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TUTTS
r PILLS!
! INTRODUCED, 1865,
A TORPID LIVER
I* the fruitful source of many and ideates, promi
*■ nent among whicn are
DYSPEPSIA, sick-headache, costiveness,
dysentery, bilious fever, ague and fever,
jaundice, piles, rheumatism, kidney com
plaint, COLIC, ETC.
SYMPTOMS OF k
torpid liver.
jjota of Appetite and Nausea, the_bowela
costive, but sometimes alternate with
looseness, Pain in the Head, accompanied
with a Dull sensationirithe back part,Pam
in the right side and under the shoulder
blade, fullness after eatme, with a disin
clination to exertion of body or mind, Irri
tability of temper, Low spirits, Loss of
memory, with a feeling of having neglected
some duty, General weariness; Dizziness,
Fluttering at the Heart, Hots before the
eyes, Yellow Skin, Headache generally
overthe right eye, Restlessness at night
With fitful dreams, highly colored Urine.
H THESE warnings are unheeded,
SERIOUS DISEASES WILL SOON BE DEVELOPED.
TUTT’S PILLS
■r especially adapted to such
case*, a single dose effects
such a change of feeling as to
astonish the sufferer.
TUTT’S PILLS
re conipouudetl from snlwtnHren tliof ftp b
free from any proportion!hat can Injure
the most delicate TUoy
Search, Cloaune, Purify, am! Invigorate
tbe entire System. By relieving •h en
gorgnl Blver, they cleanwe the 'Mood
fro in ijolaonousliamors, am! thus impart
health aud vitality to the body, causing
the bowels to act Mutually, without
which no one can foci well.
A Noted Divine says:
Dr. TUTT:—Dear Sir; For ten year?. I have been
a martyr to Dyspepsia, Constipation i-.nd Piles. Last
Spring your Pills worn recommended to me; I uAod
them ( but with little faith). lam now a wall man,
have good appetite, digestion perfact, regular stools,
piles gone, and I have gained forty pounds solid fleeb.
They uro worth their weight in goid.
Rev. R. L. SIMPSON, Louigville, Ky,
TUTT’S PILLS,.
Their first effect is to Increase the Appetite,
and cause the body to Take on Flesh, thus the
fystem ia nourished, and by their Tonic Acs
tlen ou the Digestive Organa, Regular
iitoels are produced.
DR. J. F. HAYWOOD,
OF NEW YORK, SAYS:-'
* Few diseases exist that cannot be relieved by re
storing the Liver to its normal functions, ami for
this purpose no remedy him ever boon invented that
hu as happy an effect aa TUTT’S PILLS.”
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WORM SPECIEiO
OP.
VERMIFUGE.
SYMPTOMS OF WORMS.
THE countenance is pale and leaden
colored, with occasional flushes, or
a circumscribed spot on one or both
cheeks; the eyes become dull; the pu
pils dilate; an azure semicircle runs
along the lower eye-lid; the nose is ir
ritated, swells, and sometimes bleeds;
a swelling of the upper lip; occasional
headache, with humming or - throbbing
of the ears; an unusual secretion of
saliva; slimy or furred tongue; breath
very foul, particularly in the morning;
appetite variable, sometimes voracious,
with a gnawing sensation of the stom
ach, at others, entirely gone; fleeting
pains in the stomach; occasional
nausea and vomiting; violent pains
throughout the abdomen; bowels ir
regular, at times costive ; stools slimy;
iot unfrequently tinged with blood;
belly swollen and hard; urine turbid;
respiration occasionally difficult, and
accompanied by hiccough; cough
sometimes dry and convulsive; uneasy
and disturbed sleep, with grinding of
the teeth ; temper variable, but gener
ally irritable, &c.
Whenever the above symptoms
are found to exist,
DR. C. McLANE’S VERMIFUGE
will certainly effect a cure.
IT DOES NOT CONTAIN MERCURY
in any form; it is an innocent prepara
tion, not capable of doing the slightest
injury to the most tender infant.
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DR. C. MoLANE'S
LIVER PILLS
are not recommended as a remedy “for all
the ills that flesh is heir to,” but in affections
the liver, and in all Bilious Complaints,
Dyspepsia and Sick Headache, or diseases of
that character, they stand without a rival.
AGUE AND FEVER.
No better cathartic can be used preparatory
to, or after taking Quinine.
Asa simple purgative they are unequaled.
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CAROLINE CLARE.
The Canadian Girl who Throws
Oil as Sharp Shocks as the
South American Eel*
[trom the London (Ont.) Advertiser.
About two years since a daughter of
Mr. Richard Clare, Caroline by name,
and then 17 years of age, living on lot
No. 25, on the second concession of
Rodney, was taken ill. Her disease
could not be correctly diagnosed, and
had many peculiar features. Her ap
petite fell off, and she lost flesh till
from a strapping girl of 130 pounds
weight she barely weighed 87 pounds.
There did not seem to be orgauic com
plaint. The bodily functions were not
impaired, and although she ate less than
formerly, the falling off in this respect
was not such as in itself would alarm
her friends After the lapse of a few
months she took to her bed. Then it
was that a change occurred in her men
tal condition. Formerly she was noted
rather for lack of con versa'ional pow
ers, but now fits or spasms would come
over her, on the passing away of which
her eyes would become set and glazed,
her body almost rigid, and while in
that state she would discourse eloquent
ly, and give vivid descriptions ot far
off scenes, far exceeding in their beau
ty anything which she had ever seen
or presumably even read of. On the
passing away of this state she exhibited
a great degree of lassitude apd indis
position to move, and was taciturn and
surly iu reply to any questions. This
continued till about a month since,
when an extraordinary change took
place. The girl, although still not
gaining flesh, appeared to rally. She
became light-hearted and gay, and her
friends anticipated an early release for
her from the room to which she had
been confined so long. Their expecta
tions were not in vain, for she is now
about the house, apparently as well
bodily as ever. But another remarka
ble development has taken place. She
is constantly giving off electrical char
ges, and seems to be a perfect battery.
A person, unless possessed of the very
strongest nerves, cannot shake hands
with her, nor can any one place his
hand in a pail of water with hers. By
joining hands she can send a sharp shock
through 15 or 20 persons in a room,
and she possesses all the attraction of
ajmagnet. If she attempts to pick up
a kuife the blade will jump into he.i
hand, and a pape>- of needles will hang
suspended from one of her fingers. So
strongly developed is the electrical
power, that she cannot release from
her touch any article of steel which
she may have taken up. The only
method yet found is for a second party
to take hold of the articles and pull,
while the girl strokes her own arm vig
orously from the wrist upward. On
her entering a room a perceptible influ
ence seizes hold of all others, and while
some are affected to sleepiness, others
are ill and fidgety til! they leave, and
even for a considerable time afterward.
A sleeping babe will wake up with a
start at her approach, but with a stroke
of her hand she can at once coax it to
a slumber again. Animals are also
subject to her influence, and a dog of
the household will lie for hours at her
feet as motionless as in death. A curi
ous part of the phenomena is the fact
that the electricity can be imparted to
her by any article with which she ha
bitually comes in contact. The other
day a younger sister, while doing the
housework, took up a pair of corsets
belonging to Caroline, and on her hand
touching the steel she was compelled
to drop them with a loud cry and an
exclamation to the effect that she had
run a needle into her finger- Wooden
spoods have had to be made for her, as
she cannot touch metal. Altogether
the case is a most remarkable one, and
attracts scores of visitors to the house
of Mr. Clare. Medical men are espe
cially interesting themselves, and it has
been stated that Dr. Tye of Thomas
ville will read a paper on the subject of
Provincial Medical Association
which is to be held in London in the
course of this summer. Mr. Clare is
the father of a family of seven children,
none of whom except Caroline show any
abnormal qualities.
(Jn last Sunday night, Mr. F J.
Wilson shot and killed Cummings Kol
lin, colored, in his (Wilson’s) horse lot
he asked who was there. Kellin replied
it was none of Ms business. Whereupon
Mr. Wilson said it was his business, and
he would find out who was on his prem
ises and what he was doing. lie then
picked up his gun and walked into the
lot, and saw someone approaching him
in the darkness with an uplifted pole in
his hands as if to strike. Wilson then
fired, with the above result. Coroner s
verdiet, “Justifiable homicide.”
DAWSON, GEORGIA. THURSDAY. JULY 31, 1879.
A Bran New Rebel.
Opinions of the Reverend and Hon
orable H. M. Turner, Colored.
[Constitution.]
Atlanta Constitution : Henry M.
Turner, the negro preacher, who is
peddling lies at the north, says that in
Georgia the whites refuse to sell land
to the colored people except for the pur
pose of building churches. The fact that
the colored people of Georgia own near
ly six million dollars’ worth of land
doesn’t seem to impress this eminent
mulatto rascal. •
Editors Constitution: I most re
spectfully beg your pardon, if the re
marks attributed to your paper by the
Alabama Troy Enquirer, be true. I
have said no such thing, at no time or
place. To the contrary, I have again
and again stated, that the colored peo
ple of Georgia were ahead of any state
south in their land possesions. I could
not have made the remarks, above,
without telling a willful falsehood, for
I have bought land in Georgia myself,
and have both bought and sold it to
other colored people, and bought for
other people, etc,
I am not in politics; hope never to
be again. My business, however, as
the general publisher of the A M. E.
church, carries me all over the country,
north as well as the south, and having
some notoriety, I am often urged io
speak, and it appears like there are a
set of reporters in the laud who make
it their business to report whatever they
would have you to say. I have read
remarks, said to have been made by
me, that I never heard or dreamed of.
Only a month or so ago, a New York
Herald reporter claims to have inter
viewed me, and published a lot of stuff
that, 1 hope I may die, if I ever said
or thought of saying. Nor did any such
reporter ever interview me. The only
thing I have said anywhere or under
any circumstances bearing any relation
to such a remark, was said at an exod
us meeting in Boston, at which I was
invited to speak. There! said, “That
if statements be trie, whole countries
in certain sections of the south had
combined not to sell negroes any land,
and as a landless people never did
amount to anything, the negroe that
would seek it in Kansas merited the aid
and sympathies of ihe people.” But
for me to have said the colored people
of Georgia could not buy any land,
would have been to tell a monstrous
lie, which I do not tell if I know it.
I confess however, I have many com
plaints against this country. I see no
future here for the negroe. I think
the sooner he gets out of it the better.
Therefore, I am an African emigration
ist squarely and fairly, and have been
for some years.
But if you think 1 am pedd'ing lies
for either party or section, you are mis
taken. 1 have no confidence in any
party or section. Every political parly
in the land and every section of the
country are iu opposition to the eleva
tion of the negro. 1 used to think the
north wished us big things, but I find
white people are the same everywhere.
None of you can use him. So I have no
charge to make against the south that
Ido not make against the north. lam
down upon the entire nation, and intend
to fight negro prejudice everywhere the
rest of my days, not as a politician, but
as a humanitarian, cr as a rebel to
this government, for I am a rebel.
Respectfully, H. M. Turner.
The End of the Exodus
[N. Y. World.]
Sir—Of fifteen negroes who left mo
early in May and went to Kansas, seven
have returned, and the other eight will
come as soon as they receive money to
pay their way. The seven are all sick,
and thev report those they left behind
sick also. Ordinarily a sick pauper is
not an object a planter coverts, but in
the present case they are invaluable as
an “awful example” to others who
miglithave Kansas proclivities ; besides,
we feel that in doing what they have
done they have been more sinnned
again-t than sinning. These people say
that during the six weeks they were in
Kansas they were not inside of a house.
Add to this exposure hunger and bad
water and their sickness is not a mat ter
of surprise. On their return 1 express
ed to them my astonishment that they
should have tired so soon of that
boundless and un stniued freedoin
which they went to K; -as to enjoy.
With a doleful, comic mile they re-
I lied that the only free thing- they
found in Kansas were “cussing and
brackish water.’’
To all fair minded men wishing to
learn and publish the truth in regard
to the negroes’ treatment and condition
in this part of the black belt, we say
come here and investigate for your
selves. Be assured you will be cordi
ally received and hospitably enter
tained.
Duncan sby, Miss. A. J. Gilkev.
He Forgot.
Detroit Free Press.
At the farm-house gate the other
morning Mrs. Whitehall said to Joseph
as he was ready to drive into town.
“Remember, now, what I told you.
I want a spool of thread No. 60, ten
yards of calico with a dot in it, and a
yard and a half of brown drilling to
line the waist.’’
Joseph drove into the city as straight
as a bee line and as happy as an old
giraffe when the circus is out. He sold
his butter and eggs, was on his way to
a dry goods store when he met a man
who one* came awful near marrying his
sister. This was reason enough why
they should drink together, and they
drauk. When a man meets a fellow
who might have been his brother-in-law
if a mule hadn’t kicked the prospective
bride across the dark river, he can’t
tell when to stop drinking. Farmer
Whitehall couldn’t remember whether
he imbibed seven or seventeen glasses,
but the result was the same. When
he finally got ready to do his trading he
entered a store and said:
“Shir, I want shixty spools of dots
wiz a w T aist in ’em !”
That was as plain as lie could make
it in any of the half-dozen stores he en
tered, and by and by he suddenly dis
covered tiiat lie wasn’t in the right
mood for trading. He found another
saloon and more beer, and it was eve
ning when he entered a jewtdry store
and said:
“Shir, I wan’t a yardan’ a half of
dots wiz shixty in ’em!”
He was turned out, and late in the
eveniug he fell down on the streets near
the monument, too tired to go further.
As the officer raised him up he mur
mured :
“Shir, I want ten yard drillin' to line
’er shpool thread wiz.”
He was quite sober when walked out
for trial, and, moreover, a little anx
ious to know what had income of all
his vest buttons and one coat-tail.
“Do you feel betterV’ tenderly in
quired his II mor, as ho locked down at
the prisoner.
“No, sir—l feel worse,” was the an
“Nice time you had rolling around
in the street, last night.”
“’Squar’,” began the man, as he
faced around, “this is the fust time I
ever made a fool o’ myself with both
eyes open! I’ve got ’leven dollars
down here in my vest, and you kin take
it all if you'll let me go. I’ll bet a
encumber the ole woman didn’t sleep a
wink last night, and she’ll put one of
the boys on a boss and send him up the
road after me this mornin’,”
“Then you plead guilty ?”
“f do. I’m guilty aud an idiot to
boot!’’
“Do you want to dust right out for
home ?’’
“Do 11 Why I can’t hardly stand
still. I want to meet the boy as fur
out as I kin, and I’ll tel! him I got up
sot.’’
“Can you remember what your wife
told you to get V'
“I kin. She wanted sixty yards of
waist lining, a yard and a half of dots,
and ten spools of calico, aud I’ll get
’em as I go out.’’
“Well, you is ay go.”
“Thankee! Whar’s my hat—good
by—whar’s that jack-knife—good-bye,
everybody.”
But what did his wife say 1
Mow Hill and Stephens Shook
Hands.
[Augusta Chronicle ]
The first advance was made by Mr
Hill, when he ascertained that it would
be entirely acceptable. It was made
publicly, in the House of Representa
tives when in session. Mr. Stephens
has the most conspicuous place in the
House, and just in front of the speak
er’s desk, where he wheels his chair
around promiscuously. Mr. Hill ap
proached Mr. Stephens, extended his
hand which was warmly grasped in re
turn by the Commoner, and, after the
passage of a fow kind words on both
sides, the grave of five years of hostili
ty, or rather of unfriendly silence, was
closed up never more to he disturbed.
Mr. Hill is so lofty a character and
stands so prominently in the Senate to
to make the first advance. Nothing in
his gloiious life was more worthy of
him and nothing he will ever do can
tarnish the brightness of that memorable
scene, when the two illustrious Georgi
an were true to themselves, their State,
their country and their God.
A Briet Editorial.
Alexander Beavers edits the Grun
dy (Va.) “Vidette.” He was subpoe
naed as a witness in Judge Rivers’
Court a few days ago, and the J udge
sent him to prison for contempt. The
next issue of his paper contained this
brief but brilliant editorial: “Damn
old Rivers !’*
INSPIRATION THROUGH IN
SANITY.
Wonrtertul Transition from Ig
norance to Wisdom.
An Unlettered Woman Reads Any
Chapter in the Bible, aud
Glances into the Mys
teries of Masonry.
[Aloany News.]
The following particulars we get
from Mr. Geo. C. Watson, living near
the nome of the subject of the sketch:
A lady of the 7th district of Worth
county, has become insane on the sub
ject of religion. Her dementation was
first noticed about a month ago, soon
after the close of a protracted meeting
at Union Baptist church, nea' - her
home. She attended the different ser
vices very regularly, and seemed deep
ly impressed and troubled from their
first commencement. A short while be
fore the meeting closed she joined the
church. Going back home her incoher
ent, maddened and rambling conduct
was noticed by her husband and chil
dren, and they became terribly excited
and wrought up about it. She went
raving about the house and yard with
a bucket of water, *
BAPTISING EVERYTHING
in her pathway. She baptised her hus
band and each one of her children, and
while doing this sang the most beauti
ful songs—songs that she has heard
but once or twice. Although an un
lettered woman, (hei husband wil' swear
this), she reads any chapter in the Bible
readily, pronouncing correctly and dis
tinctly, paying attention to punctuation
points, etc. She preaches nearly all
the while, and our informant says uses
the choicest words, and displays great
wisdom and knowledge in the handling
of different subjects. Although not a
Mason, she knows
ALL THE MYSTERIES.
of that mysterious craft b j heart. Doz
ens of Masons have gone to see her, and
they all come away dumbfounded. Her
husband has come to the conclusion that
she is a witch. She has attempted acts
of violence, but as yet done no harm,
lie, with outside as-istance,atone time
tried to incarcerate her in one of the
rooms of the house, but the doors be
came unmanageable and wouldn’t stay
locked. She hasn’t slept iu eighteen
days and nights, and during that time
has taken but a few morsels of food.
This is one of the strangest eases we
have ever heard of. Hundreds are flock
ing to see the frenzied woman.
-o • .
PUT TO HEATH.
A Mormon Apostle Finds Himself in a
Hostille Couutry.
Ringgold, Ga., July 21.—About
10 o’clock this morning there occurred
near thin place a homicide which is
deeply regretted by the community.
The victim was Joseph Standing, a
Mormon preacher and elder.
About a week ago Standing and
two other Mormons came to Cattoosa
county and went about proclaiming
their doctrines and trying to work up a
colony to partake of the wide freedom
and matrimonial liberty which prevails
in Utah. The men went down into
Whitefield county and tried there to
arouse an interest in their religion.
They met with cold comiort all around
here and were ebout giving up their
project when the fatal affair of this
morning took off one of them. The
fact that these men were proclaiming
the doctrine of Mormouism boldly in
this community put the men very much
against them, and it was proposed more
than once to take them out aud after
giving them a healthy lesson to warn
them not to linger iu this delightful at
mosphere.
This morning Standing and one of his
companions were coming along the road
when they were met by a dozen men.
They stopped the Mormons, and told
them they, wanted to whip them on the
spot. The Mormons tried to argue the
point, and in the consultation one of
the party of regulators laid down his
pistol. Quick as thought Standing
leaped forward and seized the weapon.
Cocking it ho turned toward the party
and demanded that every man surren
der. Just as ho said this one of the
party lired. The Hall entered Stand
ing’s temple and he fell dead in the
road. His companion was not touched.
Standing’s remains were brought to
ltinggold and given in charge of his
Mormon brother, who will carry them
out to Salt Lake City to be buried.
The other Mormons will leave here at
once. The Governor has been tele
graphed to about the matter.
A circus tent and a Gospel tent were
pitched side by side at Holyoke, Mass.,
and the voices of clown and preacher
were mingled.
VOL. 16--NO 20
llow Judge Warner Was hang
ed.
One of the stories told on Judge
Warner is that during the war a party
of Federal soldiers hung him in order
to make him tell where his gold was
concealed, but that lie clung to his lit
tle treasure laid upon earth more tena
ciously than to life itself, and that the
robbers finally retired baffled, but leav
ing him nearly dead, from the effects of
their brutality. Many regard the story
as a romance, but it is not. It is partly
true and partly false. It is true that he
was hung ; it is not true that lie had any
gold to give up. Judge Warner himself
described the occurrence a few days
ago, and I do not violate any confidence
in giving the substance of his narative.
In the spring of 1865 (and after the
surrender of Gen. Johnston* though
that disaster was not officially known
throughout Georgia,) Judge Warner
was at his plantation in Meriwether
County, awaiting the approach of one
of Wilson’s columns of Federal raiders
which was passing through the country.
All the whites on the placo fled except
Judge Warner and his married daugh
ter. The latter had a child only a week
old, and as she could not be moved the
father remained with her. During the
morning several detachments of calvary
had halted at the house and made them
selves free with anything they desired
in the way of “portable property,’’ but
no violence was done to the inmates.
About noon another party arrived and
stopped to feed their horses and to
plunder. After satisfying their appe
tites they began to pillage, and the
Judge’s silver and other valuables were
soon bestowed away in the capacioas
saddle-bags. While they were robbinc
the smoke-house ol hams and pickles
and wines and preserves, the Judge
stood by It; silence watching the pro
ceedings. After the building had been
thorughly gutted, a revolver wa* sud
denly presented at his head and he was
ordered to accompany the party.
Midway between the house ami
the “nogro quarters” was a body of
woodland, and into this grove Judge
Warner was conducted by bis captors.
Reaching a place secluded from ob
servation, tile leader of the band, who
wore the uniform of a Federal Cap
tain, took out Iris watch and said lie
would give him just three minutes to
tell where his gold was hiden. Judge
Warner protested that he had no
gold, but to no avail. They had been
informed along* their line of march
that he had a secret hoard and the
“d—d old secessionist” must give it
up. The prisoner urged that he had
been a strong Union man, and the
only money lie had was in Confeder
ate currency and in Central Railroad
bills. They robbed him of $5,000 of
the former and $15,000 of the latter,
which they found upon his person,
but continued to insist that lie had
gold and must produce it. At the
expiration of the three minutes the
Captain made a signal, one of the
men took from a horse a long leath
ern strap with a running noose at one
end, while the others extemporized a
gallows by bending down the end of
a stout sapling. With an oath the
officer made them select a larger and
stronger tree. Judge Warner re
maining silent, for toe very sufficient
reason that be bad nothing to tell.
One end of the strap was adjusted
around bis neck and the other fasten
ed securely to the tree. The sapling
was gradually released until the line
beeafne taut, when it was turned
loose and the Judges body dangled
in the air. When lie recovered con.
sciousness the brutes still surrounded
him, anil he was again ordered to
give ii]) his gold, under penalty of
death. He could only reply as before
and again the sapling was released.
This was about 2'o’cloek, when he
revived the sun was nearly down.
He lay at the foot of the impromptu
gallows, the halter bad been removed
from his neck, and the leaves, which
covered the ground several inches
deep, were burning within a few feet
of him. He thinks the heat ot the
flames restored him to consciousness
Mi lto life. The wretches had left
him for dead and set fire to the woods
to conceal the evidences of their
crime. The Judge was able to find
his way to the house, where he lay ill
for many days. He finally recovered
and now shows no siglins of the vio
lence to which he was subjected. He
is confident that the Captain and sol
piersjwho figured as amateur hangmen
belonged to a regiment ot Wisconsin
calvary, though he does not remember
any of their names. Judge Warner
is wont to say that he lias suffered all
the pangs of dissolution and has been
“as near dead as lie ever expects to
be.” —Jltlanta Correspondent Augusta
Chronicle.
The Outcome ot a Scsmtlel in
Alabama.
Atlanta, Ga., July 22.—Samuel
G. Gras tv, a wcll-kuown railroad man
here and in New York, last night shot
J. J. lleid and his son, formerly of
Atlanta, in Opelika, Ala. The Reids
learned of the improper intimacy of
Grasty with Miss Reid, and sought him
at his room in the hotel A scuffle and
iLree pistol shots were heard. Grasty
was found cut on his head, arm, and
hands with a knife. Tho eldei Reid was
shot in the abdomen, aud the younger
Reid was shot under the right jaw.
The old man is dead. (Lusty was said
to have been in Opelika to renew' bis
intimacy with Miss Reid. The latter
is highly connec'ed here, and the scan
dal has been a smothered one for sever
al years Grasty is under arrest in
1 Oplika.
A Plant That Kills ly Its Sting*
One of the best points about our
North American forests is that a care
less person may ramble in them for a
month at a time and come to no harm
from poisonous shrubs or vines. Saving
a few species of nettles, which are not
so virulent as the European species,
and an occasional poisonous Khus, the
mosquitoes and flics have no competi
tors. It is different in the antipodean
forests. Not only has the traveler to
he constantly on the alert for about a
hundred different kinds of poisonous
snakes, but there are trees and shrubs
whoso poison is virulent enough to
make the vapors from the famous upas
tree harmless in comparison. There
is one shrub growing in Queensland
which actually kills men and horses if
a certain propotion of their body be
stung by it. The curious thing is that
the sting leaves no mark, but the pain
is maddening, and comes on again and
again for months on every change of
temperature, such as the body experi
ences when in bed. Horses become so
frantic when stung that they have to be
shot, and dogs gnaw off the affected
parts if they can be reached. The
shrub is not named botanically. It
grows from three inches high to fifteen
feet. In the old ones the stem is whit
ish, and red berries usually grow on the
top. It emits a peculiar disagreeable
smell, but it is best known by its leaf,
which is nearly round, having a point
on the top, and is jagged all round the
edge, like the nettle. All the leaves are
large—some larger than a saucer. It
usually grows among palm trees.
An Ancient Turtle.
The Palatka Herald says we received
a turle a few days since which Was
marked on his back the date 1700, and
also the Spanish coat of arms, indicat
ing that this old resident was in exist
ence one hundred and seventy nine
years ago. AN'hat changes this old
fellow of the deep lias seen The rise
and fall of empires on
the continent on which lie lived,
emerged from the thraldom of despot
ism, with the rise of a republic which
has become the great conservator of free
dom, and the advancement of civiliza
tion, amt the glory of the world. In
Spanish on the shell was Written which
translated says: “Caught in 1700 by
Hernando de Gomez, in the St. Sebas
tian, and was carried to Matanzas by
Indians; from thereto the Great Wekia,
(which is now the St. Johns River.)
On Tuesday, the 17th of June, the tur
tle was turned adrift in the St. John’s
River at Palatka, with the inscription
Oil his back : “Eastern Herald , Palatka
Florida, 1879.” It may be supposed
that by this time the old fellow has
Scented the salt water, and gone over
the bar at bigh tide, and probably a
few generations hence may take him up
at a Spanish port on llie other side.
The Americas Republican tolls this
remarkable story about the effect of the
late heated sp.ll on eggs. It says :
“We have a good story related to us a
day or two since by a country gentle
man relative to peddling eggs. One
day last week a lady needed some
change, and concluded to sell a lot of
guinea eggs she had on hand to raise
die funds. She sent them to town, put
ting a good big price upon them. The
sun shone on the eggs all the way as
hot as July suns will shine, and th e
vendor tried in vain to dispose of them
in town—nobody would buy. They
were returned to the lady in the after.,
noon. She turned them over to a ped
dler to try and sell them in the neigh
boring village of Edaville. This ped
dler took them home and kept them
over night. In the morning he started
to Ellaville, and on looking into the
basket to see that the eggs were all
light, found it lull of young guineas.
The eggs had hatched during the night
fro n the great heat of the weather.
This is given as true, the gentleman
relating it to us having seen some of
the young guineas.”
A Poisonous Reptile.
[Hamilton Journal.]
A gentleman in this county gives US
the following account of a horned snake:
He states, and he is a gentleman of un*
doubted veracity, that while hoeing in
a field of corn be saw a large snake
crawling along with bis head and tail
raised about eighteen inches from the
grouud. He decided to kill the snake,
and raising his hoe started in pursuit.
The snake seeing him turned back to
meet his foe, when tho gentleman, con
sidering pruden.e the better part of
valor, turned to his heels and fied, the
snake in pursuit A large wkiteoak
tree was standing not far off, and to
this ho made his way. Just as he
jumped behind the tree the snake struck
at him; and the horn, about two inches
long, was buried in the tree. The
snake’ unable to get his horn out of the
tree, was killed. The strangest part of
the affair is that in six hours the leaves
on the tree, which had been perfectly
green and flourishing, began to wither }
aud in less than twelve hours was per
fectly dead. The genueman who re
lates the above is a reliable farmer-