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‘ Influence of the Moon.
Many farmers and horticulturists at
this season of the year observe the
changes of the moon in order to deter
mine the proper time, according to tra
dition, for the planting of various seeds.
A well gnown professor of natural
science was asked, by the genius who
prepares the attractive ‘‘Reporter’s
Nosegay'' in the Philadelphia Record, if
this view of the m on’s influence was
not a supersution. **Until right recent,
ly it was 80 regarded by scientific men,’’
was the answer, ‘‘particularly the ver)
ancient and almost universal notion
tl;at the moon's changes are coincident
with sudden weather disturbances, thie
sprouting of vegetation and even the
lapses of lunacy. Now, however, men
of science treat such traditions with
more respect. A few weeks ago M,
Frye, a learned French engineer, de
clared, after a long seiries of scicntific
. bservations, ‘that the incundescent and
flaid matter under the earth’s crust is
+ and to act in concert with the aiy and
the sea at the full of the moon.” I
this be true, other influences may be
properly inferred”
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The Suicide of an Inebriate Duck.
From the Maysv:lle Democrar.
A fifth precinct lady, one who lived in
the immediate vicinity of the brewery,
owned a dack, the pride of the neigh
borhood. By nature the bird vas a
handsome, well-built creature, and had
a life of promise before her. Bat she
became acquainted wi‘h the boulevards
leading to and from the brewery, aud
one day found her way to the stand
where the empty beer kegs are kept.
She got a taste of the beverage. As
time passed the habit grew on ber. As
in the case of men, no one thought of
giving her something to eat, but any
body would give her a drink of beer.
She soon lost her good looks and reputa
tion, and used to stagger about the
place an object of derision to the verv
persons who had contributed to her
downfall.
Everyone knows that Ninth street
crosses the railroad track on A street,
At I.3oo'clok the other afternoon a
heavy freight train passed over the
t-ack. This duck with the love for bee.
appeared to be perfectly sober, but prob
ably she was in a highly nervous condi
tion. At all events, she was seen to
walk directly on the track in front of
the train, and she was instantly killed.
The neighbors are filled with awe, and
declare that she comaicted suicide as a
consequence of strong drink.
THE INSOMNIA RECORD.
An Indians Farmer Sets the Mark High
and Puzzles the Physicians.
Since the case of George Woodruff,
the Ross7ille (Ind.) farmer, bas been
made public through newspaver ac
counts of his strange affliction numer
ous inquires are being received from
medical men in all parts of the country.
Mr. Woodruff is a substantial farmer,
well known in his and adjoining coun
ties.
Some two months ago upon reriring
as usual atnight he found himself un
able to sleep. Woo it as he would, sleep
would not eoma. [he n:xt night he
was also unable to sleep, but felt no
worse for his wakefulness. For two
months he has gone with less than an
hour’s sleep. On the third night a phy
gician was called, Lut even under the
infinance of opiates Woodruff refused to
close his eyes. The only thing which
conquered his ailment was a quart of
whisky, taken in rapid doses, and that
only produced a half hour’s sleep. Then
his attending physician gave up the job,
confessing his inability to fathom the
mysterious ailment. He had heard of
people sleeping indefinitely, but here
was a case of a man who coulan’t sleep
at all, and who was apparen.ly none the
worse off bacause of it., Several other
medical men took a haund at Woodruff,
but each was in turn baffled.
Woodruff complains only of a slight
distress in his stomach, but his appetite
is ummpaired, and he attends to his
duties as he did previ»us to breaking the
record as a man who defied ordinary
rules of nature and to whom it was ali
the same whether it was night or day.
About three years ago he bad a similar
attack, but it lasted only a week.
Reports of his strange disease became
current several days ago, but they were
discredited. To satisfy all doubters,
Woodruff has made a statement of the
truth of the reports. His physician and
family declare that he has slept less
than an hour in two months, and that
all bis facuities are unimpaired. His
physician will make extensive' com
ments on the case for several medical
journals.—St. Louis Republic.
GEN. EARLY'S ROMANCE.
The Interesting ‘Reasons Why He Never
Married.
Early never married. A pretty ro
mance is told about him by the Balti
more American. When he was a young
lieutenant in 1837 he appeared at the
‘Greenbriar, White Sulphur S_riogs, In
brilliant uniform and riding a splendid
b'ack stallion. One day, shortly after
he had gone out for a ride, a beautiful
young ‘lady from Pailadelphia, a de
butante spending her first season at the
“White.”* drove off in her carriage. She
had never met the young lieutenant.
Near the spring is a small creek,
usaally only a few feet deep, but on that
afternoon it was a swollen stream of
mad. muddy waters, sent down from the
mountain side after along rain of the
day befoce, Towa ds the s'ream the
carriage rolled, and just before reaching
it, passed the lieatenant. At the banks ,
of the creek the driver paused a second, |
and hen, thinking that he could make
it, urged his horses in. Before the team
had reached the middle of the stream,
however, they were washed off their
feet and a floating carviage,went jwildly
alonz with the mad waves, Early was
near enouzh to the stream to see the
driver's mistake, and realizing the lady’s
danger, buried his rowels in his horse’s
side and dashed into the water.
The carriage was tossing and rolling
upon the waves and the lady was scream
ing. The situation was desperate and
Euwly, realizing it bent his energies to
save her. The young soldier reached
the carriage just as it toppled over. The
water rolled over the beautiful girl and
Early thought she was lost, but a second
\later she came up almost beside Lim.
'Reaching down he caught her by the
iskirt. and half a minute later was hold
ing her motionless body in his arms.
‘Then, guiding his horse as best he could,
the lieutenant made for the shore. Once
on diy land, he gave his stallion the
gpurs, and in a few minuates galloped up
to the hotel with the almost lifeless
body of the belle in his arms. |
‘ She was carried to her friends, and
‘then the story of her rescue, was learn
‘ed, The lieutenant was the hero of the
hour, and that evening monvpolized the
Quaker belle’s dancing list.
From that evening until the close of
he season he was her almost constant
companion. She received his attentions
with apparent delight, and, when the
cool, frosty air warned the visitors of
approaching winter they went away
promising to meet each other there the
next summer. The lady went back to
her home, Ler heart full of the conquest
she had made, while Early reported to
his troop for duty. At Fort Monroe he
remained until the Fiorida war, when he
went 1o the Everglades. There he dis
tinguished himself, and, as fortune
smiled upon him, his love for the gi.l
far away 10 her northern home increas
ed. For her he was full of hope and
ambition.
Bat buth were doomed to an early and
sad disappointment.
With the approach of spring Lieuten
ant Early’s thoughts began to dwell up
on the pleasant meeting so near at hand.
Early in the spring he applied for a
leave of absence, and it came, but the
same mail brought him a paper. The
handwriting upon the wrapper was fa
miliar to him, and as he tore it away a
heavy black mark upon the paper caught
his eye. Glancing at it, he read the
piece which it marked. That piece told
him of the marriage of the lady he loved
so well, and as he read ilt he realized for
the first time that she had been toying
with his heart. After reading it he cut
the piece from the paper, placea itin a
book and kep* it.
This is why, it is said, Jubal Early
never married.
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Atkinson’s Platform. |
General Evans at Griffin. |
1. That Evans was useless for any
thing.
2. That no one but Atkinson was fit
for anything.
William With a Rig T.
From the Talbotton New Era.
It is respecifully sugcested that the
C weta candidyte write his name ‘‘Hon.
Willlam Y. Atkllnson.”
Dr. Price’s Cream Baking Powder
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L Cleanliness In Oue Home.
Alexander Selkirk resides in Detroit,
and, strange to say, his wife's maiden
aame is Robinson. She is, take her a’
in a’', the very pink o’ perfection, When
he comes hame at e’en, he 1s obligated
to take off his boots in the passage. She
hands him his slippers. When he pats
them on, he jnmps frae ae mat to an
ither till he reaches his chair. Whon
he sits doon to supper, she ties a bib
round his neck and twa or three nap
kins on hjs knees. 1f a morsel o’ beef
or bread should happen to fa' on the
floor, she directs his attention to it and
informs him that a guilty conscience
needs nae accuser. Her stove shines as
bright as her coal black eye, and her
tinware sparkles on the wall like dia
monds in the darkness,
When he is sitting on a chair, she
will not permt his back to touch the
back ot it. He sits bolt upright, Ina
private conversation he said: **Sir, my
wife bangs a’; she is the trigest wife ]
ever saw. ‘ln her pernickety ways |}
sometimes think that she is just rath v
to the rather, Yet wi’ a’ her faulis
I wad be as mad as a March hare ii
onybody was ignorant enough to apply
to her the auld saying that a’ cleun
glove sometimes covers a dirty hand.”
—Detroit News-Tribune. -
Measuring Hardness. i
For determining the hardness or fria
bility of certain snbstances M. Rosiwal
has described to the Vienna academy a
new method devised by him which is
characterized by entire simplicity. The
measurements consist in comparing the
losses of weight sustained by the bodies
under investigation by scratching them
with a given weight of polishing ma
terial mounted on a metallic or glass
base until the substance loses its efii
ciency, the polishing appliances com
prising dolomitic sand, emery and pure
corundum. The diamond is assigned
its place in the scale of hardness by
comparing its effectiveness as a polish
ing agent with that of corundum, prov
ing 140 times as hard as the latter, and
to these eucceed topaz, 194; quartz, 175:
adularia, 59.2; apatite, 8.0; flourspar,
6.4; calcite, 5.6; rock salt, 2.0, and
talc, o.o4.—New York Sun.
That Boy Again,
“It makes me tired,’’ said Mr, Figg.
"“to see the style the Henderbys put on
when every one knows that they are as
poor as—as poor as’’——
““Plaster,”’ interrupted Tommy.
““Yes, as poor as plaster, poor as
plaster —porous plaster. If you don’t
send that impudent kid to bed in five
minutes, I’'ll lick him till he can’t see.”’
Then Mr. Figg put his hat on well
down over his eyes, and not heeding his
wife’s advice to wear his overshoes wen!
down town.—lndianapolis Journal.
Forced to Confess.
A curious point in Swedish criminal
law is that confession is necessary be
fore a capital sentence can be carried
out. If, however, the culprit persists
in protesting his innocence in the face
of overpowering evidence, the prison
discipline is made extremely strict and
severe until the desired confession is ob
tained.—Popular Magazine.
Aluminium Instruments.
A physician who got rid of some of
inis steel instruments and bought others
made of aluminium says that he is sor
ry that he changed. The aluminium
probes, sounds, tongue depressers and
that sort of thing do not oxidize, to be
sure, but he finds that they are deficient
in elasticity and stay bent after pres
sure. He declares, moreover, that he
likes to feel as if he had a hold on some
thing when he uses an instrument, and
aluminium is so light that it makes
hiwn teel as if he could put no trust in
it.—Exchange.
Guyton, Ga., Feb. 23; 1881.
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tended to. Ui ars tor sale.
The Dawson
Racket Store.
We have the pleasure to announce to
the people *hat we have found head
guarters to buy our goods in New York
‘City for the jcash cheaper than Manu
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won’t do in these times,whe: | 'he wealthy
cannot afford to was.e their money and
the poor require double duty of every
dollar and every peony. We have goods
coming every few days. We will give a
few prices: window shades 25 cents and
up; handkerchiefs 3 cents and up; 25 en
velopes 5 cents; note paper 5 cents per
quire; legal cap 10 cents; buggy whips 8
cents and up; 1 doz. bone collar buttons
5 cents; hosiery 5 cents per pair and up;
rice buttons 3 cents per gross; matting
15 cents per yard; floor oil cloth 25 cents
per yard; table oil cloth 20 cents per
yard; a pnice line sweet soap 2 cents per
cake and up; ribbon 4 cents per yard and
up; linen torchon 2 cents per yard and
up; 600 matches for 5 cents; lamp chim
neys 5 cents each; needles 1 cent per pa
per. Tinware and everything else in
proportion.
| H. A. PICKARD, Manager.
l For Spot Cash I will sell:
20 Ibs Granulated Sugar f-r.... 51.00
30 " Dest Renf0r........... .00
0" Cood Vi0urt0r......i.. 1.080
3 “ Good Tobacco f0r...... 1.00
40 ‘¢ Bteel Nails f0r......... 1.00
80 ¢ Wire Nails f0r......... 1.00
Bring sacks for sugar and rice.
Stoves, Furniture and other Goods
at reduced prices. :
1 pay no house rent, no clerk hire, no
housekeeping expenses, buv no wood,
keep no servant, and thus save about
$1,500 per annum. This amount I will
divide among my customers in propor
tion to thre amount they buy. I give good
goods, honest weight and measure. I
invite all to examine andreweigh my
goods, and if not found as represented I
will return the money and make them a
present of the goods.
J. A. FULTON.
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The Progressive
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Life Insurance,jand issues certificates
rpayable in ten years. or previous in case
of death.
At $3.66 per jmonth for each $l,OOO, if
B. &. L. Associationsjdouble their money
in seven years, why can’t the Guild—
‘A Band of Select Risks’’—do the same
in ten years, and have sufficient margin
to pay death losses? Ask
J. W. F. LowßEy,
E. L. RAINEY,
R. F. SIMMONS,
C. M. BETHUNE,
Dawson, Ga.
Or address,
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Talbotton, Ga.
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Schedule in Effect Feb, 25, 1894.
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Lv Fort Gaines.. .. .[*¥o:2oa m
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Ar C01umbia.......| 7T:lspm
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Ar Atlanta, . ...... .1 8:05pm'11:20a m
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Ar Cuthbert.......| 355 pm| 3:23 am
Ar Fort Gaines,. .. .[(*3:4op m
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Ar 0zark..........| 950 pm
Ar Tr0y...........| 8:10pm
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