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About The Dawson journal. (Dawson, Ga.) 1878-18?? | View Entire Issue (Sept. 19, 1878)
pason ojaleekln journal PUBLISHED EVERY THURSDAY. fU /j.llS— Strictly in advance. Three months * 75 Six months 1 -5 One year 4 00 hh erliSCi’S :—The money for ad xertisin* considered flue after first iuser tl°t'iv< i rHse:nent9 inserted at interrals to bi I ”. red as new each insertion, in additional charge of 10 per cent will / a,, on Advertisements ordered to be in sorted oil a particular page. Advertisements under the head of “Spe „• 1 Notices" will be inserted for 15 cents CU r !ine tor the first insertion, and 10 cents ner line'for each subsequent insertion. * Advertisements in the “I.ocal Column,” willoo inserted at 25 cents per line for the first, and 20cent- per line for each subse nuent insertion. - All communications or letters on business intended for this office should be addressed “ThkDawson Journal ” LEGAL advertising rates. Sheriff*!**. nP '' ~,vv 1 - 4 Mjrtsrige sales, ner levy 8 01 Tu siles. per lev- 4 0< Citations for Letter* of dn inistr-tion 4Oi Anniica'ion for Loiters of -n-rdis shin ■ S' l ' Application for Di=m'-ion from ministration '0 t'< policin') tor D ; smission. Lorn Gnsrdianshin 5 On Application for leave • al' Land— ,ne q |5, each addition -' rqinre 4 on Annlicition for Homestead SOD S'otie"'o debtors and ereei'ors ... son (.and sales, per q 'ST ('nob) 4 111 ■•lie of Perishable pro .er'v. per sq 8 00 Rstrav Notiees, ixti and its Bni Notice to perfect service. . . •< 00 Rule Nisi, ne' square.... 4 00 ,„|ps to establish lost papers per sq 400 Hales compelling titles, per square.. 400 Stiles in perfeet, service in Divorce p-iapc, ....... .... .... .... 10 00 The shove are the minimum rat.et pflegal advertising now charged bv the Ptess of Georgia, and which we shall strictlr adhere to in the future. Wo berehv eivp final no. lice 'hat no advertisement of this class wil He published in the Journal without the fee is paid in ndance, onlv in eases where we Ha v speelal arrangements to the eontrarv J. 11. GUKRIIY, JAS. O PAUKB. GUERRY & PARKS, attorneys and Colwelors at Law, DAWSON, - GEORGIA. :o: {PRACTICE in the Kite awl Federal Courts. Collections marie a 'pcciaity.— Promptness and dispatch pnarantied ami insured. Nov 111 H. F. SIMMT’HS, Jltl'y al tail & heal hptate Ig't, Dawson, Terrell County, Ga OPE IAL a tention eiwn to collections. Real Estate. On* 18, if ~T. 11. PTCKFITT, i\lfy a C unselor a( Law, OFF I ’R with CWllpary in Court Flou.° \M triin'B4 pn * tc his care will , receive promo' and efficient attention. JaH> ■J. .T BECK, Attorney at Law, Morgan, f’oiinly, Gil. Will practice in the \lbay Circui’ai ri elpe where in the State, by Contract. Prompt Ht* tention "iven to all business entrusted to hb care. Collection!" a specialty. Will also if* v°stigateff f !es and bO v or sell real Estate i alhar.n, B iker aud 2?arly Counties, march 21—tf L. G CARTLf DGE, Attorney at Law ORG\Y, - - GEORGIA \\ T ILL cive close attention to all tins' * ’ ness entrusted to his care in Alham Circuit. 4-Iv J,. C- HOYLi Attorney at Haw- Riiwion, Georgia. J- T . JANES. C. A. MCDONALD Janes & McDonald, Attorneys at JLaw, DAir soy, - GEOIiQIA. Office at the Ct urt House. 'fan.? Ol lt CAT t LOUIJE for 1878. ol lOOpigig, printed on tinted papet, containing Two Colored IM;ilcknd illustrated with a g'eat nu'ti oer o: eng;r)vir.g,a, giving prices, description and cultivation of plan'P, flower and vegeta ble se tD, bulb*, trees, shrubs, etc, will be tuai.ed for 10 cents, which we will deduct front fir S [ order. Mailed free to our regular customers. Dealer* price list free. Address M.ANZ & XEONKK, onisvi le, Kv. All nervous, exhausting, and painful dis eases speedily yield 'o the curative influences of tiie Pulvermacher's Electric Belts and "tnds. They are safe, simple, and effective ®nd can he esailv applied hv thG paiieDt unselt. Bonk, with lull particulars, mailed tee. A 1 ’-as* Pulvermaeher Galvanic Cos., binciuuati, Ohio. \\ A VS'EU-To make a permanent ' e gigement with a clergvman having t"ire, or a Bible Reader, to introduce in 1 'rivll Oouriiv, The C lah.ated N"<* Oen , uni l Edition of the Holy Bible. For option, notice editorial in last week’s °f this paper: Addres* at once ~ F 1,. BOTOX A CO.. " ’ rhers & Bookbinders, SO E Market 31. ladianapolis, Ind. \ | ’ P YppC should send 25 cut y ''‘a Lv 1 to H. M. Crider of fa , lor a s rr/le coov of his beauti -11 '■ 'torraph Memorial Record. . 1,3 it anew Invention sod will find maev piirchasers in everv neiehborh o od. r|, e for Urn)! to agent* of De g and " re entitled “The niustratMLor ■ rr - H y CRIDER, /’ub , York, Pa BY J. D. IK & 00. \ VEGETINE For Billions, Remittent, and Intermittent Fever, “™brou*£7he r Ck. that it is one of th e lt?;.a n .i*i *'‘T’*' 5 ' “"“•■entnUed taint of diKftn.n 8 *v'^ nf entirety eradicates every ki.WvAT 1 Iff restores toe liver unit els. and ?iL^ , iy. , ‘. aion ' '!'• bow dm that a demi^ r L; n P “ r,U " n,a * “ iSSS*"' ?■?■.* SSSmS <lO'M aiiV o-io, ! 'VS CI quiiilii,. , u „( uoni !<* <)t urh< a i:ic,neither of umeh ever : ve or aver eotud, roach tho true cause of their complaint. VECETIWE W.ark-. in the human ryatem in perfect hamenv with li.i* ill fa laws, and w; ais s , ■ tj ! to te, n-n' ,i 1„ |,;e etmim-h. *rd mii.l in it- irllmait a on the bowels. ,t is iibsoiute in us ; ctn u on (! ,-(. h "id la ..Idvilo.ni'useoua Kittr a.uuiv.nn tic mto a fiuaeliuinUiatlhcvair !,..,na cured V ran . 'ms t’Si.el ■ v eirrmt.lr .tu, nine, cer:.ii..iindfil b'lent fi •p, incipu.i. I- is iml.ir’ed I j tla- host p..sicuns weeie its virtues have I ,-en tee'ed. is rr aiiuueuded eul> mic eon c e t.e' n. clmk Jt o isS. tUre ot ' d “ ; ' 1> nuitor the Gives Health, Strength, ami Appetite. My danahtrr Ins received <rrrst. benefit from the IDO Ot \ Lt.KTINK. Her det-Jining health was a N" > v e 01 e, t aii.xiety to all of her friends. A tpw t'.ttiea 01 tne Yegetink restored her health. and appetite. N. K TiLDKN, InsuTMnce and Real L t.-te Agent. No. 49 Scars liunuing. iiuotou, Alaas. VECETSME Police Testimony. n.lt. Stvvens, K. 0.- BoSTOS ' Kot - , l)ear Sir, —during the past five years I have had a.nip.e opportunity to judiw of the merits of Vege -1 1 i N j ‘ r y W .^ e liiß US(J d it for complaints attending a lady of delicate health, with more beneficial results than anything else which she ever tried. I have given it to my children under almost every circum stance attending a large fainiiy, and always with marked benefit. I have taken it myself with such great benefit that 1 cannot find words to express my unqualified appreciation of its goodness. While performing roy duties as a Police Officer in this city, it has been my lotto fall in with a great d*al ot sickness. I unhesitatingly recommend Veg- Etine, and I never knew of a case where it did not prove all that, was claimed for it. Particularly in cases of a debilitated or impoverished state of the blood its effects are really wonderful; and for all complaints arising from an impure state of the blood it appears to work like a charm, and 1 do not believe there are any circumstances under which VEGF.TLNE can be used with injurious results, and it will always afford me pleasure to give any further information as to what I know about Veoetine. WM. B. HILL, Police Station 4. VECETINE Prepared by H. It. STEVENS, Boston,Mass. Vcgetine is Sold by all Druggists. t ii ie GREAT DEMOCRATIC PAPER (>F THIS SOUTH-EAST. THE SAVANNAH Morning Ts T ews • IIHTII THE OPENING of another po TV lilical campaign od huaineaa season, we”desire to present he dun s of the DAILY-MORING NEWS 10 the patronage of the public. The features that have tendered the Mor ning News so popular will be maintained, and the ample facilities nt th. establishment devoted to making it, if possible, still more worthy of the confidence and pattonage of the people of Georgia and Florida. The editoral dep-rtment will be conduct ed, as heietolore, with dicnified moderation, t>ut, at the same time, with vigorous and earnest devotion to the interests of our sec tion, a.id to the p-inciples of the National Democratic Party. Its State, Gener.l and Telegraphic news departments,, and ns Lo cal and Commercial columns will be kept up to their old standard of completeness and reliability, and improvements made when ever they mav suggest themselves. In a worJ, the MORNING NEWS will comprise every feature that renders the newspaper of to-dav atttactive, and its patrons may con fidently look to its pages lor the latest lofor mation in regard to cut rent events. Y ield ing to no rivalry in its own proper held, i will allow no competitor to outs.np it m journalistic enterprise. Besides the well known DAILY MORNING NEWS We pub’ish a mammotb eight-page, THE WE. ELY XE -VS, the largest paper in the Southern States' This paper contains a careful compilation of the general news front the daily issues of the week Telegraphic Dispatches and Mark et Report’s, ca'eluily edited Agricultural and Military Departments, with cnoice Literary and Miscellaneous reading, and as a distinct feature. ORIGIXAL SERIAL STORIE3, written expressly for its pages by popular authors; thus constituting it a comprehen sive entertaining and instructive famtlv newspaper. We also issue a lively Ennday paper. THE SUNDAY TELEGRAM, which contains the l ocal and Telegraphic news of Saturday night. SUBSCRIPTION, (PREPAID.) Daily si* mouths, *500; twelve months, #io 00- Tri-we. kly, six months, $3 00 ; twelve months, *6 Qo. , The Weekly, six month?, *1 00, twelve months, £2OO, . n , . ... Sunday Telegram, six months, *1 50, twelve (Booths, 12 50. Money cau be sent to mv address, by reg isrered letter, or 3 Whilaktr S'... Savauuah G*. IHE DAWSON JOURNAL YELLOW PEVEIt. Howtlieplague isSeonrgingtlic Country—Notes from Oreiuula -F eeing from the infeetetl Distriets Entorcemeot of Quar antine Regulations - An Expe rience on the Itoad—Emharas ments of Tade Macon Ga. S"jt. 5. -The preval e ice of yellow fever in South is One of the gieatert calamities that could befall a people. Those far re tro ved from this sections visited by this fiightlul epidemic, can form no coriect conception of its effect upon tho country it visits. The mental suf fering in many instances is more dis tres-ingx than the physiosl. The homes of the rich and poor, the young and the old are alike broken np by its sudden visitations. It goes into homes and often takes out the father and mother, leaving the helpless children to perish for want of proper caie and protection. A letter ef recent date front GRENADA, MISSISSIPPI, So well descibes the scene that I copy a portion of it. It says: “Imagine a sick son and brother urging his mother and sisters to leave 1 ini to his fate and "eo for timir lives; imagme a wile urging the same thing on her husband; picture in your mind the homes of culture and r finement turned into hospital heart rending question—“Oh my love.d one, what can I do lor you?” and throughout th whole town nothing to he seen hut faces blanched with (ear and fotms bowed with anguish.” Those having the disposition as well as the money to LEAVE EVEKYTUIVG BEHIND AND FLY For their lives find it often impos-ihle to obtain places of shelter, and ate compelled to camp in the woods, so st ict are the quarantine regulation established against all infected dis tricts, not on.y by the cities anil villa ges, hut the strictest piofcihi'ory laws ure enforced by the planters against alt persons unable to give a satisfac tory account of the nselves. Hence while it is easy er ongli to ge out, it is quite another thing to get into a town. The towns and fiiies are so well po liced, by a sys’ern that makes EVERY MAN POLICEMAN, That a rabhitcould not g”t itt unob orA and. Persons desiring toentei any of the quarau’ined points must make a statement showing to the sati fac tion of the examiner, *ha’ he has no; visited any infidel point within twen ty days. Blanks are furnished and when any doubt exists as to the cor tectness of the statement he is re quited to furnish his statement under oato. Tho e found guiity of a wil ful violation of tliesr laws are han dled without gloves. Two citizens of M o.itgotnety and one diununer fiotn tho North are now confined IN QUARANTINE AT MOBILE For twenty days. When they have setved out this time they are to be icokrd up for thirty end each pay a fine of 850. A drummer representing an unibiella house in New York is now reported to he serving out a fine of 100 days in the chain gangs at M ntegomery for a willful, and it is sain, aggravated case nf violation of the quarantine la.vs of that city. Mr. A Kt. aim, represented a fur i iture house in Baltimore, ariived in Mobile at 3 o’clock in the morning and NOT HAVING A PASS Was taken to 'he lock up anil detain ed until 9 o’clock, when by using tho telegraph libera ly he was able to prove h’uiseif worthey, ami premitted to remain three days. On his leturn he was put off the train near Moittegum ety and had to hue a conveyance to carry him around the city, wher he succeeded in hording a train List ward bound. Your correspod nt had A BIT OF EXPEDIENCE In his efforts to go from Motl'gomery to Soli:. a which is -till fre-h in fits mind Whet? within two ve miles o! the ltter place the train was stopped in the woods and an invitation to step out, more forcible than el. quent, extended to him. which on reflctioi: he accepted His l agage was uls" tumbled out and the tram moved off leaving him with nothing in sight hut a negro hut end ft cotton field. Very soon howe'er, three col Ted men came, within fifty Vft'ds and t king a p;s •ion on the fence, preceded to invss'i gate him, about as follows ; “Wei l , Mr., whar is you from? - ’ “I am ftoin Montgomery “VVtiar is yon <• oen to?” “I started for Seltna.” “What did da put you off dat da train f' ■ ‘•Well I had beeo to Mobile**— be fore nny explanation could bo made the f< rem in of the party said: “Dnt’s euuff, sir; dat’s enufT—yon musent come dis way—we don’t allow any jailer lever feliers to come about dis plantation —no sa—net nigh it,sa —sn —no —sni After an hour's skirmishing I effect ed a eomprotnice by picking cotton and by making the children some presents and sending some also to the father and mother which so elated them that they fo got all about the yellow fever, and I was permitted to stay about the place until a train going East was hailed. 1 returned to M >m gomery after being without anything to eat for twenty-four hours. Such are the •rHIALS WHICH ONE IS PCJKCTED 10 DAWSON, GEORGIA, Til IRS DA Y, SEPTEMBER 19. 1878. In traveling in the South during the prevalence ot the fever. No. one ac quainted with all the surroundings will questiou the right oi the duty of the people in enlacing the spiciest quarentino regulation against any and all infected districts. It is the only safi course to persue, and had such a policy been rigidly enfotced earlier in the BOHSon, thoiumno of lives would have been saved ami hundredsof happy homes would have been saved. MOBILE MEUCHNTS. Have suffered great loss and incon venienco by the spread of yellow fev er in New Otleans ' any of them had shipped their fall stocks of Mer chandise from New Yoik via New Orleans on account of cheap-freights. These goods were in transit about the time Mobile quarantined against New Orleans, which stisp' nded all commu nication between the two cities, ex tepl the running of a locometive car rying the mails These goods are locked up in New Orleans and camrot he moved. It is estimated that ii"t less than five hundred thous-nd dol lars worth of goods belonging to Mo bile merch ants, purchased t"i the fall trade, Rre quarantined in New Or leans, one Jry goads fi>m having $50,000 wortli of dry goods in that situation and have abandoned all hope of getting them tut this season. 1 would advise commercial agents ns well as all others having business in the South to stay out of issis'ippi, Lnusitna and Albania until alter lrost D. G. M. Is Friday an Unlucky day. Friday, ioi g remembered as a day of itl omen, has been an eventful one in American history and Americans ought not to be afraid of it. Fri lay, C • ristoplier Columbus sail ed on his voy“ge if discovery. Fr'day, ten weeks afteiward, he discovered America. Friday, Henry Vtl. gave John and Sebastian Canot the ommission which led to the discovery of N.'rth Ameri ca. Friday S’. Augustine, the oldest town in the United States, was foun ded. Friday, tho “M iv Flower” with Pilgtims arrive 1 at Princetown, and on Fiiday they s’gne.l the au-ust compact, tfie forertinuer of tho present Constitution. Friday, George Washington was born. Friday, Bunker Hill was seized anil fortified. Fiiday, the surrender of Saratoga was made. Friday, the surrender of Cornwal lis occurred. Fiiday, the motion wa made in Congress, that the United S ates were’ and of right to be, fee and indepen dent. A Good Story. The following story is represented to us as true, and wo believe it has never appeared in print: In tne oiden times, when all the convicts were kept in the penitentiary at Milledgevii e, li-v. Mr. B-antly, a Methodist minister, was appointed chaplain to the penitentiary. Soon af ter his appointment ho was walking about the penitentiary, mingling with his new paiishoners. One of them was inclined fo he quite talkative, anil in tho conversation this dialogue oc curred : “You are Mr Bnt!y, I believe; our new chaplain.” , Yee / sir,” said Mr. B “And they tell we you are a Meth odist, M’. Brai.tly.” “Yes I am a Methodist.” “Well, lam so '.dad to hear it. I am a Methodist myself, and there ere a good many Methodis” in here. In fact, most of ns ate Methodists.” Mr. Brandy walked off, wrapt in meditation.— Union Sf Recorder. Horses Stung to Death by Bees. Mr. Moses Hulet. of Shafreob'iry, on returning lrom church ‘on a Sun day afternoon, hitched his horses for a lew moments till he could go over to one of the neighbors, some fifty rods distant, near two swar nsot bees. He h and scatceiy arrived at the neigh bor’s house, when Mis. Htilet dis covered that the bees were stinging the horses, and she gave the Alarm. Mr. Hulet and one of the neighbors, N. Graut, and Mi. Milo Mattivon, of Bennington, who was with Mr. Hulet, hunied to the team and found it com pletely covered with bees. The horses were floundering and plunging ic the greatest agony The men rushing in to extrica'e them were sevetely stung. Nevertheless the beises w're cut loose, but not in time to save them. One of them died in a few hours, and the oilier is in a precarious condition. Fortunately neither of the men weie seriously injured. The horses were sweatit g and wete hitched so that the wind b'ew frotn the hotses toward j the bees, which is supposed to be the cause of the attack. — Vermont Chrotu ' icie. Tin* Schoolmaster Abroad. An English writer has been sharp ly critic'sing the management of the London public schools, knewn as the “Board Schools,” an ! produces the fol lowing as specimens of the written ex aminations of some of the schol ars : “Where is Turkey?” “Tiitkoy is the capital of Norfolk.” “Where is Turin?” “Tureen is tho-cappitt.il of Chinan the peepu! there lives on burds uests and has long tails.” “Gihhoi ralter is the principal town | of Ivoosshia •” “What do you know of the patri. arcli Abraham?” “He was the father of Lot, and ’ad tew wi'es wun wav called Ili.-hmalo and t’other Haygur. Ho kept wun at home, and turned the t’other into the desert, where she become a pillow of salt iu tho day time autl a pillow of fire at nite.” “What do you know of Joseph?” “Hoe wore a coatof many gat meets Hee were chief butler for Faro and and told I;is dreams. He marred Po tiffsrs doiter, and ho led the Gypshans out of bondage to Kana in Galliiee, and then fell on his sword and died, in site of the promiss land. “Give me the name of tho books of the Old Testament ” “Do.oiTSliire, Ext ter, Litticnq Num bers, Stronomy, Jubiter, Judges, Ruth, etc” “What is a miracle?” “Don’t know.” “if saw the sun shining over head at midnight, what would you call it?” “The mrott.” * But if you were told it was the sun?” “I should say it was a lie.” * * * * “Another boy giving bis impress ion in regard to Moses, wrote as fol lows: “H e was an Egypsliin. He live 1 in a hark maid of Lull-rushes, and he kept a golden carf and worshij t hraizen sink’s, an he het nothin but kwales and maunor for forty yeais he was kort by tho air of his ed while riding under the bow of a tree, and he was kil'ed by his son Abslon, as he was a-hanging Irom the bow.— His ond was pease!” * ♦ * * “What is merit by conscience? said a schoolmaster to bis class The almost -Tmultaseoua replyof half their cumber was: “A hindward monitor.” An inspfe ter who happened to be present in quired. And what do you understand by a monitor!” To this an intelligent youth exultingiy answered Hironelad.” The Philosophy of Strikes. “Where are you going with tie puppies my little man? ’ nskert n gen tleman of asm ill boy yesterday whom he met with three pups in a b s -ket. “Gunin’ to drowu them,” was the reply. “L want a pup for my little boy to play with ; what do you say to letting me take one of them ?” “I’ll sell you one,” spoke up the boy with true American enterprize. “I’ll sell you this yaller one for half a dollar; :he black one foi sev enty-five cants and the spotted one is worth a dollar.” “I think my boy would like the spotted one the best but you ask too much foi it. You bau intended drowning all of thorn, but I’ll give you Uv-rnty five cents and save you the trouble of drowning the spotted one.” “Twenty-five cents for that spotted pup!” exclamcd the boy;“I cart stand it; taxes is high; rent is high; grocer ies is high; oil is down, and going lower —ob, no’l can t take less than a dollar.” ‘ But you mteud to throw"— “Take the black cue at seventy five cents.” “My little boy wouldn't like tho black one.” “Take the yaller one at half a do! lar, and bo's dog.cheap " “I don't like bis color.” “Well, thin you ate had better tell your little boy to play with his toes,” and be continued on bis way to the liver, remarking that “No party can dead-beat his way on me 'hese bard : times.” vor, 11.—NO. 29. Shooting His Own Hens. A person in a passion very fre quently jumps at conclusions so sud denly as to j*rk his own head off, a they say. “I say, neighbor Thompson, if you don’t keep your chickens out of my garden. I will shoot them.” “Very well, Doolittle, shor t away ; only if you Itiil any of my liens throw them into my yard.” Bang! went the fowling-piece morn ing after morning, and the large Ist hens wote pitched into neighbor Thompson’s yard They cooked well. After a fortnight or more D olittlc discovered that Thompson never had any hons, and that in* had been shoot ing his own, *hey haviug broken out of his coop- The Latest Market Reports. Honor—Scaice, old stock exhaust ed and the n-'w will be a failure. Virtue —Old growth nearly consu med, young growth Very unpromis ing. Honesty—None in the market. Prudence—All in the hands of old stockho’ders and held'close. Modesty—Stock badly damaged none for sale by strjet speculators. Vice —Market overstocked. Pride--Market glutted. Politeness —Cheap; holders una bled to dispose of any at present rates. Scan al—None at whole sale; dealt in chiefly by peddlers at te'ail. Religion—Very little of the genu ine articie on hand; s'oek generally adulterated. Love—None offered except for gaeonbacke. Gatit, the correspondent of the Cincinnati Inquirer, interviewing a Southern editor, has this: “Which Southern State has tho least influence or Southern respect, leaving out Flotilla and Atkansas.'' “Kentucky has the least. Virginia has the most. Georgia has the ablest delegation in Congress. Gordon is the most trusted man in the South. — Aleck Stephens in the strongest in his locality, Lamar has dropped behind. Ben Hill has no mental convictions, but drills betw en praise ami pas sion. Tom Bayard is the most pop ular candidate for President in the Si ni b. The money question has made no impression there; nor the labor ques tion. After Bayard, 1 should say that Thurman was the most respected LOW.” “What will be tho issue of the Congressional election in the Booth?’' “I think we shall drop two in Ten nesree, soino in North Carolina, and gain.twoin South Carolina. Louisiana will he soli A terrible condition of affairs is re ported from Memphis. OnSatu day me hundred and three deaths, occur red in tho twenty-four hours ending r.t noon of that day. Several clergy men, nurses and members of tho dii ferent relief associations have been taken down, and there is pressing need for experienced nurses. Ten dollars a day is off-red in vain, and many of the sick are without proper attention. It seems u'terly impossi ble also to procure men enough fo bury the dead, burn infected clothing and disinfect premises. The Mayor h; s been and >wn several duya, there is but one officer of the ci’y government on his feet, and on account of sickueis rrnong its members, the Board of Health cannot get a quorum together. The coiteU'sion theory is to 1 e tested as -oon as the artillery sent for .he purposo arrives. The city is being thoroughly fumigated by turning turpentine and biimstone. The Inde pendent Mutual Aid Order begs foi assistance iu God’s name.— £x. A miller near (Jolefmd, England* beat his wife and threatened his chil dten when summoned for not sending the latter to school. Ferty women ol the neighborhood met, flogged him soundly, and would have dt eked him in toe parish pond had he net on his ktie' s protested his penitence. They threw buckets of water over him and tnen allowed him to rie and depart* A tight occuired in Ilancick noun ty between three revenue officets and two illicit distilSets whom the t fil ters were trying to arrest. One of the i tiffi ers was killed and another stvere j ly wounded. i A she-.er of fish tel! in Caiifurruß, a short t.mt- ago. No such luck ' hate, NEWS ITEMS. F.u.r prisoners one condemned fof murder, snwed tbeir way out of the Marietta jail. Bishop McCoskty, of the Episcopal Church, who got into a little crooked ness some time ego in Michigan and ran eff to Europe, has been deposed. The R. v. Mr. Breaker, a Baptist minister near Norcross, has, at tho invitation of his church, stepped down and out. He confessed his guilt. Holtzciaw, a ’republican, is said lo boa candidate for Congress in thn 1 Felton and Lester district. If tho Idemociats up there persist in theii* foulishuess, Holt* may be elected. Eastman Times : “It was a widow of sixty in a i adjoining county who allowed a tramp to stop over for tho ' night. During the evening tin* itiamp became desperately smitten, cour ed, and finally addressed tho 1 widow. Site consented to marry him. and it"*vus arranged that the two snvuld proceed to the parson’s win* Hived but a short distance, the next , morning, which they did. They had ino license, nor did they dream such an instrument was neccossaiv until they wore eo informed by tin* parson The widow loaned her be trothed a horse, two or tltree dollars in cash, and gavo him a fifteen dol lar order to a merchant with which to buy some clothes, and off he goes to town for Hie license, having bor rowed a saddle, and perhaps a bri dle, from the minister. The dav passed off and the t.urnp did not re turn and the next day tho widow sent tw > of her soni to town, who found him intoxicated. The boy* joined in the social cup until they too becan e intoxicated, and the lover made his escape with horse, bridh* and saddle. These are about th.* facts as we received them from a re liable gentleman of our town. Names withheld.” Three raistorng commercial travel lers, meeting one winter evening, had a hearty carouse together. Supper over, ille three found soma difficulty in allotting their respective shares of the bill; butene of them atlength cm shott tho dispute by proposing thar, whoever had the “oldestname”among them should go scot free, the espeas es biing hailed Ivy tho other two. This amendment being promptly accepted, No 1 produced a card ir scrit'e !, “Richard Eve,” which No, 2 trumped with “Adam Brown.” Then No. 2, a pmtly veteran with a humor ous gray eye, laid down Ins card and remarked* “I don’t much thick you'd beat this 'dn, gents.” And he was right, for the name was “Mr. B. Gin ning.” ,A young rattlesnake having seven rattles was captured a few days ag > on Dunham’s Island, Ouoida Like, N. Y. by Messrs. L. A. Hawley and M. J. Henderson, of Syracuse. They were out fishing and camped on tho the night. Mr. Haw* ley pulled off his boots for a pillow, and some: mo during tho night hit* snakoship crawled ioto one of the boo's and wi s not discovered till morning, when as Mr. Hawley wart about to draw hia boot on, he heard the ratiles. The Swainsboro Herald mentionn the following terrible accident: “On Fiiday afternoon last, as a daughter of Mr Whits If. Smi'h, uged about twelve years, was returning from school, she stopped at a bouse on hot fal tier’s place wliere a quantity of seed cotton was stored and commerced to play in the cotton It seems that th'* children had dug a hole about Ann feet deep in it. It is supposed that while playing on tho pile of cotton she fell head foremost into this hob and being unable to cxt-icato herself she was suffocated, as life was extinct when she was found. Mr Neff of Al xurulria, Pa.,awok the other morning to find his well dry and itsboitom fallen out. He pro cured help, and doscenduJ 291 feet in to an immense cave strotcliing in ev ery direction. Flowing streams and stal actites lent their aid to tho romance and a specimen of nickel oro wn brought away Itiut has proved to of pure quality. How THEY UoNOKED HlJi—A London magazine says that a light of British sci.nco was lately visited by a Kentuckian admirer who said : “Sir we admire your writings, and have shown it. Wo had no academic distinction to confer on you, having no univeisity; but we have done ou. best. Wo are a racking people, and have named our boat stallion falter It is very depressing to a summer congregation to see the minister, i-i tho must ehqueni and impassioned pa-sage ot bis sermon, gesture with one hand and fight flos- with the oth er. A man was going over a fiild wlv n he suddenly saw a bull with he el di.wu and pawing the grass. Tho in an went for the nearest fenco, tut ju t as be reached it he felt himself litt*- i by the two masts of tbo ball, ar.d h> fell on fho other side. He got uf. and pointing his finger, at the boat', said: “1M have reverge. I'll gt ea-en with you—l've been eating n.utton all ray life. Henceforth 1 yak nothing but bjot.
