and the world
will always approve that.’ When l
Hi" ,k ol Mr. Lincoln, he is very apt to
come back to me as I saw him then,
rather than as he looked when 1 called
on him the day before his death.”
Lincoln and Manton.
! Washington Cor. Philadelphia Record.]
I think 1 have a new Lincoln-Stanton
Mery. At ler.st the congressman who
b>ld it spoke as though he had just dis-
< owred the document which is its basis.
It was an application for a chaplaincy
in the army, with a serios of indorse
ments by Lincoln and Stanton on its
hark which rat] oyer tho available space
"ii the application and down on a slip
"I paper w hich had been added to re-
" iye them.
I hose were the indorsements, each
J‘! n K dated: “Dear Stanton: Appoint
t hi> man a chaplain in the army. A.
buiroln.” “Dear Mr. Lincoln: He is
imt a preacher. E. M. Stanton.” Three
” r ,,mr months elapse evidently, and
1 Ue have: “Dear Stanton: He is
Ilow - V Lincoln.” ‘‘Dear Mr. Lincoln:
ut there is no vacancy. E. M. Stan-
J"ti. “Dear Mr. Stanton: Appoint
,um a chaplain.at-large. A. Lincoln.”
i’ear Mr. Lincoln: There is no war
rant of law for that. K. M. Stanton.”
Dear Mr. Stanton: Appoint him any-
A. Lincoln.” “Lear Mr. Lincoln:
will not, K. M. Stanton.” And he
"•'bit. But apparently he told the ap-
•’ that he could leave his applica
nt on file, for there it is among the
,lr > md documents.
The "Lm-oph >ne. *
[Chicago H-raid.|
A peculiar invention, termed the
ocophone,” was recently tested on the
t'W lork ,v New Haven railroad. It is
a» apparatus resembling tho telephone,
' tn pi aue pa,.], en gj neer on t | lu
oaa, while the trains are moving at tho
Highest spuo.i, in instautaneouH siaiakiug
1 oiniininieation with the siinerintendeut
, . r h am dispatcher*. All the engineers
ho road receive the message at the
tiic'rai'ls " 11111 ' T,U) citcuit >* made over
lass than seventy years ago death
for more thau 200
crimes in England.
Jun t 'i ^ C0n , : , llor *e«hoe ober da do’
Job t Uribe ori dt tax collector,
STRIDING ON SNOW-SHOES.
4 Useful Invention Borrowed from tho
Indians—Its Art aud Mystery.
[Montreal Cor. Philadelphia Record.]
The Indian snow-shoe is a very differ
ent thing from the long, thin, wooden
skate on which the natives of Scandina
via slide over the drifts and down tho
hills, and which, I believe, has been in
troduced into the mountain regions of
the far west. Take a usu-suaped frame
of tough wood two and a half or three
feet long, and ten or twelve inches
across at its widest part—ten inches is
the regulation racing width—and put in
two light cross pieces near the head and
tail. Fill the compartments thus
formed with a netting of fine strips of
deer skin, leaving near the upper bar
an open space as large as tho palm of
your hand, curve the wooden frame a
little forward, and you have the snow-
shoe. It weighs only a few ounces, but
its supporting power is immense. The
theory is simple enough—that of the
expansion of the sole of the foot, so
that a b road surface is obtained and
the weight so distributed that the shoe
scarcely sinks an inch in the snow.
Tho moccasin is “the only wear ’ with
tho belle raquette. A stout “too strap”
of deerskin crosses tho snow-shoes just
aft of the upper cross bar, and under
this the snow-shoer slips his toe, lash
ing the snow-shoe to the foot with fine
strings of hide. Only tho toe is fas
tened, as the contrivance of wood and
netting is to be dragged or scuttled
along, not lifted bodily. Its width,
which at first seems foimidablo, is in
reality no impediment, ts tho expert
slips one foot over the other as he takes
his stride. Of course, tlie shoes worn
by woodsmen and lumberers, who carry
heavy burdens and have to make their
way through unbroken drifts, are much
broader and stronger than those em
ployed in racing or tramping, but tho
principle throughout is the same.
The stranger who experiments with
the snow-shoe is apt to pronounce it an
embodiment of total depravity. Hav
ing arrayed himself in blanket coat,
sash, tu |ue, mittens, knickerbockers,
leggings and moccasins and fastened on
his snow-shoes, his—literally—first step
is to move off and set the toe of one shoe
firmly on the tail of the other; then,
when he undertakes to lift tho latter
foot he makes a frantic and undignified
effort to stand on his head, and tumbles
ingloriously on his face, driving his
arms into the snow up to his shoulders
—the insinuating capacity of snow
under such circumstances is incredible
—and anchoring his feet by entangling
his snow-shoes.
But when once the art and mystery have
been mastered ho will bo convinced that
he has acquired the very poetry of mo
tion. A long stride is necessary to clear
tho shoes; there is no backward slip; tho
frosty air makes activity indispensable,
and the whole frame glows and tingles
gloriously. The exertion is so slight
that one no more feels his snow shoes
than a bird its wings—though there is a
mal de raquette resulting from over
work, especially with heavy shoes in
wet snow, which makes tho sufferer feel
at overy step as if the bones of his
instep had been broken, and tho frac
tured edges were grinding on each other
—and he goes striding over tho drifts,
leaving behind him a trail as of some
gigantic preadamite bird with cane-seat
chairbottoins for feet, proudly pitying
the pedestrians who struggle through
the snowy paths, and the sleighers who
shiver under their buffalo robes.
Ilow Marl© Antoinette WlU Absolved.
|New Orleans Times-Democrat.]
In the dairy of Charles Henri Sanson,
tlm executioner of Marie Antoinette, is
found the following incident rolativo to
the last moments of the unhappy queen:
“Marie Antoinette stood erect in the
cart, the Abbe Lothringer <a constitu
tional priest or one who had taken the
oath to support the constitution) was
speaking to her, but she did not answer
or oven seem to hear him. When tho
Calais Egalite was passed she l>egan to
manifest some uneasiness. She looked
at the numbers of the house with more
than commonplace curiosity.
The queen had foreseen that no priest
of her religion would lie allowed to ac
company Tier, and a proscribed ecclesi
astic, with whom she had communi
cated, had promised to be in a houso of
the Kue St, Honore of the day of the
execution, aud to give her from a win
dow absolution in extremis. Tho num
ber of the houso had been designated to
Marie Antoinette, and she was looking
for that. She discovered it; and then,
at a sign which she alone understood,
having recognized the priest, sRo bent
her head and prayed After this she
breathed more freely and a ©mile came
to her lips.” _
Til© (ireat Factory at Sevren.
(Chicago Herald. I
The manufacture of china in France
Is like tlia' of tobacco, ami, as is pretty
generally known, a government monop
oly. The great factory at Sevres, which
was formerly at Vincennes, and rw*
moved to us present site by a woman,
Mme. de Pomadour, has boon steadily
retrograding in artistic excellence ever
since tho advent of French political
troubles under Napoleon ill. It is fortu
nate, however, in having a superintend
ent wtio is said to havo discovered, after
ten years of patient study, a process by
which Sevres china may be greatly im
proved. It comes of a new way of mix
ing the clay.
Te.tlui; III. Purity nr W.r.r,
To test the purity of water there has
been found no le tter nor simpler way
than to fill a clean pint bottle three-
fourths lull of the water to be tested,
and dissolve in the water half a tea-
spoonful of Ihe purest sugar—loaf or
granulated wiil answer—cork the bottle,
and place it in a warm place for two
days. If in twenty-four to forty-eight
hours the w ater becomes cloudy or milky
it is unlit .for domestic use.
If You Want
APPRECIATING THESE TWO LAMENTABLE FACTS,
L. B. BOSWORTH
-IS OFFERING TIIE-
OF ALL KINDS, GOTO
DRUG STORE I
THEY HANDLE SEEDS FROM
Which arc perfectly pure and
fresh Remember that they
make a specialty of Seeds and
handle only the best. It -is
cheaper to buy good seeds at
first, for then you will not be
disappointed or lose your time
and labor.
J. A. &D.F. DAVENPORT,
LAMAR STREET,
gate cm stone filter!
Largest and Finest Steel of Groceries
IN AMERICUS,
at tub vhry bowbbt
Spot Cash Prices !
FOR THE MONEY. III8 STOCK COMPRISES THE
BEST BRANDS FLOUR,
SUGARS, TEAS, COFFEE, SPICES, DRIED FRUITS. CHEESE,
AND THE USUAL STANDARD GROCERS, WITH
A POSITIYELP FINE LINE OF
Canned Goods!
WHICH ARE OF FULL WEIGHT AND THE BEST QUALITY.
1IE ALSO KEEPS
TURNIPS, CABBAGES, POTATOES,
AND OTHER VEGKTAI1LES IN THEIR SEASON.
BRAN AND MEAL
AT LOWEST PRICES. HE WOULD ALSO CALI. ATTENTION
TO HIS STOCK OF
Liquors and Beer,
WHICH AltE OF THE BEST QUALITY AND PARTICULARLY
ADAPTED TO FAMILY USE.
'Give him a call, examine tiis goods and prices. You
will find him on
JACKSON STREET, ONE DOOR EAST OF POST OFFICE,
AMERICUS, GA.
March 7. 1886. yl
Jas. Fricker & Bro,
JEWELERS,
AND DEALERS IN
PIANOS
PURE WATER, HEALTH, LIFE!
MCBRIDE & CO, Atlanta,
Solo Owner*.
McBRIDE A' CO . Atlanta, Southern Ag t
Seth Thoma* Clocks.
Sole Agents Lambeth’s Fly Fans,* anti
Dealers in
Crotkery, China, Cutlery, Silverware,
Barlow Block,
ORGANS,
- - . - - Americus, Ga.
How to Get Kill of KhM.
[Boaton Globe.]
You ask for a way to got l id of rats.
I would say got a white rat ami let him
loose in your store and he will find out
where the rat holes are and when he
enters the hole the other rats will be
come frightened at his color and seek a
new home.
Novel* In England.
Novels constitute nine-tenths of tho
books read in England, aud nineteen-
twentieths of the books read in lb#
whole world.
Wo desire to call the attention of the public to the fact that we have at last go
settled in our new store on the PUBLIC SQUARE and have on hand a large and
handsome stock ot every thing in our line. Our stock ivjnsiflts partly of
Watches, Clocks and Jewelry, of All Kinds 1
SOLID SILVER AND PLATED WARE,
TABLE AND POCKET CUTLERY,
GOLD PENS, PENCILS AND TOOTHPICKS,
WALKING CANES, OPERA OLA.88ES,
GOLD AND AND SILVER THIM BLES, ETC.
We are Heiulqnertere lur
MITCHELL’S
EYE-SALVE !
A C»rta n, Salt- and Effective Kbnicdy fur
Sore, Weak 1 Inflamed yes,
Producing Lontj-.Sightrdia , "* 9 ntid He- i
ntoring Iko .Sight of the aid.
CURES TEAK l>ROl»H, GRANULATION,
STYLE T» aORS. IJEI» LYE*. MATTED I
w\K LASiiK J , AM 1 I’KOI) I CING Ot’lCK
R a LIEF AND PERMANENT Cl UK.
Also, equally efficacious when iim>| |.-i other |
malad e*, such as Ulcer*. Fev. r H.nts. Tumor* j
Salt Kbeum, Burn-. Piles, or «h _<nact liitl-ma.
tioe exists, MmilEI.I.-.S H AI. \ E may be
Spectacles and Eye-Glasses!
Cun Knit uny end every one in Gold, Silver, Steel, Bronze, Zylonit-5. Celluloid ot
Rubber Frames. We urn Sole Agent* for KINO’S CEL EBKATF.D PATENT COM
BINATION SPECTACLES—the beet in the world. W > eell the
Davis and Williams Singer Se wing Machines!
and have constantly on hand Need’tfrt. Oils, Attachment m and Part* Cor all Machines.
We have tho best equipped HhopJf'jr the
Repair of Watches, Clocks and Jewelry
in this section of tne State. We employ noue but fir* i-claaa workmen and guariuite#
, all our work.
febii-Sm
Bold l y all 1 rufgi >’• ’Jj*
Dr. W. P. BTTRT,
DENTIST
AmorivM*.
F noII and after tlib dale I will not work 'or
any on# •Seep*. foi CASH, oi accept aide
S aner which will command mo.iev at th* bank, i j
a work at rrseonabl# prices. ut. I In future j
n« I,*, n.— •*»V',r I yn!srw. 1
PIANO AND ORGAN DEPARTMENT.
This bran« h of onr business in steadily increa ting And all we ask it* that partita
who expect to buy u Piano or Organ will call an J examine our stock and get our
prices before they buy. If we cannot do as well or better lx you than you can do
for yourselves we do not ask your patronage. T a© tact that we have sold Pianos and
Organs to dozens ot the best business men in Ai aencus ah<»wg plainly that we aell as
low as any one, and when you buy from us you linvc no fr sight to pay and save the
trouble of unboxing the instrument, as we pla< * it iu your bouse and dive you a
FIVE YEAR’S gnaiantee. We also have on In a large stock of small Musical In
struments, consisting of Violivs, Guitars, li Tambourines. Accordeous and
Harmonicas, and also keep Strings of the very ,-«t quality. Violin Bowa, Tail pieces,
Bridges, Rosin and nil kind of Musical Instru a>eat Trimming!.
The Office of the South* »m Express Company
is in oar store aud their’Agent, Mr.^S. C. C GDIUF.R u ineer employ aa Book-keep#!
and Salesman and u ill lie glad to serve all «iho are needing anything in ,x
CALL AVn HVV IT« | £ ifliT* WtiW
4ft*. FRU
* [All trains of this rond tre run by Central (9)
Meridian time, which is 86 mmntes slower than
•Savannah time. ]
Superintendent's Office, »
Savannah. Nov. 1, 1864. f
O N AND JAFTEK SUNDAY, NOV. S, 1884.
Passenger Trains on this road will run asfol
lows:
ATLANTIC COAST LINE EXPRE8&
Leave Hatannah dally at..,-. 613 am
Ai rive at Savannah daily at. 7 40pm
Arrive at .letup daily at. 110am
Arrive at Way< rose daily at 9 26 a m
Arrive st Callahan daily at. 11 SO a m
Arrive at Jarkeonvlile daily at ..13 90 p ni
Slot a at all regular stations between Savannah
and Jacksonville.
FAST MAIL.
Leave Savannah dally at. 7 01 a m
Arrive at Bavannalyiaily at 8 IT p m
Arrive at Jesup dally at S 48 a in
Arrive at Waycross dally at 9 50 a m
Arrive at Callahan daily at 11 39 a m
Arrive at Jacksonville daily at 12 00 m
Arrive at Dupont dally at H 15 a m
Arrive at Valdosta daily at. 12 06 p ns
Arrive st Ouiiman daily at 12 40 p m
Arrive at Tl omasville daily at 1 80 p m
Arrive at Balnbrldge daily at 8 86 p m
Arrive at Chattahoochee dally at 3 V> p ni
Stops only at stations named above and at all
stations between Thomasville and Chattahoochee.
Passengers for Brunswick take this train, ar
riving st Brunswick (via B. A W. Railway) st
12 45 pm.
Passengers for Fernandlna, Walde, Ocala, Lees
burg, Gainesville, Cedar Key and all stations on
Florida Railway and Navigation Company take
thin train.
Close connections at Jacksonville daily for
Green Cove Hprings, fit. Augustine, Palatka, En
terprise, Hanford andfall Isndings.on st. John's
river.
Passengers for Pensacola, Mobile, New Orleans,
Texas and trans^MississIppi points take this train.
Arriving at Pensacola at 10 00 p m., Mobile 2 40 a
m. Now Orleaos at 7 45 a m.
Pullman buffet and sleeping* cars Way cross to
New Orleans.
CHARLESTON EXPRESS.
Leave Savannah daily at 1 36 p tn
Arrive at Savannah daily at 1 80 p ni
Arrive at Jesup dally at 3 31 o m
Arrive at Wnvcross daily at 5 00 p in
Arrive at Callahan daily at 7 18 p m
Arrive at Jacksonville dally at 8 00 p tn
Slops at all regular stations between Mavannah
nnd Jacksonville.
Pullman parlor cars Havannah to Jacksonville.
JESUP EXPRESS.
Leave Savannah daily at 4 80 p m
Arrive at Havnnnah daily ai 8 45 a m
Arrive at Jesup dally at 7 00 p iu
Hi ops at nil regular and dag stations between
Savannah and Jesup.
ALBANY EXPRESS.
Leave Savannah dally at 7 20 pm
Arrive at Savannah daily at li 10 a in
Arrive at Jesup daily at 9 58 p m
Arrive at Wayemss daily at..... 11 86 p m
Arrive nt Callahan daily at 4 45 a m
Arrive ut Jacksonville daily at 6 15 a tn
Arrive nt Dupont dally at I V0 n in
Ai rive at Live Uak daily at 8 47 a tn
Arrive nt Gainesville daily at 7 00 a in
Arrive at Valdosta daily at 8 30am
Arrive at Quitman dally at 4 30 a tn
Arrive at '1 liomasville dally at 6 00 a in
Arrive at Albany dally at 10 80 a m
Pullman palace sleeping cars Savannah t«
Gainesville.
Pullman buffet and sleeping cars Savannah to
Jacksonville.
Pas-engers for Brnnawlek via. Jesup take thl
train, arriving at Brunswick at 6 16 a in.
Passengers Irom Fernandlna, Gairesvllle, Cedar
Key, Ocala, Wildwood. Leesburg and all stations
on Florida Rulway and Navigation Company and
FIotUIa Southern Railway take Ibis train.
Passengers lor Madison, Monticello, Tallahaa-
e and all Middle Florida points take this train.
Connections at Jacksonville dally with People’s
Line Steamers and Railroads for St. John’s river.
Through tickets sold and sleeping ear berth ac
commodations secured at Bren’s Tieket Office,
No. 22 Bml street, and at tho Company’s Depot,
foot of Liberty street. JAS. L. TA11 OR,
Gen’i Pass. Agent.
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A bee utiltil white leble or (took pee.
The Tines ran thirty feet end sre very
prolific. For .ale by the Quart, at Dr.
E. J. Kldridge’s Drag Store, America*,
Georgia. febl4-la»