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*PHE HfflßY. ; -.COB 1 r j KL I , VOL. XIV. pOM POWDER Absolutely Pure. This powder never varies. A marvel ol purity, strength and wholrsomencss. More economical than the ordinary kinds, and cannot tie sold in competition with the mul titude ot low test, short »eight alum or phosphate powders. Sold oftty In ips. Ruyal fi asi.mi IVwukb Co., Hie all street, New York. novlH-lv PROFESSIO A AL V. I RPS. jyn. I*. CAM I* HWLL, DENTIST, McDonough, Ga. Any one desiring work done can He ac commodated either by calling on me in per son or addressing me through the mails. Terms cash, unless special arrangements are otherwise made. Gko V. Bryan j W.T. Diokkn. BRYAN & IUCKUN, ATTORNEYS AT LAW, McDonough, Ga. Will practice in the counties composing ■he Flint Judicial Circuit, the Supreme Court of Georgia and the United States District Court. a P ra7 -Q j AS. 51. TIiRNRR, ATTORNEY AT LAW, McDonough, Ga. Will practice in the counties composing the Flint Circuit, the Supreme Court of Georgia, and the United States District court. marits-iy P .5. «»', UIA N, ATTORNEY AT LAW. McDoNOuon, Ga. Will practice in all the Courts of t.eorgia Special attention given to commercial and other collections. Will attend all the Courts at Hampton regularly. Office upstairs over Thk Weekly olliee. j F. XV AM., ATTORNEY AT LAW, McDonough, Ga. Will practice in the counties composing the Flint Judicial Circuit, and the Supreme and District Courts of Georgia. Prompt attention given to collections. octs-’79 yy A. BROWN, ’ ATTORNEY AT LAW, McDonough, Ga. Will practice ii#all the counties compos ing the Flint Circuit, the Supreme Court of Georgia and the United States District Court. janl-ly J| A. PHUPIjUS, ATTORNEY AT LAW, Hampton, Ga, Will practice in all the counties composing the Flint Judicial Circuit, the Supreme Court of Georgia and the District Court of the United States. Special and prompt atten tiongivento Collections, Oet 8, 1888 Jwo. D. Stewart. | It. T. Daniel. STEWART & DiTiSKI., ATTORNEYS AT LAW, Griffin, Ga. (|li. It. .1. AltAOl.lt, Hajuton. Ga. I hereby tender mv professional service to the people of Hampton and surrounding country. Will attend all cal’s night and day. LA n VA 111). I have opened a law office in Atlanta, but will continue my practice in Henry countv, attending all Courts regular'y, as heretofore. Correspondence solicited. Will be in Mc- Donough on all public days. Office—Room si(>, Gate City Bank Build ing, Alabama street, Atlanta, Ga. JOHN L TYE. January Ist, 1885. ALL Notes and accounts of 1). KNOTT & CO., must be settled now. Please call on me at ttc old stand and find out your in chted ness. We need the money and know that you cannot censure us forgiving this, our last warning. SI. 0, LOWE, 'fax Notice —Second Round. Hampton, Monday Oct. 528 Sixth, Tuesday “ :>!) Stockliridge, Wednesday “ 30 SiTake Rag. Thursday “ 31 Brushy Knobb, Friday Nov. 1 Loves’. Saturday “ 9. Tussahaw, Monday •* 4 McDonough. Tuesday “ 5 McMullen’s, Wednesday •* <> Berslieba, Thursday “ 7 Sandy Ridge, Friday •• 8 Locust Grove, Saturday “ 9 Lowes’, Monday “ 11 SOLOMON KING, T. C. GKIFFIN FOUNMY AND Machine Works. \\Te announce to the Public that we are i V prepared to manufacture Engine Boil ers ; will take onh rs for all kind* of Boil ers. We are prepared to do all kinds of repairing on Engines, Boilers and Machin ery, generally. We keep in stock Brass fittings of all kind-: also Inspirators, In jectors, Safety Valves. Steam Guages, Pipe and Pipe Fittings and Iron and Brass Castings of every Description. OS HO UN A WALCOTT. A RAII.ROAD FIGHT; A - Sy Lake Sharp. Of course everybody knows that in>>\ aud then the giuat railroads fight Ja h othel The contest is generall krtown as “cuttlbw rates.” This story of a rail road struggle and how it ended, war told to me t>y a railroad man who knew what he was talking about, and as it inteiested me I thought perhaps i' might interest other folks. So hero it is: The two great railways interested were the A., B. it C. line and ih« X., Y. & Z .roud, both, as everybody know s running pretty much all over the try, but with their main terminal pojjjP at Chicago and New York. Ore-day, witliout any warning, the X., Y. nPifc.! railway be, an to cut rates on freight betweou Chicago at d New Y'ork. The A., B. & C. liue is n very conservative road, and never likes to enter into a fight unless it is r reed into it. and so fo(t ten daks the president of fiat road did nothing. But during tluu'i:tne there came into him reports from his agents at Chicago and in the west generally, which showed thar the A., B. A: C. was really doing no business, except run ning passenger trains. As it. had not nfet the cut the freight was going over the X,Y. & Z. road. The president }iad to do something. Accordingly ten days after the X , Y. & Z. railroad bad made its cut, the A., B. & C. road cut down to the same price on through freight as the X., Y. & Z. railway. Next day the X , Y. & Z. came down a point further, and so the president of the A., B. A C. road saw that he was in for a fight. He called his lieuten ants together and placed the case be fore them. He didn’t want to fight, he said, but it was either fight or lose all the business. The advice of his lieu tenants was to fight to the hi ter end. The president said that the road had now a surplus of $1,800,000. That sur plus had been put away the year be fore after paying the usual dividend. As business had been going, a like sur plus would be put away this year un less the fight was too protracted, and so the road had practically about $3,- 000,000 in cash to lose in a railway fight before its dividends were touched. It was agreed to go ahead and blow in the $3,000,000. The president then had a long consultation with the traffic manager, and he fouud out exactly what it cost to move a ton of freight from Chicago to the sea. The next cut that the A„ B. & C. made paralyzed the X., Y. & Z road. They cut down quite a distance under the actual cost of carrying a ton of freight from Chi cago to New Y'ork. Then he sent or der No. Ito Ins men in Chicago. Or der No. 1 was, “No freight is to be taken by the A., B. & C. road except by the chief of the department.” Or der No. 2 was to the beads of the de partments, aud it said substantially this: “You are given a vacation until fur ther orders. Keep within telegraphic communication of your olliee.” One smart head of a department in Chicago wrote to the eastern office and said: “Do you people understand what v u are doing? Orders Nos. 1 and 2 < oii* flict with each other. Y'ou say in No. 1 that no freight is to be received ex cept by me, and in No, 2 you give me a vacatiou. What’s the matter with you?” The answer to this note was suave »nd mild as milk. It said : Dear Sir: —The chances are that we do not know how to run the A., 15. & C. iailroal, and doubtless the time will come when the stockholder will appreciate that and call you to attend to the management. But meanwhile, a vacation will do you good. Take your fishing rod or gun, or paper-bound novel anil a hammock, but he where we can call on you when you are want ed. Thanking you for your advice re lative to orders Nos. 1 and 2, We remain. Yours truly, J. I’. Eukioiitcak, Traffic manager. The young man took Ins vacation without any further protest. When people came to send freight by the A., 15. &0. road they were met by the unfortunate, dilemma that no body could lake ireight except the head of the department, and the head of the department was »wav and it wasn’t known postively when he would return. Business men said this was a nice state of things and’that they would take their freight over to the X., Y. A Z. road. The clerks in the A , 15. A C. offices were very polite imk <1 ann very sorry indeed, but they didn’t know what to do under the circum stances, and so the freight went over to the other road. Meanwhile on the A., 15. & C. rail road there was a quiet time. Freight locomotives were sent to round houses and were thoroughly gone over and repaired and fixed in good shape for the time, when freight trains would be running again. Men were put on the roadbed and the track was made even more perfect than it had been before. There were general repairs all along the line. No communication had come to the piesident of the X., Ik & Z. road from the president of the rival line, lie had a bad quarter of an hour with his traffic manager. • tie f .uud that the road was simply blocked up with freight, and that on the freight they were taking they were not only uot making any profit- but were losing [on every ton that was carried from Chicago to the -eaport. while their great rival- were having a good time in irepaiiing the rolling stock, i Then a communication came from | the president of the X., Y. Cs Z road to the president oi' the A . B. A C. road. Uc asked if there rea sou that the fight should be continued longer. The jresiden: of the A., B A C. road blauoly replied that he hadn't McDonough, ga.. it tssu. begun it. This was the beginning of negotiations. The next day freight ' rates went up to their usual figure and the fight was ended. Not a dollar of |he $3,000;000 hud been touched. The railroad which did not begin the fight was in b< tter condition than ever for •asrying freight. The road that did begin it hail lost a'good deal of money, thrown itself all ont of gear, accumu lated freight that would take some weal’s to get jhibped io where it was intended, audaif all iu all, if anybo v regretted the fight, it was not the. president of the A., B. & C. railroad. Tii-ihoi-iow Yon Die. •PKat, drink.merry 1” “Van fffiy of \anhies, awiall is vanity!” Tne pastes irretrievable, ,and no one can doubt, that the_ immediate or re mote future is hWßbruno to ' exequtu up ii every pne 5r ns the edghtfin doom of all the sickness,- disappointment, persecution even, encroach tnoio and wore ~-s the nays g 6 by upon the always limited hours of enjoyment, unrill, from natural causes alone, the zest of the healthful and un reflecting youth is gradually displaced by the growing distaste f-r the unsat isfying iruits and pursuits of the a\or ago lite. The taste of ashes is already in the mouth. Yet there have been, and perhaps still are, many profession al moralists (by a blasphemous mis nomer commonly styles divines) who seem to feel it their special mission, like the locusts sent upon Egypt, to swarm over the laud devouring every gieen thing—whoso morbid enuncia tions arc calculated to dry up the foun tains of innocent pleasure, aud to keep the soul in a fever of pertuubation and apprehension until the once blooming gardens of the soul are left parched and barren like oriental lands swept by the burning Sirocco. What wonder then, to escape the contemplation of the fearful prospect thus presented, man everywhere turns to the transient delights and illusive joys ol the presents as the only refuge? The pulpit thunders “Thou art dust! an atom, and thy name is transition !” And nature confirms it. What shall I he do ? As the ship goes down will he not burst into the spirit room and drink oblivion ? Thus in all ages and all climes he has sought for Mandragora, Poppy, Hasheesh —something, anything to yield 'orgetfuliness of inevitable fate and produce a present evanescent bliss. St Was » IMot. A stranger entered a well-known saloon on Woodward avenue the other day, and after imbibing a weak drink he said to the proprietor : “i wffut to wait here a few minutes | for a man who borrowed some mo cy i of me.” He was motioned to a chair, and j when an hour had passed away he was iasked : “Are you a stranger in the city?” “Y'es, sir.” “Did you lend money to a stranger to vou ?” “1 did.” “How much?” “Forty dollart.” “Humph ! Undei what circum stances ?” “.Said he hail a freight bill to t ay and couldn’t get into the bank - He gave me this check for S2OO to hold as security. Said he’d meet me here at II o’clock.” “My filend, you have been bam boozled.” “No 1” “Y'es, you have. That is the old freight bill dodge. That check is worthless, and you’ll never see the man again.” “But I can’t believe that. lit: looked honest and talked straight.” “So they all do. Sorry for you, but you must read the papers.” “Say ! I don’t pretend to be awfully smart, but I’ll bet that chap was hon est.” “Y'ou will. What’ll you bet ?” “Even twenty. 1 do honestly believe he will come here by 11 o’clock and pay the money.” Ihe bet was taken, the money put up, arid the greenhorn sat down to wait. At live minutes of 11 a man came iu, handed, him 810, expressed his thanks, and took the check and placed it in his wallet. “1 told you he was honest,” said the greenhorn as he reached for the stakes. They were handed over, but half an hour later, after much serious thought, the bartender suddenly slapped his leg aud exclaimed: “I see throagh it now 1 They c ere pals, ot course !” Cork-screws have sunk more people than cork-jackets will ever save. IS© lia# Ciplaliicd. “M y wife, Mr. Perkins,” said the hnsband across the aisle of the street car. “Ah! Glad to see you. Mrs. Win ters. YVhv, how you have changed in two w«>eks.” “Changed? No one else has spoken of it,” she blankly replied. “Why, when I saw you with your husband at the thearer two weeks ago to-i.ight’you seemed to be a girl of about 18.” “At the theater! Y'ou—vou— yu !” Her husband had been winking and winking, but near sighted Mr. Perkins had seen nothing. The wife settled; back, figured it out that she was home | alone with the toothache that night,' and the fiozeu stare she turned on her husband as they got off, covered the platform with a glare of ice. Bhe has] ask for explanation* ere this. I AII XV FOTYONf ■ YI*\AT. % MuithAliAllaß Vmmu- I»ii«- i ii" ('ofton siiJi! W|r Ji- OUt I.?•*».’ If ||ML «jjjPPljjv Cn Vi&t-aTON, S. i. PSpt-cianj^■ v»s comes from burg, one of the best cotW.i«jti ving counties of this stfte. of a new sutton plant, vvhicln ifjj it if as dubne). will make a wouduiwjj Jovofetfioti Dn the agricultural and eet'fuji oil inten t* of the nation. T, Ferguson, mt -J-.peri enced cotton pi. niter, clwhps to, lave a cotton plant which will prodm ( noth ing but cotton seed without tie lint. His statement is briefly follows: lie claims that there is-’u rtjl.it! and female cotton plant—die niaV beiuu .designated, he thinks by the r« cal 1 s The seeds are vari colored, Hu shad 's being generally blue, green anfl white, ami of-couiSOa cwmol be disrwdy spo wffled- Given |uUjact, Fwto m com menecd, syrne to ,/*!.. u' ike ulfttßprtn 1 vffiii the Sf I ''jpftract od from them planted mV lift patch separately . When the crap ms ready for picking, the male plants p .-re again selected and the product!th'* <if seeds planted separately again. Tjrs process of selecting the male plants was kept until at last the lint refusud to germi nate aud nothing is left lit the bolls save a largo amount ol The amoaut of seed contained (n the boll is more than equal to tho|. weight of the lint and seed found in the average sized boll of cotton. Fori ik on claim that ho can produce four lull tired bush els of seed to the acre by th|> new dis covery, where only thirty-five bushel* are now gathered with the l lint. He has been very careful in producing the results given above —to obhterate all vestige of lint from aboil ofc|tton —aud has succeeded iu a most jemarkable manner. Other experiences planters have been shown Ferguson’s* new dis chvery and are much struck With it. An expert, who was shown the plant and bolls, said the boll Ins dm appear ance, both on the exterior rad the in terior, of a regular boll of cotton after the lint lias been picked out. The seed are a little larger than- the com mon seed and are perfectly, froe from any semblance of lint. Thb bolls are filled with these seed, which are as numerous as okra seed in a pod of okra. The revolution that will he ef footed bv this new cotton plant, if it can be cultivated successfully, will be beyond calculation. If Ferguson's cal culations are correct, the cotton oil bus iness will he entirely revolutionized. The planters who now rains cotton are fortunate if they can make 200 pounds of lint cotton to the acre. Counting the virtue of cotton seed at SSO an acre I F considered a big return planters iu this state. Ferguson claims that his new cotton seed plant wiU yield at least 880 an acre. This amount he says will hdfebtainod from 400 bushels of cotton seed at twenty cents per bushel, that being the present price paid for the raw seed. The state agricultural bureau will investigate the matter. AS an, a meant of l*rcy. No, we will not go squirrel hunting this year. We have been reflecting on the matter and have concluded that the destruction of happy, innocent lives should not be regarded as sport. The little hearts that beat beneath the velvet coats of the gay and frisky denizens of the forest are just as sus ceptible to joy and pain and terror as those that throb within our own breasts. Tney arc all God's creatures, and have a right to life, liberty and pursuit of happiness. llow few of us think of the tens of thousands of animals that must die daily that man may live. Man, ilie arch devourer, the murder ous and remorseless tyrant. “ The whole earth labors and is in violence because of his cruelties ami from the amphitheater of sentient na ture there sounds in fancy’s ear the bleat of one wide and universal suffer ing—a dreadful homage to the power of nature’s constituted L>rd” Man is pre eminent among the fiercest ani malsofprey. Not content with satis fying his luxurious appetite, this most ferocious, ingenuous and implacable of the carnivora, who revels hi flesh and blood with gluttonless glee, also makes a sport of the destruction of life. When he wants a day off—a day of pleasure and rec esti«n—he goes forth to the woods, and, with the fierceness of the hyena, watches for his prey. The savage beasts of the jungle on ly destroy liie when hunger or fear drives them to it, hut man, the image of his maker, kills for -port —for the mere gratification it affords him to take life. If animals have souls, as many good and wise men believe, what must the departed spirits of the slaughtered hosts think oi the proud princes of creation who stalk rampant amid the blood -md groans and agony of their fellow creatures. A good deed is never lost: he who sows courtesy reaps friendship ami ho who plants kindness gathers love. Not Tor tJie Oil) Han. “Any arsenic ?” softly asked the lit tle woman as the druggist came forward with his usual retail smile. “Ye-’m.” ‘•l’d like to have a quarter’s worth, please.” “Yes’m. How are you going to ad minister it ?” “Why—why, on cheese or bread, L suppose. Isn’t that the general way?” “.Some give it in c iffee.” “Why, rats don’t drink coffee, do they ?” “Oh ! it’s for rats, eh ? Then cheese is the propel thing. ’ ’ IIK YV.VS A URC.tT NAN. A man riding along a road carae up on an old fellow who. loud in voice and violent in action, w.i endeavoring to start a balky team. Tho horseback traveler, amused at tho old fellow’s productive resources of strong adjec tives, stopped, threw one leg over the horn of his saddle, and without saving anything sat watching the peiformation. The covered wagon to which the team was attached was the “mover's” typi cal vehicle, with two chairs tied behind. A woman, three children, a mule colt and a dog belonged to the outfit. “If l just had enough money to take us fifty miles' I’d cut your infernal throats !” the old fellow shouted as he leaned for a moment’s rest on a piece of rail with which he had been belabor ing the horses. ' “You can pull out of here easy enough, you infernal scoun drels. Why, n jack rabbit and a sick cat hitched up together could pull out of here.”, ••Anderson," said the woman “why don't v !>« bold some fodder bt’ftfiv them •?” “Gontound it, didn’t you seo mo do that just awhile ago ?" “Well why don’t you tick a pin in their flanks ?” “Haven’t you got any sense at all? Didn’t vou see me stick ’em wit a darn in’ needle jest now ? You better go off somewhere an’uni with the suck lit* ’ calves.” “Thar's otic thing 1 know you ain’t tried.” “What’s that?” “Twisting’ their under jaws.” “I’ll twist your under jaws if you don’t hush.” The old fellow, turning about, ad dressed the man on horseback. “How long have you been watching me ?” 1m Risked. “Dou’r know exactly.” & “Putty good while ?” “Y'es.” “Servin’ your second term, ain’t you ?” “Second term at what ?” “Bein’ Governor of this State.” *'l’tu not the Governor.” “No. Wall you must bo' Secretary of State.” “I’m not however.” “But you must be a great man of some sort?” “No; I’m simply a country mer chant.” “It’s mighty strange then. “How strange ? 1 don't in the least understand you. Why do you take me to be a great man ?” “Because a fellow what can set an’ watch a balked team and not offer any suggestions must he great—in fact you are the first man of that sort I ever did see. You deserve greatness, anyhow. I’ll tell yon chut and f letl it my duty to do somethin' for you. I’ve got a fine rifle and a good dog, aud they are yourii if you’ll take them.” “No, I thank you.” “Here’s a $o bill, all the money I’ve got, but you may have it.” “I won’t take, it.” “Weil I leel like givin’ you some thin'. Say, you wouldn’t mind mo namin’ a Hoy after you, would you ?” ■‘No.” “All right, what's your name?” “Worthington P. Billingsham.” “Good enough. Becky!” he called. “Y'es.” a woman answered.” “Where’s the baby ?” “In the wagon asleep.” “Wall, wake him up an’ name him after this man. Good-day, if you are gone, mister. Don’t care if you don’t held no office, you are the greatest man I ever saw.” From I'l'cmiiiit, >i- liruska. 1 had scrofula until it made my life a burden, 1 was inexpressably misera ble, sick, weak, sleepless, and unhappy; desiring that the short time which seemed to have been allotted to me on this earth would hasten to an end. I tried doctor’s treatment and medicine, and travel, hut none of these did any good, for the scrofula gradually grew worse. One physurau, who 1 traveled far to see, and to whom I paid $l5O, gave up the case as hopeless af ter three weeks of treatment, and other as prominent physicians tried hard to cure it, but were equally as unsuc cessful. I ’hen gave up all other med icines, and took only Swift's Specific (S. S. S.) Four bottles of that medi cine cured me, and for the past four ■ years f have had as excellent health and cm as free from disease us any body living. Words are inadequate to express toy gratitude and favorable opinion of Swift’s Specific (S. S. S.)” The above is an extract from a letter wiitteu under date ef July 18, 1880, by Mr. F. Z. Nelson, a prominent and wealthy citizen of Fremont, Nebras ka. BK!\ ERUPTION CUR*I>. One of my customers, a highly res ! peeled and influential citizen, but who ji3 now absent fiom the city, has used j Swift’* Specific, with excellent result, i He says it cured him of a skin eruption ! that he had been tormented with for ! thirty years, and l ad resisted the cura tive qualities of manv otln-r medicines. Robert Glegg, Druggist, Falls city, Neb. Treatise on Blood and Skin Diseases mailed free. Swift Specifiic Co., Atlanta, Ga. It W«iw 4* I-'uiiure. A young and well-dressed man made his exit from a Michagan avenue saloon in such a singular fashion the other day that a pedestrian halted to inquire: ••What are you trying te do ?” Something that no one will ever Ire able to successful!' accomplish, 1 fear 1 tried to get out on the toe of the bar keeper’s boot without lettttig the out side public into the secret, but you caught on at a glance. Metmton* Who "Inji'il Tonttli looker. Year ago Senators Jones, Vest, Stow art and Cnnmrou wore playing a game of poker one evening, and al though the stake* were not high, the company was good and it ran until long after midnight. A few days afterward Vest remarked to Jones; “1 say, Jones, wasn’t that a nice game tho other evening? Everything went along so well and no one at the game had to watch tho other three. I like ft gentleman's game like that, where you don’t, have to cut the cards for a square deal. Jones, wl-o is an incorrigible wag, suddenly eonceivod the idea of having some fun with Vest, so he manufactur ed a story to Ta the occaaion. “I'm glad you think so,” he said, but Bill Stewart doesn’t have that idea of it.” , “What!" said Vest quite seriously, “do you mean to tell nm that Stewart ihih'L ' there was cheating in that game ?” “That’s the idea lie conveyed to Ins wife when ho reached home. She spoke to me about it dav before yoster day.” “I’m real sorry to hear that,” said Vest. -I feel hurt to hear ho felt that he hadn’t lost his money on the square thing.” “1 feel the same way,” replied Jones. “1 feel as if a thunder clap hud struck tne ” “Wlmt did he really say about it ask ed Vest. “Well, ho camo home about 3 o’clock an. 1 , his wife noticed that his beard was all covered with tobacco juice—a very unusual thing for him—and she took him to task for it. He said ho had bean >‘u a senatorial poker game. “ ‘Were there no enspidores in the room ?’ “ 'Yes, plenty of ’em.’ “ ‘Couldn’t you turn from the cards long enough to use them ?’ "‘No, my dear; notin such a game as that.’ ” A **l« Hi-Ulhli YFnr-Mhlp. I’he new British war-ship, Royal Sovereign, work upon which lias begun at Portsmouth dock yard, will, it is said, be tho largest war-ship the world. The v- s-1 ts to be completed for sea, with all guns and stores cn board, by 1898. The Royal Sover eign is one of the four armoured battle ships of 14,000 toiiH burden which are to he built under the special programme. She is to carry four 67-lon guns of thirteen and one half-inch caliber, ar ranged in two barbettes and supported by a powerful batiory of six inch and quick firing guns. The Royal Sovereign will be 380 feet in lengrTi, 7f> lent in beam, and twenty seven and one fiaif feet in draught, with a displacement of 14,150 tons. She will far exceed in weight any ship hitherto built for the British navy. At the waterline she will be protected by an armor belt eight and one-half feet broad, extendingovor two thirds of her length, and having a max imum thickness of eighteen inches. The armor on tho barbettes will he seven teen inches thick, while tho protection of tho guns and their crews in the aux iliary armament as well as the ammuni tion supply has been devised to meet the development in high explosives and quick-firing guns. Tho ship’s engines will have a maximum power of 13,000 horses under forced draught aud 9,000 under natuial draught. Tho speed with closed stokeholes is estimated at seventeen knots an hour; with open stokeholes at sixteen knots an hour; The coal supply of the Roy al Sovereign will be 900 tons, enabling her torcruiso 5,000 miles at the rate of ten knots an hour. ISiiiiit-l AVi-bsler’s Advice In His Nl-pllr w . Daniel Webster was an uncle by marrrmge to the late Albert Living ston Kelly, one of the first lawycn who practiced in Waldo county. The great statesman always took an inter est in his nephew and visited him when ho came to Maine. A correspondent oi the Bang r Historical Magazine says that a remark which Mr. Webster made on a visit m 1835, left an abiding interest in the rtlind of Mr. Kelly, and perhaps largely influenced him never to accept political office. One evening Mr. Webster said, “Albert, do you huv ■ any concern with politics?’’ ■ No,” he replied, 'iny time is wholly absorbed iu my professional practice and private business.” “1 am glad to hear you say that,” replied Mr. Web ster, “arid I advise you not to. If I were to live my life over again, I would have nothing to do with politics, for however successful you may be, you will encounter a fire in front from your palitical enemies, snd in the rear from your political friends.” This language was the more remarkable from the fact that Mr. Webster was then at the bight of his fame as an orator and states man. The worst feature about catarrh is its dangerous tendency to consumption. Hood'B Sarsaparilla cures catarrh by purifying the blood. <»!vr Him 4x1,111 The Indiana husband who walked away from borne twenty-six years ago aud returned the other day to see his wife re-married, and to raise a row' about it, should be given a lift out ol the country on the too of a boot. A wife may let her husband roam around for five or ten years without asking any questions, but if left much longer than that she has a legal right to look out for herself. THE MAI* KIHU OTTO. One of tho saddest spectacles wliick is possible to couceive is that presented by the prisoner of Furstenried, the mad King of Bavaria. Tall and almost as gigantic in stature as his brother, the Into King Ludwig, his appearance is sufficient to startle any one whQ sees him for the first time. 11 is hair is long and uukempt, and his bushy brown beard reaches down be low his waist. There is a kind of wierd wild look in his eyes, the gaze of which remains steadfastly fixed straight ahead into empty space. For hours he will stand, gesticulate wildly and talk to tho imaginary per sons created by his fantasy, and then again, for days together, he will remain in such a state of lothargy and lifeless ness that his physicians become afraid that ho will pass awsy without even their becoming aware of it. All day long, except when overcome by one of his hi weekly or tri-weekly flti of apathy, ho will puff away at cigarettes, of which he smokes almost 100 a day. His consumption of matches is still greater, for whenever he lights a fresh cigarette ho delights in bnrning op the entire box of lncifers, and in seeing the whole bundle blaze op at once. Tho apartments which he inhabits are all situated on the gronnd floor and arc magnificently lurnished, and the strictest orders prevail ta the effect that all doors should he loft wide open throughout tho day. If King Otto happens by any chance to coma across a closed door he immediately falls into a kind of epileptic and maniac fury, and seeks to dash it down with his still powerful fists. It is, moreover, im possible to indnee him to permit him self to ho bathed, and he displays an almost hydrophobic antipathy for water. 110 likewise absolutely refuses to enter any cariiago, and displays signs of terror whenever any efforts are made to indnee him to enter one for the purpose of taking a drive. It is impossible to predict bow much longer he may live. lie may drag on his prosont miserable existence for years ; while, on tho other hand, it is likely that tho failure of tho natural functions of the body may bring on a malady which will eauj him off in a few days. As his madness is of an al together incurable nature, his death can only bo regarded in the light of a hap py release. Hear NhoeriwK >■ <■*!*• I was once present at a great fair at the capital town. While at its height a hear was viewed on the neighboring hillside. I hurried np with my rifle and shot him from above betwson the shoulders, hut, instead of dropping, he rushed headlong into tho middle of the fair and squatted in a bush. The peo ple foolishly crowded round ami so pre vented my getting a shot. Presently he rushed forth, and, passing a giain dealer’s shop, he gavo tho owner a slap on tho face and passed on, but that slap took out a semicircle of his jaw with seven teeth attached. The man’s ner ves were so little affected that ho pros-, on ly hold np the pieco of jaw for our inspection when we visited him at the hospital, and he was at his work again in a fow days. Too hear was soon dispatched after he left the poor grain dealor. Though tho deadly wound 1 gave the bear fail ed to stop him. I was more fortunate with another bear which I got a shot at going at full gallop, and I rolled him over at one shot, so that ho nevor mov ed again. Tie was a big one, but doub led up just like a rabbit. Stalking bear* is just a trifle tame, as they are so easily approached and afford so largo a mark, but driving them is more exciting. T here is all the ex citement of noiso and numbers, and it is more difficult, of course, to hit them. In the Himalayas we had some wonder ful spots for bear driving. In one drive ten bears were secured. A quaint old plantar nsod to join ns in these battlos. Fie had a perfect ar mory of gans and rifles, bnt none of them modern or precise. Fl# used to take his blacksmith out With him, who would, or. the spot, adjust the bullets to the required gauge, and hammsr them homo when a tight fit! His many and erratic weapons caused us more anxiety than tho bears. Ho had a way as claiming as his trophies all that wwe shot. He could not tell, I suppose, what he had not hit 1 An Irish corporal, who now and then indulged in a noggin of right po teen, was thus accosted by his captain, whilst standing at ease : -Pat, what makes your nose so red ?” “Please yer honour,” said Pat, “I always blush when I spakes to an officer man. Just Hhat Ho Feared. A Cinciunati la ly who found herself forty-two calls behind hand, and being in despair of ever being able to pay them up, took laudauunrhnd died. We feared this sort of thing long ago. In this case she should have had her hus band die and invited all her creditors to the funeral. That would, according to etiquette, have squared all accounts. A wise colored man is quoted as say ing : “Pears to mo like dar was some kind of misdecomposition in all dis talk about babies cuttin’ de teef. Do way I look at it, it’s de teef cuttin’ de ba bies.” Xio Nmoklng Car Heeded. It was noticed by msny who jour neyed to Philadelphia to attend the late convention of tho United Society of Christian Endeavor that no smoking cars were called for on the longest trains. NO- 29.