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Of Ng'.V York, Tol':; : y *:-dr;*>it.
—READ*W:-iAT tfS SAYS:—
Dr. TU -T : .. ao k 19,1877.
f Door air—Daria. ; t:. f; i it, i oil nn Hundred
chsoh li Ivvr; abo la iiu i w.r w rds of tho
J city tko c. v ore < t a v-ry b.:vov ty,e. it wafe
1 the id my • ne.i ion av *< : -;,i rat's Expectorant,
and 1 cws.e is my ■• , ■ ■ iu vuudortul ijowet,
Darin* a pr.itno oi i .iy year.-, 1 k.\-< m*ver
known a medicine to act y.romptiy. and wad t,uch
happy effects. 1- instantly suodued the most violent
fits Of < "U •:
atewde. Icl *. , toj dent luu*
modi' me X ever ok.,
J FRANCIS H AYWOOD, M. D.
A NEWSPAPKB PulH WRITES.
„ Office, .veninc News, Au*£uia, Ga.
Dr. TGIT: Dear h;v—3ly little son, was attacked
with pneumonia last winter, v ‘Gcd le t him with a
violent cough, that laa -d tail . thin a month since,
f.r tuß euro oi winch 1 am indeoted toyour valuable
Kxpectt ra.r,t. 1 had i ried mod every thing tcon
inendod, but none did any t'ood until I usedyOar Ex
pect rant, one bottle or wnich removed the cough
entirely. 'With.' many thanks, Xam yours truly,
JOHN M, WiUGLE.
Had torriblo wTgMT'’SWEATS.
_ . Memphis, Fob., 11,1871.
Dr. 1 ITT: tor—l nave been suffering lor: early two
years with a, wv< re cmigh. When 1 * immeueed ta
king your Expectorant ) as reduced to one hundred
and sixteen c -acds in weight. 1 hud tried almost
everything: n,d con iine night e\v -a a. 1 hav taken
half do/on but tics. Tbo night, sweats have left me,
the confjh lies diS !;>(‘e.:r<Hi, and f h >veg,dned tliteon
pounds in ib-.-'h. 1 j ; to all my n ieada.
Withered rat..cot, OLi VXCIt UI'JE.
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THE DAWSON JOURNAL,
15Y J. I). IIOYL & CO.
An ArkausnwJTraveler.
The following is the original dialo
gue, from which was conceived the j? fa
mous story of “The Arkausaw Travel
er:” ‘
A lost and bewildered Arkansaw
traveler, approaching the cabin of a
Squatter, about forty years ago discov
ered the on an old
whiskey barrel near the door, partly
shelteredTy the eaves*playing a fiddle
when the following dialogue ensued,
the Squatte 1- still continuing to play the
same part ever and over.
Traveler—“ Hallo, stranger!”
Squatter —“Hallo yourself!”
“Can I stay all night with you?”
“You can go to h— ll.”
“Have you any spirits here?’
“Lots of ’em. Sal saw one last night
by that tbar old gun, and it like to have
scared her to death. ’
“You mistake the meaning? have you
any liquor?”
“Had some yesterday, but old Bose
he got in and lapped all of it out ov the
pot.”
“You don’t understand; I don’t mean
pot liquor; I am wet and cold and want
some whiskey. Have you got any? ’
“Oh, yes, I drank the last this morn
ing.”
“I’m hungry; havn't had a thing
since morning; can’t you give m some
thing to eat?”
“Hain’t a d—d thing iu the house.
Not a mouthful of meat nor a dust of
meal here.”
“Well,'can’t you .give my horse
something?’’
“Got nothing to feed him on.”
“As I am so bold, then what might
your name be?”
“It might be Dick or it might be
Tom, but it lacks a d—d sight of it.”
“Sir, will you tell me where this
road goes to?”
“It’s never been ar.ywhar since I
have been here: its always Thar when
I get up iu the morning.”
“Well how far is it to where it
forks?’
“It don’t fork at all, hut it splits up
like h—l.”
“As lam not likely to get to any
other house to-night, can’t you let me
sleep iu yours, and I’ll tie my horse to
a tree, and do without anything to eat
or drink.”
“My house leaks- Thar’s only one
dry spot in it, and me and Sal sleeps on
it. And that thar is the old woman's
persimmon tree, 3’ou can’t tie to it,
’cause she don’t want inn shuck oil.
She Tows to make beer ov uni.”
‘Why don’t you finish covering your
house, and stop the leaks?’
‘lt’s been rainin’ all day.”
/Well why don’t you do it in dry
weather?’
‘lt don’t leak then.’
‘As there seems to oe nothing alive
about your place hut children, how do
you do, anyhow?’
‘Puty well, I tank you, how you do
yourself?’
‘I mean what do you do for a liv
ig!>
‘Keep tavern and sell whiskey.’
‘Well, I told you I wanted some
whiskey.’
‘Stranger, I bought a barrel more
an a week ago. You see me and Sal
went shares. After we got it here, we
only bad a bit between us, and Sal she
didn’t want to use hern first, nor me
mine. You see I had a spiggot in oue
eeud, and she in totlier. She takes a
drink out ov my oend aud pays me the
bit for it; and then I’d take one out of
hern and give her the bit. Well, we’s
gittiug along fust rate, til Dick, d—u
skulking skunk, he bores a hole on the
bottom to suck at, and next time 1
went to buy a drink, they wurnt none
tliar.’
‘I am sorry your whiskey is all goue,
but, my friend, why don’t you play the
balance of that tune?’
‘lt’s got no balance to it.’
‘I mean you don’t play the whole of
it.’
‘Stranger, can you play the fuddle?’
‘Yes, sometimes.’
‘You don’t look like a fuddler, but
if you think you can play any more
onto that thar tune, you jest git down
and try.’
[The traveler gets down and plays
the whole of it ]
Stranger, take half dozen cheers aud
sot down. Sal, stir yourself around
like a six horse team in a mud hole.
Go round in the holler, what I killed
that buck this morning, cut off some of
the best pieces, and fetch it in and
! cook for me and this gentleman, direct
! ly. Rise up the board under toe-head
!of the bed and git the old jug I hid
| from Dick, aud give us some whiskey
1 know thar is some left yit., i il.
drive old Bcse out ov the bread tray,
j then climb up in the loft and git the
rag that has got the sugar tied iu it.
* DAW SON, GEORGIA, THURSDAY, FEBRUARY 19, 1880.
Dick, carry the geutleman s horse
round under the shed and give him
some fodder and corn—as much as 1m
can eat.’
Til.—‘Dad, t'nar aint knives enough
to sot the table.’
“\f bar's big butch, little butch, old
case, cob-handle, granny’s knife and
the one I handled yesterday? That s
enough to sot any gentleman s table.
Without you lost ’em. D—u me stran
ger, ef you can’t stay as long as you
pkase, and I give you plenty to eat and
drink. Will you have coffee for sup
per?’
‘Yes sir.’
‘l’ll be hanged if you do, tho; we
don’t have uotliiug but Grub Hyson,
and I reckon its mighty good with
sweetening. Play away, stranger, you
kin s'eep on the dry spot to-night.’
(After about two hours fiddling) ‘My
frieud, can’t you tell me about the road
I am to tramp to-morrow?’
‘To-morrow! Stranger, you won’t
get out of these diggins for six weeks.
But whon it gits so you kin start you
see that higjslew over thar? Well, you
have to git crost that, then you take
the road up tho hank, aud in about a
mile you will come to a two-acrc-and
a-half corn patch; the corn is mitely in
the weeds, but you needn’t mind that,
just ride on. About a mile and a half
or two miles from thar you’ll come to
the d—dest swamp you ever met in all
your travels—it’s boggy enough to
mire a saddlejblauket. That’s a first
rate road about six feet under there.'
‘llow am I to get to it?’
‘You can’t git at it narry time till
the weather stiffens down sum. Well,
about a mile beyond you come •to a
place where thar’s two roads. You can
take the right baud if you want to;
you’ll follow it a mile or_so, and you’ll
find it run out; you’d then have to come
bade and try the left; when you git
about two miles’on that you may know
you are wrong for thar ain’t any road
thar. Y'ou’ll then think you arc mighty
lucky ef you kin find the way back to
my house, vvhar you can come and play
on the tune as long as you please.’
Census Tricks.
[St. Louis Republican-]
As there is a.great deal of talk about
the forthcoming census, it may be well
to warn people agaiust pretended offi
cials who will no doubt attempt to per
petrate fraud under the guise of gath
ering statistics for the census. The
game lies already been begun in so ne
States. A good looking person armed
with blanks and papers that give him
an air of official respectability drives up
to a farmer’s house and asks him tor in
formation about his crops of grain, po
tatoes and other farm produce, the
number of acres he lias in cultivation,
the number of head of cattle he owns,
and other facts connected with his vo
cat on, all of which is carefully noted
on his blanks. Then the farmer is re
quested to sign his name at the bottom
of a blank space on the paper to verify
the information—and here is where the
trick comes in. The farmer may un
suspectingly append his signature with
out asking questions; if so, he is entrap
ped, tor the pretended official, bidding
him good day, takes his departure, goes
off and writes over the signatures a
promissory note for SIOO, S2OO and
S3OO, and sells it to the nearest hank
or note buyer, and the farmer knows
nothing of the fraud till the note falls
due, and he is notified by the innocent
holder to come forward and pay it. As
we have taken frequent occasions to
warn farmers and others, they cannot
he too wary of strangers, who under
one pretence and another, ask them to
sign their names to papers. In nine
times out of ten there is a fraud inten
ded. The census law does not require
persons to sign their names to papers
at all.
Rustic Courtship.
I hitched my chair close up to her’n
shet my eyes and shudderingly sed:
‘Sally, I’ve been hankering arter
you from the foot of your soul to the
head of your crown, and I don’t keer
who nose it. Expluribus onions!,’
With that she fetched a screech, an’
alter a while shesez:
“Uriah?”
‘•Sally,” soz I.
‘ Yes,” sez she, hidn’ her face.
Gflory! ga-lory! Hooray —hoo-
ray.”
With that I sorter sloshed myself
down by and clinched.—-Talk about
yer night blooming serious! Oh, my—
oh, broomstraw with sorgurn lasses on
’em! Ef Sally’s father hadn’t hollered
out, “It’s time for decent folks to be iu
bed, Idu believe Id staid all nite.’
i A Chicago man went to a dentist to
have a lost tooth replaced. The den
tist grafted a woman s tooth in the gum.
Since then his jaw has been working
like a saw mi}l.
AVliere is The Money ?
The bottom fell out of the Gran
ger movement quicker than any or
ganization of toe kind that ever start
ed out in this country to involution
ize agriculture, break down monopo
lies and reform the world. The query
is often asked, of late, by “horny
handed sons of toil” who deposited
their hard-earned dollars in this in
stitution : “Where lias the money
gone to?” Like the Freedman’s
swindle, this concern needs to
be looked into.
The whole scheme was concocted
in Washington by a few shrewd,
sharp, wire-working, money-wanting
•rascals, who wanted to accumulate a
big fortune in a very fevv'years with
out working for it; and right well
did they succeed. It was a regular
bonanza —a bigger tiling than a Cali
fornia gold mine. \\ m. Saunders,
Gen. De Le Due’s pet poodle, fixed up
the ritual and put the whole machin
ery in motion,- when ihe fleecing com
menced in such a genteel and cun
ning way that thousands of the most
substantial people everywhere were
ta en in and done tor. The good
tiiis great order would do was heral
ded to the world in thunder tones by
Grange orators (political mounte
banks) and G range papers (organs of
the Washington thieves), and the
people—the good, sturdy sons of toil,
a class of nieu who work harder for
what they get of this wor d’s goods
than any other—entered its fold like
sheep.
We have no fault to find with
farmers foi jouiing the order- They
thought they were doing right, and
their motives were pure. “What lias
become of the money ?” is what every
one inquires. Well, we can’t tell ex
actly, but we think it has been divi
ded up among those who were instru
mental in getting up the scheme.
Some say that there were 200,090
granges established in the States and
Territories, but we will split the differ
ence and say that 100,000 were or
ganized ; arid at SI.V per grange,
which had to be paid as initiation
and charter fee, we have the immense
amount (if one million five hundred
thousand dollars paid to some central
office Of course the quarterly dues
of member-*, together with the cost
of books, reports and other articles*,
the amount is, at a low estimate, one
third as much as the charter fees.
It is stated that two prominent Geor
gians, who took Yn active part in
Grange affairs, made a pile out of it.
The world is full of newfangled
schemes to relieve the hard-working
people of their spare change, and we
advise them to keep their eyes open.
Congress ought to investigate this
stupendous swindle; and if it does
take place, we expect some rare, rich
and racy developments.— Atlanta,
Phonograph,.
The Americus Sumter Republicau
gives an account of a tight between a
cat and a rattlesnake, which was detail
ed to that paper by an eye witness, as
follows: “About three weeks aro, dur
ing the beautiful sunny weather we
hare had which induced the trees to
bud and bloom, I was walking in my
garden one morning, chinking abou
preparing for an early start for spring
vegetables, when I saw a large rattle
snake sunning. My first impulse was
to go to the house, get a gun, and kill
it. But looking around, I saw a very
large house cat cautiously creeping
upon the reptile. Anticipating a fight,
and equally desirous of getting rid of
the cat, whish killed chicsens, I con
cluded to witness his attack upon the
snake. The cat crawled upon its stotn
| ach. pulling along on us feet, whisking
its tail from side ts side, and every now
and then stretching its neck to view
the snake. When about eight or ten
feet off the snake suddenly coiled up,
sprung its rattle, faced the cat and
darted its forked tongue out rapidly.
The cat commenced a rapid circle
around the snake, so fast iu fact that
the eye could hardly keep up with it.
At last it got near enough and made a
dart at its enemy, but through provi
dential reasons, it went high above the
snake, which also ..truck at the cat, thus
breaking its coil. The cat went too
far, and by the time it had turned to
face its foe, the reptile was again coil
ed aud ready for the attack, ihe same
method was adopted and carried on for
four or five times, occupying at least
half an hour. The eat wished to catch
the snake but seemed aware that if it
! missed the neck it would be certain
j death. At the sixth assault they met,
1 and instan: ly the snake was wrapped in
I several folds around the body of the
eat, which used its sharp claws with
deadly effect. The cat bad been bitten
on the head and neck several times,
aou Loth continued to fight. The snake
was torn nearly to shreds, but did not
unloose its coil around its victim. The
I poison was swift and deadly, but before
j the cat died it caught tiie snake’s head
i in its mouth and crushed it, and fight
ing they died, the snake enwrapping the
! eat in its coils. The snake measured
four feet eight inches anu had thirteen
! rattles ”
Up in the Fiery Chariot.
Cremation of Miss Dolly Hartman
in Le Moyne’s Furnace,
Washington, Pa., February 7. —
The train hearing tho little funeral
party to see performed the last funeral
rites of the late Dolly Hartman, arriv
ed at Little Washington at 11 o'clock.
There was no unusual demonstration
whatever at the depot, and the coffin
inclosing the body was lifted from the
train and placed in a hearse, which was
in waiting. One of the carriages and
barouche were sufficient to carry the
near relatives, and this made up the
funeral cortege, that wound its way
through the snow-drifts to the cemetery
on Gallows Hill. There the body was
carried into the small reception room,
and followed by those who had accom
panied it and two or three others, who
had crossed the hill on foot to witness
the closing scenes.
The lid was here removed from the
coffin, and those who loved Miss Hart
man best looked for the last time upon
the pale white face of the beautiful
young lady who had been so lately with
them. The body was dressed in white,
and the head rested to one side as
though in sleep. The hands were plac
ed easily upon tho breast. There was
a delicate fringe upon tho wrists, and
one hand clasped a few flowers.
After a parting look from those pres
ent, the body was quieily lifted from
the casket and placed iu an iron crate.
A linen sheet, which had been dampen
ed with alum water, covered the body,
to prevent it from catching the flumes
until it had been some little time in
the furnace. Rev. 11. C. Vetterling,
of the New Jerusalem Swedenborgian
Church, repeated a brief service over
the remains aud sprinkled ashes. At
11:45, a. in., the crate was lifted and
pushed into the furnace. The door was
quickly closed and hermetically sealed,
and the work of the quick reduction of
tho body to ashes began. A few mo
ments later the building was deserted
by al! hut one person, who attended
the five. There were hut two ladies
present at the commencement of the
ceremony of incineration—the mother
of Miss Hartman and a Miss Moniuger.
Mr. Hartman, the father, and his three
sons were also present. Miss Hart
man s body came to the crematory ill a
handsome mahogany casket. “The re
mains,” said a friend, “weighed only
eighty pounds and it was thought they
would not take over two hours to cook.”
The hair was removed before the body
was placed in tho crate. The ashes will
he sent to the family at Pittsburg.
The following is the latest alligator
story from the Palatka Herald. It will
be seen that the editor vouches for its
truth: “It was iu 1870. Palatka
then was not much. There was the
St. John’s Hotel, no Larkin and not
much of the Putnam. Hare lots on
Lemon street, made doubly bare by
some having no fencing. There was
but little faith in the future growth of
the town, and owners of lots sold out
at low figures; others there were that
held on, but failed to sell when at Hie
top of the market. At that period no
lamps lit up the streets, and everybody
retired at 10 o’clock. If called out at
midnight you had to face a lonely si
lence: no measured tramp, tramp, of the
polie man on his beat broke upon your
hearing, and only the far away howl of
some long eared deer hound awoke the
echoes of the dismal night. There was
one night, at that period, we never shall
forget. We had prepared to leave on
the Charleston steamer at twelve o’clock,
and started from our homo, taking Lem
on street at the court house corner. Just
as we turned we were horrified at hear
ing a combination of dreadful sounds
like unto the low mutterings of distant
thunder. It soon became evident that
alligators, for they were numerous then,
had come up out of the river into the
town. The sounds of the roaring of
these monsters filled every street and
alley. The dogs of the town fled, and
took shelter under the houses, and
harked incessantly. 'lt really seemed
to us that the saurinns had taken the
town, and they had. We doubled
quick to the steamer. It was the only
time in our life that fear of these ani
mals got the better of our courage.
The whole town must have been asleep
that night, a night sleep in August,
when nothing short of an earthquake
could rouse thorn. The people on that
night did not know their danger, and
never will. They did not know any
tiling about it when we questioned
| them. The relation f this matter is
not an alligator story. That was ten
' years ago, and it is just as fresn in our
memory as. if it had occurred last night.
Such an alligator serenade we never cx
' poet to hear again.”
VOL. 16-NO. 40.
Dates of First Occurrences.
The first chimneys were introduced
into Koine from Padua in 1368.
The first almanac was printed by
Geo. Von Purch in 1460.
Post-oftice3 were first established
in 1464.
Printed musical notes were first
used in 1473.
Watches were first constructed in
1470.
The first watches were made in
Nuremberg in 1477.
America was discovered in 1492.
The first printing press was set iq*
at Copenhagen in 1493
Copernicus announced his discov
ery of the true system oi'tlieuniveise
in 1517.
Luther was sum*>oned before the
Diet of Worms 'in 1521.
Xavier, the first great missionary
of modern Christianity, planted the
cross in India in 152(i.
Albert Durer gave the world a
prophecy of future wood engraving
in 1527.
Jtrgens set the spinning wheel- in
motion in 1530.
Henry VIII, of England, finally
and forever broke with the Pope in
1532.
Ignatius Loyola founded the Order
ot the Jesuits in 1535.
Calvin founded the University of
Geneva in 1537.
Modern needles first came into use
in 1545.
The first knives were used in Eng
land, and the first wheeled carriages
in France, 1559.
Torquato Tasso wrote in 1501.
Religious liberty was granted to
the Huguenots in France in 1562,
and was followed by the massacre of
St. Bartholomew in 1572.
Coaches were first used in Eng
land in 1569.
Cervantes wrote Don Quixote in
1537.
The first newspaper was published
in England in 1583.
Telescopes were invented in 1560
Spencer, Shakespeare, Bacon, Kep
ler, Tycho Broke woic contempora
ries in 1590.
The first telescope was probably
used in England m 1618.
Th > first printing press in the Uni
ted States was introduced in 1629.
The first air pump was made in
1501.
The first newspaper advertisement
appeared in 1652.
The first copper cent was coined
in New Haven in 1637.
The first steam engine on this con
tinent was brought from England in
1753.
The first baloon ascent was made in
17&3.
Glass windows were first introdue
ed into England in the eighth cen
tury.
The first steamboat plied the Hud
son in 1807.
The first sawmaker’s anvil was
brought to America in 1819.
The first use of a locomotive in this
country was in 1820.
Kerosene was fust used for light
ing purposes in 1826.
The first horse railroad was built
in 1320-7
The first lueifer match was made
in 1829.
The first iron steamship was built
in 1830.
The first steel pen was made in
1830.
Omnibuses were introduced in
New York m 1880.
Ships were first “copper-bottom”
in 1837.
Envelopes were first used in 1839
Anaesthesia was discovered in l'H.
Tiie first c unplete sewing machine
was patented by Elias Ilowe, Jr, in
1840!
Gold was first discovered in Cali
fornia in 1348.
How to Doul with Itats.
A writer in the Scientific American
says: “We clean our premises ot these
detestable vermin by making whitewash
yellow with copperas and covering the
stones ard rafters iu the cellar with it.
In every crevice in which a rat may
tread we put the chrystals of the cop
peras and scatter the same in the corn
ers of the floor. The result was a per
fect stampede of rats and mice. Since
that time not a footfall of either rats or
mice has been heard about the house.
Every spring a ctat of yellow wash is
given the cellar as a purifier, as a rat
exterminator, an 1 no typhoid, dysen
tery or fever attacks the family.
They had tiicir usual evening quar
rel as they sat by the hearth. On
oue side lay quietly a blinking deg,
and on the otner a puning cut, and
the olu woman pleaded with ho:
growling husband. “Yust look at
dat gat uud dat tog dev liefer g war
re Is nor lights like n-. “Yah,” said
the old growler, “I km .vs dot; but
vu<; die and .n togedder one time, und
| den you see wot! ’
An honest Hibernian, in recomuien-
I diug a cow, said she would give milk
| year after ye:.r without having calves.
! ‘‘Because,” said he, ‘it runs in the
! breed, for she came of a cow that never
' had a calf.’
.A Wi.tl Hoy UiCgia.
A Gentleman from Marcos, Texas,
tells of the capture ol a wild boy a
few miles from that place The boy
was first discovered wallowing in a
pond of shallow water, and when ap
proached he broke like a quarter
horse, running about a mile before
ho could be overtaken by men on
ponieg. Riding up near, the boy was
lassoed, the strange being striking,
kicking, lunging about in the most
fearful manner, and apparently being
frightened almost to death. Finally
he was overpowered, tied and taken
to the house of the man who first
discovered him His body was cov
ered with hair about four inches long,
and from size and appearance he is
supposed to he about twelve years
old. He is unable to talk, but pos
se ses reasoning power, and now fol
lows his captors about like a dog.
The following somewhat mysteri
ous story is told hv the Cartersville
Express: ‘“On Monday morning, Jan
uary 19th hist, a stranger, neatly
dressed, got off the ears at Cass sta
tion, left a trunk at the depot, with a
request that it be kept there until ho
called for it, and then went of! from
the station, saying he was going to
wards Cas-ville. On the next Thurs
day morning, Mr. Teat, a shoemaker,
of Cussville, went out into an old field
half a mile back of Mr. Pmc/s
house, at Cassville, and found a ho e
four feet deep and three feet square,
apparently recently dug. The hole
was near two trees which were blaz
ed probably years ago, and a tall pine
tree standing alone. Somewhat start
led by this strange sight, Mr. Teat
went back to Cassville and told some
people about it, an d they seemed to at
tach no importance to the tale. On
Sunday afterwards, Mr. Teat, acjom
panied by his brother and another gen
tleman, went over to that quiet, seclud
ed, londy spot to examine the strange
excavation- What was their constern
ation to fiind the h do eight feet deep,
anq away down at the bottom the print
of a pot. At the side of the hole, ly
ing on the fresh dirt, were a mattock
and spade. The mattock belonged to
Mr. Pence and had been missed by him
a few days previous. Looking around
to find some cue to this startling revela
tion, they discovered the track of a man
leading from the hole toward Cass sta
tion. Upon inquiry it was learned that
this same strange man had gone hack
to Cass station the day before, called
for Lis trunk and left.”
The following remarkable state
ment \ie clip from the Columbus
Enquirer. It will be seen from it
that the negro doctors of the Lowell
of the South have a decidedly novel
way of treating a patient for an elon
gated pa'ate: “When the patient
enters the sanctuary, he is placed in
a sitting posit i m in a chair; the ‘doc
tor’ takes a hunch ol hair from the
top of the head in his hand, and, hav
ing a firm grip on it, pulls with all
his might and main until the scalp
‘pops,’and separ.T-'s'from ti e skull;
he then ties the bunch of hair very
lightly with a strong piece oft wine
around the patient’s neck to keep the
scalp from going back to the skull.
The string is kept tied and (lie scalp
raised in this position lor two weeks.
After the allotted time has expired,
the patient is declared well Price only
twenty-five cents.”
Before committing suicide, in Chi
cago, John George Koenig bequeath
ed his body, which was about all he
owned, as follows: “I mpnst to
Slave my body handed to the Chicago
Medical College dis ■ eting roo n; but
should4hey refuse to take it; then
please offer it to some other college.
A few months ago when I spoke to
a student of the C. M C, asking him
what kind of. a subject I would make
for that purpose, he thought l was too
fat ”
We learn from the Marietta Journal
that on last Saturday evening at a tur
key shooting match a few miles below
Powder Sgrings, in Cobb county, Mr.
Thomas Eutrican accidentally dropped
his gun oil the groin and. The hammer
struck a rock and the gun was dischar
ged, shooting three men. Mr. Wade
Mosley had his left ankle shattered
fearfully, and amputation will be nec
essary, it is thought A Mr. Alec
Grisham and a Mr. Holbrooks each re
ceived painful flesh wounds.
An Ohio cow last week broke a man’s
neck by a kick. A mule that witness
ed the casuality went behind the barn
and wept. And as he wept, he remark
ed to the cattle standing around : Ex
cuse these steers.
Albany Jldverliser: ‘Mr. E. 11,
Barnes, of the fiirm of Barnes & Yan
cey, was run over and badly hurt by a
mule, at their stables, about half past
three o’clock this afternoon. The mule,
which has but recently been brought
out from Kentucky, and is very wild,
started to rut: out of the stables, and
Mr. Barnes ran in ahead of him and
threw up his hands, to try and drive
him back. The mule was bent upon
making his exit, however, and ran right
over Mr. Barnes, striking him in the
breast wi li both front feet, and throw
ing him to the floor with terrific force.
Mr. Barnes’ head struck the floor, and
for several minutes he was perfectly
senseless. Medical aid was immediate
ly summoned, however, and ::t this writ
ing he is consel-.us, but suffering great
pain. The physician; Jo not seem to
think that the wouuJ, which is on the
back of the skull, is dangerous, but Mr.
Bantes has, at beet, made a. very nar
row escape We Lope by oar next to
bo able to announce his conirdete recov
ery.”
My daughters cay, ‘ ib-w teach bet*
ter lather is since t o ux and Hop U t
ters” He is getting well alter his long
suffering from a disease declared iu
cuiab'm, und weaie .*> glad that be
us and vi.ur 1) tt‘* s—A lady .t R cUes
te*. N Y.— Utica ILrald