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THE MACON WEEKLY TELEGRAPH: TUESDAY, NOVEMBER 17, 1885.-TWELVE PAGES.
Th« Tired Mother.
They were talking of the glory of the land beyond
«Ko nkioi*.
Of the light and of the gladness to be fonnd in
Of theflowers ever blooming, of the neverceaalng
•ong*.
Of the wand'rtng through the golden streeta of
happy, white* rol»ed throngs:
And said father, leaning cosily back in his easy
chair
^Father always was a master-hand for comfort every*
where):
••What a Joyful thing 'twonld be to know that when
this lifeiso'i
MAKING BOTH ENDS MEET.
The Art or Supporting » Family on ®10 a
Week.
From the Brooklyn Eagle.
It in a trite enough Having that one-half
the world does not kuow how the other
half lives, but only those who shift about
much and experience life under a wide vari
ety of conditions really realize its truth.
Prosperous people will demonstrate that it
is impossible for a family of three or four
persons to exist in great cities like New
of $4,000 or $5,000 a year. Others less ex*
traxagant in their notions of life—and
these of course are in the majority—
And Isabel, our eldest girl glanced upward from
the reed
She waa painting on the water-jug, and murmured:
••Yes. indeed."
Ann Marian, the next in age. a moment dropped her j usually Ox the amount on which
. . b0 ^* , , A . ... . . I small family may live respectably h
ioo*”' *'' 1 v '“ hamc,,t CC,U " C i year somewhere between $1,200 and 11,500.
But mother, gray-haired mother, who had come to | None of throe people, however, realize that
■weep the room, . I thev really know nothing of the way thous-
•WIUi > patient .mile on her thin face, loaned lightly ^ 0 , p ’ 0 , )le in the city mnn ,ige to subsist
roor motherl°n“one ever thought how much .he on n much smnller nmount front one year's
bad to do— * rr1 *“ , *“ ‘ “*' J
1 hope it U not wrong not to agree with
But seems to me that when I die, before I join the
blast, .
Fd like just for a little while to lie in my grave and
itsL" — [Harper's Msgaziue.
A CIRCUS ON THE RIVER.
spoi ■
Democrat furnishes a grnphio account of
the scenes at the collision of tho Mountain
Girl and tho James IV. Gaff on tho Ohio
river last Friday.
There were about sixty-five people aboard
the Mountain Girl when she went down,
and all but two of these were saved and
brought to Cincinnati by the Gaff this morn
ing. Tho two men drowned were Charles
Coon, a circus fakir, known ns “My John
Howard," and John King, both of this city.
When the Memphis steamer touched the
wharfbontiu this city at 0 o'clock this morn
ing, a forlorn and curious looking crowd
inarched over the gang plank and up the
public landing. Among them were
men, women and children of all degrees of
misfortune and dressed in every description
of clothing. Some were btnefo'oted, and
few hail on dry clothing. There were wo
men with men s shoes and men's coats and
bats, and men with women's sacqnes on,
nnd even women's dresses thrown around
their shoulders. On tbo faces of all there
was a look of sadness nnd general disgust
with the world. These were tho actors and
actresses, the bareback riders, the managers
nnd the canvasmcnof the “World's Show,"
which the Janus W. Gail rescued from the
waters of the Ohio. An eye-witness on the
James W. Gaff thns describes the disaster:
“It was just about 1230 this mulling,’’
Raid he, “and we were coming up river
very leisurely. The night wns terribly dark
nnd it whs mining very hard, so that our
pilot conld not see far nhend. Just as wo
were rounding the point nbout three miles
the other side of Aurora the pilot discov
ered the Mountain Girl ahead, lie imme
diately gave two whistles for the left.
There waa no answer and wo pulled toward
the Indiana aliote, hut a second later the
pilot was horrified to see the Mountain Girl
also heading for tho north bank of the
river. He jumped to the boll rope, re
versed the engines and again blew the sig
nals, bnt it was too late. There was a con
fused jingle of belie ringing aboard the
Mountain Girl, and amid all this terrible
din the show boat saddle-bagged across onr
bow, and annk in about one-tenth tho time
it has taken to tell you about it."
“And then?"
“Then w« oil jumped into small boats
and went to reseniug tho people. Dnring
all this time the greatest confusion prevai -
c<l. The people aboard the sinking bont
were nearly all asleep, and when they
rushed ont to see what had caused the ter
rible shock they were mot at their state
room doors by four feet of water. Their
baggage and their clothing they hail just
taken off were floating out into the river,
while they themselves were dazed and half
asleep, and knew not which way to tnrn.
The men jumped half naked into the river.
The women followed with frightful screams,
nnd the show homes, ten in number, sta
bled on the lower deck, struggled and per-
ished in their stalls.'
James U. Ryan, the trapese performer,
and his wife, Millie. Theola, tho "(Jneen of
the ropes," had a narrow escape, that reads
like the adventures of dime novel heroes.
“I woke np with a great crash
Bounding in my earn," said Ityan,
in describing tho occurrence to the
writer. “My wife was sleeping on tho bunk
below, and when I jumped to the floor she
was already up. We tried to open the in-
aide door that lead* to the cabin, bnt we
eould not do it. Meantime tho water was
flowing in nt every point. Finally we got
the ontside chatters open and waded ont on
the npper deck. The boat was sinking fast
and my wife jumped headlong into the riv
er. I followed, and wo grubbed a barrel
that was floating toward na. We held to
this barrel, turning round and round in the
water, folly ten minutes before we wore
taken aboard the Gaff."
George Churest, tho high-wire bicyclist,
tells even a more remarkable story, lie had
jumped on to the boiler-deck when the boat
began to sink and the water soon rose shove
bi* head. He bnrnpcd around against the
ceiling of the boiler-room half-drowned and
despaired of being saved, when he chanced
to see the lamplight shining through the
water from the hatchway which leads to the
cabin. Then he felt his way along the
ceiling of the boiler-deck in the direction of
the light, and when he had come directly
beneath he rose to the surfaco and landed
high and dry in tho cabin, from which ho
was rescued.
Miss Kate Holloway, the bore-hock rider,
and wife of George Holland, one of the pro
prietors of the show, saved her life by a
leap that beats the. record of McKenzie, the
pioneer Kentuckian. Mias Holloway jumped
from the guard of the Mountain Girl to the
stage of the James W. Gaff while the two
boats were fully fifteen feet apart, anil
whilp the Gaff waa at least twelve feet be
low the show-boat
The World's Circus belonged to George
Holland and John McMann, and their ion*
can not be accurately estimated. They have
lost ten valuable nng homos, worth from
S9UU to $600 apiece, and one very fine ani
mal valued at SL'AV). The side-snow, con
sisting of monkeys, snakes and other curi
osities, wen entirely lost
Valuable A .tuition to Southern Fruits.
Fran the K*w Orisons TtmM-Damoemt
The cultivation of the Japanese persim
mon in the South promises to assume, in
the near future, an importance little dream
ed of by fruit misers at the present time.
The fruit, which is seedless, resembles the
sweet orange in color and shape, rivals it in
aiz*, is exceedingly prolific, and is of a most
delicious flavor. The tree upon which it is
crown attains in Louisiana and throughout
the Gulf Bates s height of from fifteen to
twenty feet, and thrives as finely as though
indigenous to the soil, with the boat amount
of care. Three yearn ago 1.71 cuttings from
their native land were brought to Brooklo-
ven, MieeOeippi. by a planter and placed on
bis farm. All flourished, and even at this
early period an bearing/!neiy. The orchard
If. I'lp ariUKi i.f s’< oran--.-grovu
Chatemng with fruit. This persimmon is
l-igMy prixed in Japan, and donbtleas will
rapidly grow inti
i enil to nuothcr. They take it for granted
that those whoso income falls below at
least *1,200 live a poverty-stricken eiis
tence. To live on $500 a year, or §10 a
week, is something quite ont of eonsidera-
tion. Aud it is probable that the larger
number of families who do manage to drag
along on that amount, have little knowl
edge of the few who are able to supply all
their necessary wants and furnish them
some pleasures beside; the few who livo
quite respectably, and get something ont of
life more thnn a mere existence in spite of a
scarcity of cash. It is tho writer's purpose
to point out how these few, or nt any rate
one family among them, manage domestic
economy.
To spend money judiciously and get all it
will lmng requires not a li tie knowledge
nnd experience. A good housekeeper who
is a skillful cook will provide, of course, a
better home and a better table with less ex
penditure of money thnn n person who is
neither the one nor tho other. A year ago
a young Englishman with a wife who pos
sesses both of these accomplishments, came
from London to Brooklyn in sourch of em
ployment. The couple settled with the r
one child in a comfortable third story in
Pacific street, near Nostrand street.
They had lived in better apart
ments in England, nnd at one time
in the post they had occupied a whole
house in one of the suburbs of Paris
but the most the husband lins been able to
earn since bis arrival in tlii8 city is §10 a
week. On this amount they have been ob
liged to subsist. They pay §12 a month for
four rooms; bnt these apnrtuients have an
air of comfort and even lux -ry that much
more expensive lodgments frequently lack.
Although there is not a costly article in any
of the rooms, the general effect that is pro
duced by the nice arrangement of enrtnins,
drapery, prints, photographs and engravings
her* and there on tho walls gives the rooms
aninvitingappearauce. They form an unpre
tentious home thnt has an air of good taste
and refinement such ns one frequently comes
across in Parts among peoplo of small
means, bnt is not common in American
cities. Tbe wife takes the whole care of her
small establishment and makes her own nnd
her little girl's clothes. The washing is
ven ont nnd returned unironed. This is
ic only expense for help and costs fifty
cents a week. Here are the items of tho en
tire expense of living one week copied from
Clnm chowder, cabinet pudding with cream
sauce. Dinner: Tomato sonp, beef a la
mode with spinach, snlail of potatoes and
parsley, cheese omelet. Thursday—Break-
| ast; Hash made from a la mode
beef, Neufchatel cheese. Lnnch; Oyster
fritters, lemon pudding. Dinner: Celery
soup, roast leg of mutton, macaroni with
tomato sauce, baked apple dumplings.
Friday—Breakfast: Scrambled eggs. Lnnch:
Lolister saled, nuts anil raisins. Dinner:
Bonn soup, croquettes (mode of the remains
of the roast mutton) with tomato sauce,aalad
of cold boiled potatoes, blane mange. Sat
urday—Breakfast: Hominy and milk. It
should be observed that although this is
plain and inexpensive fare, every meal has
some substantial dish—food that has much
nutrition in it—and that no two days uro
alike.
The art of supporting a family on §10 a
week is simplified probably os well as it can
he by this couple. At any rate, it would
not be easy to discover how more of actual
value coaid be obtained for tbe money ex
pended. During the past year they spent
§2 for clothing, 75 cents for medicines, and
*2.10 for on evening at the theatre and one
trip to Coney Island. This, it was ex
plained, was all saved out of the *10 a
week, an average saving of C7 cents a
week gained by the housekeeper
freimcntly doing tho washing nnd by the
husband walking to his employment and
going without a morning paper. They have
been fortunate in not needing scarcely any
medicine nnd in never being ill enough to
require a physician.
“I can not imngine,” said the wife, shut
ting her accnnnt book, “how pcoplj feel
who have plenty of money. Every five
cents wasted by ns is just so much loss of
something that is really necessary for us to
have."
AT KATAHDIN'S FOOT.
A Lake Abounding with FUh to Which
Sportsmen nre dust Beginning
to Itesort.
A special from Bangor, Me., says: Near
the foot of Mount Katuhdin, in the heart of
the great Maine wilderness, is Kntnhdin
Lake, a new resort to which Massachusetts
nnd New York sportsmen nre daily journey
ing to shoot and fish. This lake is a very
beautiful Bhcct of water, hut it has been
unknown aud unsung in all tho years
past because of the difficulty experienced
lit reachino very lew tourists haring, un
til lately, braved tuo toilsome way leading
to jt. But now n route, affording com-
dumtively easy travel, has been opened to
the lake, and the hills up there have ochoed
this fall to the hunter's gun and the fisher
man's merriment. From Bangor the trav
eler goes to Mattewnmkeog, fifty-eight
miles by rail, and thence to fatten,
thirty-five miles further on, by stage.
At Patten the new road begins,
and tho journey of twenty-two
miles to Kathndin Lake is made on
buckbonrds. From tbo lake a
expense of living one week coined from
a small account book; Rent, *3; food, *5;
fuel, 50c ; light (astral oil), 10c.; washing,
50c.; carfnre, C0c.; newspapers, 15c.; total,
$0.85. This is the expense of on average
week. Nome weeks in worn weather the
cost of food has not been over 33.50 and fuel
has nut coat more than 25c. When
anything luts been saved in this
way it has been put aside for unexpected
demands—shoes and such small invest
ments in clothing as the sarins will pro
vide. But the supply of food bos rarely
been stinted. The family has three
meals .a day, anil the variety of dishes fre
quently served at dinner would very likely
lie a surprise to a great majority of people
to whom living is much more expensive.
The housekeeper in question has lived
in France and has learned the art, as the
French practice it, of making a lnnch of
little, of buying with a view to a variety of
combination, and of making the simplest
dish palatable. She knows, for instance,
twenty different wnys to serve eggs.
Vegetables are made to take the place often
of meat or fish, and soups—which the aver-
showed the following purchases for the ta
ble dnring the week referred to: Saturday
—25 pounds of flour, 85c.; 3} pounds of su
gar, 20c:; 1 pound of bntter, 23c.; 1 pound
of tea, 12c. ;peck of potatoes, 18c. j pound
of lard, 7c.; yeast, 2c.; 1 beef kidney, 2c.;
1 roll Neufchatel cheese, 15c.; 2 bones for
soup, fic.jl pound of steak, lie.; sundries,
including salt, pepper,vinegnr, lettnee, etc..
Hi
nt),
eluding salt, pepper, . .
14c.; cabbage, 5c.; nuts and raisins, lCc.; 1
can of salmon, Ifle.; upnlcs, 8c.; peaches,
10c.; dozen eggs, 25c.; smull egg-
S lunt, 4c; hominy, 8c; total, *3.34. Sun
ny-Milk, 8c. Monday—Milk, 4c; J pound
of cheese, fie; soup bone, 8c; knuckle of
veal, 10c; tomatoes, 4c; rice, 4c; pesrs, Cc;
total, 45c. Tuesday—Liver, Cc; aonp bone,
8c; maecaroni (package), 20e; tomatoes, 6c;
total, 38c. Wednesday -Milk, 4c; clams,
10c; soup bone, tic; round of beef, 28c;
total, 48c. Thursday — Oysters, 10c; 1
lemon, 3o; sonp bone, 6c: yeast, 2c; celery,
6c; mutton, 25c; total, 58c. Friday—Lob
ster, 10c; sonp bone, 7c; milk, 4c; total,
21c. Saturday morning-Milk, 4c. Grand
total, *5.48. From these purchases there
were left on hnnd Kr.ti.rdny morning, when
the next week was begun, ubout thirteen
pounds of flour sml one egg. worth 47c,
which savings deducted from the whole out
lay left the cost of tho table for the seven
days, *5.01.
It is the enstom of this housekeeper to
make out Friday or Saturday mornings a
bill of fare, complete for tue week. So,
when she goes out to lay in htr supply Sat
urday, she knows what she will need the
entire week. This costa some time and
consideration, bnt it is the secret of saving
money in the purchases, and it also saves
her any thought fn.ni day to day about
T7hat .she will provide to eat, one of the
great worries of daily existence. She keeps
these hills of fare in a scrap book, and every
two or three weeks she subatitutes an oh!
for a new production. “Just as
the minister," she remarked; “does
with his sermons, and so save*
himself tbe trouble of writing a brand
new article.” It will be of interest, per
haps, to learn what she provided with the
provisions that have teen enumerated in
detail. The scrap book furnishes a record
of the living from day to day as follows;
Saturday—Lnnch: stewed kidney, apple
tarts, and Neufchatel cheese, with bread.
Dinner: potato soup, steak, rolled with
baked parboiled onions,salad of lettnee, fried
bread pudding. Sunday—Breakfast: oat
meal and milk, milk toast. Dinner: Scotch
broth, salmon salad with egg dressing, nnta
and raisins. Banner: peaches, tea
and celts Monday — Breakfast;
Cracked hominy with milk, egg toast with
egg plant in crumbs. Lunch: Welsh rare
bit. Dinner: Beef sonp, veal blanqnettee
and poiitd potatoes, salad of sliced tome-
border of stewed
bridle path five miles in length leads to tbe
basin of Mount Kntshdin, which is a deep
depression at the mountain's foot, rich in
geological curiosities and the home of
abnndant game. In this basin lies n lake
which is well-nigh fathomless, it being
known ns Bottomless Pond. Tho pond has
a bottom, of course, but a very long fish-
lino will not reach it. It has fish, too,
ernlly swarming with large tronl
Katuhdin Lake itself is torn
and five miles wide, and affords some of the
vary best trout fishing in the world. A
larg camp has been built here for the ac
commodation of sportsmen, and it nfforda
the tourista many comsorta nnd conven
iences not often fonnd in tho wilderness.
From this point, also, the ascent of Mount
Katahdin is comparatively easy, and one
can reach the summit with hnif tho work
nnd hardly any of th« danger incurred by
those who have climbed tip the other side.
Abont the lake and the basin of Kntnhdin
may bo had as good partridge shooting es
can be fonnd anywhere, nnd cariboa are
numerous in the thick woods. On the way
to Katahdin by the new route one crosses
the east branch of the Penobscot and Wns-
sntaquoik streams, famous for salmon. Not
long ago Mr. J. Nelson Howard, of Provi
dence, caught in Lnke Conway, near Mon-
son, a twenty-pound tront. The fish was
three feet long, and wns caught after forty-
eight minutes' piny with an eight-ounce
rod. This is the biggest laker ever caught
in Northern Maine, tho Mooschead fish
weighing only twelve to fifteen pounds
each.
Katuhdin has recently been ascended by
some daring spirits on horseback.
FORTUNE CAME IN THEllt OLD AGE.
Two I'ennsylvsnlsns I'liul Themselves llelre
to Property Worth •2,000,000.
A Tliowpsontown, Pa., special says;
Abont the year 1820 there lived at Cameron
Mills a family named Smith. There were
two sons and two daughters. Tho girls
were married, one to a man named Briggs,
who settled on a farm abont two miles
above Thoiupaontown, in Juniata
county. She and her husband died,
and the sole descendant of the family
is Miss Mary Briggs, sixty years old and
unmarried, who resides in the parental
homestead. The other sister married
Thomas Thompson and lived in New Cum
berland. They had n son whom they
named Thomas Thompson, who now re
sides st Newport, Perry county, snd bo is
the only surviving offspring of the union.
Tbe two Smith boys, brothers of the girls,
named John add James, went West and for
fifty years had been accumulating wealth in
cattle and mustangs. Little communica
tion was had between tbe branches of the
Bmith, Thompson aud Briggs families in
latter years.
A few days ago Miss Troup, a cousin
from the Western States, paid a visit to
Newport with her friends, among whom
waa a relative of Mr. Thomas Thompson.
Miss Troup announced that the Bmith
brothers had died fonr months ago on one
of their Western ranches, leaving property
valued at $2,UU0,UUU. Investigation estab
lishes that Miss Briggs and Mr. Thompson,
nephew and nicee oiJno. and Jaa. Smith,are
the heirs and they will get a million each.
Air. Thompson is hearty at eighty-six, and
remembers when General Kimon Cameron
and his two brothers first arrived in Harris
burg. He has lived in the city all his life.
He had acquired a comfortable snm of
money some years ago, and placed it in the
Bridge Bank at Harrisburg at 0 per cent
The bank failed. Tbe legal steps to estab
lish the claim of the heirs will be taken at
onca.
NEWS ODDITIES,
About Stamford, Conn., blackberries are
reported in the woods as plentifnl as in Au
gust.
On perfectly ne.v land in Kansas red
clover seven feet high was grown this sea
son, and white clover five feet six inches
high.
Chestnuts and huckleberries nestled to
gether in goodly quantities on the premises
of Mrs. E. L. l'otter, near New Haven, on
the 18th ult.
A melon vine growing in a melon is a cu
riosity in Allentown, Pa. In the heart a
seed had burst its shell, and a minute vine
in full leaf is visible.
Upon a single strawberry stem in tho
garden of P. F. Parsons, Norwich, Conn.,
on the 20th nit., were the blossom, green
frnit, and a handsome ripe berry.
J. T. Clark, of White Deer Valley, Pa.,
shows a bunch of ten good-sized, solid red
winter apples all on a little twig,
the stems of which are not an inch aud u
naif apait.
R. H. Seymour, of Livingston, Ala., shot
and killed JoeHtallsworth, a brother-in-law,
near the Choctaw line Saturday. Several
shots were fired by both men. An old feud
was the cause.
Tho fonr-year-olil aon oi S. Carrington,
of Centrolia, Iowa, was romping with what
was thought to lie a dog. It wns a bear.
After discovery the hear started for the
woods, hut Mr. Carrington managed to kill
While horseback riding, Owen Roberts of
Mill Creek, Wig., filled Ins pipe and began
smoking. Suddenly there wns nn explo
sion, aud Roberts lay in the rood with a
broken jaw. A small cartridge was in tho
tobacco.
Jenkins Wright has been lodged in jail at
Spartanburg, S. C., for the murder of his
wife, Charlotte Wright. He first attacked
her with a cudgel, beating ont her bruins.
He then built it brush fire nnd throw the
body into it, reducing it to ashes-
A Pennsylvania vonng Indy was feeble
anil went to Elwood, N. J., ns a Inst resort.
There she was so bitten all over by inosqui-
toas that a painful illness followed. When
this disappeared she rapidly recovered from
the former disease to the enjoyment of per
fect health.
John Love, nn undertaker, of Brooklyn,
was held in bonds by Justice Walsh in that
city Saturday, to answer tho charge of lar
ceny. Ho picked np a ten-cent piece in n
Fnlton street car. The conductor claimed
the money, and because Love would
not surrender it, hod him arrested.
Mary Glanfert, 60 years old, was fonnd
dead in bed in n house in Newton, L. 1.,
Saturday. At the beginning of 1*. T. Bar-
nun's career she figured as one of his
mnseum curiosities, being only forty inches
in height There are circumstances in the
esse which suggest foul piny.
A Newry, Me., farmer was attacked by n
bear while in tho mountains with n yoko of
oxen. It was a stem chase between the
cattle and tho bear. The former jumped
for the plug in tho yoke, and dangled there
until the oxen had carried him out of reach.
Tho bear tore the oxen fearfully, but could
not reach the fanner.
Alone.
I walk alone!
Wrapped in my aomber veil I paaa along.
Unknown, unnoticed, ’mid the hurrying throng.
The mimmer breeze* die. tbe bleak winds moau,
The streets seem empty, as I walk alone.
I stand alone.
Who once in weakness leaned on stronger arms.
Secure, in haven blest, from life’s alarms;
On barren shores, where broken spars aro strewn
And wild waves madly beat. I stand alone.
I work alone!
For life has sordid cares and weary years,
And seeds are sown though watered oft with tears;
The fair field flowers look up with petals blown,
* cannot pick them as I work aloue.
I weep alone!
The hearts that loved thee mourned for one short
day,
And then the world paused on its wonted wsy;
Thy place is filled, thy grave with grass is grown—
Sly heart is empty as 1 weep alone.
I live alone!
Though !n rojr home our children’s voices sound.
Though frieuds with loving thoughts have wrapped
me round.
Out of my life Its tenderest meaning gone.
My heart teems dead, as I thus live alone!
1'U sleep alone!
D»PPY. darling, some day at thy feet
The rest may come, so strange, so pMaing sweet;
Aud softly, on dull ears, a tender tone
May fall and wake me, as I sleep alone.
—llostou Transcript
The two sons of IV.. L. Bateman, ■>
fanner, who lives abont four miles nottli of
Blmo, Von Zomlt county, Tex., were in the
cotton patch picking cotton Batnrday, and
began teasing each other snd throwing cot
ton bolls. The youngest, 8 years of age,
drew his pocket knife and plunged it into
his brother's breast, killing him almost in
stantly. The dead boy was 15 years of age.
A spark from a locomotive set the wagon
of Martin Burns on fire as it stood on the
IVestminater street bridge, 8t. Fanh Tho
wagon, being covered with oil, bnrned
fiercely and set the horse on fire, and he
runaway. Before getting off the bridge he
stumbled and tore a leg off. Then the cart
set the bridge on fire. Burnt's fonrteen-
year-olil aon was severely bnrned and the
hone died.
The singular death oi a boy is reported
from Canton, O. Arthur Crist was severely
bitten in the hand several months ago by
a rat, which was (lying from a dose of
“Roagh on Rats.” Tbo injury healed, bnt
the poison which infected the boy's system
made him a subject of occasional fits. Yes
terday he became violently ill, and last
night he died from blood poisoning, caused
by tho old wound.
At North Smlthfleld, R. I., in a small
form house, they ltuve found, chained to
tho floor of a closet, n maniac 35 years of
age, who had been kept in confinement
since he was a few months old. His body
wns overgrown with hair, and is black and
bine with bruises. Nobody in the neigh
borhood had ever known of his existence.
His mother and brother reside in the farm
house and aro well-to-do.
One of tho curiosities in Charlotte, N.
C., Inst Monday wns a wagon load of black
'poHsmns from Union county. Black 'pos
sums, liko black sheep, are scarce, and the
fact of a wit le wagon load being captured
at one time is something remarkable. Tbe
countryman who brought them in said thnt
they are regular Btr-shires nnd lie is coufl
dent that ho captured the last of tho herd,
Suit has been entered in Memphis by
Mrs. Ellen Mitchell against tho Leo Line of
steamers tor *25.01)0 damages. Her hus
band, who owns a largo plantation on the
river below here, took pu.-wijgo on the
steamer James Lee to go to bis plantation.
While partially crazed as the result of heavy
drinking he made several attempts nt
suicide, but it is asserted, the officers of the
boat did not take proper precautions, and
he finally jumped overboard and was
drowned.
’ into great favor in this country,
Alive and kicking—Th. man who didn't
£( t the i-ost-offlo. he was after.—Puck.
Chinese In Ilrltl.h Columbia.
VicioaiA, It. C., November 12.—The
Knighta of Labor have resolved to wait in a
body on large employera of Chinese labor
and request them to discharge their hands,
on condition that the Knights supply white!
labor to take tbe place of the Chinese. I
Mr. Pendleton Protests.
Buin, November 12.— Mr. Pendleton,
the United BUtea minister, has entered s
protest to the German government against
the expulsion of five Germsn-Americans
from the island of Fohr.
ilr.thii's .1 rules Solve.
peon. Tuesday—Breakfast: Plain omelet i
Lnnch: Stewed liver with potatoes and Rom. pIrene volt thrum, F«v«r Rom
onions, served on toust. Dinner: Moca- Chapped Hand., ChilbUtss, Com, soil
roni soap, macaroni and staffed tomatoes,
apple fritters. Wedneedsy—Breakfast:
Oatmeal and milk, griddla cokes. Lnnch:
^^■■■■som. Tetter,
Chapped Honda. Chilblains Com, anil sll Skis
Krai'UoM. sod poalUtel^ com Pile*, oe so pay n-
I testy. perfect aatbtactioa.
SMSTSfuM. Fit* SS -enta r*r box. Toe
sh by Lunar, Snails a Lamar.
Among the IJars.
—John Johns IVataon, a convict in the
Ohio penitentiary, ha* been notified of a
fortune of *75,0U) left him by on undo who
died in the Barbodoea. He baa a year yet
to serve before be can claim his fortune.
Newberry county, B. C., is proud in the
possession of two children that cry for
quinine and cod-lirer oil, anil if those
dainties aro in the house will not goto sleep
till they have been tasted.
An editor in Dakota makes affidavit that
he has seep a spear of growing grass thirty-
four feet long. Little Jack, of nursery
tame, never mmle oath as to the height of
his sky-scraping beanpole.
At Big Iloan, Wis., a few days ago,
miner lighted n fuse to charge off dvnamii
and then ran nimbly up a ladder. lint the
ladder creaked, cracked and snap|ied, and
backward fell tbe man, heels over hemi.
Just as he struck tbe rock the explosion
came, and he was blown, not Jhrnlly hurt,
dearout of tLa mine.
The owner of a carp pond near Raleigh,
N. C., has captured and partly domesti
cated two snowy herons. Occasionally
takes his birds to tbe edge of a large pond
and lets them feed. Dy throwing in crumbs
be attracts thousands of shiners and other
email fishes to tbe feet of the birds, which
adroitly snap them np and swallow them
head first Each bird takes forty-five
fi.bes, fbfcr inches in length, each day, and
the fish cnltnrist wcx.Vrs how a stream can
retain any finny inhabitants when it is be
set by roc's greedy foes.
Cough, sad ColiU.
Those vbe an atontig from coogto. colds nn
the*', *v.. taoou try Iran i branchial Trochu.
Sold only in bum.
Gold Watches I
GIVEN AWAY.
Savannah, Ga.
The great Music House of the South, has.
removed to a magnificent new store, tire-,
largest Music Temple in the United States,
and as a souvenir of this important era in
their business, and also as an advertisement-
which will tell from tho Potomnc to tho Rio
Grande, they are actually giving away valu
able Gold Watches.
Doubt not this statement. It U a fact
It's a wholesale house, nnd thoy do things
in n wholesale' way. Read this startling
FREE LUNCH.
Frank James is now n dry goods clerk in
Nevada. Mo. He lias only to place his hen 1
ott his hip pocket for everybody in the store
to hold up nis hands—not exactly in aston
ishment, but by an involuntary reflex no
tion of memory of aulil liuig syne. —Boston
Transcript.
Employment Agent—Y'on said von didn't
care what sort of n domestic I sent yon.
Lady—I didn't say that, I know. "As to
color, I menu. ’ “Y'cs, I remember, I ditl.
Either blnck or white, I said.” “Well, I
filled the stipulation, didn't l'f” “No. The
one yoa sent me is green.”—Philadelphia
Call.
I’d like to consult yon on n private mat
ter,” he said to n Griswold street lawyer the
other day. “How ranch for your advice?”
’That’s according to the case. IVhnt is it?"
I want to ask if I’d better get a divorce
from my wife?" “Oh, well, I’ll give you
some advice for nothing. If you'll only
wait a lew days you'll probably be a freo
man. I filed a bill for her yesterday ”—
New Y'ork Mail and Express.
Yes, I’m in tho lecture business," said
the long-haired passenger, “and I’m mak
ing money, too. Big money. I'vo got a
scheme, I have, anil it works to a charm.
Big houses wherever I go.” “A scheme?"
“Yes. I always advertise that my lectures
are specially for women under thirty years
of age and for men who nre ont of debt.
You just ought to see ihe way the people
come troopiDg in.—Chicago Herald.
“Pnpn, what is n tornado?" asked
outhtni seeker alter information. Glinc-
ng nervously around tho room to sec if the
const was clear, he said: "Y'ott have often
heard your mother blessing mo for bringing
company homo without previously notify
ing her?" *‘Yis, n'r.’ “Well, that is ai
much like a tornado as anything I know of.
lint yon needn't tell yonr mother I said so,
however.”—New York Journal.
Tile Naughty lloy,
A boy who bought a quart of New Orlenns
molasses nt n Cincinnati grocery the other
duy found a diamond ring worth *200 in tho
staff.
'Pa, ” said a little Kentucky bov, “IVhnt
is ‘a ghost of a smile'?" “A ghost of a
Htnile,” the father replied, “is something
that is found in empty bottles.”
'Have yon ridden much of late?” asked
Spook of Babster'a bright boy, who is learn
ing to ride the bicycle. “Oil, yea, off and
on,” replied yonng Babatcr, with a wicked
smile.—Lynn Item.
Mamma," qneried a little hoy, "is Satan
an angel?" "He is one of the fallen angels,
dear." "Well, what was the trouble with
the fallen sngels? Couldn't they make
their wings work ?”—Goodsll's Sun.
Pretty Teacher—“Now, Johnny Wells,
can yon tell whnt is meant by a miracle?"
Johnny —“Yes, teacher; mother says if you
don't marry the new paraon it will bo s
miracle." Tcachor—“You may sit down."
-Life.
Souvenir Offer I
Piano Buyers
To every Cash Purchaser of a Piano be
tween November 1st nnd December 1st,
1883, from ns direct, or through any of our
ten branch houses or 200 agencies, wo will
present ns n complimentary souvenir an el
egant
Groid Watch
Guaranteed Solid Gold Case and fine
movement. Sold by jewelers at $40 nnd $50.
This Offer Good Only Until De
cember 1, '85.
Pianos nt lowest cash prices known, with-.
Complete Outfits, nnd all freight paid.
Everything fair nnd sqnare, and fall satis
faction guaranteed.
Ser.d yonr name end address for circular
giving full paiticclars. This is the one-
chance of n lifetime, which si outil not lie
missed. Don't wait. Tho offer expires D,-
cemiier 1st, and cannot le renewed.
Address
Ludden& Bates’
Southern Music House
ALTMAYER'S NEW BLOCK,
SAVANNAH, GA.
ic stop* by tho way to bo a sport, a
n, s dude or a p ilitician, he becomes
Mr. Fentherly (making nn evening call)—
Bobbie, won’t yon conto and sit on my
knee? Bobbie (accepting tho proffered
seat)—All right, Mr. Feotuerly. Pn told
ini to-day that yon ought to be sat down on
once in n while.
Gray old gentleman to boy on twelfth
birthday: “I hope yon will improve in
wisdom, knowledge nnd virtue.'' Boy,
politely returning compliment, entirely un
conscious of nnrcnsm: “The same to yon,
air.”—St. Paul Herald.
Little Texas Boy—Pa, Tommy White has
got a new revolver. Can't I have one,
too? Father—Hat en’t you got a revolver?
Boy—Yes, but it’s only 22-cnlibrc, while
Tommy's is 32. Father—1'U see. Perhaps
I'll write to Santa Clause about it.
The New Orleans Picayune furnishes this
pointer: “When a hoy starts oat in the
world nnd determines to make a man of
himself ho is bound to succeed if he lives
but if he
hoodlum,
miserable failure."
Little Johnny got a scolding for tearini
his new pants. lie fell while running am
split them nt the knee. “Oh, you bad boy!"
said his mother angrily; “bow did yoa come
to be so careless as to tear yonr pants?” “I
couldn't help it, nut; I fell so quick thnt I
didn't have time to take them off," replied
Johnny.
Mamma (severely)—You are n had,
naughty little boy, Bobby. I don't know
what I shall have to do with yon! Papa
(who prides himself on his ability to govern
children)—111 tell yon what we’ll do,
mnmua. If Bobby persists in being
nnnghty snd wicked, we won't lot him go
to Hundny-school any more.
One day last spring a Galveston gentle
man saw a little boy without any shoes or
stockings. “It is too early foV you to tie
going ont barefooted. Y’on will catch cold
and die if you go barefooted so curly,
guess not,'' said the boy, “I went barefoot
ed earlier than this once and didn't die.”
“When was that?" “When I was born,
was born barefooted.”
The Tramp.
pie. Tramp
early in the season for mince pie?
One old rounder has a habit of. backing
np against a popular bar and it is almost
impossible for persons who know him to
S t a drink without asking him to join' in
a festivities.—New Orleans Picayune.
A tramp printer, to whom the editor of
the Northeast Star gave a quarter two years
ago, acknowledged the kindness lost week
American.
The lira Internal Itruirdjr.
ItrsadfHh'i Ptlti. th. be.t wdlrlu known for all
itlraare.. They an partly ..(ttabl.. The ■
don nlnsy. pn-tam th. nnetonf; other pa
tires nqafn tnerrmd dana, and finally non
ln«. They parity the blood. They t.rlrarat. ih.
■titration U d rinne. lb* eioaweb end boatbi
S. S. PAllMELEE
Carries tho largest stock
of Carriages, Buggies,
Wagons, Saddles and
Harness, Children’s Car
riages, ’ Whips, Trunks,
Leather, Shoo Findings,
etc,, in Georgia. Corner
Cherry and Second street,
Macon, Georgia.
U-SKL ME BEFORE YOU BUY.
scplBta&wH
Medical Department , r
OF THE
University of Georgia
AT AUGUSTA.
The flfty.flfth session of tho Medical Col
lege of Georgia will begin ou the tint Mon
day in November, and continno until the
Amt of March. Fall corps of twelve pro
fessor;. Every fuviuly for studying all
branches of Medical Science, Hospital anil
policlinic doily. For detailed aircnlar ap
ply to EDIV. GEDDINGS,
Dean of Faculty,
.oct2w4w
Dr. J. M. Jiach a n <$ Son
KASTMAN, OBOBOIA.
Privet, end chronic dlMaem a ■pM-ialty. Una-
dri-il. of certificate of curve. Will rl.lt nllfllnlno
conntlu. ConaulUltoo boa. Medicine by mail or
“Prere. JaoSwly
REYNOLDS’ IRON WORKS.
Iron itntl Brass
Machine
Kotintlrit's mid
Shops.
Iron tl.llInf.. Can. HID* Ryrop K-ttba, Strain
Bwtare. IswMtUa Iron Front, fur tmUdlnn of all
tart say and .Traythln* that U mad. or kept In flret
clam Inn work..
The proprietor ha* had an npeinu. of over
forty nan luth. Iron hurts me
erWi mnalN to.cUyou Can. IftU. cheaper
hail 1 that they will (l>. perfect .alia
A. lUrrNOLM,
Cor. Fifth and Hawthc
ortJT-wdf
They attmnlate the liter and carry o* vltlatad bib I
and other ■lei.rav.it aacratlnne. Th. Ant two a*
three dean t»U th..bwy. Tb« .tin WeotnM cbnr-J.
tb« .y. b-tdht; the ailed ertlre: dtsntioa b nil
rtored: eo.ur.mn. cared; the animal vfebrj
availed, and all dt^H
>rt:lble Mills #HO
apwarda. to nib boat
Illy of Tabl* ILoLlUU*
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