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Volume 6.
Waynesboro, Georgia, Friday, May 6th, 1887.
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During the past year rails
liaye advanced Irom >$28 to $41.—
Some years ago they were as high
as $131.
gfgT The popular subscription
fund for the benefit of Mrs. Logau
reached $07,000. Her admirers at
one time hoped to make it $100,000,
but they seem satisfied with the
result of their labors.
gjET" Patti increased ber ex
chequer to the amount of $80,000 dur
ing her late visit to New York. This
sum will help to keep the pot boil
ing for several months in her home
among the crags of Wales.
About $25,000 worth of
repairs are being done on the Mark
ham House, of Atlanta. It will be
re-opened on the 15th of June
under the management of Mr.
Ernest Maxwell, who has been
the proprietor of the palace hotel of
Cincinnati.
The trouble between France
and Germany are increasing daily,
and actually war would hardly in
crease the expenses which are be
ing incurred in making prepara
tion. It might be the part of wis
dom for these nations to carry
into immediate action the senti
ment expressed by the fiery
Patrick Henry when he said “the
war is inevitable and let it come.”
About 15 years ago the
legislature of New York passed
a bill for building a new capital.
A million a year was to be appro
priated and the building, when
completed, was to cost pot over
$8,000,000. It is still unfinished,
and up to date has swallowed up
nearly $18,000,000 of the people’s
money, and several additional
millions will be absorbed before
the work is completed.
At the time of the division
of the grand old commonwealth oi
Virginia into tiie state of Virginia
and West Virginia, there was a
bonded indebtedness of some $34,-
000,000, owned by English capitalist,
West Virginia refused to pay any
part of this debt. A bill is now
pending before the West Virginia
legislature proposing that $8,000,000
of that debt he assumed by that
state, and as the bonds have been
scaled down to about $25,000,000 the
state of Virginia will gladly ar
range tor the payment of the
balance. It is on this mission
that Sir Edward Thornton is now in
this country.
Every day’s investigation
shows that the inter-state com
merce bill is a mass ot inextricable
confusion, and that no set of men
however honest and capable can
ever untangle or unravel it, and
the more it is tinkered with the
greater will be the chaos that will
come out of such confounded con
fusion. It has already disorganized
trade has done more towards dis
rupting business relations than
any proceeding ever tampered
with by any set of men who
hadn’t the faintest conception
of what they were attempting,
The sooner congress meets and
repeals the acts the better it
will be for the country.
IW A rbor Day is assuming
nn:J. importance in this country.
Over 600,000,000 trees have been
planted west of the Mississippi
river, and the work is but in its
infancy. Georgia will soon wake
up and get fully into line. Our
people do not yet altogether realize
the importance of forests. A few
more years of ^protracted drouths
and the devastating incursions of
cyclones as they run riot through
our homes carrying death and de
struction in their course, will teach
us the necessity of trees and we
will not only go to planting on
Arbor Day, but will realize the
sentiment and sound sense of the
poet who wrote “Woodman, spare
that tree.” The next generation
in Georgia must repair the dam
age and wasteful destruction
wrought by their fathers. The new
South must deviate from the beaten
pathway of the old South, even
though she be accused of proving
1 ' ''reant to the memories of the
past and of adopting of the teach-
iugs of the “boomers.”
siiiini/ S i' lta ' zer is what you used for Con-
■ v ;l Pl >e tit e , dizziness, and ail
ti'.i- i, "nsofDyspepsia. Price 10and75cents
i dottle. For sale bv Whitehead & Co.
Po-o 1 ,,!?™ 6 back ’*‘ de or chest, use Shiloh's
WffitehSd 6 * Co. PnCe 25 CeDtS ' For sale by
There was an immense
crowd in Charleston last week
to witness the unveiling of the
Calhoun monument. The addess
of Secretary Lamar was well re
ceived and almost the entire press
of the country are unanimous in
pronouncing the oration worthy
of the occasion, and of the career
of the great statesman whose life
it commemorated.
A.MOSlillKNT FOK GENERAL BKECKENRIBOE.
Republics are some times very
slow in doing their duty, but they
are not always ungrateful. The
people of Kentucky are at last
building a monument at Lexington
to their great statesman, Gen. John
C. Breckenridge, and it will be un
veiled in October. Some two years
ago the writer in visiting the ceme
tery at Lexington after admiring
the monument erected to Heury
Clay, enquired for the grave of
Breckenridge and was surprised to
see its neglected appearance, find
ing only a simple slab faintly indi
cating the name of him who rested
beneath, telling ever so forcibly
that “the paths of glory lead but to
the grave.” Mr. Breckenridge fill
ed many high positions of honor
and trust. At the age of 30 he was
a member of congress, and at 36
he was vice-president of the United
States, and ran on the Democratic
ticket in 1860 against Mr. Lincoln
for the presidency. In the war be
tween the states he took sides with
the South, and filled the high posi
tions of lieutenant-general and sec
retary of the treasury. His grave
is near the monument of Henry
Clay. Kentucky will do herself
credit in honoring his memory.
PROTECTING HER VOTERS.
The legislature of Kansas has
passed a law which forbids the dis
tribution of tickets or the presence
of the solicitors of votes within fifty
feet of the polling place. The object
is to protect the vote from intimida
tion and undue persuasion. It is
an easy matter to pass a law, hut
the tug of war comes on in the en
forcement. Nearly all the states
have their election liquor laws,
yet their is more mean whisky
consumed on election days than
any time of the year, unless it be on
that day set apart by Christians to
commemorate the birthday of their
Saviour.
We hear ever so much talk of the
purity of the ballot box, but we
would much rather risk Pandora’s
box with all its fabled evils. Our
politicians (especially when they
are meditating the perpetration of
some great fraud) may boast of the
sanctity of the election franchise,
ut there is a yearly emanation
from it of enough corruption to
breed pestilence and epidemics for
the whole world and the balance of
mankind. It is the fruitful soil in
which the patriotic politician plants
his crop, daily enriching it with the j
scum gathered from the polluted
streams and cesspools of depraved
humanity. But the end will always
sanctify the means. Just so that
the tracks are carefully rubbed out
it matters not what devious routes
may have been travelled in reach
ing the goal. Old Parson Brown-
low, before he became the senator
and governor of Tennessee, once
told his congregation that “rascali
ty abounded and that if they could
see themselves in the gospel glass
they would be as black as hell.”—
Imagine the hideous expressions if
such a mirror could be hung in
some prominent position in our
state and national legislative hails
where the political countenances of
our lawmakers could be carefully
scanned by their admiring constitu
ents. We have no doubt but that
the Kansas legislators who were
the most active in the passage of
this law were charged with the per
petration of some glaring election
fraud and hence the introduction of
this bill to show up their innocence.
“When the devil was sick,
The devil a saint would he,
But when the devil got well,
The devil of a saint was lie.”
Death of Faithful Colored Man Who Spent His
Lite on the S&T^iah.
Augusta Chronicle.
John Bell, the old Savannah river
steamboat pilot, who died in Savan
nah recently, deserves more than a
passing notice. He had been on
the river forty-three years—first as
cabin boy, then as a deck hand,
finally, through his intelligence and
thorough knowledge of the river,
he was raised to the position of
pilot, in which capacity he officiated
until the day of his death. He was
considered by all the river captains
as the most efficient and trusted
pilot on the Savannah river. He
has experienced many dangers
from burning steamers, etc., and,
through his coolness and presence
of mind, saved many persons from
the flames and watery graves. He
acted as pilot on the steamer Carrie,
when that ill-fated boat burned,
and, on that occasion, his conduct
was such that nearly every passen
ger escaued. Notwithstanding he
was literally surrounded by fire, he
heroically stuck to the wheel, run
ning the boat six times ashore, but
without avail, as the ropes would
be burned in two as fast as the at
tempt would be made to tie ud the
steamer.
When compelled to plunge into
the river to save himself from the
fire he did not take to the shore un
til he had completely exhausted
himself by his efforts to save those
who were forced to jump into the
river. He was one colored man in
a thousand, being not only a man
of high principle and honor, but a
devoted husband and father. His
family never knew what it was to
want during his litetime. He was
exceedingly generous, and was nev
er known to refuse help to any one
when it was in his power to do so.
In his death the steamboat corpora
tions have sustained a great loss, as
he not only thoroughly understood
the navigation of the river, hut
could be counted on in any emer
gency. His good behavior and ex
emplary conduct won for him the
esteem of all who knew him.
Her Arms Torn Out.
A Church In Its Decadence.
Athens Ban ner- Watch man.
One of the old landmarks of Cobb-
ham is rapidly losing its individual
ity. I refer to the Primitive Bap
tist church, in the rear ot the insti
tute. This church was built many
years ago to accommodate the flock
of the late Elder Davy W. Patman,
and regularly on the second Satur
day and Sunday of each month the
old Hardshell expounder would
occupy the pulpit. In the early
days of the foundation, the church
was frequently crowded, many be
ing attracted there by the exceed
ingly plain and simple method of
worship. But when the novelty
wore away, and the church and the
sermons had to stand on their own
merits, the crowd rapidly dwindled
into a small handful. Elder Pat
man died several years ago, and
the church never flourished after
his decease. Indeed, a few years
since the white membership took
their letters and sought religious
comfort elsewhere. The church re
mained to the colored element of
the congregation, who still main
tain it; but it has lost that element
of individuality that Elder Patman
gave to it. The first “foot washing,”
as an order of sacrament, I witness
ed in that church.
Xevv York Sun.
Mrs. Hannah Perrine, a widow 22
years old, who was employed as a
packer in Lorillard’s tobacco factory
in Jersey City, finished her work at
about 2 o’clock yesterday afternoon.
With Mary Cosgrove, another pack
er, she started on a walk through
the department to kill time while
they were waiting for the pay
master to come along, when the
young women reached the part ot
the room where there is some
machinery the hands employed
there had finished, and the belting
which had been thrown on the
pulleys, was hanging between the
.machines a few feet from the floor.
To rest herself, Mrs, Perrine sat in
the belting .as in a swing. The
shaft which ran along the ceiling,
ten feet above the floor, was revolv
ing, and it is explained that in some
way the woman’s weight had the
effect to tighten the belting on the
pulleys. With her hands on either
side of the belting, Mrs. Perrine had
begun swinging herself to and fro
when she felt a jerk, and was car
ried towards the ceiling. Before
she knew her danger she had reach
ed the shafting about which the
belting was being drawn. Both her
arms were caught in the machinery
and both were torn from their
sockets at the shoulder. She fell to
tlje floor and the dismembered
limbs, having been released from
the shafting, fell by her side. The
hands who saw the accident, which
was all oyer in a few seconds, turn
ed their heads in horror. The girl
was carried into the firm’s office,
and five physicians were sent for,
but despite their efforts the woman
died at 5 o’clock. Mrs. Perrine was
a pretty brunette, and was a favor
ite with her employers and the
hands in the department in which
she worked. Her husband died
four years ago, a year after her mar
riage. Her mother and stepfather
are living, but her friends do not
know where they are.
A printer arrived at Macon one
day last week and for the short
time he worked made.$7. When
he drew his pay he found three
things necessary—to send some of
the money to his family, to pay his
board here and to replenish life
wardrobe. To accomplish the three
things he did what perhaps was
never done before. He started out
in town to see what he could do in
the way of making himself present
able, and at one store he bought a
pair ot shoes and a pair oi socks for
35c.; at another store he bought a
coat, vest and pants of midsummer
pattern for $1 15, making the cost
of the entire outfit $1 50. It is only
in the sunny South that such ex
treme economy can be practiced.
Subscribe for The Citizen.
A SNAKE FARM.
llow the Uattlesnaken HaTC Made Captain Storer
Rim.
Galtox, III., April 26.—Your
correspondent last Sunday visited
the celebrated snake farm—“rattle
snake forty”—near this village,
owned and managed by Captain
Dan Stover and wife, and assisted
by William Dunn, agent at the
Illinois Central depot. It might
be surmised that the breeding and
propagation of rattlesnakes and
other reptiles was not only a dan
gerous but an unpleasant occupa
tion. However, these poor but
honest people have learned that,
there is money in snakes, and last
year they cleared almost enough
from their sales to pay the expenses
of the family of four.
“Who buys rattlesnakes, and
what on earth do they want want
with them ?” you ask. Why, for use
in the manufacture of the new cure
for rhuematism. A firm in Phila
delphia uses the oil in their remedy
and pays a good price for every
rattlesnake delivered at their lab
oratory. Mr. Stover has contracted
with the firm to furnish them 250 of
that species during the present
season at $2.25 each, none to measure
less than four feet in length, or to
be less than six years of age. The
older the snake the better and
stronger the oil.
Sunday the sun shone out bright
and warm, which brought out the
snakes in large numbers to bask in
the warm rays, and as Mr. Stover
said, would be a good day to take
a stroll over “rattlesnake forty.”
Procuring a good stout stick and
donning a heavy pair of boots, your
correspondent joined Stover and
Dunn in the hunt. Dunn is a com
paratively new man in the busi
ness, and has had several narrow
escapes from being bitten by the
deadly reptiles but he is learning
fast. To show us li w easy it is
to kill a snake, he pi. kyd up a blue
racer by the tail, 11 t was lying
coiled up in the sunlit in a half
comatose couuition, and giving it
a couple of whirls over his head in
a lightening manner, he cracked it
like a whip, causing its head to part
from its body and spin through tiie
air. Proceeding a little further,
we came to “the mounds,” little
raised places on the snake farm,
where the snakes burrow in winter
and breed in summer. There are
thirty-seven of these mounds on
the farm, and on the t >uth side of
one cf the largest of these, where
they could get the full benefit of the
sun, lay coiled up sound asleep
forty-three large ' rattlesnakes,
seven black snakes and numerous
other smaller reptiles, not. one of
which seemed to recognize our
presence. Stover and Dunn do
not kill off the whole crop yearly,
hut leave many for breeding pur
poses.
“Why,” said the former, “that
mound there contains probably a
dozen nests of eggs and each nest
at least ten eggs. I have found
nests that contained as high as
eighteen young rattlers, the largest
not over two inches in length.—
Their eggs are about the size of
those of a partridge, but have a
soft shell. The farm is a tract of
virgin prairie and has never seen
a plow, and Dan says in summer
its native grass is very high, render
ing it an excellent place for the
reptiles to hide in.”
After retiring to the house, the
two snake breeders exhibited a
string of rattles several feet in
length, which they captured last
summer, the whole footing up 768
rattles.
Some of the snakes possessed
twenty-five rattles and a button
each rattle counting a year to its
age and the button a traction of a
year.
Mr. Stover also had in a box of
sawdust under a cook stove twenty-
seven rattlesnake eggs, which she
said, would begin to hatch in a few
days after which event the children
would be kept busy catching flies
to feed the tiny pets.
Stover and Dunn have several
pet rattlers around the house, which
are as harmless as kittens, made so
by their poison sac haying been re
moved from the roofs of their
mouths and their fangs clipped with
pincers, all this being done while
the snakes were under the influence
of choroform. They have no equal
as mice exterminators, and in the
summer keep the place free from
bugs, flies and bad boys.
It is needless to say the neighbors’
children do not trouble the Stover
household or their premises.
Besides supplying the Philadel
phia firm with snakes for their use,
the breeders have filled orders for
different parties in all parts of the
country, mostly physicians. A doc
tor in St. Louis took several live
pairs last summer at $5 per pair.
Promising the boys a return to
their farm at some •future time,
when the snake season was more
fully opened up, we took leave of
the place, drawing a breath of re
lief as we did so. W.
A Sad Case.
Montgomery Star.
Notice was sent to Williamson
& Campbell’s undertaking estab
lishment Saturday morning for
•Coroner Williamson to go to one
ot the L. and tenement houses,
where the body of a colored woman
named Josephine Shepherd had
been found in a partially decom
posed condition. As the coroner
was out ot the city the matter was
turned over to Justice Screws for
an inquest, which he held before
noou. It was then learned that
the woman had been dead at least
48 hours, and during that entire
time her six little children had
been alone with the body. They
had tried to tell several persons
of their sad condition, but no atten
tion had been paid to them. The
woman’s husband had deserted her,
and slie being ill and unable to
work, had died Irom neglect and
starvation. The jury’s verdict was
in accordance with these facts. Dr.
L. M. Wood first testifying as to
her condition. The children were
about half starved themselves.
The poor creatures will have a hard
time of it, alone and uncared lor as
they are.
Sleepless nights made miserable by that ter
rible cough. Shilob’e Cure is the remedy for
you. For sale by Whitehead * Co.
A Clock of Skeletons.
Popular Science Monthly.
We are told of a strange clock
that is said to have belonged to a
Hindoo prince. A large gong was
hung on poles near the dial, and
all about upon the ground lay a
Dile of artificial human heads, ribs,
legs and arms. The whole number
of bones in the pile was equal to
the number of bones in twelve
perfect bodies, but the pile appear
ed to have been thrown together
in the greatest confusion. When
the hands of the clock indicate
the hour of 1, out from the pile
crawled first the number of parts
needed to form the frame of one
man, part coming to part with a
quick click, and, when completed,
the figure sprang up, seized a
mallet, and, walked up to the gong,
struck one blow. This done
he returned to the piie and feli to
pieces again. When 2 o’clock came
two arose and did likewise, and at
the hours of noon and midnight
the entire heap sprang up, and,
marching to the gong, struck one
after another his blow', making
twelve in all, then returned fell to
pieces as before.
Will you suffer with dyspepsia and liver
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A Costly Straw Hat.
A well dressed stranger one-third
drunk and about two-thirds crazy
walked into the baggage-room at the
union depot in Atlanta on Tuesday
and taking Irom his pocket a $20
bill and a $2 50 gold piece handed
it to Mr. Marke Sharp and begged
him to go up on Whitehall street
and purchase for him a straw hat.
Mr. Sharp declined to take the
money and was about to explain
to the stranger that he could go up
there himself and buy a hat for
much smaller amount when the
man got nettled and said it w r as
not true but that his only chance
to get a straw hat w r as to give the
money to Sharp to buy it for' him.
He then walked off. After a w’hile
he came back and stated that he
had secured the service of a man
on the street to buy the hat for
him and had given him the money
At any rate the crank was minus
his money, and at last accounts
the person to whom he entrusted
his wealth had not “shown up” and
is not likely to return. Of course
the crank couldn’t tell who got his
cash.
A Petri fled Berry.
Americus Recorder.
A rare curiosity in the shape of a
strawberry was shown us yesterday.
It grew on the place ot the Messrs.
Heys, near this city, and is as hard
as a stone. The Messrs. Heys
watched it carefully all during the
stage of petrifaction and when it
had become sufficiently hardened
brought it to town and had Fricker
& Brother to polish it and make
it into a breastpin, which was easily
done by smoothing down one side
of the berry. It is beautifully col
ored and weighs about two ounces
and anyone can tell at a glance
that it is really a berry. Mr.
Fricker will exhibit it at his store
for a few days.
Croup, whooping cougli and bronchitis im
mediately relieved by Shiloh’s Cure. For sals
bv Whitehead & Co.
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AUGUSTA, GA.
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WE SELL THE
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