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About Schley County news. (Ellaville, Ga.) 1889-1939 | View Entire Issue (Dec. 4, 1890)
2 S*«rws PUBLISHED EVERYTHUBSDAY. Subscription $1.00 A Tear la ADVANCE. R, DON. mIZeOD, H liter. All ooatractji for advertising space in Ui« lm must bo tnado with the proprietoi. Terms for Advertising. Legal advertising will be charged at rvtes al •wed by law. Local noticea, first insertion, 10 cent* a line, each subsequent insertion, !i cents a line. Special position charged extra. Reduced rate* allowed on large contracts. Yearly contracts will be made with merchant* for a space in our advertising columns, suject to changes. All advertising Bills are due on presentation after the first insertion, unless ether terms ars previously agreed upon. fSP~Wo taken o risk on collecting. Partle* unknown to us mua t pay in advance or furnish latisfactory reference. 0r"AU letters on business must be addressed to R. DON. M cLEOD, Ellaville Georgia, . In 1865 the public schools of Boston cost $15.18 per scholar, but for the current year the expense is expected to reach $28.42 for each pupil. Spain is getting up quite a respec table navy, building tho vessels in Spanish yards, or rather in yards set up in Spain by English capitalists. A eruiscr rocently launched atBilboahas 7000 tons displacement and 13,000 horse power. US “It is a curious fact,” muses the Brooklyn Citizen, “that while insanity is on the increase in this country— there are now about 150,000 insane patients in our asylums—the colored people are comparatively free from mental disease.” The Lord Mayor of London gets $50,000 a year, out of which he is ex pected to give eight State dinners at an average cost of $10,000 each. The balance of his salary he spends in a processional show which greatly de lights young London. I Ilayti is only small part of the a island of San Domingo, having but 10,000 square miles out of tho 32,000 «f the island, yet she has a revenue yearly of $7,888,000 and ships 70,000, 000 pounds of coffee annually. Her government costs $5,000,000, and she has $2,000,000 to spend on improve ments each year. * The celebrated Rochdale (England) oo-operators, who started only twenty six years ago on the humblest scale im aginable, have a capital stock, every share of which is held by a wage earner, of $2,355,000; profits distrib uted to members have reached $200, 000.000, while the total sales for 1889 showed an inciease over those of 1888 of $10,000,000. Apparently the tables are turning, exclaims tho New York Tribune. California prunes have become so popular in this country that it is said the French are beginning to put up their prunes in the California style, so that they will pass for California prunes. Some of theso days, perhaps, dishonest dealers will try to sell French wines by putting on them California labels. “Westward tho Star of Em pire takes its way.” The wholesale destruction of forests in this country is attracting attention in Germany, and it is predicted that wc shall in a few years be impover ished in tree property. A striking comparison is made of the two coun tries. White tho United States has but 11 per cent, of its area covered by f or ests, the empire of Germany has 26 per cent, of its entire area so covered. And Germany does not suffer from the droughts and cyclones which periodi cally devastate this country. Beriberi is a disease most frequent on tho Asiatic coast, which is pecu liarly deadly when it attacks men in garrison or sailors on board of a ship. Us syrnptons are swelling of the mem bers of the body, which frequently ends in mortification of the flesh aud a painful death. No expert has jet been able to cure it or to give its cause, but it is supposed to owe its origin to fever germs among rocks. This theory is borne out, remarks the Ban Francisco Chronicle, by the sin gular mishap of tho whaling bark Potrel, which was infected with beri biri from dust thrown fr;m the Fata jtvnitm coast. There are some very much disgusted real estate investors in Ch'cago. alleges the New Orleans Picayune. They are those who bought land near Jackson park at fancy prices, thinking it sot tied that the world’s fair would be lo cated there. Some of th'in paid $300 to $400 per front foot for property that five months ago W'ould not have brought one-sixth of that. F. lloistcn, of New York city, en joyed an unusual experience. lie is an agent of tho Retail Grocers’ Union, and at a meeting of that body a mo tion was made to raise his salary from $75 to $100 a month. Then Mr. IIol sten ai-090 and declared that lie had no knowledge that such a motion was to be made, and that he was satisfied with his present pay and that ho didn’t want an increase. The union there upon, with great unanimity, resolved to respect Mr. Ilolsten’s wishes. The society for the preservation of the Irish language prints statistics supplied by the commissioners of national education showing the pro gress of the study of Irish in the national schools. Irish is taught in forty-five national schools and the number of pupils who passed has risen from twelve in 1881 to over 500 in 1889. With reference to intermediate education tho council have also to re port highly satisfactory progress. The result of the recent examinations 6hows that tho number of boys who passed in Irish amounted to 273, while in 1883 it was under fifty. There i3 talk of pushing tho beet sugar industry in Ireland. According to the British Baker, a company is being promoted in London and Liver pool for the manufacture of beet sugar in the south of Ireland; $1,250,000 ia l ho capital. The company rely, it is said, upon the farmers cultivating the requisite quality of beet root for sale to tho company, who will provide buildings and plant for the manufac ture only, and will not undertake the growers’ part of tho business. It is claimed that the soil and climate of the south of Ireland are suitablo for this kind of crop, and that beet sugar can bo made there at a profit. The war in Dahomey lias revealed savage practices which were supposed heretofore to bo largely the figments of travelers’ imagination. No one could have dreamed of such horrors as the captured French agent saw—the hurling of captives from the walls of the King’s palace and the barbaric glut of blood that followed. Now comes the report of the cold-blooded massacre of a thousand female cap tives and tho burning alive of all in fants taken. In the interests of civil ization as well as of trade the French should never stop until they have de posed the King of Dahomey and forced his successor to abandon canni balism and other unnatural practices. Returns that have been made to Parliament show that there are in Great Britain and Ireland 3800 miles of in land navigation, of which 1000 miles are on open rivers, leaving 2800 miles of canals, the greater part of which are in England. Although the canal business has been greatly neglected since railroads have become so numer ous, yet many English canals still pay largo dividends; and at the inter national congress on inland navigation which was recently held in Manches ter there was evidenced a disposition to revive canal activity. The Man chester ship canal, which, when com pleted, promises to revolutionize the English cottage trade, is undoubtedly a strong factor in the new movement. According to the Chicago Post American electricians are having a really enjoyable laugh at Cousin John Bull’s expense. A short time ago the question was asked in the House of Commons whether it waa not possible to light tho Natural History Museum by electricity so that it might be opened evenings. Some bright light in the house, evidently a spokesman for the government had thought to try it at the British Museum first, with the intention of extending i a service to tho Natural History Muse um if at somo future time it was de monstrated to be practicable. The electric light people of this country arc now “helloing” at Johnny to wako up and more along with the procca* don. SCHT/EY COUNTY NUWS. PARIS ABATTOIRS. An Early Morning Scene in the French Canital. Sheep Quickly Slaughtered and Prepared for Market. The other day I paid a visit to one of the echaudjires where sheep are slaughtered, says a Paris correspondent of the Chicago Herald. It was 4 o’clock in tho morning. Beyond w;.s the great city wrapped in obscurity; neat er at hand the country was seen stretching out in a silence that was still as that of night. In the abbat toirs brilliant lights penetrated the darkness on all sides, and yellow, red dish glimmers cast reflections on blood and disclosed the moving shadows of slaughterers. In the street, in front of me, soft masses moved about hav ing the appearance of cotton waves. Thi* was the flock to be killed. They scrambled together, walked over each other, climbed on one another’s back, bah! pah! bail’d first in plaintive tones, then in a higher pitch and finally it became a discordant cry, a deafening concert, above which was heard the sharp bark of the guardian dog, while calmly im movable, wrapped in an overcoat and supporting himself on a stout stick, could be seen the shepherd. Man and animals were waiting at tho door of the courtyard, and soon the door was opened. Inside were sheds with roofs inclining toward one another, and above them tho sky was seen like a gohleu streak in the early dawn. Implements were placed in different parts of the courtyard; here is tho low screen on which the sheep will be killed, there is a higher one whore tho <‘poussage” will bo carried out, still further are tho “foudeurs”’ tables and blood basins, and there, with enormous steel fingers ready to seize are the racks of pegs where the carcasses will be hung up presently. Now the picture becomes animated, for men and boys have entered. The “moulonnier” or “echaudiei*” is tall, strong and muscular; his head appears too small for his broad shoulders, hia face is carefully shaven, ho lias a low forehead, depressed skull, and small, clear eyes. IIis forearms are bare, his shirt sleeves are rolled up to his elbows, his feet are covered with wooleu socks, and ho stands in wooden sabots. At his left side hangs a “boutique,” or small wooden case, in which eight knives of different sizes arc arranged; at his right is his whetstone. The man’s hands are enormous, the skin is covered with freckles, his fingers are spatula shaped, and the nails are cut clo-e to tho quick. The “garcon d’ echaudoire,” the “bavaudier,” who cleans the intestines, and tho “fou dcur,” or man who scrapes the fat are all at their respective posts, there is a silence, the sliding of the bolt of the door behind tho echaudoire is heard, and the slaughtering commences. One by one sheep are pushed into the slaughter house. In the twinkling of an eye the first that enters is seized, taken in a man's arms and rolled onto the screen, the animal’s legs in the air, its head hanging over the edge of the basin. There is the flash of a blade, a red lino suddenly appears on the white fleece of the animal’s neck, and there are jets of blood, and the animal’s head falls over inert, The sheep struggles but is firmly held down there arc a few convulsive jerks, a stifled rattle in a red dust of blood, a last glou glou in the throat, and all is over. Three minutes have hardly slipped by, and the animal is dead. Now it is the next one’s turn, and sheep succeeds to sheep on the fatal rack. Whilo outside the pushing in of the flock continues inside rises an odor of freshly killed meat that is still warm. The knife goes on with its work; warm, sticky blood is flowing about everywhere; pools of it form themselves on the stone flags, red, ver niiilion, that is soon clotted, aud in which the light casts a reflection of a greenish color. Tho man is splashed with it; thous ands of 6inall red stains cover his clothes. Ha has become wanned up to his work, his arms are Umber now, his eves aflame, The veins in his neck are swollen out, his breathless .respiration sounds like the strokes of a scythe in a field of clover; and »tiH the biood keeps running. Everything is warm and red, tho slaughtering continues uninterruptedly, and mean while another scene is going on in the court-yard. The sheep are carried off one by one out there; the “pousseur” is at work. He cuts off the trotters of the animal, throws them in a corner, as well as the head, then with an enor mous pair of bellows, the point of which is introduced under the akin, 1)3 blows and blows. Tne animal looks as if it would burst, ami when well swollen the skin is quickly stripped off and thrown on a small cart, after which the sheep is opened, the intestines are taken out, as well as the heart, liver rnd lungs, and the animal thus emptied is hung up on a hook to stiffen. During this time skinners and “bayaudiers” have cleaned the intestines, and the “fon dcur” scrapes and gathers the fatty matter. By 11 o’clock the killing is finished and there is rest in the slaughter houses. A Diamond ThiePs Capture. Lately a great diamond robbery was committed in Paris, and among the jewels were some diamonds, green and rose color, the least valuable of the collection, and one great stone worth at least $12,000. The method adopted Dy the police to capture the thief was the simplest, for they had reason to believe that the theft was the work of one man. They advertised in several papers that a diamond merchant on the Boule vard de Strasbourg would pay a hand some price for diamonds, green and rose color, of a certain size, knowing that the thief would easily seize a chance to dispose of his wares at a high price rather than trust to the mercies of tho ‘‘convicts’ broker.” A great many diamonds were offered for sale, but it was not until evening that the real thief put in an appearance. The agents, who were stationed be hind curtains where they could com municate by signs with the diamond merchant, signified that he should buy the stones. Tiiis was done. Thereupon the thief, who was evidently surprised at the high price paid him, after looking around furtively, half whispered that he had also some white diamonds for sale, and drew from his bosom a clia mois-skin bag and poured its contents in a glittering heap on the table. Nearly all the missing geins were there. Half an hour later the thief was in Muzas Prison.—[New York Journal. The Finest Lace. The finest lace that is made today is what is known as the point gaze. It is the product of Belgian women. It is all needlo work made from patterns stretched on a background of paper. The net is fine needle work caught in fine but fast knots. It varies in price from $5 to $200 a yard. It is an ad mirable specimen of fine lace work and is difficult to get. In fact, lace buyers find it a harder task to secure laces now than a few years ago be cause lacemaking is not a very popular occupation. Workers in lace receive so lictle compensation for their labor that the old hands are training their children in other business. To counteract tliia threatened de cline in the art, for it is as much an art to make fine lace as it is to paint a picture, the principal lace manu facturers of Belgium have established schools in that country for the educa tion of the young in lacemaking in the coarse and finer grades. It takes many hours of labor to make an inch of fine point lace, and those who are engaged in the work cannot earn more than 20 cents a day, while the dose application to the work ruins their eyesight in a very short time. There arc cheaper grades of this point gaze lace that bring from $8 to $10 a yard. It is very popular with the wealthier class of people because it is bo showy and elegant.—[Chicago Post. An Expedient. * Beggar—Help me, good sir! I have a large family and can scarcely keep the wolf from the door. AVe are iu need of food. Crusty—H’ra. Have you got a gun? “Yes, sir.” “Well, here’s 5 cents. Go and buy some ammunition and the next time a wolf comes around kill him aud cat him.”—[Lawrence American. Time. Father Time Is sweeping onward* Scythe and hour-giass iu band; Nothing eau obstruct his pathway, Nothing can bis force withstand. Now he blurs the cheek of beauty— Now he renders weak the strong— And he cuts down all before kim. As he swiftly glides along. And he seems a grim old tyrant, Stern-browed, merciless and cold, Shaking mildew from hw pinions On all things of human mold. • Making every pleasure short-lived. Touching love with his alloy, Blasting with his sour visage Every bud of human joy. Yet, methinks, if thoughtless mortals Would but read his visage right, They would come to the conclusion That he is not ruled by spite. True, he sides with Death at present, But he loves him none the more, And in the far-distant future He will be Death’s conqueror. Then give Time the praise that’s due him-. He bis mission must fulfill, And he’ll use you very gently If you do not treat him ill. If you’re free from dissipation. And with vice no dealings have, He will give you health and comfort From tho cradle to the grave. — [Francis S. Smith in N. Y. Weekly. HUMOROUS. A Charity Bawl—Help a poor blind man. We suppose a nose may be said to be broke when it hasn’t got a scent. No matter how poor the astronomer may be, he is always looking up in th* world. It is a hard thing for a man who has to be round to keep square at th« same time. Sehoolma’ams are nearly all misses, and the misses on the stage are gener ally ma’ams. Torchlight processions go well while the benzine is kept iu the lamps and out of the men. A mosquito is the most successful of duns. Whenever he presents his bill he collects immediately. After all, the only way to profit by the experience of others aud avoidt their troubles is to die young. The more wealth a man has the more difficult for him to find out wbat people really think about him. The trouble with most “model housekeepers” is that they are lik* other models—chiefly for show. Barber—Docs the razor cut all right? Victim—It seems so. That’s the third mole you’ve chipped off. “IIow still and quiet the woods are,” she remarked romantically*? “Yes.” lie replied, “but listen a min ute and you’ll hear the dogwood bark.” Exasperated judge, whose putienc* has been sorely tried both by the plaintiff and defendant—My chief regret is that I can't decide against both sides. “Peter, tell us what is a fort.” “Please, sir, it’s a place where they put men in.” “Then what is a fort rc-s?” “A place where they put women in.” Morgan—What brand of cigars does Maxwell smoke? Dorgan—They call them the “Riot Act.” Morgan—Why? Dorgan—Because they never fail to scatter a crowd. Benevolent Person—“I liopo yon treat your horses well, and give them plenty of hay.” Driver—“Well, 1 can’t afford to buy ’em much of it but I says ‘heyP to them as often as I caii?” De Jones—Miss Mary, I am think ing of getting married and want to ask you if you can help me. Mis* Mary—Help yon? Of course I will* it will boa great pleasure to me to he assister to yon. A young lady sent to a newspaper a poem, entitled “I Cannot Make Him Smile.” The editor ventured to ex press an opinion that she would have succeeded had she shown him the poem. I She (pining for pleasant words)— Oh, George, I cannot understand it Why do you lavish this wealth of love on me when there are so many gml* more beautiful and more worthy than I? He—Fra bio wed if I know. “Do you believe iu healing hy touch,” asked Miss DePrice. “Indeed 1 do,” replied DeBlakes. “I met Tom complaining Tiglitpiuch today of the limping gout. along I touche am j him for a five, and lu skipped od though lie had never been ill a ** liis life.”
