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ATTORN IV AT LAW,
McDosiHim, Ga,
Will practice in the counties composing
he Flint Judicial Circuit, the Supreme Court
oi Georgia and the United States District
Court. api27-iv
j t*. H. TIRMUK,
ATTOTU>F v A/P LAW,
t McDonough, Ga.
Will practice in the countiwY composing
the Flint Circuit, the Supreme LOurt _oi
Georgia, and the United Stater District
Court. marl 6-1 y
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special attention given to commercial and
other collections. Will attend all the Courts
at Hampton regularly. Office upstairs over
Schaefer’s warehouse. janl-ly
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ATTORNEY AT LAW,
McDoxoron, Ga.
Will practice in the counties composing the
Flint Judicial Circuit, and the Supreme and
District Courts of Georgia. Prompt attention
sdven to collections. octs-’79
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ATT TONEY AT LAW,
Hampton, Ga.
Will practice in all the counties composing
the Flint Judicial Circuit, the Supreme Court
of Ceorgia and the District Court of the
United States'. Special and prompt atten
tion given to Collections, Oet 8, 1888
Jxo. D. Steavabt. I K. T. Daniel.
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ATTORNEYS AT LAW,
Gbifkin, Ga.
LA If CAUL.
1 have opened a law office in Atlanta, but
will continue my practice in Henry county,
attending all Courts regular')-, as heretofore.
Correspondence solicited. Will be in Mc-
Donough on all public days.
Office—Room i!6. Gate City flank Build
ing, Alabama street, Atlanta, Ga.
JOHN L. TYE.
January 1 st, 1885.
GRIFFIN FOUNDRY
AND
Machine Works.
\\Te announce to the Public that we are
t } prepared to manufacture Engine Boil
ers ; will take orders for all kinds of Boil
ers. W e are prepared to do all kinds of
repairing on Engines, Boilers and Machin
ery, generally. We keep in stock Brass
Fittings of all kinds ; also Inspirators, In
jectors, Safety Valves, Steam Guages,
Pipe and Pipe Fittings and Iron and Brass
Castings of every Description.
OSItOR Ac WAM OTT,
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McDONOU(iII, GA., FRIDA Y. JANITAUY. 4, 1881).
THE BLACKSMITH AND THE DAISY j
Amen,-' the daisies she nestled down.
Ami. plucking ouo tiny bud.
She pee| led through her lashes of ha7.el brown |
At its beautiful crimson hood
Tlien shaking the dew from its tionny heath
She lifted it up to her Ups.
And whispered bts name with a cheek as red
As the bloom on its fragrant tips.
‘1 love, 1 kite.'' and. hei voice grew bUjui
As the breeze from ttie gentle south;
“1 love, 1 level”—but a-strong brown hand
Was laid ou her smiling mouth
-You love, you love ” and the brown hand ttviued
Through the waves of her sunny hair;
"They love, they love I '' sane the tei;tale wind.
Through ttie locks of t!.e '■ ic-y.-ring pair.
Tim shy wee daisy «as boric ■ay
From the fluttering giri;.,h lu er ’
And the smith smiled as it coyly lay
In the ei i c.se of Isis open vest
As tliough it were gracing the loneliest place.
lu tne forge where he gayiy toiled:
It anti its I through the smoke with "its sweet round
iece.
Till iis leaves ivere all smeared and soiled.
Up went bis sledge with a right good with
Thee down with a in.cry clang;
Louder olid lou ler ! louder still.
As tie V. !,:stle,i the tmies she sang
[',* tosse t eis crisp toe' s us he fondly cried;
•flow happy tills foiling will be. .
When you, love, are tending our own mgicsidc.
And wr.itirg. my darling, for mu:
'-Through the lights and shadows of forty years
1 see you with crinkled brow;
Alt, lovelier far- though your dace appears
More grave and more thoughtful thru now.
I steal to the window. and softly tap,
While you snide in y ttr low rush choir.
Jn V'lur modest kcrciik i, your snow white ca ft ■
And yu>.” ha|o of dear gray hair. 1 '
\ n V ' " ''id, and the daisy iu"
* ’Mil! Kw,
Never to welcome tin- 1
Or the song of the h!o,okhi|e.
But the hlarksmitii lifted the faded
"Little I thought that this,
Tiiu IXlO*l <*omruon Bower oi the field, could brin«f
Such a vision perteet bliss."
—Fanny Forit^ f ‘‘ r to Chambers' Journal.
Cliff D\v»,*!ln\l.
One or tho llioSt atlmrli VC portions
Of Colorado, if not in u* entire west,
i.S that part of the Cate in wn.*" 1 ' are
found the did dwellings of a long ex
tinct race. The di: trict in which
these mins arc located covers an area
of nearly 0,000 square miles, chiefly
in Colorado, but which includes nar
row belts in the adjacent territories of
New Mexico, Utah and Arizona.
The ruins of this region, like most
others of tlie extreme weft and south,
are the remnants in a g;>.d measure
of stone structures. It is evident,
however, that it great portion of the
villages and dwelling-;of the lowlands
which comprise t'nis district have been
of material other than stone, Ire
qucntly, doubtless, of cobble and
adobe combined.
The cliff houses conform in shape to
the floor of the niche or shelf ou
which they are built. They ait of,
firm, neat masonry, and .the. manner
in which they «tTtvß»cfc»-! oigYdi'Lted
to the cHffs isTtinply nSWveTWfu! Tnofr
conduction has cost a great deal of
labor, the rock and mortar of which
they are built having been brought
hundreds of feet up the most precipi
tous places. They have a much more
modern look than the valley and cave
remains, and are probably in general
more recent, belonging rather to the
close that! to the earlier parts of a long
period of occupation.
It seems probable that a rich reward
awaits the fortunate archaeologist who
shall tx? able to thoroughly investi
gate (lie historical records that lie
buried in the masses of ruins, the un
explored. caves and the still mysterious
burial places of the northwest. But it
is quite improbable that any certain
light will ever be thrown on the origin
of this curious race which has just
been described, or their history.—
Cincinnati Commercial Gazette.
The I'li‘at / rajei ii Congrci',
The first prayer in the congress of
the United States was made in this
wise A convention from all the states
in the Union, except Rhode Island,
met in pursuance of a resolution
passed in congress recommending tiiat
course, in the state house at Philadel
phia, in May, 1787. Washington was
elected to preside. It was the inten
tion at first to amend the articles of
confederation under which until then
the national government had been ad
ministered. But after consultation
and debate it was decided to throw
over the old system altogether and pro
ceed to form a new constitution. This
convention embraced almost every
really great man in the nation.
We, in our piping days of peace,
have no conception ot the obstacles the
framers of the constitution had to con
tend with. At one time any chance of
union and unanimity seemed so small
that several members proposed a final
adjournment. At this momentous
crisis Dr. Franklin arose and, securing
recognition from the presiding officer,
said:
“llow it happened, sir, that
while groping so long in the dark, di
vided in our opinions, and now ready
to separate without accomplishing the
great object of our meeting together,
we have not once thought of humblv
applying to the Father of lights to il
luminate our understandings? In the
beginning of the contest with Great
Britain, when we were sensible dan
ger, we had daily prayers in this room
for divine protection. Our prayers,
sir, were graciously heard and an
swered.” Dr. Franklin then moved
that “Henceforth, prayers, imploring
the assistance of heaven, and its bless
ings on our deliberations, be hold in
this assembly every morning before
wo proceed to business.”
This resolution was at once adopted.
Thehhtoriun adds: “Greeter-km vtony
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J-AJUISt , -iiO vOuiiUi c JUiiiCU
CONFESSIONS OF AN ACTRESS.
Qnvv n Chicago Girl Made Her First Ap
pnaraiive oil the Hegiilar Stage.
You may talk of tlie pride and joy
•>f the fear horse when ho “smelletn
the battle from afar.” 1 tell you his
feelings are tame compared to my
emotions when I signed that contract.
It was :.iy.{U-..t engagement. That is
to say, iqy first "real good” engage
ment l Ltd gone on and said, Ely
. lord, ti!e cfuiiuge waits,” and, "A gen
tlonian t »;seo you, my lady,” before,
but 1 had liever had a chance to play
a good paid, arsdjiow 1 hud not only
one, but half a dwell, good parts, for,
you' must* know, we were going to
play a ‘‘repertoire." At last 1 could
let out my pent up feelings in an emo
tional part.
My frieyds had never shown that
onthtisistiir admiration for nty talents
which 1 felt was my due. Now 1
would show them that I was not what
they wete.* pleased to call *‘n stage
struck idiot,” but a "heaven born
genius l '- When I applied for my first
engagement 1 was deeply incensed
when 1 found what my part was. I
ntcan the " My-lord t.lie-carriage• waits”
part, but l it fleeted that all geniuses
were sure to be snubbed. I would be
patient, i would bide my tune.
When I saw Miss G , the leading
lady, rehearse i was sure she could
not play the pat t. So l laid my plans.
True," I only had two lines to speak,
but 1 would deliver them with such
telling force as to astonish every one.
Jn the meantime 1 would leant the
leading part by listening to rehearsal:;.
»t would be apparent to every one the
». : Mit that the leading woman
first mX • They would want a
was <it|sf!a»w ' hiv the part, make
change. 1 WOttla p. "e would be
a hit, and then my , '»ad' , *' 1r
made. 1 felt sorry for the iv _
woman, for, she was always pie,Vs,.':
but I reflected that she was T> yog tv;
old and if she was ever go'.n o- to make
an actress she ought to l' /0 quo hy this
o So tb.e sootier she found out
“ocou. M Mtor for."ov
The first u. iL E ll ' 0 , . 1 u ”is at lho
theatre at G oTloc« ' uak ' l, !T up. I uv 1
all dressed by 7. 1 \\” q h ; od up and
down the dressing room, fain king
what I would say to the manager w hen
ho offered me the leading part. At
last the curtain rang up. 1 did not go
on until the third act, but I went up
on the stage and watched the play.
To my surprise the leading woman got
a great deal of applause. At tho cud
of the second act she was called before
the curtain. “She must have a great
many injudicious friends in front,”
thought I. When tho third act went
oivJ was my place. When my cue
came 1/vaint on in the style T had
p.-actip'i! yWith a stately trend I ad
wmfw W i’ffc-center of tTrapnage “My
lord, the carriage wafts, nsatu 1, in my
best Delsarto voice. The leading man,
to whom I addressed my remark,
gazed at me in dumb amazement. Tho
leading woman turned scarlet under
all her “make up.” “Aha,” thought
1, “she sees a rival 1” When I went off
the stage what was my chagrin to see
her in spasms of laughter. The leading
man seemed angry about something.
1 thought bo was indignant because
she laughed. “What's the matter?” 1
said to him. “Matter! How dare you
come on and ruin my best scene 1
Whoever put you up to that will an
swer to me for it. It was that scoun
drel Jones that did it. Just because
he knew I would make a lilt in the
part. I'll teach him 1”
What on earth did he mean? I was
perplexed, uncomfortable. What had I
done? Was this a plot against me? 1
had heard of such thkigs. MissG
called me to her. “Come here, my
dear,” she said; “don’t l'eel bad; lie’ll
get over it; he i 3 quick tempered, but
lie’s kind hearted. You meant all
right, but where on earth did you get
that walk and that tragic voice?”
She nearly burst out laughing again,
but her cue came. She gave mo a
kindly little put on the cheek with her
fan and went on. Dear, kind hearted,
fun loving Annie G . How many
times since vve have laughed over that
night. I went down stairs in a daze.
Where were all my plans, my dreams?
Vanished, as many a poor girl’s have
vanished on the first night of a new
piece.
I learned afterward that the stage
manager was going to take mo out of
the part, but Miss G interfered and
begged them to let me keep the two
lines and she would coach me in them.
She did, too, and then began the long
list of favors I have to thank her for.
But, goodness, how 1 have wandered
from my subject. I was going to tell
you of my first good part, but this let
ter lias grown so long 1 am afraid to
write more, so I'll leave that until an
other time. —Columbine in Chicago
Tribune.
It Has Become Monotonous.
One of St. Paul’s distinguished citi
zens who rejoices in the title of gen
eral, and whose name is a household
word all over town, is a member of
the Presbyterian denomination. In
former years he used to cross the
ocean quite frequently, and each tune
before venturing out on the briny
made his will, in which he bequeathed
a good round sum to the church of
which he is a pillar, for a building
fund. But be always passed through
the perils of the great deep with safety
and returned home in better health
than ever : afore. Then-he would tear
up the vill and leave the church out
in the cold again. This sort of thing
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WRITING SY TELEGRAPH.
KtUha Gray’s Intention for Sending Let
ters by Wire.
Electricity is tho good genius of this
century. Those who know most about
it say that what wo have done with it
iu tho past is but a trillo compared
with what wo may hope to do with it
in the future. There are peoplo who
expect some day to bo able to call a
distant friend by wire, see his image
in a mirror, beu |- voice, and, if de
sired, get bm exact signature to a sub
scription papcqor a check.
These things may all come. At
present wo get along with an inter
tujJlent and exasperating repetition of
the voice over the wire, having no
of determining the identity of
our interlocutor, no certainty of get
ting (its words accurately and no
P'.rt dof what he says. Vase? arc re
ported where ingenious raseals have
secured considerable sums by cleverly
iiaiUvtittg over the telephone the voice
of wealthy business men; in other
cases orders to buy or sell goods or
securities have been repudiated by
those who gave them by telephone,
while tho simple blunders caused by
faulty telephonic transmission would
fill volumes.
Elisha Gray, the well known Illinois
inventor, recently patented a device to
insure accuracy and accountability
over the electric wire. The sender of
a message can write it out at his desk,
and an exaet reproduction of the writ
ing will bo made at the other end of
the circuit. There have been previous
attempts at transmitting fae-snniles of
writing, but inventions which da
pended upon a variation in the in
tensity of the current or upon revolv
... yytd
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Mr. Givy's device consists of two
I «'ui rout interrupters at the sending end
1 “nil a pair of electro motors at the ro
ceiving end. The sender uses either
pen or pencil, near the point of which
are attached two threads runniuo’ at
right angles to each oilier. These
threads are kept at an even tension
automatically, and each one passes to
a o.' UT P nt . inhsHriipter set into the tele
graph. w lien the pen moves
to five rig ’f *- !H! current is broken a
great nume cr „F f ti . nics <“•>«* a small
movement. > ' 1111 it moves to the left
the current isivn, ersed and Is similarly
interrupted. The s. llllO arrangement
prevails on tho <>f the pen
up und down. The vvrh‘- r can write
or sketch as rapidly nrtd as, freely as jf
he had no telegraphic altaejunent.
At the receiving end then* are two
electro magnets fitted with rods set tit
right angles to each so pivoted
jW to <nvp aiiy nmtiomdesired to the
pen which they harry'- ;iL tUe?/liihv
section. When a series of breaks in
tho current is caused by a motion of
the sending pen to the rigid, the mag?
net draws the lateral rod also to the
right. Similarly upward motion is
given by the vertical rod. Left band
ed or downward strokes of the sending I
pen tire reproduced by lire receiving
pen in the same manner. Conse
quently every motion made on the
paper at one end of the wire is copied
with faultless exactness at the other
end. When the pen is taken otf or a
new line is begun an automatic device
operates with the same result on the
receiving pen.
The telautograph, as Mr. Gray calls
his invention, therefore not only in
sures accuracy, but it so exact] v copies
the sender’s handwriting as lo hold
him accountable for what he has writ
ten, while ho retains for his own
guidance the original of the message
transmitted. The experiments made
show that there is no ditFcrence in the
handwriting at the two ends of the
wire, except that which is incident to
the use of the stylographic pen at the
receiving end.—New York Herald.
The Pine Tree State.
The assertion has frequently been
made that the title “Pino Tree State”
has become a misnomer for Maine,
and, although there are lots of pine
trees still standing in tho northern
part of the state, there is some ground
for objection to the old time sobriquet.
The statistics of the amount of pine
lumber surveyed ut the port of Bangor
yearly show that tho cut of that kind
of timber on tho Penobscot lias fallen
off from 123,000,000 feet hi 1853 to
29,000,000 in 1887. In the four years
from 1853 to 1857 there was a falling
otf in tho pine survey of 47,000,000
feet, and in 1877, twenty years later,
pine had got down to 15,000,000 feet.
The total survey of pine at this port
from 1855 to 1887, inclusive, was
1,510,000,000 feet, or considerably less
than one-half of the spruce survey,
and about three times tho cut of hem
lock, juniper, etc. Pino used to lead
all other kinds of lumber, but now
spruce heads the list. In 1855 the pine
survey was 123,000,000 feet, tho spruce
78,000,000 feet, but during the war
spruce took tlio lead, and these two
kinds of lumber gradually changed
places, until now the cut of spruce
averages 120,000,000 feet, or four times
the output of pine. Nearly all of our
large near by pine has been cut, and
most of the logs now driven down tho
Penobscot are second growth. There
is plenty of big pine away to tho north,
but in the face of western and Cana
dian competition in the leading mar
kets it would hardly pay to cut it and
drive it long distances. Spruce is king
Oil the Penobscot, and all other Maine
rivers now, and thi
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THE TURKISH ARMY.
Soldiers Who Can Fight but Who Don't
Know Right from Left.
Turkish soldiers are recruited from
the half starved peasants, whose lives
of perpetual privation have trained
them for just the kind of soldiers Tur
key wants —men who can live on next
to nothing, who care little what they
wear, and who, never having had any
money, don't expect it simply for
lighting. Sometimes they are not
paid for months ut a time, and their
food is poor and insufficient It is al
ways a puzzle how they are equipped.
The system by which military serv
iro in Turkey is recruited is this;
There are about 7,000,000 or 8.000,000
Mussulmans who cru eligible for mili
tary service betwrPn the ages of 20
and 40. Till* law in ut.io.ns Mussul
mans only, but Christians, if Turkish
subjects, must also serve, though the
latter can buy themselves out of the
land service on paying about ;200 of
our money.
There are four classes tn the regular
army—the acting or startling army,
called Nizams; the lehtyut, or reserve
of the Nizams; the first army of the
Radii's or reserve, the second urmy of
the Rcdifs and the Mu;-taphiz or terri
torial army.
On entering the army as a recrui:
the new arrival stays from one to tlm t>
years in the standing army, the next
four in the lehtyut, then seven with
the lledifs and six with the territorial
army. If a recruit has a horse of ' ■
own and keeps it at his own
ho gets promoted at or expense
class of Red if ca" to the ft: at
service. .urv without active
Tim r
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lu ‘'mpire is divided into
f , , • 1i1 ". 1i1 .7 districts, and each of
CniMh dn’iiled again into eight re
-1 ■ “ a s„ dibit ;c ts < these districts com
prising the Wi.'uJe (lon..’ ,I .biu of Turkey
m Asia, Europe a r*d Africa,
There are nineteen .army cOl*js3, »•'
vided into brigades, regiments, l u £‘
lalions and companion, all full with
cavalry and artillery and engineers.
While peace exists the Nizams alone
are kept, the rest being disbanded 1
return to tlieir usual avocations.
The troops are armed with rides m
modern make, many of them from
America, and the artillery is also of
the best.
Tlio Turks make good soldiers—obe
dient and courageous. Promotion is
once in a Jong while the result of per
sonal merit, but more often it is ob
tained by intriguer or actual purchase.
All the genorajs and stall' officers are
appointed by the suEzn-hinnx'lf on the
recommendation of the minister of
war,.but Jliut functionary, no matter
wbt> he may be, is never above the
roAH't of pt<wpei*•- Hi'j'flliMt'MlplMPl
vancetaents are obfuinw? siiv fines
out of icu by the influence of women.
There is u military ccliaek which
was founded by a French gentleman,
who also introduced percusv-iou caps
into Turkey, under tho reign of SjjuJtms
Mahmoud, modeled after that of-Saint
Cyr, in Franco. Now at least one
officer in a hundred can read and
write, but the rank and file are hntlu
densest ignorance, and absolutely do
not know their right hand from their
left. There is also a school of artillery,
and those schools have done much ‘Jo
raise the standard of the many.
In civil government the sultan A
chief, and his power is absolute until
his enemies want a change and he i:
induced to resign, or, in other words,
is put to death. Rut while he lives his
power >s limited only by the laws of
nature. Next to the sultan in national
importance is the grand vizier j after
him is the seraskir pacha, or minister
of war; then the minister of public
works; then the capitan pacha, or
minister of marine, and after him the
minister of justice.— Cor. New York
Herald.
Feeding Con ! to the Fire.
The throwing of fuel upon the tire
is generally considered as a means of
augmenting tho amount of heat pro
duced, and taken as a whole it does
have that effect. But for the main
tenance of a steady fire and an even
heat, only a small amount of fuel
should he thrown upon tho tire at a
time. The reason for this is, that coal
is dependent upon two constituents
for its heat giving properties. One of
these, the carbonaceous, remains in a
solid state, while tho other, the bitu
minous, is volatilized. As the latter
process must be accomplished before
the first will bo ready for burning, the
first effect of throwing fuel upon the
fire is that of cooling. Not only must
the solid coal be raised to the furnace
temperature, but the volatilization
must bo carried on. Hero the same
laws come into play as in the evapora
tion of water.
The evaporation and tho volatili
zation require more heat than that ac
counted for in tho elevation of tem
perature, and which is therefore ren
dered latent. Henco unless care is
taken to burn these gases as they are
given otF, it would be better that they
did not exist. For will be readily
understood that if tho fire, which is
due to the combustion of solid carbons,
did not have to heat these gases, it
would give out just that same amount
of heat, that would be available for
steam making. It is due to this fact
that coke has been accredited with
greater heating properties than bitu
n./TOUSboal, simply because the gases hi
the coal have been distilled and u •*.
li med. But when the furnaces s.ro
a designed that thwe gases tre.
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