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Tho sea in flecked with bars of gray,
The dull dead wind brunt of tone,
And Uka a withmd leaf the moon
I s blown across the atomy bay:
Etched clear upon the pallid sand
Tho black boat lies: a sailor boy
* Clambors aboard in careless joy
With laughing face and gleaming hand.
And overhead the curlews cry,
Where through the duaky upland grass
Tho j onng browndnwhted reapers pass,
Ifti Hihnntlii mlp*t f” *Vy-
—1 Oscar Wade.
rats vEofihiA . 1».
- tjK.v.vroH McWhorter, of Green
county, says the people of Georgia will
pay ten millions of dollars this year for
175,000 tons of fertilizers, and has intro
duced a bill forbidding its sale in the
State. Did it ever occur to Senator Mc
Whorter that it is none of his business
how much guano the people buy,nor what
they pay for it?
Judge Locurase has rented his bouse
in Atlanta to Mr. Wadley for two years,
At least the Last gear's Rinds Heat says
so, which fact makes it necessary to han
dle the statement very carefully.
The Lost Year’s Bird's Heal locates
Hancock county in the sixth district,
which is quite creditable in the L. Y. B
N. It generally misses tho mark much
more widely.
The Dublin Poat says “50 per cent,
more guano was used in Laurens county
this year than last, and there is 00 percent,
less cotton to pay for It with.”
Mr. E. II. Ware, formerly a citizen of
Athens, died at Mllledgevillo last Tuea
day. lie had been in ill health several
months, &ud had a stroke of paralysis
about two weeks since.
The Columbus Times learns that on
Thursday of last week a negro attempted
to rape a lady near Butler, and that on
Saturday ho was captured and jailed at that
place. At night a body of men proposed
to lynch tho scoundrel, but while they
were discussing the subject, the husband
of the lady appeared on the scene and re
quested that no violence be done. It was
the desire of his wife that the law should
take its course.
Tiie Sparta Ishmaelitc has the follow
ing
A Good Idea.—Msjor A. O Bacon has
.oar thanks for copies of bills and other
'documents. His idea is thus to place the
papers in a way to Intelligently discuss
the important measures that will come
before the Legislature. It Is a good idea
—characteristic of the logical and busi
ness-like methods of Speaker Bacon, who
is, in our judgment, the best administra
tive officer that Georgia has had In a score
of years,
M. J. Verdery & Co., ot Augusta, ad
vertise for State bonds Issued by Bullock
and afterwards repudiated. Also, any
railway repudiated bonds. What does
this mean?
Muscogee county tax returns show an
increase of S471.249 over last year.
The Bamesvllle Gazette says an old mau
living near Milner met a lady the first time
on last Friday night, they were made ac
quainted on Saturday, took her to meeting
on Sunday, and married her on Thurs
day,
The Albany Hews says there will prob
ably be one hundred bales of new cottou
brought to that market by Saturday night,
If the weather continues favorable for pick
ing
It also says a wild ball invaded the of
fice of Tift & Co., Tuesday, anil made
things bnra for a little while.
From the Rome Courier:
A Father asd Two Sons Stricken
bt Lightning at Oxford, Ada.—Mon
day al'ierno-m Otis alt;son and Ids til
er and father while building a house one
mile from Oxford, Ala* were struck by
lightning. Otis was instantly kilted, and
the recovery of the brother and father is
donbtiul.
Says the Augusta News:
A Family' of Great Longevity.—
There recently died in Hancock county a
maiden lady, Miss Winifred B. Wilson,
who came of a family noted for great lon
gevity. Tho parents were married in
1707, and ‘
years.
one of whom,
at tho age of 54. The lady mentioned
above was 82 years old, and there are six
of the family now living whose ages
range from G7 to SO. Their names and
ages are as follows: Wm. L. Wilson, SO;
Mrs. E. A. Racbeals, 73; Mrs. T. C. How
ard, 73; Mrs. L. B. Tucker, 71: Mr. R. L.
Wilson, tin: Mrs. M. II. Wilkes, ii7. The
average age of those living is 73 years.
The Savannah News says “F. E.
Bnrke, of Messrs. A. C. Bell & Co., of
Americus, Ga., arrived here yesterday by
the City of Macon from New York with
twenty emigrants, consisting of Germans,
Bohemians and English, who have been
engaged as farm laborers for peoplo in
southwestern Georgia. This firm are
agents for the National Line of Steam
ships in this State, and have made ar
rangements by which they will receive
immigrants by every steamer*7rum Eu
rope, and will thus be able to supply ar.y
demand for farm labor. Another lot of
immigrants will arrive here by the next
steamer from New York.”
The Sumter Republican tells thefol
lowing:
Lightning at Work.—We learn that
a little negro boy in Macon county was
sent by his employer, on Friday or Satur
day, to drive up some cattle, and while
he was returning home with the cattle,
some five or six bead, a severe rain began
to fall. The boy, who was on a mule,
we congratulate the people thereabouts on
tho fact. J
Tiie Post-Appeal says “Mahon certain
ly furnishes soiid gubernatorial timber.
Bacon, Blount and Hardeman are'men. of
the right stamp.”
Snake hunting parties are the latest
and most fashionable amusement down
in Randolph county. On Saturday last, a
party of boys gathered a crop of thirty-
nine moccasins. ""
The Jesup Sent i ml has the following:
An engineer on the Macon andUruuswIcS
railroad, approaching a wood rack where
he had to stop, noticed an ox running
after the train. Stopping to take wood,
the ox came up to the tender 'and BE.
tuained standing very close thereto. The
engineer said to the fireman, “ I guess
that ox wants water; give him some out
of the tank.” Tho fireman being afraid
of him, tho engineer drew from the tank
a bucket full, and the ox eagerly gnlped
it down, bucket alter bucket, until he had
emptied a large “railroad” bucket three
times, when he stepped off a few paces,
turned round and bowed his head as
much as to say, “thank you, sir.” , ; j ,,
Tou Mitchell, a well known negro
barber of Atlanta, was found dead in the
street Wednesday morning. The Post-
Appeal says it was whisky.
The Perry Home-Journal has seen “an
ear of pop-corn on which quite a number
of grains had teen popped open by the
sun. It Is well known that tho grams of
this corn will turn Inside out whou sub
jected to a certain degree of heat. Mr. T.
M. Eillen found quite a number of cars
on which grains were ‘popped’ when ho
gathered tho pop ; cornfrom his garden last
week.”
The Cnthbert Enterprise says the gen
uine caterpillar has made its appearance
in fields about lour utiles from that place.
This is pretty bad, but as an ofisot a load
of last year's home raised corn was sold
in that place at 03 cents a bushel.
A hlack bear weighing 330 or 400
pounds ■ wus killed in . Ocmulgee river
Swamp near York, Houston county, last
week, by Messrs- Sam. Arnold atjd Jim
Jones.
Mr. Francis Coggin, of the Augusta
Factory, is quoted as saying (hat we “can
sell cloth at one-half cent a yard less titan
the New England mills, and still make
more money than they do.” And Mr.
Bussey, of tho Eagle aud Thenix factory,
says “the Southern manufacturer has one
and nine-tenths cents per pound advan
tage over tho Northern. 1
Says the Butler Herald: On last
Wednesday morning it was whispered on
our streets from ear to car until it became
generally known among pur people that
dastardly attempt bad been made to out
rage the person of Mrs. John Rhodes, liv
ing a few miles from town, by a tall, mu
latto negro by the name Marion McOants,
who has during the present year been in
tiie employment ot Mr. Rhodes, tvbo
the time of the occurrence (late in the af
ternoon of Tuesday) was absent from
home. Upon the approach of the negro
into the private room of Mrs. Rhodes,
she, with heroic character and manly
forethought, knowing the intention of the
demon, rushed .to her bureau aud from it
she drew a revolver, and ordered the vile
wretch from the house, which command
he obeyed by beaUuga hasty retreat.
Upon the return of Mr. R., his wife told
him wliat had happened, and after diligent
search the negto was captured ou
Saturday last on the plantation of Sir.
James Steed, where he had been at work,
and immediately lodged in jail. No. ef
fort was made by Mr. R. to commit any
violence upon hint, as he proposed to gh
tho negro a fair and honest trial. Fi
fear of somo future trouble It was ordered
on Monday morning by Justice Cheney
that the negro should be sent to the Co-.
Iambus jail for sale keeping, but our wor
thy commissioners having recently applied
tho entire amount of surplus money in tbc
treasurer’s hauds to the appropriation of
the bridge fund there was not found suffi
cient money in the county treasury to de
fray these expanses.
Augusta’s two first hales were receiv
ed Wednesday—one from South Carolina,
and the other from Burke county. They
sold for 12 aud 12J cents per pound re
spectively.
We fiud the following iu the Uawkins-
ville Dispatch
A Cruel Joke.—Our friend Burch, of
the Eastman Times, was a few days ago
made the victim of one of the crudest
hoaxes of the season. Somebody slipped
into bis sanctum and told him that
minister of the gospel was actually suf
fering iu Dodge county for food. Brother
Burch fell the cold chills of sympatliy
run over bis corporeal system, and wunt
out to get up the particulars. His object
was to write an editorial bitteily con
demning the want of charity on .the part
of the citizens of Dodge county, while
they supported numerous drug stores,
wliose only business Is to sell corn wills-
ky. He was determined to expose such
a lack of Christian humanity, but when
he began to investigate the case ho found
out that the poor preacher was suffering
for food because a dentist had been along
that way and pulled all his teeth out, pre
paratory to inserting a new set. It was
cruel joke.
Sebiuus Difficulty in Telfair.—
McRae, Ga., August 8.—A serious diffi
culty occurred betweeu John W. Denton
and Samuel W. Blow, iu which Mr. Blow
was shot and seriously, if not fatally, in
jured. The circumstances, as far as we
have been able to gather them, are as fol
lows; Mr.Blow had been to McRae in
the evening, and had laid in a supply of
the ardent, aud was considerably under
the influence of liquor. There bail been
some words between the parties a few
minutes before the shutting, and Blow
had struck Denton, but bystaud&s intor-
ferred aud drew them apart. Blow ap
peared to be very angry, and swore he
would kill Denton before morning. His
friends, got Mm away, but in a short time
Denton, who was standing, on
the platform of the commis
sary, saw Blow approaching with a club.
and all of the cattle gathered up tinder a He stepped back into the sfore and got a
large oak for shelter. While there a flash sma n breeck-loading rlflle, and when
mm
of lightning shivered the tree, kill-, d the
mule, knocking the little negro about
twenty feet off from It, and killed all tho
cattle. The little negro was only stunned
and as soon as he recovered mado his way
as fast as possible to his master, and with
terror depicted in his face told him that
while he was “under de tree to keep out
ob de rain, de debbie run down it in a
stieak ob fire, fro wed him from do mule,
and den killed all de cattle and mulo and
tun offwid dent.”
We find the following in tho Baltimore
Sint, of Tuesday:
Arrest for Abortion.—Dr. George
C. Worthington, of this city, charged by
Mias Lida Branch, of Savannah, Ga., with
committing an abcrtlon ou Miss Hattie
Hewlett, of the same place, was arrested
yesterday by Detective I’ontler and com
mitted for the action of the grand jury by
Justice Grindall. of the middle police sta
tion. The child was born July 26lb. Miss
Hewlett is not expected to live. She is
residing In the central part of ihe city,
and since the violence has been attended
by Drs. Hill and J.N. Monmonier. Who
the child died a certificate of a still-birth
was sent to the health department by I)r.
Hill, as is customary, but he also inform
ed the department officially of the cause.
Tiie health commissioner sent for Drs.
Hill and Monmonier, who made a state
ment of the facts in the case to Deputy
Marshal Frey,'which resulted In the ar
rest of Dr. Worthington. 3Iiss Lida
B;&uch,wbo is about 20 years old, accom
panied Miss Hewlett, 24 yean old, to this
city from Savannah. Miss Hewlett’s
friends have been telegraphed to relative
to her serious illness.
The Mrilac A ic./limr succeeds ti e
Blow got in ten ste;
to stop.
steps of hint, he told him
I Q Blow halted, threw open his
coat, and exclaimed, “Shoot, d—u you 1”
Denton replied tint he would not shoot-
Blow started forward again, saying that
he had a right to go where he d—n pleas
ed. Denton raised the rifle and fired. Tiie
hall struck Blow just uuder the right nip
ple, and passed out a little to left of the
spinal column, ranging down. The affair
is much to be regretted, as Mr. Denton is
a quiet aud peaceably disposed matt, and
Mr. Blow usually a hard working, useful
man. but when intoxicated is of a violent
disposition.
On last Tuesday sixteen shares of
Georgia railway stock were sold at Wash
ington, Wilkes county, at from S 168.50 to
$170 per share.
The Angusta Chronicle says Senator
Hill left Rockbridge Alum Springs, Vir-
giuia, last Thursday nigbt for Philadel
phia, lo consult physicians. He was much
Improved. In response to a serenade, he
gave Billy the Kid and his gang, what
Paddy gave the drum.
The Atlanta Post-Appeal, of Tuesday
afternoon, announces tho death at Kirk
wood, Thursday uight, of Mrs. Hngb JI.
Gordon, daughter-in-law of Gcueral Gor
don, and adds:
Mrs. Gordon was an amiable and
charming lady, whose Christian traits ol
character endeared her to a large circle ol
friends. She was the only sister of Mr.
Howard Williams, of this city, and leaves
a husband and two children, besides other
relatives and many friends to mourn her
. J untimely takiug off. Mrs. Gordon had
Soul.i Georgian, lately printed at McVillo been in delicate health for some time, but
in the same comity—Telfair. Mr. S. I »PPe*reJ fo ho improving. She was in
Fackler is Kill editor and publisher, and !*V' Tll ? aa , y ’ a PP are » t, J l , n 8** 1
1 11 u t health, but yesterday evening she was 1
felony. But the statesman who fathers
tho bill fails to point out how to propose
to make tbo Mormons commit them selves
to the propagation oT polygamy. They
can and do make converts without that.
The Meriwether Vindicator reports
that Judge Allen H. Watson, of that
county, will make, this “year, 5,500 bush
els of corn and 225 hales of cotton. Its
informant saw 100 acres that ho thought
wonld make a bale of cotton to tiie acte.
Numbers of acres promised tplrty bushels
of corn per acre. The plantation is well
worth $30,000.”
The Gainesville Eagle reports as one
indication of prosperity in that section
that all the stock are in very fine coudi
tlon.
Tiie Albany News says, it is “not gen-
erally known that tho Southwestern rail
road will soon complete the line of their
extension from its present terminus, Arl
ington, in the county of Calhoun,
Blakely, the county site of Early, a dis
tance ot some sixteen utiles. From Col
C. B. Wooten we learn that the work
laying down the track will commence on
Monday next, and will be completed with
in the space of four weeks.”
It also states that there “can bo no long
er a doubt tbat the caterpillar scourge lias
put in a prett y general appearance through
out this sectiou, aud on several flue plan
tations is already doing considerable
damage. Accounts from Baker, Mitchell
Lee ami this county are discouraging, but
coming as they do from frightened farmers
and tenants, many doubtless bo taken cunt
grano. The atmospheric couditious have
undoubtedly been most favorable to tbelr
propagation aud increase since the be
ginning of August. What is known as
the second crop, wo learn, are already
actively at work on somo places, aud sev
eral planters have resorted, to Paris green
and London purple for poisoning them
out.”
We find the following items in the
Oglethorpe Echo:
Shooting.—Awhile back the darkies
had a big revival at Crawford, and one
thp mourners near the altar got pretty
demonstrative. At this interval Tom
Pope, who was sitting at tho rear end
the church, felt the spirit working
him, and springing up three bounds car
ried him to tho pulpit, where lie lit
astraddle an old sister's back, aud he
rode the irate dame nearly around the
room before he could be pulled off. That
revival came near breakiug up in a first-
class row. Torn explained-“dat he jes
wanted to show dem unconverted niggers
how to ’predate religion.”
A Mountain Tour.—On Thursday of
last week Sheriff Mark II. Young returned
from an extended trip to the Gordon
Springs and Into Dade county. He trav
eled by private conveyance, and reports
crops good for about seventy miles above
Athens, but they are burned up in the
northern part of the State. The entire
trip of tea days cost Mr. Young only
including whisky aud two big drunks.
Holding Cotton—Last week Mr.
John T. M. Hairc sold between 200 and
300 bales of cotton that he has been hold
ing since last winter. He made about
$000 by iL
Old Brandy.—Whou the first child of
CapL J. Bee Eberltart,of Madison county,
was bom, be sealed up a live gallon dem
ijohn of home-made peach brandy, an
nouncing his determination not to open
it until the infant reached Us majority.
This was 18 years ago, and the brandy
still remains untouched. Iu about three
years we intend to pay the Captain that
long promised visit—aud don’t you forget
Something.—Mr. Luke Goolsby tells
that tiiero is a peach tree on his place that
for years boro freestone peaches, but of
late tbe fruit - has changed to the cling
stone variety. Luka says he expects the
next freak of this tree will ha to bear
crop of apples or blackberries.
Trees Dying.—We notice that the
the drought this year has killed a great
tuatiy trees in the forest, including somo
stately giants of tho woods that have stood
the storms of a century.
A Baptizing.—Eight or ten converts
were baptized at Watson’s mill last {Sun
day. Wo have heard of a. glorious onto
pouring of tbe .spirit this summer at every
church where revivals are held.
seized with a sudden attack of Illness and
a hemorrhage, ending in death. General
and Mrs. Gordon, now in New York,
have hew notified by telegraph of tho sad
news, and will return home immedi
ately. ^ t
In attempting to kltidle a fire with ker
osene last Wednesday evening, a daugh
ter of Mr. Seagers, who lives six mtles
from Romo, was so terribly; burned as to
cause her death tjjo next day. ’ ^ L
-A bill has been-inlroducod In the Sen
ate making the propagation ot the Mor-
7nan "doctrine of polygamy in Georgia,"ir artesian well seven hundred feet deep;
AItTESIAX. HUM
Tbelr Sacce-w la Alabama — Home
Phenomena and Sumteatlous—.Prob
able Benefit* In Georgia
Editors Telegraph and Messenger: Wo
read with much interest the account in
your paper of last Sunday of a visit to the
artesian welLof Capt.. John T. Fort, jn
Dougherty couuty. It was hot the man
ner or the appliances for boring the well
tbat possessed, novelty to us, for we once
witnessed the daily progress of boring an
Vo Wfto aud Happy.
If you will stop all your extravagant
and wrong notions iu doctoring yourself
and families with expensive doctors or
humbug cureall.-., that do harm always,
and use only nature’s simple remedies for
all your ailments, you will be wise, well
and happy, and savo great expense. The
greatest remedy for this, the great, wise
and good will tell you, is Hop Bitters—
rely ou is.—Press.
Closing Exercises.
Entrusts Ti saitunt axo MassEXona.
Feeling n strong interest iu the mental aud
monl advr.nc«m'jnt of lha colored race,
availed mys-fif, on Frida./ lad, of the op
portunity of accojap.iu^iag Jadgo MoMa-
nus, one of i-i> school comm!? uonsr.t, to
public fxarniuatiou of tiie school ti-.nirht
by tuat worthy colored eii-K-n, Jerry W.
May
This school is a part of tho public-school
system of B'bb cour.-y, and is located near
the line of Monroe county, in n populous,
iiLeiligetH and ,'er;i!o portion of Howard
district—at least splendid crops, good col
tivatiou nnd an uppoanmee of plenty
a ad contentment aro etrongly i/ 1 ®>ij
deuce. - 7 ■ ‘
The czorcises.of the school had been de
layed -ir.:il our Arrival,. Then for several
ho.".;-* this largo number or ..clohu!, com-
p. isiog cla.soi. from tlje youngest tv grown
young men and wumcn, were mu through a
strict review of ah tout had been taught
them O’t- .a u (ho term.
? Noiwi;.i»5inJu;.: tiie heat.of (he weather,
t.io Jeep interest ol tiie audience* never
flagged tor i.a latino.u Tiia pro&eietney of
the scholars eras very, grafil/tj", ami to
some extent rent a kabio, l/o7 winch can be
aooona«Hl tot by . io kmu and patient
tia-u.ug of Lie ma.viir.
In tuts counooUon, whan no much de-
yuds upon ; «i example, competence,
dadoes* and pationrc,intro no! a ,.nu«.
incentive for so.tie of..iiio , liil luthropists
of the Jay to e»utnl:ri> and «ndow a Sonia-
o. u college for the exoluriva xu.;kjso of
>repn.i:.g colored te .rhe.s, who* wonld
jecome educators of their own race, and
a jdcrsla&diiigahof tusir qwn wants and
shortcoming* would strive with such as
sistance lo redeem the as it veneration
from a life ot ignorance, poverty aud vice?
At, the cl.>.-,e of tua exerobes, dinner was
anaonuoed, which was replete with sub-
siautia - * a.vl dehcac.es. After dilutee dec
lamation* by tbe boys, siuguig of the girls,
aud a short, address by Juvpj Me.V nuns,
foil orsyuipatiiy atidenm.oru geuieti'.,closed
n day that uni boon pleasant.-;' nun profita
bly spent by a large coucour.-.o of good col
ored people. F.
‘■Llebit; tV* Aruicatcil Extract of
iVitch Hazel has proven in my praclico to
ho incomparably supet ior to any prepara
tion 6f Witch Hazel I have ever used. I
have oficn l>eon disappointed iu the cura
tive effects of the commonly veuded ar
ticles, atui am glad that we can now have
reiiabie preparation.”
E. G. Franklin, M. D.,
Professor Bu rgery,
Medical Dep’t. Untvcrity Michigan,
ltv.
. ■ • •■»»»■
A cremes containing 5,000 eagle dol
lars was stopped ou t.io Altar road, thirty
miles from Hermosillo, Mexico, and the
money carried o(L
from its commencement to Ua close, aud
the mode-and apparatus used were about
the saute as those which you describe.
But we were much Interested and .grati
fied by the realization of the success of au
experiment which" we have long desired
to hare tried on this side of the Chatta
hoochee, and at the interest in tho subject
which that success has aroused. It is
indeed surprising that such wells have uot
long since been resorted to iu Georgia, in
view of the fact that they are so common
in parts of Alabama and have been for
many years. Tho well which we saw
sank, about the year 1853, was almost di
rectly under our window on the public
square in Montgomery, Ala. At the depth
of about seven hundred feet a stream of
water was struck which rose above the
surface of the ground and discharged
about five gallons of water to the minute.
We believe that it still runs aud dis
charges about the same quantity. Tbe
water is slightly warmer than that drawn
from the wells near the surface, ami feels
a little oily or ‘slick” wheu u?ed for tho
purpose of ablution, but it is good free
stone, clear as crystal, and of undoubted
purity. A well of this kind, and of about
the same depth, had previously been sunk
at Selma, Ala., and since- that time they
have become numerous and common in
the prairie and cancbrake regions of that
State. Selma now has several of them,
and, if we are not much mistaken, one of
large boro was sunk iu or near that city
some twenty-live years ago, which dis
charged water enough to turn heavy ma
chinery, aud was perhaps used for that
purpose for a time. Our vague impres
sion is that a remarkable Ussure iu the
land in its vicinity was made by some
mysterious natural phenomenon, and af
ter that the water no longer rose to the
surface from this well. Ba that as it
may, artesiau wells are now a sconvcn-
ience, if not a necessity, in Selma, which
the citizens would not give them up for
thrice their cost.
One remarkable fact about tbc Mont
gomery well above mentioned de3el ves
notice, and an explanation would be in
teresting. The well Is three or four hun
dred yards from the river, aud,being seven
hundred feet deep, tho stream of water
which it reaches is of course several hun
dred feet below the bed of the river. But
at times, when the river is unusually full,
when there is a freshet causing it to over
flow the lowlands, the discharge of
water from the ' well is much
greater than at other times—as least It
used to be so, for we have timed and
measured it aud know the fact. Tbe dis
charge at such times is up to the full ca
pacity of the tubing, and more than twice
the usual quantity. IIow is this to be ac
counted lor? We can Imagine only one
solution. That is, tbat the immense body
of water in and uearthe river makes such
a pressure upon the earth and tipon all
the underground streams, as to give them
much greater force iu rising to the surface
where they can find vent. This being so,
may serve to accouut for the fact that
water is much scarcer and lias to be sought
deeper in flat countries than in these that
are broken. There Is no such pressure
upon the surface of the ground in level
countries as iu those tbat abound in hills
and mountains, and consequently the
waters do not rise so near the sutfaee.
Perhaps, too, a knowledge of this phenom
enon may enable us better to understand
tho expression in the Mosaic history of the
deluge—“the fountains of the great deep
were broken up.”
In this connect ion, a somewhat whimsi
cal mode of drawing water from a deep
well in Alabama may interest yottr read
ers. In the year 1805 we spent a night
ou the plantation of Mr. A. 8. Harper,
near Union Springs, Alabama. It was in
a rich prairie section, where tho surface
water was ’ail iimesfone; and very deep
wells had to be dug or bored to reach
freestone water. Mr. Harper took us to
the horse lot to witness his mode of draw
ing water from a deep well of tbe common
kind. \Vc think that it was over 150 feet
iu depth, and the bucket used looked like
a barrel—it would bold at least twenty
gallons. The drawing machinery was a
running gear like that used to drive cot
ton gius by horse power. The long lever
by which it was turned stood out about
four feet above the ground. Mr. Harper
turned a small pony-built mule out of bis
stall, aud he ran quickly to the lever,
placed his forehead against it, aud pushed
it rapidly around uutil be had drawn all
the water wanted—enough to fill a large
and Jong trough in which the stock of the
place were watered. The mule seemed
to delight in his task, aud rushed to it
without compulsion or coaxing, aud with
out a strap of harness on.
While the writer lived in Columbus,
Ga-, he frequently, aud for a series of
years, through the press ol that city,
urged the authorities to try tho experi
ment of an artesiau well as a means of
securing an abuudance of water. At one
time he wrote to a civil engineer who had
lived in tbe city, and who afterwards
turned his attention lo such wells in Ala
bama, to get his opinion as to tho practi
cability of obtaining artesian water iu
Columbus. The answer was quite en
couraging—the engineer giving It as liis
conviction that water which would rise to
tho surface could bo reached at Columbus
at a depth of 350 to 400 feet. But tho
publication of this letter did uot arouse
the city authorities to a trial of tho plau.
The cty lor more water in that city has
been kept up for years, and now they
are about to resort to a
very expensive plan of bring
ing it from a branch about three miie3
distant. Quite orobably they will obtain
an abundauco of water by tills plan, but
It needs no argument to convince any
reasonable man that it cannot be as pure
03 artesian water, aud iu all probability
will cost greatly tuoro titan tbe artesian
i>lan. We hope, at all events, that our
i lends at Columbus will, by. their ex
pensive system, obtain better water ana
a utoro.regular supply than we havo in
Atlanta by a similar plan.
We participate In your; sanguine antic
ipations of great and beneficial results
from the sensation iu favor of artesian
wells which has been excited by your ac
count in Southwestern Georgia. If gen
erally successful there, such wells must
do much to add to the health, comfort
aud ptosperily of that already biglily-fa-
d
The well was commenced on tbe 4th of
May last. During its progress a drill came
ofl Lite boring pipe in the well; afterwards
the head of a reamer broke off by reason
of fi flaw iu the steel at a depth of two
hundred aud fiiiy-five feet below the sur
face, aud some weeks were lost In gettiug
rid of this obstruction, after which Mr.
Jackson became sick and went tohishoxne
in Selma. _He returned late in July, and
early in August completed the well. I
consider that not more than a mouth'*
steady work Las been done ou tbe well,
and 1 know of no reason why a similar
well could not be bored in three or four
weeks, aud in thlsopinlon-I am-sustain
ed by Mr. Jackson.
Y The depth of the well is 330 feet; 'the
pipe encasingtke-larger pOrtionof if is
two inches iu diameter. Such pipes may
be either a-two inch gas pipe -or artesiau
well casing,tho latter is the best and cheap
est, and is not worth more than twenty-
five cents per foot.
The. cost of tbe present well to me, af
ter accounting for supervision, litre ol
hands, use of engine, etc., I estimate at
about $1.50 per foot. 1 should think this
a lull price for boring, piping aud comple
ting a well of such depth aud character.
More than 150 feet of hard silicious
limestone with stratas ol silex were
drilled through before 250 feet were
reached in this well. Should no such
serious obstructions occur as I encounter
ed, a well of such depth could be bored
iu a.third of the time and at much less
cost,
I consider the process of boring as used
by Mr. Jackson very simple, but requiring
experience. I have such confidence iu
this view of tlio matter that I havo pur
chased Mr. Jackson’s apparatus, and I
intend to comuteuce in a few days the at
tempt to bore another well In tbe south
east portion ot Sumter county, where I
very much need one, with tiie labor that
lias assisted Mr. Jackson, without the cost
of his sttpervision.
Ihe flow of water lias increased, com
mencing with four and is now seven gal-,
Tons per minute. The temperature of the
water registered, by test with two ther
mometers, C9 degrees Fahrenheit. So
far a3 the eye and taste can determine,
the water was pronouncod by several
testing it at the well, as perfectly clear,
soft, pure freestone water, aud as palata
ble aud pleasant as any water they ever
drank. . .
, I am of the opinion that the water ob
tained Is pure freestone water, com
ing from the Fine mountains
that cross the State in Upson, Meriweth
er, Talbot aud Harris counties. I ac
count for the coolness of the water, by
reason of the short disianca the well is
from tbe source. In all of which I may
be mistaken as my knowledge of geology
is limited.
I intend obtaining the services of Mr.
George Paine of this city, a competent
analytical chemist, wbo will in a short
time give to the public, through the col
umns of the Tei-egraph & Messenger,
a careful analysis ot the water from this
artesiau well, for tbe information of all
parties concerned. Very respectfully,
' Jno. 1*. Fort.
TIIE AII.IIV iroujl XOT A COT-
VOX UESTltOVElC.
A Fall Description ot a Worm Now
Devastating" tbe Ursa* Fields or
Middle Georgia,
Editors Teleorwr and Messenger:
Your daily of the 12th instant contains an
account ot the sudden appearance of tho
army worm in the park at Macon. A few
days before I received a specimen of the
same worm from Tennille, Washington
county, where it had appeared in great
numbers. As it may attack tho grasses at
many other points a short account of its
habits may be of ioteresi.
The army worm, called heliophia or leu-
eania uuipuncta by entomologists, is some
thing of a cosmopolite, being found in Eu
rope, in America, and iu almost every part
of the oiviliz-jd world. Its food being the
grasses, it occurs m>st frequently . in tho
Northern Slats* where hay is a staple crop,
and where meadows aud grass lauds are
tnos t exten -ive. A few worms are noticed
there probably every year, bet l!<» great
devastating Uord is of them come at in!
v.tis of several years—1831, Fi'o aud
lertWd were noted army worm years. The
army worm is regarded with more terror at
tho North titan is the cotton-caterpillar
with us.
Tho eggs are laid in the folds of the
le&vej of graces, twenty-live to thirty iu
row. ea*.o pillar., hatch from these
BtKl find their food in tho leaves ou which
ihey appear. Like their kindred, tho cut-
'worms, they feed at uight and lie hidden
tlu. mg the day. They thus escape notice
usually uutil they arc nearly grown, when,
if tueir numbers are large, the demand for
food compel them to move from plant to
liir.ui, aud they migrate from field to field
like an it. my. They are described by Prof,
Corns.ock. as follow*: “The larva or worm,
wheu fall grown, is cue andone-half iui a.-s"
its length. Its body color is pale green,
clearly seen only ou the ventral surface,
vr.neu elsewhere with longitudinal stripes
of yellow, gray and black, the gray of ,ca
po ciose!. aolted with black as to become
iitt‘h,. The general arrangement of the
si. ,.o* is ns follows: The enli e back is
cove, oil by a broad black or du.ky bund
deepest, at the middle aud along each Yen
gin. Ou sacn flank is a stries ot piripes,
coumung of a medium black or dusky
baud, on asou ..iuo of .• uich i. a greenish
or yeiiow stupe or feiiual width, margined
ou etuier baud wu.t uiu.-y white liu. :* not
otf uy a were fine of us.fi. Dows rite mid
ole of cue buck is an iuur/npiednat.ow
white hue, often c e.-.rly sued only near the
head.”
inis descripliou viU euaole nay ono fo
disiiuguisu the army worm .rom me nu
merous other caterpillars fosud iu the
fields.
TIIE TAX DIGEST.
A Few CompnriMoq* Showing Macon’*
Frogres*
Yestorday n Telboeaph reportir called
upon Mr. R.'J. Anderson aud H. fi. Peter,
tax receiver and tax collector, to obtain
somo additional figures upon tho taxable
property of Bibb county. Finding both
of these efficient officers together the ques
tion was asked:
‘Tnth&Aox digest I find, that tho increase
of IS SO over the return of 1 'hi was
153,. while .the increasa .of 1831 orer 1S8J
was $281,301; why is thindifference ?”
“It is easily explained. Up to 1879 the
people made returns upon their own valu
ations. In that year the commissioners
had all property valued by a board of as
sessors, and tho rotoru* were consequently
very heavy. This year, althongh the peo
ple themselves mado their own rolaros, tho
advance in values was $231,301 over last
year. The figures show an increase of value
throughout the county of about eleven per
cent, in two years.”
“Can yon give me the increase in de
tail?”
“Yes. The inoroase for tho two years in
the value of land has been §190,002.00; of
the city property, §297,030; of shares "’in
banks, §75,076; of merchandise, §179,236;
of stocks and bonds, §123,229: of money
and solvent dobts, §69,318; of cotton facto
ries, §46,000; of farniture, §39,311; of jew
elry, §3,000; of cattle, males, cto., §15,733;
of annual crops on hand, §3,000; of all
other property, §30,030. The total value of
property of whites is §8,615,772, an increoso
of §1,019,691 or noarly 13 per cent. The
fatal value of the property of colored is
§"257,123, an increase of only §12,696 or
about 5 per cent. ' In ono thing only was
there a.falling off iu, the value ot building
and loan association shares, which iu 1879
were §61,214 and tliis year are §31,590.
The tremendous increase of proper
ty generally, especially in merchandise and
City property, indicate tho progre-a ot the
oily. - Under the impetus trade and real es
tate have received, we shall expect oven
finer returns next year.
1031 AUTEU’S TALK.
vored section.
M.
Mr Fort’s Artesian Well.,
Macon, Ga., August 12,1881.
Editors Telegraph and Messenger: I
request space in your columns to reply to
various letters that I have received iu re
lation to tho artesian well lately com
pleted in Dougherty county, Georgia, as
to how arrangements may be perfected to
boro such a well, and respectfully request
of those who have written mo that this
may be considered a reply to their letters
upon said subject, and especially to letters
received from the cities of Balnbrldgeand
Hawklnsvilie.
The well concerning which luquiry Is
made is bored upon a plantation two
miles northwest of Ducker Station, known
as Hickory Level, ami owned by myself
ami Mr. J. M. Johnston, formerly of New
York, but now a citizen of Macon, with
whose consent ami cordial approval I
commenced aud finished tiie undertaking.
I employed tho flrtn of E. A. & J. J.
Jackson, of Selma, Alabama, to construct
tho well. Mr. Joseph J. Jackson, of said
firm, dnly arrived at the time appointed.
He is a skillful mechanic ami a practical
artesian well borer, and I bavo no doubt
would t-oiiliact with any ouc desiring bis
services. I agreed with Mr. Jackson amt
have paid him , five dollars per
day for His services ami the
use of hts windlass, friction
!\ hen tbe larva i* fully grown, it descends
into the earth au inch, Hlieds its caterpillar
skin for the sixth time, becomes a brown
pupa or ohrysalis lrom winch cmeraos in n
tow days the mature in*eo!, awinged moth.
Tnis has wings of a dull brown color, with
a distinct white spot In iho middle of oach
forowing, aud the wings iiave au exiianro
of an inch ami throe-quarters. Tho moths
fly mostly by night, au.l may be seen
nrouud caudles and lamps near tiro infested
fields.
If u few of the largest worm* bo placed,
with bows grass for rood, in a tumbler or
bowl half riduu with damp soil and pro-
vented from escape by a book placed on tbe
tumbler, their Jesccut into the earth, tho
chrysalids aud the moths may bo witnessed
by any one.
The foo l of tho army worm is the
grasses, including corn and the small
grains. They never eat other plants to any
extent. There tioed be alarm as to cotton
potato* or turnips.
Tho best mods of circumventing the
hungry swarms is by ditching. A movin''
army may thus be confined in its opera
tions- or a field that is threatened may bo
saved. The ditch is made mo3t easily by
ranuisga lurTowwith a turn plow, aud
cutting down the steep side with n spade
uutil there is a rerirendicular, or better
overhanging, face of six or eight incites.
If thi* ba well mado, -the caterpillars can
not ascend the steep side. To kill them,
perpendicular hole* are dag in this ditch,
ono foot to eighteen inches deep nnd from
20 to 30 feet apart. The ditches guide them
into tho holes, from whiuhtkey cannot es"
cape.
It is urgod upon farmers, who may bo
tronbled with this pest, this summer or
fall, to try this remedy. They may save
gros3-fields, millet, drilled corn and stacks
of fodder, which aro invaluable in this
year of short forage. Yours truly,
August 13,188L J. E. WiLiaw
A Centre Shot.
Albany Xetcs.
There is nothing to which -mankind in
general habituato themselvoa so readily
and learn to love aadfo wield as the exer
cise of high nnd arbitrary power. It oc
curs to o* jut here, that tliis sumo Railway
Commission, in their first report to tho ex
ecutive, spoke of their powers 03 so large
nnd oven arbitrary that they shrank from
their fall exercise. Now they are clamor
ing fo rndilUioual nr.d moroexton3ivo pow
er and are oven willing to run a tilt with
thesapromo law of the land to obtain
them.
The Only Difference.
hj-los Port.
A Connecticut editor complaius it did
> tihi.i« to got drank iu
dutch augers and drills, and furnished i he iLj Thto
him three bauds, my plantation, eight-1 i,, n d than usual util monRo*.**^
horse |wwer 3tcam engine, -team pump Maine prohibitory law, ha says, baa affected
•and all necessary pipes and other appara-! the quaiity but not the quantity of tho
tus.
liquor.
He Takcth Horae <i Combination Ar
ticle or Furniture.
TTrUtcu/sr the Tclejraph anil iletsenoer.
I expect nil women are alike—in some
thing*, anyhow. Now, there’s Mrs. Arter—
a very good woman in her way, but dad
blame such a way 1 Tho man who can
stand up flat-footed auu ielt mo without
batting his eyes that his wife is economi
cal and saves money—tbat man ought lo
be lynched, for he is an unqualified Fenian
and a double-distilled Nihilistio disrupter*
Woman hasn’t tho slightest idea on earth of
wiiatoconomy is. Sho doesn’t know it from
a sidc-saddlo. And tho dickcn3 of it is, yon
can’t beat it into her. You might pat it up
like a liver pad, and sho might wear it
around her neck until hor oyebrows
turned gray, and even then sho wonldn’t
know what it was. Absorption is nowhere
when it comes to learning a woman what
economy is.
The other day I popped in at a farniture
store, nnd I saw a baby chair that captured
me at once. It wn3 n patent combina
tion affair—a sort of dining-room
chair that yon could qniekly convert
into a little carriage—and, thinks I, this is
tbe very trick for tho baby Arter. The
pt ice was mighty high and made n hole in
my jnrso liken Gnitcau ballet, but I had
to have it if the breakfast table had to lose
its daily mackerel. And I bought it
nnd took it with mo os I went home that
night.
As i went along I felt happy in thus be
ing able to relieve Mrs. Arter of somo of
the hardships of keeping the baby Artor’s
lutgs from getting flyblown. I knew sho
had a hard time of it this warm weather,
ami I thought slic’d fully appreciate tho
chtti'".
It was rather late when I reached my
domicile, and tho old lady was fast asleep,
with one dainty foot flopped over on tho
craii'o a-tucking just a* nicely ns if sho
had been wide awake. I think she claims
a p.tleut ou the lick.
I woke her up and showed her the chair,
I had fondly imagined n complete surprise,
hot she rubbed ner eyes nnd yawned and
jn-t as the yawn had got good bold on her
mouth, she-spattered out tliat she had seen
’em before. I felt like lugging the
thiug uown to the river uni throwing it in
for the baby mermaids. Then she asked
me what it cost. •
“Only two dollars—isn’t it cheap!" said
I, showing how it could be made into a
rolling rehlclc.
‘ Why, can’t you make a cradle of it,
too?” said Mrs. Arter bolting np in bed as
if site had jost then got interested .in the
machine. •
“Naw 1 do yon expect to gat a chair that
can be to rcml into n clothes wringer or a
multiplication table for two dollnrs ?”
“Well, 1 did think it ought to haven
cradle attachment, too.”
“Yes, that’s the way with you blasted
women! You want to get a combined
chair, cradle, cooking store, Brunswick ex
tension, dollar store bonnet, liver pad,
bottle of paregoric and a sack-fitting cor
set and all for two dollars,” thundered L
as I sat down to wish the man who made
the chair was gpiuning on the south pole,
“You’d better put on a pair of spare and
hire yourself out for a city directory, you
ktiowao much,” came from the bed, with
force enough to wake up the contents of
the cradle.
“And you’d bettor soak your feet and
ront yourself ont as a hotel derk,yos know
so little,” said 1,-r my eyes snapped fire.
“I don’, see wliat you want to come home
for this time o'uight and make snch a fuss
for,” jvllel Mrs. Arter, as she flirted young
Arter over to tho left side.
“Nobody raised this fa** but you, madam.
I came homo .tigging a piece of furniture
that C thonghi would please you. I told
yon it cost me only two dollars-. I lied. It
cost mu lK'.oen dollars ou the instalment
plan, and I intend to return it in tbe niorn-
u.
Til's declaration changed the current,
nud I saw by the relaxing of the hard lines
In Mrs. Al ter s face that I had won the good
fight. No two dollar trick in her-.~ It
might have been a combination chair, bed
stead, lottery ticket, cross-cut saw, mus
tang liniment nnd cemetery gate, and yet
she wouldn’t have touched it with a forty
foot i>ole if it hadn’t cost more than
two dollars.
“Well, it is it mighty convenient thing,
and I’m uwfui glad you got iL'*
Now, that's exactly bow I knew it would
turn out. Every woman’s the seme way.
The more money they can speed, the hap
pier busy are. Money can buy all tiie hnp-
•tness woman wonts on this earth, and if
here ain’t no dry goods stores iu heaven
nushty fow women will work to get there.
And yet we poor fool men go on marrying
these money-loving creatures every day, re
gardless of weutlier! Tow Abteb.
Ncsv Dr leans Business
New Orleans, August 13.—Tho cot
ton market lias exhibited very little life
so far as the spot business Is concerned,
and the advices from other cottcn mar
kets have been rather unfavorable, hut
prices are well maintained. Futures have
also been quiet though values havo been
advanced, somo quotations beiug eight to
fifteen points better. In financial circles
position is not in accord with tbe
ratal dullness, but all kinds of securities
are held with confidence and offered spar
ingly. In the line of provisions and bread-
stuffs business, while fair for tho season,
is of moderate proportions. Tiie weather
lias been propitious for rice, and the crop
promises to bo a large ono. Tbe sugar
crop is progressing well, though it is uot
thought that the yield can nearly equal
that of last year tinder any ctrctt at stances.
The receipts or grain for the week are
180,000 bushels for export.
DfMiivnt Hen
Washington, Angus* 13.—Thesttpe;--
Yhi'g inspector genera's, of steam ves.ds
report* that during the fiscal year of
1880-81 there were 268 live* lost of pas
senger* and crews upon me. chant steam
vessel* ot the United Stales, front e.tplo-
0113, fires, collisions, shipwreck?, acci
dental. drowntngs and tuisorilaneou.
causes. Among those lost by shipwreck
included the victims of the disastrous
ckoftho.City of Vera Crux and of
thi City or A.’retia—12S p-.-.=-.ns. Com
pared with the previous year there has
been au increase of thirteen in the num
ber of lives lost.
TIm Hal Irani! Committees
Ex-Governor Smith, of the Railroad
Commission, made a masterly and telling
speech before the railroad committees of
tbe General Assembly, in the Senate
chamber, on Friday afternoon. The hall
was crowded, as it has been for several
days during this hearing. He presented
figures aud statistics to show that the
action of the commission hail not been in
jurious to the railroads—that their busi
ness had largely increased, their profits
bad-been handsome • and - remunerative,
their stocks bad advanced in value at au
unprecedented rale, aud at the same time
_tho people, generally, had been much ben-
fited by a reduction iu charges for freight
and travel. He said that the railroads
had now become a great power in the
State aud in the couutry at large. They
virtually monopolize travel aud transpor
tation. The old style of traveling by stage
coacb, by carriages and other private ve
hicles, had given way to tho railroadcar.
Road wagons for transportation to any
considerable distance bad been super
seded, and the railroads had in reality es
tablished themselves as a monopoly.
What, ho asked, was the eflect of tho pos
session of such complete power? It was
to stimulate ambition to acquire still
greater power—to use the power gained
tor their own aggrandizement and ior tire
enrichment of some men at the expense
of others. Legislatures had, in some
Instances, been controlled by them, courts
had been approached, and the balls of
Congress invaded. Tbe evil existed both
in tbe rich North and the poor South.
The chief difference wa3 that scamps at
the South could only employ l^wyarei
while scamps at the North could employ
courts. It was necessary that there should
be somo tribunal to stand between the
people and this great power Hut bad
grown to be a monopoly. Legislatures
felt tbat they were bound to take the
tiling in hand. Tho new Constitution ot
Georgia required the Legislature to pro
vide for tbe regulation of charges aud the
prohlbitiun of abuses of power by tbe
railroads. The Railroad Commission was
established to carry out thi* constitutional
requirement. Ho referred to the great
difficulty which the commission experi
enced lit getting such statistics as would
enable them to establish a base line aud
to adjust tarifi* to suit the needs of ail the
railroads. They had done th.e beat they
could, aud would at all times guard and
protect tho interests of the railroads as
well as the rights aud interests of tbe
people.
In reply to tlje argument of Judge
Chisolm concerning tho rulings of Judges
Woods and Bradley, Gov. Smith contend
ed that the decision of tho former, was
virtually a final decision of the whole
case. The allegations of the bill covered
every chargo now mado. Judge Woods
had taken ample time to consider the
whole question, tutd had token cate to
cover the whole grouud. No doubt lie
consulted with others of the best lawyers
of the country—with judges of the Su
preme Court of the United States and
uthers. He had since been appointed
one of the justices of the United States
Supreme Court, aud Gov. Smith pre
sumed that Seualor Brown, who now-
comes here to combat his decision, voted
to confirm his nomination. That was a
tribute to bis ability quite inconsistent
with the decisive ntauncr iu which the
Senator has alluded to his decree. That
decree affirmed the constitutionality of
the commission and cf its work. It
swept away all the argumeuts now repro
duced in behalf of tue railroads. The
railroads had lost their case.
Judge Chisolm—“ Temporarily.”
Gov. Smith—“Eternally.”
He referred to intimations by Judge
Chisolm and Senator Brown that tbe rail
roads would appeal from Judge Woods’
decision. Why, then, he asked, do they
come here? They had choseu their own
tribunal. Judge Wood* was the judge
of their own choice. Why did they not
select a judge of our own courts ? Their
choice illustrates a motive. Judge Woods
was a Northern mau—from the land.of
S reat corporations. It was hoped that
ortherti judges would not be fair to
wards Georgia. Georgia was scarcely
maintaining an equal position in the Un
ion with other States, and the pro-
suuiptiou was that her political
status would be a disadvantage to
her. But the railroads lost, and now they
proposed to appeal to a higher Federal
court. But in tbe meantime they appeal
to the Legislature. After having selected
their own foium, they would not stick to
it. Titey come back to the legislators of
Georgia and ask them to acknowledge
themselves a set of nincompoops, fit was
a strange attitude. Gov. Smith read trout
Judge Woods’ decree his decision that the
duties imposed on the commission were
not legislative—the Legislature could not
perform them without being in perpetual
session. He said tliat if the power to reg
ulate rates were taken from the commis
sion it would go back into the hands ot
the pools. Tho pools detested competi
tion. They wore formed to prevent it by
a partition of territory and division of
profits. Referring pleasantly to Senator
Brown's great two Horn an liumblo to the
highest station, he concluded by sayiug
that if. the power to regulate railroad
charges were token from tho commission
and again allowed to the pools, the Sena
tor, Instead of yoking the historical bull
at Gaddistown, would be enabled to put
tbe yoke on the necks of all the people of
Georgia.
There was much other goood-nattired
sparring between Gov. S. and his railroad
opponents. He also devoted soms of his
peecit to a consideration of tho com
plaints of tho Savannah, Florida and
and Western railroad particularly; but as
we omitted what Judge Chisolm had to
say about that road, we also omit Gov.
Smith’s reply.
Gov. S. spoke from 8fi59 to near 0
o’clock. Senator Brown will reply this
(Saturday) afternoon. M.
SEX El'S It EG U A US.
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Murtiidurcd b j IttBrJirfer Mk» f«, Si lm
ffialifwe aroreLlrlu^hnj^ Jtrr ““7 tostono-
A vocmo* cf a mouth did not t V ae -
lief, but ou the contrary. *»» tullS»M » c ? I®*
creased prostration au.l ilnMne ctmuT 1
tlme.IVrnM tnecso of your fnos "fe»ic tro£
ha» comet
enjoyed. It Ilia'......-..-. .....
know not what. I plTe tithe credit.
"" ilost
Troy, O., Jan. 2,1CT. raster Christian Church,
For Saie by Dniggltti and General Dealer: Every*!**
IMPERISHABLE
PERFUME.
Murray & Lanman’s
FLORIDA WATER.
Best for TOILET. BATH.
and SICK ROOM.
3L1CON, GA.
rpHE FALL TERM OF THrS OLD AND
A- well known instilnlion will open on the
last Wednesday (28th) in September next
A Sab-Freshman elsss, to bo prepared
by the Faculty for the Freshman class, and
consisting ot youths not under It years of
age, will be formed.
Tho Law School, at tha he ul of which is
the Hon. Clifford Anderson, offers peculiar
advantages to students of law.
Four “Gray Fnud" scholarships itre no*
vacant. Applications must be made to tbe
Or,Unary of Jones county.
For catalogues nud other information,
address JOHN J. BRANT I, V,
juyl2dlawtf Seo’y Face It,
The Troubles of n Now Yorlt Pi-'Jnn-
throptat.
Tho New York Advocate says: The
following interview with Geer. I. Scney
is from a reliable reporter:
Question. Doyou find as much trouble
from applicants for gifts a* formerly ?
Answer. Yes; it increases. They pur
sue mo at my place of business and at
home. I actually have to leave the citv
to get rest.
Q. Who gives tbe most trouble?
A. A great many women aro applying
to me, some of whom persist until they
have to be Tairly driven away.
Q. Do yott receive many letters? •
A. Yes; I ant almost as much persecu
ted as Dr. Dlx was by Gentleman Jo’s
letters. I frequently get thirty or forty a
day.
Q. Do you pay any attention to them ?
A. No. As soon a* I see what they are
at, I throw them In tho waste basket. It
is my deliberate purpose to answer none,
aud to read none after I see wliat they aro
at, and there is no use in people calling
ou me. Aly plans are ail formed, and 1
know what to do with allllave to giro,
and ten times as much if l liad it. I have
no money for paying church debts or for '
building parsonages. What I have to give
for those purposes,! intend togivo through
the chureh extension and Freedman’s aid
society, through the regular collection
taken in the church extension for tho>e
purposes.
Q. Do persons who apply for personal
help grow angry ?
A. Yes. A mc.u threatened to do vio
lence not long ago, aud I had to have him
arrested. He tiinied out to be an cx-
- convict. Another wrote me a let ior iwp-
ing at the day ot judgment I would Le
damned. It i* useless for people to applv
tome. If I ever get so that I can't tell
what to do next, I. will look up some
l.-ieud for counsel.
Q. Do you object to this iutciview b
ing published ?
A. I don’t atre whether you publish it
or not. It it will lead people to .w.e their'
time and my patience, It will be a good
thing.
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