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(jfeflgafet Hjggklg Celggcapfr stub Umscttal & Bigjsuaerngieic.
Cinni.ES de Youso, who isos murdered
by young KallocU in San Francisco, left an
estate worth S79.705.
The steamship Gallia, from Liverpool
just arrived at Now York, brought §1,3G2,-
503 in foreign gold and bars.
Grain shipments from Indianapolis con
tinno. Scvornl persons well corned leave
the city on nearly every train.
Rehabkaele things arc constantly com
ing to pass, but who thought that pns would
ever becomo a matter of nows?
A seat in the Now York stock exchange
was sold for §30,000 the other day. There
must have been a diamond pin in it
The hero of tho Apache raid was a Mor
mon named Ilonderson, beside whoso bum
cd body were found HO empty Winchester
shells.
take my tex dis moniiQ , i n s&id q ool
ored pieucher, “from dat po’tion ob da
8oripture whar de Postal Paul pints his pis
tol to de Fesions."
A i.ADV of Lafayette, Ind., with “great
command of language,” has just vanquish
ed in debate a minister who spoke against
prohibition and female suffrage.
S’ododv should ever complain of the fail
ure of the fruit crop. How muoh betteroff
we might all have been had tho apple crop
been a failure in father Adam’s day.
Toe Cleveland (England) iron masters
appointed a committee in concert with tho
Scotch masters for a reduction of the out
put. This decision has advanced the prico
of iron.
It is estimated that the wheat yield of tho
United States will tills year be between
350,000,000 and 400,000,000 bushels, or bo
tween 75,000,000 and 125,000,000 bushels
short of last year.
As recently as 1850 only about 9,000,000
acre# of land in this country wero devoted
to wheat culture. By 1876 the acreage had
increased to abont 20,000,000, and in 1880 to
about 33,000,000.
Loans Kilmarnock and Moncastcr, Sir
William and Lady Howland, Sir John A.
and Lady Macdonald are passengers in the
steamship Seomatian from Liverpool duo
at Quebec on Saturday.
The Boston Journal is of opinion that if
the hottest weather of the year comes at a
time when rich and poor experience its dis
comforts together there seems to be an
equalization of fortnne.
A 1’aiLxvELPUix gentleman, who, a year
ago, bought 2,000 shares of Hannibal & St.
Joe, sold it last week at 110, making $13G,-
00L Another, who lost §130,000, jnmped
oI a Sound steamer and was drowned.
fin. Daszxt is delayed in his publication
of tlie life of J. T. Delane, the editor of the
London Times. Only one-sixth of it lias
gone to the printers. It is to contain some
strange revelations in the shapo of letters.
M. Gahiietta’s organ, the Paris, asserts
most emphatically that M. Ferry’s cabinet
will resign as soon as the decree summon
ing tiio new chamber is published, bat will
remain in office until a new ministry is ap
pointed.
Mbs. Lucas, president of the American
Silk liaising Society, has written to tho
Columbia (S. G.) Register that “a Philadel
phia gentleman offers the sum of §50, in
three prizes, for the best oocoons raised in
any Stato by colorod women.”
Sbcbetabt Blaise, while discussing tho
situation in Pennsylvania, is very cautions,
bat he gives the idea that ho will not be dis
pleased if a strong independent Republican
movement is shown in that State, and by
“independent” he means anti-Cameron.
Coables A. B vbne, formerly of the Troth,
was arrested to-day by the sheriff, in a suit
brought in the Snprcmo Court by Josh
Hnrt, as executor of his wife's estate, who
claims that Byrne, while superintendent of
tho Dramatic News, embezzled §1,835.
Lemons have been very scarce in tho New
York markets for 6ome time, and prices
have steadily advanced in consequence. As
high as §10 and §11 per box is being paid.
The now season crop is expected to arrivo
in the latter part of the week, and lower
prices will follow.
An official statement shows that the sav
ing effected by tho Star Route redactions
last month was §79,COO; tho total saving
August 31 wns 81,479,000; tho total saving
September 13 was §1,530,000. It is hoped
to briug the total saving up to §2,030,000 by
January 1,1882.
Lobenzo Deluonico knew not only “how
() keep a hotsl,” in Western phrase, bnt he
knew how 4 > keep the forte no it brought
him. His will disposes of property amount
ing to §2,000,000, and is notable for the care
with which his family, inclnding even some
what distant relatives, arc remembered.
How natural it is for housekeepers to oc
casionally intrust front door keys to ser
vants! How easy it is for servants to havo
duplicate keys.made, if they want to, and
how natural it is that burglars should gain
entrance to a honse in some anaccoontablo
way after such a sc wont had been dis
charged!
The President seems to be showing a
good deal of ability of ono kind and an
other. Hoisabloto regulate the number
of bis surgeons, and to tell him when he b
strong enough to sit np. He b also able to
inquire after tho progress of funding oper
ations, and to rejoice over the success of
the Postmaster-General's fight against tho
Star Ronto thieves. Sick or well, ho is tbo
President of lib own administration.
The current notions respecting the prev
alence of color-blindness do nut hold
good among Uio pilots. Tho annual report
of the snporvbing surgeon-general of the
rnarino hospital service states that daring
the past year 4,334 pilots lutve been exam
ined, 11C of whom wero found color-blind.
This b a proportion of about one-quarter
of one per cent., which cannot be consid
ered great.
Knoxville Tribune: It is a positive fact
that, regardless of the dronth and the fail
ure of grain crops, East Tennessee b in n
more prosperous condition financially than
over before. There is money in tho conn-
try and tho balk of it is in tho hands of tho
people. Tho dried fruit crop thb year is
simply enormous, and owing to the failure
of crops elsewhere, it b bringing about
twice ns much monoy as it did lost year.
Mantevcci, one of the boldest and most
persevering of all the brave, stont-heartod
band who havo risked their lives in explor
ing Africa, diod on his way back to
that. Though he violated professional
ethic#, he supported his theory of tho pa
tient’s case with clear reasonings and
well known principles. An old surgeon
and physician of this city remarked yes
terday, that ten days after the President
was shot ho had stated that it was impos
sible for him to recover, and that the
diagnosis of Dr. Hammond, of New York,
was entirely correct, however unprofes
sional ly ho may have acted. The second
day of October brings the President to the
limit of three months. If lie goes beyond
that, according to Dr. Hammond’s statis
tics, he will have established a new
case for the records. Fourteen days
remain, and no one intelligent enough
to understand the case as reported, can
support a belief in hb recovery' by rea
son.
BlUloltoKBlBlatlM Practice ol Medl- Agricultural Department Deport
due in tbe state or Georgia, M rmam- | Washington,September 15.—The fol-
ed bp tbo lionse, > lowing reports of tbe condition of the cot-
Section 1. The General Asstmblg of lon i 00111 and tobacco crops wero bsned
the State of Georgia do enact, That no , at noon:
person shall practice medicine within this Department of Agriculture, September
State unless he has heretofore been le- 15 » 1881.—Cotton reports of September
gaily authorized so to do, or shall be Ht to this Department show a very heavy
hereafter authorized so to do by a diplo
ma from an incorporated medical college,
medical school or university, and by com
pliance with subsequent sections of thb
act.
Section 2. Be it further enacted, That
for the purposes of thb act, the words
“practice medicine” shall mean to sug
gest, recommend, prescribe or direct for
the use of any person any drug, medicine,
appliance, apparatus or other agency,
whether material or not material, for the
cure, relief or palliation of any ail
ment or disease of the mind or body, or
for the euro or relief of aoy wound, frac
ture or other bodily Injury, or any de
formity, after having received or with tho
intent of receiving therefor, either directly
or indirectly, any bonus, gift or compen
sation. r
Section 3. Be it furtlier enacted, That
every person now lawfully engaged in the
practice of medicine within this Stato
shall, on or before the first day of Decem
ber, eighteen hundred andcighty-oue, and
even-person hereafter duly qualified to
practice, shall, betore commencing to prac
tice, register in tho office of the clerk of
tho Superior Court of tho county wherein
ho resides and is practicing,*or intends to
commence the practice of medicine, in a
book to bo kem for the purpose by said
clerk, his name, residence and place of
birth, together with hb authority forprac-
ticlng medicine as prescribed in this act.
The persons so registering shall subscribe
or.verify, by oath or affirmation, before a
p?rson duly qualified to administer oaths
under tbe laws of thb State, an affidavit
containing such facts, and whether such
authority is by diploma or license, and
tbe date of tbe same and by whom grant
ed, which shall be exhibited to the county
clerk before the applicantshall be allowed
to register, and which, if willfully false,
shall subject tbe affiant to conviction, and
punisbmeni for false swearing. The
county clerk to receive a fee of fifty cents
for each registration, to be paid by the
person so registering.
Section 4. Be it further enacted, That
every registered plivslcian in this State,
who may change hb residence from one
county into another within this State,
shall register in the clerk’s office of the
county to which he removes, and wherein
be intends to reside and to practice medi
cine, as provided in section three (3) of
this act.
Sections. Be it further enacted, That
any person who violates either of the four
preceding sections of thb acr, or who
shall practice or offer to practice medi
cine, without lawful authority, or under
cover of a diploma or license illegally ob
tained, shall be deemed guilty of a misde
meanor, and, on conviction, shall be pun
ished by a fine of not less than one hun
dred dollars, or more than five hundred
dollars, or by Imprisonment for not less
than thirty or more than ninety days, or
both. The fine, when collected, shall be
paid, tho one-half to the person, persons
or corporation making the complaint, the
other half into the county treasury.
Section (J. Be it further enacted, That
nothing in this act shall apply to commis
sioned medical officers of the United
States army or navy, or to the United
States marine hospital service, or to legal
ly qualified demists in the practice of their
profession, or to any woman practicing
only midwifery.
Sectiou 7. Be it further enacted, That
all provisions of law providing for the or
ganization, qualification and duties of any
and all boards of physicians, of any school
whatever, be and tbe same are hereby re
pealed, and there shall henceforth exist
in this State no board of physicians, but
the only requisite qualifications of practi
tioners of medicine shall be those herein
before set forth.
Section 8. Be it further enacted, That
all laws or parts of laws in conflict with
this act be and the same are hereby re
pealed.
Net So T oily Frightened.
I hiladtlphia American.
Some Republican newspapers are trying
to frighten the Democrats into abandon
ing their purpose to elect a President of
the Senate in case of Mr. Garfield’s death.
They draw a terrible picture of the pub
lic indignation which would attend any
attempt of tbe I'emocratic party to derive
a partisan advantage from such a na
tional calamity; and they ask If the Dem
ocrats are prepared to face tbo storm they
thus would raise. It b bard to believe
that these ablo editors are not laughing
in their sleeves at their own rhetoric. The
well recognized rule of American, as of
English, politics, is to take every advan
tage, and yield none. If tho Democrats
have the opportunity to elect Mr. Ar
thur’s successor in the chair of the Senate,
and his possible successor in
the execntlve office, they wiil earn no
reputation for magnanimity by letting the
cbanca slip, and they evoke no storm by
embracing it. They will be acting up to
tho rules of the game simply. Nor havo
tbe Republicans of the Senate been be
having in a way which entitles them to
any display ot magnanimity. The bar
gain with Mr. Mabono, by which they se
cured temporary control of that body,
showed how ready they were to take hold
o."every advantage which offered itself,
and not even to stand upon terms of pub
lic honor and honesty. It now seems os
if Mr. Mahone’s vote in the Senate wore
all that is to be got out of the Virginia
coalition. A dispatch to the Tribune con
cedes that the debt-paying Democrats will
carry the State by thirty thousand majori
ty. It is to purchase a defeat like this
that the Republicans lmve broken up their
own party and soiled their record by al
liance with repudiationists.
Ayer’s Fills are a general favorite, bo-
causc of their powerful yet gentle opera
tion. Medical men prefer them for nerv-
U3 or delicate constitutions.
so jib sovtueen types,
Cbnracter Sketches of Southern So
journer# at White Sulphur.
Chicago Timet Letter.
White Sulphuju Springs, Va., Au-
S ist 19.—I lmve never gotten such a good
ea of Southern men as I have this week,
studying the types that come here from
all parts of the South. The Southern men
are, as a class, very good looking. Every
uow and then you meet one that is strik
ingly handsome, a splendid specimen of
physical beauty. Southern men are gen
erally tall, broad shouldered, deep chest
ed, and are very easy and simple in their
manners. They have none of the push
and drive of Northern men in tho sawo
station of life, but they are much more
agreeable in a social way. They are
never In a liurry, and are always ready
with pleasant word or incident to help
>ass the time. They are to each other
ike brothers. Out on the grass ot the
lawn, in front of the house, there is a
group of Southern men surrounding Gen,
Cook, of Georgia; as be relates ono of bis
good stories. The affectionate way these
men have in their companionship with
each other speaks volumes in explanation
of the unity of the South. To be a South
ern boru man is enough to entitle one to
the ve:y best and kindest there is in all
our Southern men. Talking with a young
Southern gentleman yesterday upon the
subject of the solid South, he said: “That
is something the North does not under
stand. Wo are a band of brothers. Wo
liavo suffered too much In common to be
easily divided. The Republican party
represents to us nothing but oppression.
It is not natural to expect this generation
of Southern men to go over to it or to be
in any way uuiled with it. You will sec
the South solid during this generation at
least ”
Such talk as this is very common.
Both the men and the women are apt to
regard Northern people as having no in-
rest in common with them, x do not
find any expressions of dislike or distrust
directed against the Northern people.
The Southern people simply regard tbe
Northern people as they would men be
longing to another nationality.
decline in the condition of cotton sinco
the last report, owing to the protracted
drougtii which has prevailed in all sec
tions of the cotton belt. The condition is
72, a decrease of 1C percent, during the
month of August, and as compared with
the returns of the same date last year it is
19 por cent. less. The reports are from
530 counties of the cotton section, and are
somewhat less in • number than usually
received. Tho number of counties anil
State averages are as follows: North
Carolina, forty-two counties, reporting
air average of 72; South Carolina,
twenty-two counties, average 78; Geor
gia, fifty-five counties, aveiage71; Fli -
Ida, fourteen counties, average 87; Ala
bama, thirty-lbree counties, average
80; Mississippi, thirty-seven counties,
average 74; Louisiana, fifteen counties,
average 70; Texas, sixty counties, aver
age (3; Arkansas, thirty-one counties,
average 55; Tennessee, twenty-one coun
ties, average 02.
CORN.
Tho general condition of the corn crop
on September 1st was (3), being 17 per
cent, lower than the mouth previous and
31 per cent, lower than a year ago at the
same date. The canso of the low condi
tion existing in almost every section of
tlie country is dronglit. New England
has been less ail':clod by It than any other
section cast of the Mississippi, and repoi-s
an average of 90.
In Wisconsin, Minnesota and most of
the territories there has been more sea
sonable weather, and the condition of the
crop is correspondingly better, but in all
other sections the reports show the effects
of the unusually dry season.
From Illinois, Missouri and Kansas
come serious complaints of ravages by
chinch bug3, added to tho prevailing
drouth, and the injury to the crop pros
pect is thown by the State averages,which
are 50, 42 and 05 respectively.
Local returns from correspondents give
very serious views, the prospects for the
crop being some 20 per cent, less than a
mouth since, with tho exceptions of tho
States north of the Delaware river and
Wisconsin. In the West tbe universal
complaint is drought. Kentucky and Il
linois each report a little over ball a crop,
while Tennessee and Missouri report less
than two-thirds. The average for the
whole country is only G5, against 85 last
month and 84 at the same date last year.”
E. A. Cabmen,
Acting Conimlssionr,
A HI SUP OK THE GOVS.
Dub, (be baa Cook's Tender Reminis
cences of Okra Soup—Mow They
51 nkc It on » Louisiana Coast Flan'
tntiou
• ATew York Times.
I conld most pump up gallons of senti
mental stuff about okra soup, recalling a
pleasant day passed on the Louisiana
coast on a plantation, just where a big
bayou makes into tbe river, not more than
filteen miles from tbe city. Ob, tbe big
water oaks and tbe magnolias, and tbe
tangling vines, running like a ship’s rig
ging up the trees, and the squandering ol
nature’s beauties, the flowers blooming
and the birds a singing, and all God’s
creatures on the full swing, just enjoying
dear life. It was nigh on to thirty years
ago, and Bob was spry ami hearty then,
and a lady’s man; and I beg of you to be
lieve tbat Bubb oil of his ship could spry
up, and, in his best rig, look and try to
act like a gentleman. Well, because this
here Bob had been kind of polite to a Jady
and her little girl on a trip to and from
New Orleans to Boston, he had an invite
to spend a day, or a mouth if he pleased,
at a plantation, which plantation belong
ed to one of tbe lady passengers he had
;ot acquainted with. What I tell of I
tnows,wnd if my memory of most things
;ocs back a good many years, I guess it is
recause I aint learnt much, cooking wise
at least, for tlie last twenty-five years.
Hanged if'.hey didn’t send a carriage
right over to Algiers, where I was, and I
was trotted all the way out on the shell
road to the plantat ion. On the veranda,
as 1 came to the place, was the lady and
little girl, but besides that there were two
beautiful young miscs3, as me, a poor
sailor man, fell in love with on sight, and
have never since then quite made up my
mind which one of them won my heart.
They never know’d liow much that mate
of a ship thought at least of one of them,
and how he—hut thunder! this ain’t okra
sonp, and the fine writing in this here pa
per, so I am told, doeu’t get dumped Into
this here section.
It was early June, and things is much
more advanced in Louisiana than in Au
gust with us. It was kind of balmy—not
too warm nor unpleasant for walking.
Now, tbe good Madame, whose husband
»as dead, was always looking out for tbo
pleasures of others. She managed the
plantation, which made lots of cotton. By
and bv I see the colored people coming
up to the house with things to sell—for as
the lady told me, she made it a point to
grow nothing herself on tbat plantation,
jut to buy all she wanted from her own
people. An old colored woman, blacker
than the ace of spades, and bent like a
cat-head, came hobbling around with a
basketful of some kind of green tiling.
Blessed if I knowed what it was, having
been, so it seemed, most twenty-Uvo years
in this world with an okra unbeknownst
tome. “What’sthem?”saysI. “Why,
don’t you know ? ” said the lady; “okra,
and anybody that comes to my plantation
and eats my okra soup always says it’s
the best on the whole coast.
“Eh, Maroan,” said one ol my charm
ers, “we will ha70 okra sonpe this vera
day.”
“Egzagly; and we will make It for
Monsieur,” said the other, “and we are to
go in the boat to the Pavilion, and Venus
shall come and help, and Hcreule, too,
and Monsieur shall be our escort ei xa for
a regular maroon,” said Madame, and so
the ladies’ran to the house, and pretty
soon the servants wero busy, and a.boat
load of things were stowed away.
The craft was launched in the bayou, a
negro man rowed, and I in the stern
steered the boat, protected from tbe sun
by tbo ladies parasols. Tbe trip was a
short one, hardly a half hour. Presently
wc landed before a small old stoae house
which liad built into it a stone, with a
cross carved on it, and the date 1713.
“Old Catholic mission-liouse,” said
Madame, “which we keep as it is, and do
not desecrate. See jnst beyond there that
leet’ white painted bouse? That’s high
ground. My husband build that; when
levee break, as placo of refuge for his
family. Wc keep there always every
thing necessary for cooking, and a bed or
so, for no knowing when bad times come.
Servants come hero once a week and keep
the tnobllier straight. Little garden pot-
agere round it. Negro never touch any
thing. Obi woman throw spell on them,
so they think, but I believe they respect
it, because as long ago as 1820, when
great riso of water come, liuudreds of
thfhn camo to this place, and my people
fed and took care of them.”
Then Il/rculo put tbe things on tho
landing, and Venus she trotted to tho
led’ white houso with a big package on
her bead.
“Hercutc, youstay about hero and catch
crab and look for shrimp; there ought to
bo prawns, and I will go with tlie young
ladles to the house, and wo will have our
part of tho dinnerj cooked, and, Hcreule,
put those bottles of claret in that cool spot
in tbo bank, and tie a stone to them and
sink them in tho water, but don’t pretend
that you lose ’em, eh? - ’ and with a smile,
taking the arm 1 offered her, we went to
tbe house.
Ah! me, tho happy day! But- it seems
I never can come to that okra soup. Sbe
was the lady. Jnst one of tlioso lovely
types of a matronly Southern lady
Though there was that easy manner,
about her that made you feel at home,
still there was the signs of good race with
it. A woman of forty odd, with the soft
complexion of a girl, perfect teeth, great
big eyes, with ioug lashes, and a small
dimpled hand. Hang me, if I wasn’t near
Worthless NtnlT.
Not so fast my friend; If you could see
the strong, healthy, blooming men, wo
men and children that have been raised
from beds oi sickness, suffering and almust
death, by the use of Hop Bitter/, you . 1 , .. _ , , _
would sav “Glorious and invaluable rem-! falling In love with the motbor too! You
edy."—Philadelphia Press. j see, for a youngfellow I had travelled a
good deal, and had knocked •are and the
world, and had been to Palestine, and
when she. inquired about tbe strange
places there, and when I brought a rosary
out of my pocket, bleued by somebody or
other in the Holy Land, and when I gave
it to her, for she was a good Catholic, I
was quite in favor. Habits and customs
of foreign parts was next in order, and as
the mother bad only made one trip to the
North in all ber life, when I bad been
only on tbe ship, and tbe young ladies
bad nevor been out of Lonisiana, I was
like the colored fellow in tbe play, only f
had three Desdemonas around me listen
ing to my yarns.
“See what it is to be a traveler,and yon
most make us forget wbat we came here
for, which was for okra soup. I dare say
Venus has the pot on boiling, and if you
will go with my daughters in tbe garden,
if It ain’t quite grown wild, yon will
likely find all you want.”
And awav wo sailed into the garden
which was just one tsDgle of vegetation.
The young ladies showed me how to pick
tlie smallest and most tender of the okra.
I couldn’t pretend to make them work,
bnt did as I was bid. Here was great In
dian corn, taller than I could reach, and
Lima beans fifteen feet high, and great
bushes of of tomatoes just breaking down
with their fruit. And the young ladies
chattered liffe two mocking-birds, laugh-
ing at my awkwardness, aud always in
sisting tbat I should gather the highest
bean on the poles because it was the ten-
derest. Then they would come with
their apron stretched wide, and I would
drop in the green and crimson harvest.
So, by and by, we bad enough, and went
back to the lectl’ white house, and
Madame set about making the soup. We
all sat around a white wood table that
Vcnns bad just scoured, and I was given
tho okra to slice, a careful soalng out of
the okra Laving been gone through, and
only those two inches long being used.
“Now, Venus,” said Madame, “has liad
on tbe fire in tbat pot In tbe kitchen six
pounds of good fat beef which she has put
in three gallons of cold water. We came
here by 10 o’clock, it is now 12. When
you done slice the okra, wo will put in
three quarts of okra. Now, Louise you
tako grater aud grate me dozcu year corn,
but fine, fine, and Cecillc, you peel me
three quarts of tomato. We keep the
tomato to tho last. Where is that onion?
First of you children tbat behave bad,will
havo to chop up tho onion—but as yonr
inamau take all your sins on her shoulder
slio oblecged to do it. Have you shell
lima bean? Them Is tough. When you
open the bean just take only tho first two
in the pod near the flower; thoso the ten-
derest. Where your bull pepper? That
ono loo red, give me green one, I put him
in just so, whole. Why Hcreule nut come
with his shrimp, I don’t know. Maybe lie
sleep. Ah, hero ho be. Most a couple of
quarts of shrimp in that bucket, and all
alive. That Is good. Hercule, you take
those shrimp to Venus, and tell her to
drain them and put iu tlie pot with the
beef, and not to do anything more until
we come.”
It was now 1 o’clock. Madame led the
way to a detached shed, where Venus was
installed over a big pot. In went the okra,
tho grated corn, the lima beans, tho on
ion aud tlie pepper. With her own hands
the lady put in ground red pepper—a
mustard spoonful—salted it ami added
some few pepper corns. “At 0 o’clock,
we will eat this okra soup, Venus, and lu
an hour from now put in the tomatoes.
Don’t let it cook too hard, just simmer,
and mind, skim; skim, always, so that
there be no eye of grease to look at you.”
This was said in some funny French lingo
that I did not understand; but it was
translated for mo. Then wo left Venus
to her task. Tne sun was now on the full
blaze, aud an occasional mosquito was
singing.
“It is not good to go round now in this
climate. Sensible people take sleep. Your
room Is just there, and pull down the mos
quito-bar around tho cot. I and ray
daughter will take a sleep; Hcreule will
briug you a bunch of cigars, and mind good
appetite for dinner. I expect two, three
}>eoplo — neighbors from plantations
around—to eat okra soup with me.” I
took a book into my room, read awhile,
and then foil asleep.
When I awoko 1 heard people chatting
aud laughing, and, looking out ot tbo
window, I saw a dozen colored servants
hurrying liitlier and thither from tho little
landing with baskets and hampers. It
seemed tbat a special characteristic of this
maroon, was that the invited people should
bringeacb their owndisli. What a merry
party it was, as many ladies as gentlemen
perhaps 20 in all. But to the okra soup,
03 Madame had prepared it, were the hon
ors accorded. It was very thick, though
but little of tho meat had been allowed to
remain in it. Tho shrimps had been
withdrawn. It was the quintessence of a
vegetable sonp, without any greasiness,
only tbat when you had eaten two plates-
ful of it there wa3 no room for anything
else. The leet’ white house was full to
overflowing. As tho night camo the
woods were all illuminated by the pine
torches the negroes held. At 9 o’clocx a
long procession of boats and pirogues left
tbat bayou—the negro boatmen all chant
ing some quaint tune—beating time with
their oars and paddles.
I must confess that the strangeness of
tho scene—and my happy surroundings—
made mo quite forget the okra soup. In
fact I was thinking tbat Milo Cecillc was
tbo most enchanting.young lady I had
ever seen. When in the host that was
along side of us I heard ono gentleman
say to another:
“Ow Madamo make that okra soup so
good, 1 dunno, Merveilleus!1* and he
smacked his lips.
“Ah, M. Chapel ler, she ’avo tho secret
that was handed down to her from her
great-grandmaman—who, they do say,
was housekeeper to an Evcquo in old
France.”
Traveling UrldcH and Grooms.
N. T. Sun.
To watch tlie newly married couples
who travel Is one ot the compensations of
our arduous life,” said an old hotel clerk
tho other day.
“How can you fell whether they are
newly married or not?” Inquired the
Sun reporter to whom this remark was
addressed.
“Tell them?” ejaculated the clerk; “I
can pick them out as easily as if they
carried signs, ‘Wo are just married.’ ”
“Yes; but how?”
“Well, in tho first place they are al
ways most abundant ill tho fall and win
ter. I don’t know why it is, but such is
the fact. One of the signs of a newly-
married couple is the splc and span new
clothes. Somehow, when people g:t
married they generally get as many new
clothes as possible. The bride and groom
have new hats and new trunks and new
ulsters. Then, again, they spend money
more freely. When a man is in his honey
moon lio generally feels as if lie ought to
be generous. Uo is especially anxious
that the bride oliall eat and drink of the
best.”
“Do they behave differently from other
people? ”
“I should—well, yes. Tbe husband
does not run off to the bar-room or the
billiard room, as the old married men
do.”
“Are newly‘married people bashful?”
“Tbat depends. The widowers and
widows don’t mind it, but tho young peo
ple are a little coy. At Niagara Falls we
had most of llio new couples late in the
season, when the regular boarders had
left. I have scon as many as a dozen at a
time file into the dining room, trying to
look as if they had not married yesterday,
but castiug furtive glances abont to see if
they wero suspected.”
“Which do you think take to the uew
conditions most gracefully?”
“Women, by all odds. The men are
always Defraying themselves. Tbeywant
to talk about it; they are full of the sub
ject. Women are more artful, and have
more adaptability to new circumstances.”
“Another peculiarity of the uewly-mar-
ried couples who go to the hotels,” con
tinued the clerk, “is that many of them
live in the city. They always come
equipped for a long journey. They have
left the wedding guests with the an
nounced intention of taking a loug jour-
conspicuously displaying,
GEORGIA LEGISLATURE.
(Continued from sixth page.)
within two miles of ML Carmel church
iu Gwinnett county. . vttl
An act to increase the license tax on
liquors in Bryan county to $5,000.
An act to repeal tbe local road laws of
Bryan county.
An act to amend an act to regulate the
time for which the mayorof Auguataebail
hold office.
An act to proaibit the sale of liquors at
Delhi, Wilkes couuty.
An act to provide for Issuing new bonds
of Clarke county.
An act to incorporate the Dablonega
Savings Bank.
An act to amend the charter of the city
ot Macon.
An act to provide for ihe electrotying of
all reports of the Supreme Court of Geor
gia hereafter published.
AX AUMV OP Ft CHIPS EX FEMM
ES CE.
Atlanta, September 17.—Senate met
at 0 o’clock. Senator Parks moved are.
consideration of the action of the Senate
in refusing to pass the bill amending the
law in relation to the manner of giving in
wild lands for taxation. Tbe motion pre
vailed.
Standing committees made reports.
Several hills were read a second time.
The House bill to amend the act in ref
erence to the driving or grazing of cat
tle was taken from tbe table and passed.
The bill to prohibit the selling or buy
ing of eeed cotton between the hours of
sunset and sunrise was taken up and
passed.
BILLS BEAD THIRD TIME.
A bill to regulate tbe payment of teach
ers’ wages. Lost.
A bill to incorporate the Covington and
South River Railroad Company. Passed.
A bill to create a county court for the
county of Walton. Passed.
A resolution to pay mileage to members
oftbeGeueral Assembly. Passed.
A bill to amend tbe charter of the
Bainbrldge, Cuthbert and Columbua rail
road. Passed.
A bill for tlie relief of E. Polk, security
on tbe bond of Jett Dobbs. Passed.
A number of House bills were read the
first time.
The Senate adjourned to ten o’clock
Monday.
HOUSE.
After the reading of the journal Mr.
DuPree, of Macon, moved to reconsider
the vole of yesterday on Mr. Glover’s bill
for tbe batter enforcement of the road
laws of the State. The motion prevailed
Mr. Milner, ot Bartow, offered a reso
lution calling on the Governor for all the
facts in his possession in regard to the
death of John Matthews, late penitentiary
convict.
Mr. Hammond objected, as the matter
was before tho courts aud legislative in
terference might be Improper.
Mr. Milner said that the resolution
was one to elicit information merely, and
did not propose any action by this House.
IIo thought It of importance that the
House should have the information so
tbat it could act intelligently on peniten
tiary reform.
Mr. Hammond insisted that this was a
question involving the character and lib
erty, perhaps the life, of a citizen of Geor-.
gia, and the sentiment of the people
ought not to be influenced by any
action of this lionse. It ought to be left
to tbe tribunals to which tho laws com
mitted it.
Mr. Miller said tho object of his resolu
tion was not to affect at all tlie case of tlie
man accused of cruelty, but to give the
House information as to the treatment ol
convicts and enable it to act more intelli
gently on the still open question of peni
tentiary reform.
On tlie question of the passage of the
resolution tho yeas and nays wero de
manded.
The resolution was supported by
Messrs. Garrard and Post, and opposed
by Mr. Lester.
Mr. Miller offered an amendment call
ing for any information in the pos
session of tlie Governor on the pemteutia-
ry question.
Mr. Hammond said that the amend
ment would not meet his objection to tbe
resolution. He again opposed it in an
earnest and eloquent speech as an inter
ference with the jurisdiction of auotlier
tribunal.
Mr. Barrow supported the resolution in
a speech equally eloquent and forcible, in
sisting tbat the circumstances were such
as justified legislative inquiry, aud that it
was the duty of the General Assembly to
seo that every legal right of the convicts,
who were prisoners of the State, should
bo maintained. If a murder bad been
committed, be wanted to take precautions
so tbat no more murders should be done
when it was iu the power of the Legisla
ture to prevent it. “Time” was called on
Mr. Barrow and cut short his remarks.
Mr. Jemison warmly supported the
resolution. He contended that the ques
tion of the extension of the lease of con
victs to tbe North Georgia Railroad Com
pany was before the Legislature, if not
as a definite proposition, at least as one
“in the air, like malaria,” which could
not bo escaped, but bad to be met, and
that all information as to the treatment of
the convicts by tbat company ought to be
before tho Legislature.
Mr. Estes also warmly supported the
passage of the resolution.
Mr. Whee'er called for tlie previous
question, and the Houso sustained the
call.
Mr. Miller’s amendment was adopted,
and the resolution passed.
EEECIAL ORDER.
Tbe Houso then took up tbe special
order of tlie morning, tbe bill to amend
the act to provide for tbe reg
ulation of railroad freight and passenger
tariffs in this State, etc. The substitute
reported by the railroad committeo was
the bill before tho House.
Mr. Wheeler moved to amend by strik
ing out tlie first section, which increased
the salary of the secretary of the Railroad
Commission. The motion prevailed.
Mr. Spence moved to strike out the sec
ond section. Lost.
Mr. Rankin, with much ability and
clearness, explained and defended the
bill, which came from tho committee of
which he is chairman.
Several slight amendments offered by
Messrs. Rankin, Reese and Spence were
adopted.
Mr. Garrard opposed tbo bill as likely
to lead to much litigation, and at no im
provement on the act of 1879. He was
for letting the law stand as it is.
Mr. Speuce also opposed tho bill. Qe
said that tho people were satisfied with
tlio work of tlie Railroad Coiumisslon,and
ho was for letting well enough alone.
Mr. Estes supported the bill because it
;ave tlie commission power to regulate
joint rates, and because it allowed an ap
peal to tbe courts by parties aggrieved by
tho action of the commission. He - said
tho bill made no other material change
in the present law.
Tbo yeas and nays were ordered on tbe
passage of tbo bill, and the vote stood,
yeas, 90; nays, 52. So tho bill was passed.
Mr. Miller offered a resolution to extend
tlie morning session to two o’clock, aud
then to adjourn to Monday. Lost.
Mr. Louon offered a similar resolution.
Lost.
SECOND SPECIAL ORDER.
The bill to enablo the trustees of tbe
university to inaugurate a system of free
tuition. As tlie bill appropriates $2,000
for the purpose, the House considered it
in committee of tho whole.
Mr. Milner moved that the committee
report tlie bill back with a recommenda
tion that It pass. Agreed to.
The bill was then passed—yeas 100,
nays 31.
Mr. Turner offered a resolution to ad
journ from one o’clock to nine o’clock
Monday.
Mr. Hammond moved to amend by
striking out one o’clock and insetting two.
Carried.
The resolution as amended was not
agreed to.
At one o’clock tbe House adjourned
until 3:30 p. m.
Tbe Speaker stated to tbe House tbe
condition of business, as follows:
Honse bills on third reading, 44; Honse
bills on tccoud reading, 17; tabled, 39;
Ur«phl« Account of n Horrible Boll-
Bloat Ceremony Amonw n Demote
Tribe or Indlnos.
Xaekville American.
First Lieutenant J. G. Bourke, Third
Cavalry, U. S. Army, aide-de-camp to
Gen. Cook, was one of the officers select
ed by Lieutenant-General Sheridan, some
mouths since, to make investigations into
the habits, etc, of the Indians living
within or contiguous to the military di
vision of the Missouri. Tbe district as
signed to Lieut. Bourke was tbe southern
half of the division, the northern portion
being allotted to Capt. W. P. Clarke,
Second Cavalry. Bourke has pene
trated into a country never be
fore traversed by white man, and
has written to Gen, Sheridan k
long letter, which contains a graphic ac
count of a curious and horrible religious
ceremony among the remote and almost
unknowu Indian tribe, the Moquis, of
northeastern Arizona, a people whose
Identity has been preset ved since they
were first seen and partially described
by Spanish Catholic missionaries in 1536.
The rite referred to is the snake dance.
Lieutenant Bourke says the Moquis bad
a procession divided into two parts, one
ot choristers and gourd-rattlers, the other
of forty-eight men and children, twenty-
four of whom carried snakes aud tbe oilier
twenty-four acted as attendants, fanning
the snakes with eagle feathers. The hor
rible reptiles were carried both in the
hands and in the mouth. It was a loath
some sight to see a long file
of naked men carrying these monsters be
tween their teeth, and tramping around
the long circle to the accompaniment of a
funeral dirge of rattles and monotonous
chanting. After a snake had been thus
earned around the circle it was deposited
in a sacred lodge of cottonwood saplings,
corered with buffalo robes, and its place
taken by another. Thus it was not hard
to calculate tho number used, which was
not far from 150, rather over than under.
Half the number were rattlesnakes. The
procession entered through an arcade,
marching in a line of arrow heads four
times aronnd a great circle, embracing
both tbe sacred lodge and the sacred rock,
and then formed In two single ranks, tbe
choristers facing toward the precipice and
the dancers facing the sacred lodge. The
“high priest,” as I call him, took his sta
tion directly in front ot the sacred lodge,
and between it and the sacred rock, which
latter is a grim looking pile of weather
worn sandstone, twenty or thirty feet
high, Laving a slight resemblance to a
human head. At the foot of it is-a niche
in which is a piece ot black stone, bearing
a very vague appearance to tbe human
trank. At tbe base of this idol aro many
votive offerings to propitiate tbe deity to
send plentiful rains. As tlie procession
files aronnd the little plaza the high priest
sprinkles the ground with water, using an
earthen bowl and an eagle’s father as a
sprinkler. A second medicine man twirls
a peculiar sling and makes a noise liko
tbe falling ot copious showers.
When the two lines are halted facing
each other, tbe dancers, who are first pro
vided with eagle feathers, wave them
gently downward to the right and left,
while the choristers shake their rattles,
making a noise like a rattlesnake, and at
the same time sing a low and not unmu
sical chant. When this is finished the
high priest holds the bowl towards tbe
sacred lodge, utters a low but audible
prayer, and sprinkles the ground again
with water. The singing and feather
waving are repeated, and the first scene
la over. Nothing at all horrible
has occurred yet, but no time is
lost before tbe second part of tbe cere
mony commences. The choristers remain
in their places, with the “high priests,”
while the dancers, two by two and arm
in arm, tramp with measured tread in a
long circle, embracing tbe sacred points
already mentioned. Your blood cbilla as
yon see, held by the men on the left,
suakes of all kinds wriggling and writh
ing, while the right hand man keeps the
reptile distracted by fanning its head
with eagle feathers. There Is no discount
on this part ot the business. The snakes
are carried iu the hand and mouth, and,
as I bare already said, some
of tbe rattlesnakes were so large—over
five feet—tbat the daucer could uol grasp
tbe whole diameter in his month. As tbe
procession filed past the squaws at S., tbe
latter threw corn-meal before them on tbe
ground. These snakes, when thrown to
the earth, showed themselves in most
cases, to be extremely vicious, and struck
at any one coming near. In such an
event a little corn-meal was thrown upon
them, and assistants running up fanned
them with the eagle feathers until they
coiled up, and then lie quickly seized
them back of tbe head. After all the
snakes bad been put under a buffalo robe
covering tbe sacred lodge there was an
other prayer, and tbo second scene ended.
The third scene commenced almost
immediately, and was as follows: The
snakes were taized by ones, twos a;td half
dozens, and were thrown into tbe circle
at E, where they were covered over with
corn meal. A' signal was given, and a
number of fleet young men grasped tbe
snakes in handfuls, and ran at full speed
down the almost vertical paths iu tbe lace
of the mesa, and upon reaching its foot
let them go free to tbe north, the south,
the east and the west. The young men
.then came back at full run, dashed
through tbe crowd and on to one of tbe
estafas, where, wo were told, they had to
swallow a potion to induce copious vom
iting, and to undergo other treatment to
neutralize any bites they may have
received. Of one thing I am assured, the
Moquis medicine men know more about
snake bites than any people on earth, tbo
Asiatic snake-charmers not excepted.
-4.V AFFECTING SCENE.
tbe
Tbe Wounded President aud
Prayers for His Recovery.
From an Elberon Letter.
On Thumday morning tlie President
heard the bell of the Protestant Episco
pal church, very near, ringing, and asked
wbat tt meant. His wife told him that
the people were assembling to pray for
his recovery, and, kneeling down by bis
bedside, she added her petition to those
asceudiug to the tliroue of mercy from the
church. From where he lay the wound
ed President could see the car
riages draw up and group after
group go in. He could even
hear tbe subdued refrain of “Jesus,
Lover of My Soul,” as it was borne on its
heavenward way. Thrilled with emotion,
a tear trickled down tbe President’s face.
After a while a sweet woman’s voice rose,
singing from one of Sir Michael Costa’s
noblest oratories, “Turn Thou unto me
and have mercy upon me,” sang the voice,
“for I am desolate; I am desolato and af
flicted; tlie troubles of my heart are en
larged. O, briug Thou mo out of my
distresses, out-of my distresses, my God.”
The i-cople in the church sat almost
spel II vound under the voice. Mra. George
W. Childs, who sang the recitative, was
deeply affected, and made it seem to all,
wbat it must have been to her, a prayer of
music. Rev. Dr. Morton, of Philadelphia
was tbe officiating clergyman, and prayed
long and fervently that tbe Chief Magis
trate of tbe nation might be preserved to
the people aud made more useful than
before. It was a solemn, deeply felt and
awe-inspiring service, but still made
bright by the evidence of religious hope.
TUB BVPEEMB COVET.
Perl at— 8iwltr»4 BspltDberlA
Abridged lor the Telegraph and Meeeeager bg
Bill A Barrie, Attorney, at.Law, Macon,
Georgia.
Castlebeiry vs. State. Misdemeanor, from
Lumpktu.
Jackson, C. J.—1. There is no provis
ion of law tor tbe appointment of a mem
ber of tbe bar as judge pro bac vice in a
criminal case.
2. Want of jurisdiction In a judge will not
work a dismissal of the writ of error, but
a reversal oi the judgment. Judgment
revet sed.
Patterson vs. State. - Murder, from Pick
ens.
Jackson, C. J.—L Though there be
no certificate of the clerk on the bill of
exceptions, yet if the certificate to the
transcript of the record state that the true
original bill of exceptions is enclosed with
in, and tbe papers come encloeed in the
same envelope, tbe writ of error will not
be dismissed.
2. Where counsel for one side invoked
the ruling of the court to atop opposing
counsel in argument on the ground that
there was no testimony to authorize his
comments, there was no error iu the
court deciding the comments in order ac
cording to what his recollection of what
one of tlie witnesses said, at the same
time remarking tbat he did not intend to
express or Intimate any opinion as to tbe
evidence, but left that to the jury. Judg
ment affirmed.
Murdock vs. Hunt. Application for ad
ministration, from While.
Jackson, C. J.—1. The grant of let
ters of administration in a contest between
relatives of a decedent, should be to the
next of kin, according to the law of rela
tionship aud distribution. Tbe law of re
lationship should not bo relied on to the
exclusion of that of distribution, (a)
Therefore, where neither of the applicants
are distributees, the court should not
charge as matter of law that the nearest
of km by tbe law of relationship was en
titled to letters, although the ordinary, or
on appeal, the jury might take tbat into
consideration with other qualifications in
deciding the contest.
2. Where a person clearly entitled to
administer upon an estate, and with no
other person equally near of kin, selected
one of two contestants to administer on
the estate, and the Jury found in favor .of
that contestant, the verdict wilt be up
held, even though the charge of the court
was not strictly correct.
4. Should such a selection be in writ
ing? Quere. Judgment affirmed.
Partce rs. the State. Burglary, from
Clarke.
Jackson, C. J.—Voluntary confessions
are sufficient to corroborate tbe testimony
of an accomplice, so as to support a ver
dict of guilty. Judgment affirmed.
Phinizyvs. Wimpy. Rule for violating
injunction.
Jackson, C. J,—1. Where an injunc
tion was granted against a defendant, his
servants, agents, and employes, restrain
ing them from interfering with the posses
sion, use aud enjoyment by complainant
of a certain house, an attorney who rep
resented the defendant on tho hearing,
and who had notice of the injunction,
was bound thereby; and he could not, bi-
virtue of subsequent employment bi-
other parties claiming the house, take
possession of the same or put others in it.
(a). Having done so, an order requiring
him to remove tbe tonauts put in the
honse by him and return the same to tbe
complainant or his agents, by a specified
time, or iu default tbat be be imprisoned
until be should do so, was right. Judg
ment affirmed.
Hayden vs. Phinizy. Attachment for
contempt, from Hall.
Jackson, C. J.—1. The power to at
tach for contempt for violating an injunc
tion is absolutely essential to the effective
ness ot tbe iujuuctiou itself. Hence a
proceeding for tbat purpose is so connect
ed with the injunction as that a decision
upon it may be brought to the Supreme
Court by a “fast” writ of error.
2. A chancellor has wide discretion in
respect to attachments for violating in
junctions, and his decision will not be re
versed unless tbat discretion is grossly
abused. It Is not so in this case. Judg
ment affirmed.
JEALOUSY.
Am Injured Wife’s JNevence—Nenea-
ttonal Scene en she Streets of Wools-
laitea
Washington, September 15.—A sen
sational scene was witnessed on New
York avenue, near Fourteenth street, this
city, to-day. Colonel Boyd, who annually
publishes the Washington business di
rectory, was walking down New York
avenue with a handsome young lady.
Suddenly a carriage was pulled up at the
curbing immediately opposite the couple,
and Mrs. Boyd, wife ot Colonel Boyd,
jumped out or it. She produced a cow
hide aud began to lash the young
lady who was with Boyd un
mercifully. Tho young lady ran, Mrs.
Boyd following, but bystanders interfered
after a few strokes had beer, administered.
Then Boyd, at tbe command of bis w ife,
entered the carriage with her and was
driven home. Boyd has charge of one of
the divisions oft the census, and several
ladles are empleyed under him. It is said
he has been over attentive to two or three
of these ladies, aud especially to one of
them. His attentions to this one aroused
his wife’s jealousy, and sho has beeu
watching the pair. To-day, just after
Boyd met the young lady, his wife made
tbe descent upon them as described.
Whether there is to be any divorce or
damage suits hasn’t yet been developed.
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Peter’s Pence.
London, September 17.—The corre
spondent of the Standard at Rome says:
Since the disturbances attending the re
moval of the remains of Plus IX from St.
Peter’s to the church of San Lorenzo, July
12th, the receipts of Peter’s pence have
amounted to nearly 1,500,000 lire, while
from January to April inclusive, they
scarcely exceeded that sum.
Condition ot the Cotton Crop.
New Orleans, September 17.-—Special
dispatches to the Democrat from all sec
tions of the cotton States give the follow
ing accounts of the condition of the crop
on tbe 16th of September:
ALABAMA.
Heavy rains fell on the 14tli and 15th
of September, doing considerable damage
to cotton and greatly interfering with
picklug. The prospect seems favorable
for more rain. Previous to this picking
had been very general and from one-half
to one-third of the crop had beeu picked.
Only about one-quarter had been mar
keted. The crop will be at least 25 per
cent, short. Its quality la excellent.
ARKANSAS.
The weather continues cool and dry;
picking progressing rapidly. The crop
will probably be one-third less than last
year’s. Quality excellent.
FLORIDA.
Rain on tbe 10th interfered somewhat
with picking. Previous thereto picklug
had been general. Receipts were light.
The quality of tbe staple continues ex
cellent.
GEORGIA.
Rains have greatly Improved the cot
ton, but interfered with picking. About
one-half of the crop has been gathered,
and it is coming iu rapidly. The acreage
is 5 per cent, greater than last year, but
the condition is bad.
LOUISIANA.
Light and refreshing showers fell
throughout tbe State on the 15th, greatly
improving cotton. Picking U progressing
■lowly; from one-half to two-tulras of the
crop is already gathered, and one fourth
marketed. Picking will be over bp Octo
ber 15th. In some portions of the State
it is estimated that only half a crop will
be made.
MISSISSIPPI.
Rains have beeu general, but have done
no barm. About one-balf the crop is
picked, and picking will be over by tbe
15th of October. Nine time* as mnch
cotton has been shipped to market as at
this time last year.
TENNESSEE.
Picking is progressing rapidly, and the
receipts are far ahead of last year.
TEXAS.
The cotton crop is not promising. It is
burned op, and late rains will do more
harm than good. The crop is a failure j
about one-half of It has been gathered
already, and picking will be over by the
1st of November. Some sections ot tbe
State will p.obably only have one-fourth
of a crop.
STOMACH . .
SiTTERS
Though Shaken In Every Joint
And fiber with fever and ague, or bilious
remittent, tbe system may yet be freed
from tbe malignant virus with Hostetter’s
Stomach Bitters. Protect tbe system
against it with this benificent anti-spas
modic, which la furthermore a supreme
remedy for liver complaint, constipation,
dyspepsia, debility, rheumatism, kidney,
troubles and other ailmeuts. For sale, by
all druggists ami Uealeis generally,
sepl-lm.
mcscr.lBKD nr Z/ imiv^iciana
Ft*pared from
frail*
•p!c*l
u.d lUcte.
A. Delicious and Re«
freshing Fruit
Lozenge, Which
Serves the Purpose
of Pills and Dis
agreeable Purgative
Medicines.
TBoric-rariY li.iatite i» . the
pivparntton In th«* world for Conatinatloit. Bin-
ousm-.sa, Hend.-icho, Pile#. «u<1 all kindred Com
plaints. It act* ff**ntl>\ efltvtlvoljr. and N deli-
rloua to takp. Cleanninir tbt* *y*t«*m thoroughly.
It Impart* vlsror to mind am! body* and dtsiMfli
Melancholy, Hypochondria. Ac. One trial ran,
viHre*. PafhMl In fcmusrd tin bom «*!.>
MICE 2S and « CTS. SOLO IT ILL DRUSGIST1
G eorgia, crawford county.—l.
L. Bryant applies to me for the guar
dianship of Margaret Weeley, minor child
of B. W. Smith, deceased, of eaid county:
This is, therefore, to cite all per
sons concerned to show cause, if any they
have, by the first Monday in October nex%
why said application shonld not be granted.
Witness my hand offlriafty^8e|dend>er 8,
sep7wtd Ordinary.
WHISKERINE Js^Sf}