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ATTORNEY AT LAW,
Sandeisvllle, Oa. sf
win practice In the State and United States
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•tore on Harris street.
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Offlro at Ills Residence, on Barrt* street,
Aorll 3d, 1880.
B. D. EVANS,
ATTORNEY AT LAW.
Sandersyllla, Oa.
April 1,1M0.
Dr. H. B. Hollifield,
psisiciis on \mm,
Having recently graduated at the Unlver-
alty of Maryland aud returned home, now
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VOLUME IV
DEVOTED TO LITERATURE, AGRICULTURE AND GENERAL INTELLIGENCE.
SANDERSVILLE, GA., TUESDAY. SEPT.EMBKU II, 18813,
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NUMBER 23.
GENE1IAL NEWS,
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HINES & ROGERS,
Attorneys at Law,
SANDERSVILLE,K3A„
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Jeffomon,Johnson, Kmannel and Wilkinson,
aud In the U. id. Court* for the Southern Dis
trict of Georgia.
Will act ns ogonts In buying, selling or
renting Real Estate.
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II
Bows, Strings,
Rosin Boxes, Etc-
Machine Needles,
Oil and Shuttles,
FOR ALL KINDS OF MACHINES, for sale.
I will also order parts of Machine,
that get broken, for which new
piece* are wanted.
A. J. JERNIGAN.
Married In Haste.
“The quickest marriage on record,
said 0110 old resident of St. Louis, “was
that of Dr. Nick McDougnll, who, dnv
ing along the street in his buggy ono
day, saw n beautiful girl standing at the
window. Ho immediately stopped and
hitched his liorBe, rang tlio bell, inquired
the lady’s name, waj ushered into the
parlor, announced liis own name, snul
ho ‘was pleased with lier appearance
and wished to mnrry her at once.
Nothing but tlio knowledge that slio was
actually in the prcscuco of the celebrated
physician kept her from fainting. J o
her pica of ‘ surprise at this unexpected
announcement,’ he only replied ‘Now or
never.’ "When slio naked to ‘take a week
to consider,’ he said, ‘I am going down
street to attend a critical case and have
no timo to spare right now.’
“ ‘Givo mo a day, then.’
“ 'I’ll tell you what I’ll do. When I
am through with this professional visit
I’ll drive round and got a preachor. If
you’ve made up your mind to marry pie
by that time, all right!’ and ho left her
breathless and unable io artioulato an
other word. When ho returned > thoy
were quietly married. ‘ No cards.' ’’
Bondholders.—Mrs. A. T. Stewart is
reputed- to the second largest United
' States bondholder, Sho bos $30,000,000
invested.
They are making Horn- out of peanuts
in Virginia.
The drouth is killing groat numbers of
cattle in some parts of Texas.
Large beds of phosphate have been
discovered ill Dulpin and render comi
ties, North Carolina.
The porcclnin works in Augusta coun
ty, Va., have commenced operations, nnd
goods equnl to any over made arc turned
out in large quantities.
There are now -18,041) post-offices in
the United Htntes. The number of post-
ofllceB lins increased forty per cent, since
187G.
There are eighty-four cigar fnetories
in Key West and nil hands constantly
employed.
The drouth lins about spoiled the cot
ton crop of South Carolina. The up
land crop is estimated nt three-fourths,
and the Sea Island nt still less.
A Northern company is negotiating for
tlio purchase of the Magrudcr mine in
Georgia, which is very rich in copper,
lead nnd silver.
Tliero are many parts of South Floridn
whore tlio crops of gunvns arc greater
than the peoplo can use. Being a perish
able fruit, it can not ho shipped.
One firm in Gates county, N. C., owns
thirty miles of narrow-gauge railway,
connoting five of its saw-mills. It is the
lnrgcst lumber business in the State.
Since tlio death of Tom Thumb, Gen.
Abo Snwycr, of Key West, Florida,
claims to bo the smnllest dwarf ill the
world, being thirty-two inches high,
nineteen years of age and weighing only
thirty-seven pounds.
The Georgia nintch factory buildings
nt Gainesville nro about finished and C.
Van Flock, tlio principal owner, is in the
Eastern cities and Cnnndn shipping tlio
machinery.
North Cnrolina has two of the lnrgcst
viuoynsds east of the Rocky mountains,
Tlio grapes raised are coming into great
dcinnnd even outsido Of the State.
Tlio Louisiana Homestead nnd Aid
Association have taken in hand a project
to purchase 400 or 500 nercH of land nenv
New Orleans for establishing a home for
somo 800 old and infirm negroes in the
Slate of Louisiana, who are reported as
being in groat want.
The citizens of Rome, On., aro indig
limit at tlio advance in the premium on
cotton insurance in that city and claim
that with Rome’s unsurpassed water
works and well equipped and dauntless
fire department the rate ought not to bo
as high ns two per cent.
A report from Cnstlehnrg, Ala., says
“The timber nnd tlio turpeutino busi
ness have both been dull the greater
part of this season. The saw-mills have
acompleto vacation. Turpentine is fifty
per cent, lower than last year.”
Honey is plentiful in Smyrna, Fla.
Olaf Olnson has extracted over forty
barrels of choice honey, and wns com
pelled to stop for w ant of barrels, and is
now gathering it in neat one-pound sec
tions. 11. 8. Sheldon comes next, while
his neighbor, Dr. Goodwin, has been
busy building up liis apiary for the com
ing season.
Reports from tlio cotton ill the Nash
ville district, including Middle Tennes-
n portion r of West Tennessee and
North Alabama, show a larger aggregate
yield than last year’s crop.
Dispatches to tlio New Orleans Times-
Demoerat from all seet-ious of the cotton
belt show considerable falling ofT in crop
prospects compared with last year, ex
cept in Tennessee nnd somo portions of
Texas, caused by drouth, caterpillars and
boll worms. Tlio decrease is estimated
in some places at thirty-three and 0110-
tlurd per cent.* Many reports from Texas
nluo show a falling off in the outlook.
Tlio corn crop is also reported considera
bly damaged by drouth.
A part of Hell Hole Swamp, contain
ing 17,00 acres, has been bought by Mr,
Jos. Eemfry, who resides at High Point-,
N. C., as tlio representative of a compa
ny of English capitalists. The Com
missionoi's of tlio South Carolina Sinking
Fund aro to receive for the tract $10,000.
payable in throe nnuuel installments,
wiil take about $100,000 to drain tlio wa
ter from this swamp, and its sale is re
garded ns a good one for the State.
Washington C. Kerr, State Geologist
of North Carolina, says the whole State is
notably adapted to the culture of grapes
and the manufacture of wine. The proof
of this is, fiist, that a considerable num
ber of the pest American grapes originat
ed within its territory, such ns the Ca
tawba, Lincoln, Isabella, Scuppernong,
etc.; second, the testimony of the best
observers and grow-ers of the Ohio Vol
ley, and of the whole country, nnd third
and chiefly, the success of the few intelli
gent experiments that have been made,
And this opinion is confirmed by the
considerations of climate, which are de
monstrably known to control this indue
try In the remarks on elimato it wa
shown that the larger portion of thi
State corresponds, important, re
spect to Middle aud Northern Italy, and
to Middle and Southern France.
They tell ns wtlli n quiet rotes
Of peiTeet fnilU ami hope and trust,
Th&t on tlio day when Christ shall coma
To bid His chosen onca rejoice,
To breatho now life In death's dark dint,
To givo now speech whore (loath atruok dumb
From out tlio sad sea s restless be*
Shall rise once uioro tlio hidden dead.
They tell ns lids with upraised eye*,
That Rare beyond llio. present’s
And whisper of a heaven and God,
Draw pictures of star laden skies,
Whoro angels winder to and fro.
When thoBo now ’ncath tlio churchyard lod
Will rise from out their dreary bed,
The day Iho sea gives up her dead.
Yet will they rise once more tliB prist,
Or givo mo back llic faith that died,
Or breatho new brenth in love’s dend breast?
Wlmt for tlio lovo that did not lnallP
What for tlio days, when sldo by side
Wo wandered on, nor thought of rest,
Will these nriso and leavo their bed
The day the sea given up her dead?
Ob, nevermoro I dead Joy Is dead,
Tlio sunshine dead ne'er smiles again,
’ll* evening gathers 011 tlio slioro,
Onr kiss was kissed, our words woro said.
N'aught lusts for e'er save sill and pain,
Lovo (lead is dead for evermore,
ttilont he lies in his cold bed.
though all life’s teas givo up their dead!
l’HE BATTLE_0F ARDMORE.
nr.iNa a aBArmo ac.'Ount of a fierce
DOMESTIC WAR,
hear the wheels as a battery is htvrryjng
forward, I. hedr a drum boat, I hear
the tramp of hurrying feet. Somo one
is calling for "the flagi” Once I heard
—so *1obo the tide of battle swept td my
E risen—a saber spring frohi its rtenb-
ard with nn angry sweep. And all tills
timo I could only seo the golden sun
shine—Only the fluttering lijrtVes and the
playing shadows lengthening Into the
waning day; and Heating in nt my win
dow came the mellow whistle of the
THE TROUBLE WITH PORK.
The Snnshino never kissed a lovelier
day nor ble.ssod a falfffl* scene. All the
'and, and the sky and tlio clouds were
•lad ill tlio beauty of June. The lanes
woro fringed with emerald ; the round-
eyed daisies IHiepcd out from tlio billowy
'.'mills of grass, and daintier wild flowers
>f tlio woods nestled liko gems in tlio
velvet moss. Down in tlio meadows the
buttercups gleamed liko buttons of gold.
Over tho low hills the soft winds wlii-i-
pered to tho leaves about other sum
mers, nnd down through the shadowy
woods tho littlo brook laughed nnd sung
and babbled liko a child plnying liy it
self. Here anil tliero a cottago ncslloil
among the trees. Tho distant calls of
children came rippling neross tlio fields. •
Tlio long road wound nway, yellow and
quiet, until it turned out of sight beyond
Iho littlo church with its snowy walls
nnd slender spire.
How quior. and peaceful all the world
lay before tho window of my prison that
day in June I Far awav the note of
a meadow-lark came, and’ was heard no
more. Now nml then the whistle of a
robin; nt times tho twitter of a bluo-
bird. It was such an nfternoon ns yon
would wish to endure forever. White
winged pence smiled in tho sunshine,
and sang with tho zephyrs and tho
brook, nnd tho far-away calls and
scarcely heard laughter of tho children
playing somewhere unseen. Its music
111 tho crown of tho lays’ bonuty nnd
tranquility,
THE BUGLE OATjTj.
Clear, mellow, distant, four or five
notes of a bugle ring out over tho low
hills, and come echoing down the fores!
aisles. How my heart lonped nt the
sound of tho bugle enll I How my lilood
went surging through my veins liko 11
lido of lava 1 Out of my prison window
look with straining eyes. In tho flut
iering leaves I can seo 110 glitter of bay
onets. I listen, but down tho road or
across tlio meadow I can hoar not tho
umblo of a battery hurrying into posi
tion. How silent is a'l this ! And yet
not ailont enough. I want tlio wind to
hush, and tho lenvos to keep still, and
no brook to stillo its babble and laugh
ter. I. am listening for n foot-fall, tlio
crackling of a twig, the muffled tramp of
column of men stealing through the
oods under leafy cover. I am listening
for the neigh of a horso, a clatter ol
rvtlimio hoof-bents, a ringing corbine-
siiot. Peering out of the window of my
lonely cell, I am listening—ever since
that first bugle-call camo winding over
tlio hill I hnvo boon listening—for sterner
music tlinn the robin’s note nnd the
wood brook’s murmur.
“Mnrchl”
There it is at Inst? I can see nothing
from this window.- Tlio voico comes
liko a for-nwny echo of tho bugle—a boy
ish voioe, softened into musioby the day
and tho distance. I picture to mysoli
tlio fair haired Lieutenant who com-
mauds the skirmishers. All those days
made men of tho boys; the school-boy
fought beside tlio veteran, and tlio Ad
jutant of 20 messed with the Colonel oi
10 Will tho line never come in my
sight?
“Halt!" , .. ,
Silenco ngnin, and onco more tlio bu
gle calls down tho unseen lino. Now ]
can hear the tramp of feet nrnid all the
terrible hush of preparation. All about
mo tho tide of bnttlo will sweep, save
mlv where I enn seo it; and I-—'penned
1 this prison liko a caged rat, with rmg-
. ig bugle and clanking saber culling me
out-, shouting my name in words that
bum nnd ring and ring again—and I am
hero.
THE MARCniNO HOSTS.
“March!”
Away off tho tap of a drum, the flam,
Ham, flam, eadoncing the step of tho
inarching column. Nearer it comes, and
further away it sweeps, faints into quiet
at last. ,
Tramp, tramp, tramp. Muffled, yet
distinct, nnd stepping nearer with every
foot-fall. “There they corao?” shouts
somo one. I hold my breath; I press
my hand to my heart and wait for the
Ui-st shot from tho skirmishers.
l’ho dick of a musket so close it seems
in the room where I am. Gods I 1 ba
ton for tho sound of the boyish voice
ngnin. It seems to me in my excited
condition, there is n childish treble to it.
I wonder if—
“Fire 1”
How tho cheers, pealing up in waves
of sound, drowned tlio crash I was listen
ing for ! Again tho boyish voice calls,
“Fire!” and again the shrill cheers fol
low They hush as tho bugle-notes
pome pealing down thq Uw I
Are TrlctilnAa Killed by BnliMVhnt
(.Ini inert by CAperts In tbs flintier.
1 tttt r
shadows grow longch Tlio robin Bnote
lias JertfiBd. MclloW, clear, ami beauti
fully ttopeHotts nil eket, tilo btiglo tails
again. A pall pf silonto falls Upon the
clamor nol din -.if the untile. I try the
door of my prison. It yields to my
touch, l.lown a stairway, with ft lioise
less trend, 1 hasten. 1 stop through a
curtained door. I stand On tho field
where the Waves of CtwIenliUu have
thundered and dashed. Tho level 1‘nys
of the setting sun drift over tho helpless
figures stretched about mo liko a bless
ing upon the dead.
At my foot l lie overturned caution lies.
There nro its shattered wheels. living
nernss tho brnzon muzzle, “his bach to
tho fluid nnd his feet to the foe,” is
stretched an artillery sergeant, still
grasping tho broken saber in his nerve
less hand. Here Is a group of infantry
soldiers; they will never stand Updn then-
feet again. Hero is n trooper; lioadlcss
ho lies under tho horso that, with two
legs torn nwny, has fallen upon him.
TttS Df AD,
A littlo drummer-boy—how onmosnch
a child hero where tho fleroo maelstrom
r>f war circled and eddied In fire and enr-
nnge niul fury ?—lies by his drum. 1
bend ahovo him, and In face nnd form
there is nothing human left. Red are
tlio stains about it, and tho broken little
hand hnngs stiff nnd rigid on the edge
of tho shattered drum. It Is terrible,
rtcfo, ghastly nnd horrible, lies n head,
the blue cnn’with itR scarlet and whito
pompon still resting jauntily over the
brow; but nowhere can I boo the sol
dier’s bedy. Hero is a saber bent and
twisted in the fury of hnnd-to-linnd com
bat, I wnlk among tho headless trunks,
arms and legs without bodies, crippled
horses lie prone on their sides, or stand
wearily, and with dumb patience, upon
three legs. I trend carefully over and
around tho broken, shattered bodies of
the fallen men. Here is the flag, tat
tered nnd unfurled, just ns it dropped
from the hands of the sergeant; hero an
opnulct, glittering in crimson and gold;
here is the gilded lieltof a General; bore,
ronrred, bent nnd dented, lies tho bngle
ivliasp silver voice called into_playjtnis
wreck nnd carnage. And here, away
off on tho edge of tlio field, nway where
just tlio spray of tin's angry sen of strife
could have reached, my foot almost falls
011 a child lying prostrate, half turned
on her face.' The dainty feet peep out
of a cloud of silk and luce; the tangled
imir of gold, n skein of sunshine, half
hides the brow nnd cheek. There is no
sign of life in tho beautiful face. Killed
l,y tlio terror nnd fear horn of the bnttlo?
(’bond to lift the little form, and thenrm
11 pon which 1 thought tho child wns
lying is gone; n horrible gasli reaches
from tho temple to tho base of the brain,
and tho left eye is crushed in its socket.
The child—tho dear, sweet littlo girl:
somebody's darling, fnir sacrifice to the
hideous Moloch of war, how could—
“Robbie I ” I hear tho voico of her lit
tle serene nighness. “Robbie! come,
now. nnd pick up your tops, dear.
You've left your dolly and all your soldiers
scattered about over tlio floor, so tknl
papa can scarcely walk across tho room.
And somebody has stepped on poor lit
tlo Bessie’s head. I’m afraid sno’ll liuvo
to go to tho surgical institute."
A patter of (lying feet, nnd tho blue-
eyed commander of the troops, aged G,
comes charging into tho room, nml, re
solving himself into an ambulance corps,
collects tlio dead and wounded with both
hands, sooops them into a big box, ex
amines tho fracture in tho wounded
dolly's head for saw-dust, niul appears
surprised to find tho skull lined with a
hole.
“Papa!” he erics “did you hoar e
bnttlo zis nppernoon ?”
“Yes, Major, I beard it.”
“Wo flglitod awful,” tho Major says,
“an’ 1 fell down on my drum nnd braked
my cannon, but grnmpn will get me
onuzzer one. ’’—Robert J. Burdette.
Tho prohibition of the importation of
American pork by tho German Govern
ment, oh neeotlnt of the alleged preseuco
of the microscppio worm knoWfl fte tri-
eliimtj, has awakoned a large degree of in
terest among pork rajaers And, shippers
in this country. That ttibmnffl are
sometimes found in pork (and in some
other food flesh) is not to be doubted.
That proper cooking of meats for fbod
destroys tnein it ttnqtleotionable. That
all authenticated coses of injury to lit: filth
arising ItOin the presence tif this inioro-
soopio wofin ttete traetd to tlio eating of
uncooked, or halt raw moat is ft fact.
But that the salting of meat destroyed
Remarkable Volcanic Freaks.
the parasite is still a matter of doubt,
or, nt lenst, it is a Rubjcet of dlsptito.
On this point United States Consul
Jobil Wilson; stationed at Brussels,
makes soffit! nlhtomcnts, based on his
own observations. He says:
“I linvo myself beon present when of
ficially appointed miersocopists at somo
of the abattoirs of this country have
boon engaged ih GXttffilning American
pork for triobinaj, and hate been invited
by these gentlemen to see for myself,
through their microscopes, the peculiai
cell and spiral coil of the animal; but on
carefully examining them I have only
observed, blendod with the tissue and
minute salt crystals, the entombed ani
mal, evidently ns destitute of lifo as the
struoturo in which it was embedded.*
“It is claimed by most triohinio ob
servers that tho process of generation
nnd birth of this littlo animal invnrin-
hly takes place in the stomach and in
testinal onnnl, and that within a few
days from its birth it has so matured an
to penetrate the walls of the intestines
and rapidly mnko its way through tho
various intervening structures to tho re
mote muscular tissue of the animal it in
fects, there to bo speedily encysted and
endowed with a subsequent dormant ex
istence of soveral years, during which
time its presenoe occasions littlo
no inconvenience. Of this
of the life and movements 61
this little worm I can only say that it
involves an nlmost unpnrrnllelea excep-
ception to the lnw generally regarded ns
determining animal lifo, and ought not
to be accepted but upon the most posi
tive proof. Tho law governing pnrosit-
io existence in living tissue usually in
volves the speedy death of tho parnsito
after tho pabulum upon which it foods
has passed from under the domain of
vital force; hence, unless this tiny worm
constitutes an exception to tljis law, its
life must be short after the organio struc
ture upon whioh it feeds bos ceased to
live.”
Consul Wilson very pertinently adds
that “if salt really kills trichina), nnd of
It I have scarcely a doubt, it is evidently
t great injustice on tho part of foreign
governments to lay an embargo on onr
pork product, which of all others, in
order to secure it against decomposition
on a long journey to foreign mnrkcts, is
better salted than that of nny other
country.”—Scientific American.
Barb-Wire for Fences.
Lava Paarlng Item the Voleaae afOinetepe
-Tlllnaet Ml l*fna<|* Kaaalfcd.
the Star and Herald of Panama gives
tho following description of somo reoenl
remarkable scisnliC *»wntfliotions:
"Tho Volcano of OmCttrpC/ in Laks
fJiCnrBgwft, is at present m eruption,
much to tho altifin of tho reRideuts on
the island, which is formed by fhs
woatn^in. On May 1, at 10 n. tfi,, •
frightful tfflMerranoan rumbling was
hoard, which lasted between two and
three minutes, but no outbreak wa*
visible. On the following day a number
of people climbed to the summit of the
volcano, atid found that the crater had
increased ip SiaS, afld wns about thirty-
five tArils fat length and three in width,
but its depth could not be Calculated.
Around it were strewn large quantities of
stones and rooks covered With alate-
oolorcd mud. Masses of tho same ma
terials had pan red down in a south
westerly direction, forming a bed 300 or
400 yards in length, and Oflhe* were
scattered ill all directions. Two days
afterward a series of terrifying eruptions,
accompanied by prolonged rumblings,
occurred. At about 2} p. m. on Mny 4,
the earth and rook in tho viciuity of the
orator woro scon to break, lava flowed
forth, and from it there hurst upward a
thiok column of lead-colored smoke of
awe-inspiring magnitude, which sent
the terrified villagers flying to the
churches in the belief that the wholo
island was about to be destroyed. For
tunately, however, no damngo was done,
as the lava flowed in a direction where
there are no inhabitants and the ground
is not cultivated.
“The valley of tho Atrato, situated in
tho State of Gauca, in this republic, con
tinues to be a centre of that volcanio ac
tivity which was first ovinced there in
September of last year. On several oc
casions wo have called attention to tho
disappearance of islands in that vicinity,
and the reoent sudden changes tho topo
graphy of the oountry has undergone,
but really no full and anthentio desorip-
theory ! R° n » f rom private or publio sources have
as yet seen the light. That remarkable
phenomena are beiug presented there, no
one can doubt, from what ia already
known, end from information oontainea
in a letter written to the President of the
State of Oanoa in the Inst week of April,
which is now made publio, and whioh
states that at Rio Sucjo, about forty
n
THE MERCURY.'
Entered a* s*eond-elu* matter el Ike I
drnvUle Poatofflce, April V, 1M
Seidemllle, Washington CoMtJi 8**
A.. J. JEHNIGAN,
PaopmuroB aud Published.
Subscription...,..^.... ...tl-10 p*r Year
WIT AND WISDOM.
A General and His Men.
General Cler, pn
the affair of the
For many years tho manufacture of
barb-wire for fences has beon controlled
by one firm. Favored by its wealth and
enterprise, it gained possession of more
than 0110 hundred different patents cover
ing tbe mnking of this articlo and has
reaped a liaudsomo profit in royalties liy
selling tho privilege of using these
patents. Somo idea of tho importance
of this manufacture mny be gained from
the fact that upward of twelvo Imndred
miles of wire uro made daily. In somo
of the Western States, whoro timber is
scarco, wire is almost wholly used, and
the laws even compel a man to surround
his land with such a fence, prescribing
the height and tho number of strands.
Unluckily for the continuance of this
monopoly, its conditions- liavo been
abused, nnd this has raised a sirong
feeling against it among farmers who
use the wire and manufacturers who are
forced to pay tho royalty. These latter
have combined their forces and nro d
mantling a reduction of at least one-half
in tho royalty, nnd aro likely to obtain
it. There is’, however, no reason to be-
licvo that this will result in nny benefit
to the farmer, to whom the fencing hat.
been sold at higher prices tlinn were de
manded of tho foreign consumer.
A recent decision of tho United States
Circuit Court lias struck ft blow at this
monopoly, and under it nny ono has the
right to manufacture tho wire mid also
the machinery used in mnking it. I*
mills spring up prices must come down
and thou the farmer, too, will gain his
point.
After his Liberty.
The military company which recently
miles from the Atlantic, the earti
cracked and opened in many winces,
throwing ont very fine sand in a heated
state, while s subterranean noise
was heard resembling that mode
by boiling water. At Turbo,
whioh is on the Gulf of Urnbn,
the earth opened and water flowed out,
flooding the streets to a depth of two
feet Many houses were shaken down.
The small villages of Bujios and Nicurio
have beon completely engulfed. The
mouth of tho river Loon, which emptied
into the Atlantic, lias completely closed
up, and all over the district the move
ment of the earth is so continuous that
tlio inhabitants are emigrating.
"On May 21, at 7 a. m., a slight earth
quake was felt at Mompos, on the river
Magdalena in the State of Bolivar, which
was followed by a sharper one at 2 n. m.,
on tho 22d, on whioh day shocks were
also felt at San Salvador and Guayaquil.”
iromoted for his valor
ie Snpun redoubt, but
still commanding his zouaves, distin
guished himself in tho battle of Traktir.
I11 their crushing oharge he advanced
too far, and would have beon lulled or
taken prisoner if there had beon any
rally by the Russians. .His_m«m node , tnumplmnt tour of the
a desperate plunge into the enemy s made s c„ , _
ranks and brought him back in triumph.
One of their buglers was then ordered
by General Cler to sound the retreat,.
At tho moment when he put his bugle
to his mouth a round ahot broke his
right arm. With his left hand he quick
ly picked up his instrument, which had
fallen, and sounded the retreat.
“Well done, my brave boy!” said
General Cler.
“Ah, General,” replied the bugler,
“is it not lucky that it was not the vio
lin which I hau to play?”
At the attack of the Sapnn redoubt,
when he could not keep back bis zouaves,
ho had called out to them:
“My children, if you will not be good,
I shall never again lead you into action. ”
He praised them after the battle of
Traktir for charging to bring him ont of
tho crowd of enemies.
“My General,” answered one of them,
“if you will not be good we shall never
again follow you into action.”
He laughed heartily at this retort to
his threat on a previous occasion. Those
t erms existing between French com
manding oflloers and their men seemed
strange to British officers, but their re
spective duties were not the worse ful
filled on that account,—Temple Bar.
How wioxKD the people are getting,
to be sure. Parties aro going around
with English sparrows painted yellow,
^nd selling them for canary birds. They
have a few genuine canaries along
sing, and sell the sparrows.
Northern cities has a publio attraction
in its armory, says M. Quad, iu a letter
from Now Orleans. Tho men hnve
thered together mnny interesting
relics of war, including battle flngr
documents nnd photographs, and one
can fill in a long hour without exhaust
ing the museum. During tlio war, and
while a largo number of Confederate
officers wero confined in Johnson’s
Tsland, a “reb” whittled out a wooden
musket, got possession of a blue over
coat, and ono night when the guard
camo nlong he fell in nnd marched along
with tho squad, intending to make a
break when chance offered. The oppor
tunity did uot come, and when the cor
porid found he had ono inau too many
his suspicious were aroused and tho
trick discovered. Tlio bogus musket
used upon thnt occasion is one of t ie
relics to be found in the museum.
A CATFisn Causes Trouble. —For
several days the Bock Island wnter-worke
lu ve been practically useless. Tho au
thorities telegraphed to Ira Holly, and
I10 having concluded an cxnm un i- n,
mode a special report to tlio City Coun
cil He found that tho jumps wero
working with power that should produce
27,000,000 gallons per day, but that the
city W as only getting about 6,000,000
"nilons. Taking the jmmps apart he
found in them a catfish 3 feet 9 inches
long and weighing 50 pounds. Upon
removing the fish, which lmd to be dour
in sections, tho puuips worked all right.
Picking up Broken Cables.
Tho laving of tclograpbio cables is now
so common that tho description of the
machinery for jiickiug up a br°ken quo
will bo read with interest. It consists
if n ropo about an inch and a qnnrtor in
liametcr, made from tho strongest lioinp,
with interwoven wires of fine steel. The
grapnel at tho end is merely a solid
shaft of iron some two feet long, and
•eighing nbont 100 jjouikIb, niul pro-
jngod into six blunt hooks, which much
esemhlo tho partly closod fingers of the
liumnn hand. In picking up the cable
in deep water tho Miuia, after reaching
tho waters near the break, lets out her
ropo and grapnel, then takes n cornso at
right angles to the cable nnd at some
distance from tho fracture, so that the
broken ends may not slip through the
grapnel. Tho grapnel roj>e is attached
to a dynamometer, whioh exactly meas
ures the strain ou the rone, and shows
unerringly when tho cable has been
caught. If the grapnel foals a rock the
strain rises very suddenly to a high point
but tho exact weight of the cable being
known, tho dynamometer signals by the
steady rate of increase its hold on tho
cable far below. A while ago one of the
lines of tho Anglo-American Company
wns caught without trouble at a depth of
two aud a quarter miles near the middle
of tho Atlantic. Captain Trott, of the
Minin, who hns won great fame for his
skill and ingenuity in onblo matters, but
recently picked up tho French cable 180
miles off St Pierre, and in four hours
from the timo the grapnel was let go
had tho entile spliced and iu working
condition. Tho splicing is it work of
great delicacy anil skill, and when ac
complished by trained fingers the spliced
part can scarcely be distinguished from
the main cord.—Age of Steel.
When a man can mako right ont of
wrong he will bo ablo to breed colts from
liorsc chestnuts.
It is the Mobile Register which sen-
ibly thinks thnt if there wns no news-
; wi)>cr notice of duels, duelling would
come to an end.
Tns "assisted” emigrant is oho thnt is
sent to this country ns a pauper, with
passage paid. The “assisted” tramp
is one that is urged out of your yard
with a boot.
Therb are only two classes of unmar
ried women in society, “scrawny old
maids” and young “chits of girls.” You
ieem this % bearing each ol Ujeso de
scribe tho other. "*•
A New Jersey young mnn, who tackled
Professor Sullivan in a friendly libnt,
now warn the belt. He wears it’"just
over the left eye r*id feeds it on raw
l>cef.—Exchange.
It fakes n good deni of eourngo to
writo ont the announcement: ‘ Oono
down into tho country to sponge off ray
father-in-law. Bo away nil summon’’-
Chicago Inter Ocean.
The Koepor of tho Lime-Kiln museum
reports that he lias received from Mis
souri tile skull of a farmer’s hired man
who had nover yelled at a yoke of oxen
or wanted to kill a mule.
“WnAT is tmo bravery?" asks a New
York paper. It is going to the door
yourself when you don’t know whether
the caller is a dear friend, a book agent
or ft man with a bill.—Philadelphia
News,
A "stiowEnof stones” is reported from
Cecil county, Md. If a young mnn was
singing nt midnight nnd nccomjinnying
himself on an neoordeon, a shower of
stones was what might linvo been ex
pected.
It seems that the Texas Siftings man
went to Texas to dio of consumption
mid lived to beoomo a humorist. Ybu
nan form your own estimate of whether
the climate is to be praised or not, —
lloston Post.
A New England physician ssys ttrnt
if every family would keep a box of
mustard in tho house one-half of tho
doctors would starve. We suggest thnt
every family keep two bores in the house.
—The Judge.
"AnE angels ever sleepy ?” Is a question
which an English psychological society
is trying to solve. We hardly know
whether our angel is over sleepy or uot.
We’ve never stayed Into enough to find
out.—Lowell Citizen.
A celebrated circus manager .s on
the hunt for a new curiosity fornis show.
He is seeking to find a young married
man whoso wife can cook as well as kia
mother did. Twenty-six States liavo
been explored thus far without snccesp.
OnKEN apple*, green apple*, tbo grans grow* *0
green
That tho boy* in the orchard can hardly be
seen-,
Oh, mother, oh, mothor, your boy la In bed-
11 the doctor* don’t hurry, he’ll surely be dead.
An rostbetio writer predicts thnt if wo
were to l-efisit this country ono hundred
years hence wo should seo men wearing
knee-breeches and slashed doublets.
That Bottles it. We shall not come
buck. Tho number of bow-legged men
is increasing too rapidly.
It is said that tho number of women
who roach ono hundred years and up
ward is nearly double thnt of long-lived
men. Women don’t invent pntent fire-
escapes mul exhibit their workings. And
they don’t stay out so late o f night,
either, inhaling tho miasma of the
night.
He hod been waltzing with liis host’s
ugly, elderly daughter, nnd was in a
corner repairing damages. Here ho wns
espied by bis would-be jinpa-iu-law.
“She’s tho flower of my family, sir,”
said tho Intter. “So it seems,” answered
1 tlio young nmn, “Pity she comes oft
so, ain’t it?” I10 continued, ns ho csRnyod
another vigorous rub at the whito spots
on his coat-sleeve.
‘Do you want to see somo fun?” said
small boy to liiB father. “DoiYt
care if I do," ho replied. “Well, let’s
go and listen to Deacon Dumpy tack
.town his carpets.” “I don’t think
there’ll be anything funny in thnt.,’
scornfully snorted the parent. "Don’t,
h ? You seem to forget that tho deacon
stutters.” "Ah, ’ said the old man
Then thoy went over to harken.
Why he had the Yictorla Cross.
Macbean, one of the oflicors, fonnd
himself in the breach at Lucknow, al
most alone and surrounded liy enemies.
Ho killed eleven of them, and came off
unscathed.
He received the Victoria Cross at
pnrade; and, as the General pinned the
cross on his breast, ho wound up his
brief address with:
“And n good day’s work it was, sir.”
“Tntts," said our gallant and simple
friend, quito forgettii g thnt he wns on
parade, and perhaps a little piqued at
his performance being spoken of as ~
day’s work. “Tutts, it didna tak’ r
twenty minutes."
“Right About Face 1”—On one occa-
casioa Paul, while reviewing a regiment
.which did not please him, gave the word
of command: “Right about face!
March 1 To Siberia 1” And the whole
regiment, officers and men, were obliged
to set off by forced marches, for Siberia.
It was only when they got half-way
there that Count Rostopohme obtained
their recall—London Society,
now to Prevent Seasickness.
Seasickness is the result, says Mr.
Stovons iu Scribner, of reflex irritations
arising from little surprises to tho
muscles, and shocks to the nerves en
gaged in performing certain important
functions—notably of locomotion, res
piration and vision—and when tho
groups of muscles thus engaged are once
educated to the surrounding circum
stances, the nervous revulsions ore not
experienced. Proper attention to the
exercise of these functions may so far
mitigate the trouble as to make it rather
an inconvenience than a distressing ill
ness. Let it be distinctly understood
that medioines can only prevent seasick
ness by inducing nervous insensibility,
and that suoh a stupefying process is
directly opposed to the object of the
voynge when this is undertaken for the
promotion of health. Every article of
liet likely to disturb the digestive or
gans should be avoided, nnd an abund-
mt supply of oxygen should be inhaled.
Tlio feet should be educated, the respira
tion regulated and tho vision restricted.
If close attention is given to these di
rections, little fear o£ seriQiis sickness
need be apj)r.ehended ; and a voynge
which might otherwise be remembered
with the most disagreeable associations
may be rendered a season of almost, un
interrupted enjoyment.
His Neighbors. —The Covington (Go.)
Star says: “Our section can show a
bachelor under 40 who bos not oalled on
a young lady in 15 years. Who can beat
him ?” And the Macon Telegraph re
joins : “ We really don’t know who can
do it, but we are satisfied that it ia s
duty devolving on some of bis neighr
bora.” ••