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THE MACON WEEKLY TELEGRAPH: TUESDAY, JANUARY 5. 1886.-TWELVE PAGES. 11 OVER THE STATE. Not a tingle fire ha* occurred in Dalton since tbe immer. Watermelons were offered for sale in McDonough Christmas day. Henry J. Hill lias forty-four colts on bis Wilkes bounty plantation. Mr. W. L. Prentice, a well known citizen of Fioyd county, is dead. Cotton seed is selling at thirty-fire cents per hun dred in x cDoncugh. Mr. Cicero Sims, an old citizen of Henry county, has been adjudged a luo' tic. Uncle Jnnso learner, of eu.drhrtdge, killed two wild turkeys at one an •’t, last Week. Tlio Masons of Washington gave a supper recently and disposed of ten gallons of oysters. Charlie Shepherd, of Hampton, has been rendered totally blind by getting cinders in bh eyes. Cbol-rabss Just killed twenty-nine bogs belong- ig to Mr. liurwell Green, of Wilkes county. The lodge r.f Good Templars at Stockbiidge will disband for want of a hall in which to meet Anples, oranges and oysters frozen In blocks of ice is the latest advertising effort in Savannah. L. A. Hatcher and 0. C. Cleveland tune l»ecn elected marshal and deputy marshal of Dawson. P. 8. Sheluau ot tbe National Hotel at Dalton rill take charge of the Keuncsaw House at Mari- itta. While sawing open a log at x saw mill in Ware >unty recently, a nest of live flying squinels was found. Dick Townsend, a noted negro desperado of DUthwest Georgia has been captured near Ca- Lilia, Ga. There is only one place in Camilla where drinks an be had, the bar-keepers have voluntarily <iuit lie business. In Americas, on Wednesday, Ross, the little son if W. J. Harper, had his eye badly injured while 'looting Roman candles. W. It. Payne was arrested Fridny in Schley coun- on the charge of stealing tome steers from a man i Wilkin-on county. Henry county is badly in need of s new jail. The resent structure is a shame on humanity, so the IcDonough Weekly says. While Wm. Bird, of Emanuel county, wrs shoot- ig a gun for sport, Thursday, his gun burst, tear- his hand ♦<» fragments. During the past year the ordinary of Terrell Minty issued 121 marriage licenses, forty-five of htch were for white persons. [ A negro girl living near Leary answers to the high- muling name of Mamie Baker tjueeu Victoria lUthern Belle Atlantic Scanty. Master Shelton Vickers, in Washington, had his jee badly scorched recently. A match box full of owder held In his hand exploded. The city council of Milledgevillo proposes to do tray with ail wooden sheds and wili substitute rick pavements for wooden platforms. The Mntual Protection Ico Company, of Savan nah, organized last July, has suspended business. Nominal assets $0,300, liabilities $3,000. Mr. A. U. McAfee of the McAfeef Hot.so in Hareiiallville has leasod tbe Johnson House at that |>lsce and will occupy it as a residence. V yearling cow was bitten by a mad dog in No* _ raber in Chattooga county. It did not have the rabic* until a few days ago, when it was killed. Tbe contract for building the confederate monu Dent in Rome, has been let to the Georgia Marble Work* of Marietta. The monument will cost $3,- It is said that Dr. Bnrrotighs. the Baptist minis ter, was at one time considerably nfap-i struck, and lid make his debut, muck to tho disgust of his father. I The immediate delivery of letters has about klayed out in Athens. Not enough letters are re lived at that office to pay the messenger for driv ing them. Whilo Mr. Dock Sword living four miles 6rom ’eaton. was attempting to net in his cart one day _ist week the ox ran off, throwing him down and breaking his log. _ sr.ake colied around a rosebud was found on hrtsttnas day by Mrs. B. W. Scott, at Milk-dgeville. hey were placed in a bottle and were showu as a hrlstmas curiosity. At Millwood. Ware county, last Monday. Henry _J)avis and John Smith had a difficulty, iu which I Davis was shot io the thigh. He had a baby In his | anna at the time. Smith escaped. During a meeting of tbe Social and Literary Club I of Waycross the other night, a tramp entered the I hallway and stole every hat, cloak and overcoat. I What is worse, he made bis escape. Just before the fire secured which destroyed. R. I A. Forester's com crib in I*ee county on Tuesday I night, two men were seen riding rapidly away. I They are suspected of being the incendiaries. A few weeks ago a strange dog strayed into a set tlement in Carroll county and bit soveral calves. ~>ne calf showed signs of madness unit morning nd was killed. A few days ago, another went | mad. While on their way home from Rumtnersville. J. 0. I Drennan and his son-in-law, A. McClure, bail a | quarrel. Drennan struck McClute over the head I with a stick, and McClure out Drennan seven tlmee, »the hollow. generations- | CoL J. it. Fannin's in LsGrange on Sunday last. About twenty-nine persons were present, including the venerable great great grandmother, Mrs. | Nancy Ferrell, who is now far into the eighties. While running timber down Cobb Creek, in Tat- [ nail county, Tuesday night, a negro fell off and was drowned. Ills body was recovered and carried to I camp. During the night negroes from another | camp stole the body, and the theft was not discov ered until uni luoralng. Near Lawtouvllle, in Burke county, Monday, the I clothing of a little negro child that wm left alone I by bis parruts caught on fire. The child iu its I fright ran to the field, where it wm caught by the Kbogs. It died in a short while and wm partially leaton by the hogs wheu fouud. The Marshallville Enterprise says that Mr. Joe Kfosey, of American, went to Ma*vhallvllle on Tues- lay night in so intoxicated condition, and after breaking the window panes and creating much die- I order about his wife's reside! c- 1 . wm locked up by I the marshal. Next morning be wm fined twenty I dollars. The Rome and Carrollton Railroad Company is I expecting the arrival of two elegant passenger care |and a thirty-ton Baldwin locomotive. Several box- i will also soon arrive. It ta thought tlm Cedar- a division of the road will be ready for opera- *“ *iedt i in ten days, when regular schedules will be put I Chris. Owens, of Dalton, the hemic engineer of me train which ran into the Georgia Pacific, causing htch destruction of life. Is able to be out again. Its lew, which wm so badly scalded. Is rapidly heal- mg. will Keehlar, the fireman, is on crutches, leg. in addition to bciug scalded, wm severely The rumor that hM been current in railroad cir cle# for tbe last week or two to the effect that John II. Inman, the New York cotton king, is leading a lent to scoop tho East Tennessee, Virginia I Georgia railroad system Is denied in New York. i New York dispatch sajs that there is no ftnuda- a to tho rumor. The Augusta, Gibson and Kandersville narrow I gauge railroad wm com pie tel on Wednesday m far | paying business. The Madisonian aays: Rata will never fail to I leave a sinking ship is verified in the late act of | Even P. Howell, of Atlanta. He has succeeded in I selling his interest in the Kimball House stock I company, and resigned the presidency of the same. I Guess General Toombs’ heirs now wish ho had been I fortunate enough to have sold his interest prior to I bis death, and wMhed his bauds of ita financial ■embamMsment at Jea»L Captain Evan Howell is a ewd old rat; one of the oldest in the bam. In the northern part of Terrell county is a lone c by the roadside. Tradition says that some wvelera many years ago, lost an infant while stuping there, and bury ing their darling, moved " *o other parts, A board that spanned the _ h of the grave once bore the date 1HS4 which s two years before tbe Act laying off Terrell Ham Jones will leave Cartersville Friday ■or Cincinnati. 1 Gainesville's city fathers are negotiating br a steam fire engine. _ Carrollton is still improving, several new houses are in coarse of erection. I Prohibition does not prohibit; we are Convinced of thaL—Darien Gazette. £ Solicitor-General Reid has moved t> ^arrollton and formed a partners!)isbin With 8. E. Grow. i Tbe *St, Simon's hotel company has been paly organized and work ia expected to be- ■pn at an early day. . The steamer Cumberland is now running bn schedule time between Savannah, Darien and the up-country. l, Col. John Rodahan, an extensive lumber dealer on the Georgia Pacific railroad, is in Carrollton visiting friends. It is rumored that Dixcn .t Cnsley wil commence the manufacture of brick near Qaitman in the early spring. Messrs. Ed Westbrook and Dan Lewis, of Americas, killed twenty-five green head ducks in one hnut last week. Iu Americus, Addie, tbe 16 year old son of W. W. Poole, had his left hand badly injured by the explosion of a shell which lit was loading. Preston Hesterly, one of tho oldest set tlers of Carroll county,, died at his homo near Carrollton on the 2nd. He moved to this county about forty years ago. Mr. Edwin C. Davis, who has been suc ceeded by It. W. Grubb as deputy collector and inspector of customs ot Darien, has held that position for nine years. Eighteen years ago some lands around Harmony Grove sold ns low as $1.80 per acre. The same lands could not now be bought for less than $50 per acre. One day last week, on J. L. Griffla’s land in Hum ter county, an old negro named Alec Switcher, while trying to nut out a fire inhaled some of the flames and died within a few hours. Msj. W. D. Willis, at Milner, sold the olegaut new store recently erected on Main street to Messrs. Rice & Hunt, a substantial firm who are occupying it with a splendid stock of merchandise. J. B. Esterlin, ono of Montezuma’s prominent young merchants, has made an assignment to J. E. DeVaughn, for tho ben efit of his creditors. Thero are sufficient assets to pay all his indebtedness. John Wesley Cooley, tbe unfortunate convict who died suddenly near Athens Friday, was seen bv some of his fellow- convicts in the act of stealing tobacco and concealing it in his bosom a short while before his death, and the tobacco was found about bis person after he died. Americus elects her fire department offi cers Monday night. The irdinary of Houston county issued 150 marriage licenses during 1885. The salary of the mayor of Augusta has been reduced from $1,CH)0 to $3,5(X). Savannah has 360 liquor dealers, and the retail license has been fixed at $300. II. C. Davis, of Americas, has accepted position with Cox & Corbin, of Macon. Tbs young people of Americus had a grand ball last night at the Allen House. Tbe cotton men in Romo contributed a bale of cotton to the library fair of that city. A negro boy is locked up in Albany for stealing a diamond ring from Mr. R. B. Brown. A full-grown cucumber just from the vine was one of the Christmas tricks at Americus. Sumter county claims a negro woman 101 years old. She is Called “Aunt Nancy,” and lives on Mr. John Poul&n's place. Tho attempted murderer of Mr. Hamttyd Wood, whose throat was cut near Rome last Monday, lias not been apprehended. The Dayton coal and iron company, loca ted five miles from Sugar Valley, are ship ping five car loads of ore per day. The Screven Houso property was sold on Wednesday to Mcinbard Bros. A Co. for $05,000. It has been paying an annual rent of $7,000. A Jackson county bride stood up for sev eral hours last Sunday waiting for the groom, who came not The marriage has been de clared Near Houston Factory, last Sunday, a negro boy, whilo fooling with a pistol, was shot in the stomach, dying a few hours thereafter. There have been 8,408 claims audited against tbe Southern Mutual Insurance Com pany. The largest claim paid is $397. G5 and tho smallest 4 cents. In Rome, Tuesday morning, a successful attempt was made to burn a dwelling houso occupied by Mr. Lon Wimpee. The house hold goods were saved. Application haa been made for a charter for n railroad to run from Americus to Columbus, end to be a branch of the Savan nah, Dublin and Western railroad. Mr. Thomas Holcombe, an old and repu ted citizen of Savannah, died at tho residence of his daughter, Mrs. I). C. Bacon, in Mitch ell county, Tuesday night. He died of heart In trying to secure a piece of wood that wm floating in the river fit Savannah hat Tuesday, Rebecca Hartridgo, negro, fell in, and wan saved from drowning by u man who chanced to be near. It has just come to light that while an Albany belle was summering in North Geor gia last summer she saved the life of an old negro woman by pulling her from in front of a fast-approaching train. Albany’s new city council will take hold of the city government next Monday night, at which time that body will elect a mar shal, deputy marshal, city physician, sex ton, city clerk and treasurer and police men. In Vienna, last Friday night, some ono entered the stables of Poinpey Cobb, an old crippled negro, and with a knife inflicted Homo ghastly wounds upon his lino grey mare. On the same night a beautiful colt of Mr. Sam Farkars, in Albany, was simi larly gashed. Tbe prisoners in tbo jail nt Americus pub lish a curd thanking the sheriff and others for the dinner provided for them on Christ- nms. The cant closes with “Thanks, good heart, and may you live long aud enjoy many, nutnv more Christmas tides and burn many yule logs. IIow pkasant is the sun shine in a shady place!” Mr. Clinton A. Sawyer, employed in the mechanical department of tuo Savannah, Florida and Western Railway Company nt Savannah, has just finished a bicycle wliicb has a fifty-four inch wheel and is somewhat on the Columbia pattern. Every part is like drnwings by the young inventor, and ev ery piece, beside the rubber tires, was made in the Savannah, Florida and Western ma chine shops. llrjr by Seventy-Six Majority. Eastman, Jsntury 2. —Dodge goes dry by seveuty-six majority in a vote of one thou- san aud twenty-six. There will be no con test. It was a fairly won victory after a vigorous battle wagal by both aide*. He Went Astray. Milner, Ga., January 4.—Frank Black man, a man who lives near this place, aud who has a nice fsmily consisting of a wife and several children, while In Griffin a day or two since, wm caught stealing meat and flour from one of the stores, and wm tried, convicted and sentenced to the chain-gang for six months. __ Came Hack to Die in Georgia. Gnurror, January 4.—Quite a sad death occurred on yesterday at tbe house of Rev. A. G. Peden, in Pike county. Vernon Trlbott, about nineteen of twentv yean of age, a grandson of Mr. Peden, had only a few days previous arrived from Arkansas to take the management of Mr. Peden'a Notice. Johnston’s Station, December 29.—The members of the memorial committee ap pointed at the late organization of tbe Alta- inuha llivor improvement Association, at Darien, aro respectfully requested to meet at Lumber City, on tho 13th day of January next, with the reports from the various sub committee's, that their report msy be for warded to our Congressman by the 1st of February. William Hughes, Tres’t. Ass’n. P. 8.—All papers friendly will please copy. A Throat Cut from Knr to Ear. Monday last Mr. Berrybill, while at work on the Alabama road, seven miles from Rome, found Mr. Sam Wood, who lives be low Cudar Bluff, lyin^ by the side of the road in a dying copd»Mnw f with his throat cut from ear to ear and ugly cuts all over his head. Mr. Wood was able to state that while be was walking home a negro man joined him, and after several miles together tho negro borrowed bis knife. Ho opened the knife os if to cut a stick, but suddenly assaulted Mr. Wood. After getting Mr. Wood down the negro cut his throat, cut him on the head and shoulder several times and then robbed bun of $30 in cash and left him for dead. AT BARNESVILLE. Enlivened lly Christmas Scenes, a Failure, Two Fires and a Hall. Barnkhvillk, December 3C.—Since Chris- nms began we have had a farlure, two fires, a ball, a Christmas tree and moie drunken negroes than we could conveniently care for, and we still have one more day to operate in. Middlebrooks A Groddick, fancy gro ceries, confectioneries, etc., failed, or were rather elosed up lost Saturday afternoon by Smith, Barry A Co., of Atlanta. WliAt the liahiUties and onsets are’we could not learn. The fire engine ha* been callod out twice; once cn Saturday night because Mi. T. R. Riviere happened to build a fire in his back yard, which some one took to bo a regular conflagration; again on Monday at noon to put out some burning fence near tbe square. The young men of the town had a ball at tho Blalock House hut Monday night, which resulted so pleasantly that they w ill hold another next Thursday night Rucker A Clay, ofTnomastoa, have failed. The Barnesville Mail will change hands January 1st Mr. Henry It Harris, the present editor, retiring iu favor of Albert T. Harris, the present associate. FRATICIDE AT REYNOLDS. A Negro lleglna the New Year by Commit ting Murder. Reynolds, January I.—Late yesterday nf- temoon an altercation occurred between two brothers, Charles and Lewis Newson, colored, about nine miles from here, result ing in the shooting of the former by the lat ter. Lewis was accused of drinking a por tion of the whiskey which he had been sent to purchase by Cbarles. A quarrel ensued arid before the two could be interfered with by tbe large crowd of negroes who had gath ered nt tho scene, the accused drew a pistol and shot his accuser just above tho abdo men. He was so infuriated that ho then drew a knife and would have cut his vic tim into fragments, but was hold at boy by the crowd. Dr. Gastin was summoned, but tho negro, Charlos, died about midnight. No attempt lias been made to arrest tho murderer, who is still at large. AN EX-CONVICT’S CAPER. Ills Ilurglarlons Depredations at End- Given Away by a Pal. Cartkrhvtllk, January 4.—During the past few weeks several burglaries have be. accomplished in oc r town. A trank of clothing taken from Mrs. McConnell, gold watch from Miles Dobbins, about sixty dol lars from a drummer’s room at the St. Jnines Hotel, about four hundred dollurs from John L. Smith’s store. William Satter field’s store wm borod into, and lost week a bole was bored into the back door of Tur ner A Baker’s jewelry store and an entrance effected by thrusting the hand iu and turn ing the key. Suspicion pointed to certain parties, but no evidenco whatever to go on, but lust week one Sidney O’Shields, an ex-convict, got into a dif ficulty with the agent of the Western and Atlantic road about bis hanging around the sitting-room, which re sulted in Mr. Wofford having to knock him down with a lump of iron ore. When Mr. Wofford, the agent, got up off of him it was seen he had been cut in the face and Sid ney was put in tho lock-up. One Joe Attu- wav, a cotupnuion of Siu’s, was on hand during the fight, and next morhing, after Sid was taken to jail, he unbosomed him self os to some of the robberies, and told how everything was done and even accom panied an officer and brought up the brace and bit and silverware stolen from Turner A Baker. Other developments are expected. Mr. Dobbin's watch lias been accounted for, and be is now gone after it. Sid is now iu jail and Joe Attn way under bond as a wit ness. A DIP INTO THK LONG AGO. A Man Who Traveled For a Newspaper Forty Years Ago. Dawson, January 1.—Among tbe re spected men of this community is Judge J. 0. Clarke, who has li Id the petition of clerk of the court since 1860. Although he has nearly reached his three score years and ten, IiIh mind is rcmarknbly clear. More than forty years ago ho was the traveling agent of the Georgia Messenger, which finally merged iuto the Telegraph, and traveled through Cherokee, Ga., on horseback. Referring to those times he said to me: “I traveled for Sirari Rose who was then editor of tho paper. The press upon which tho paper was first printed is now doing good service in the Journal office of this place. It wm brought to Macon in 1834, and christened by breaking a bottle of champague over it. There were present on tuut occasion,*Simri Rose, Isaac Seymour, Robert A. Bell, who was one of the editor*, Isaac Scott, Jerry Cowles, John and Wil liam Baldwin, Gas Barr aud Wil liam Fleming * wore tho appren tice boys. The office wm located iu a two-story wondeu building on Second street, between Mulbetry and Cherry (where Mack Bros, store now stands.) It woe a very happy occasion, and all mode speeches. None of the few who were there except myself and Fleming are alive. Tbs Messenger was first print ed in East Macon.” At the invitation ot the Judge I went to the Jourdal office and saw the old press. It did not look m though it had seen fifty- one years of service. A brass plate on the preM beam the following: IVt-i Smith’s patent, manufactured byR. Hoe A Co., New York. KNOCKED IN THE HEAD. Frightful Death of an Old Negro—Other News Items. Lumpkin, Ga., December 30.—A negro man Thomas R?ch*fd« wm killed this afternoon at Grime’s mill, one mile from town, while lanitiau in pecking cot ton. The screw box wm^filial an? Tom wm trying to unfasten the levers to and cutting off one of his ears, ne wn carried home aud a physician summonec, but death soon ensued and relieved the obi man of the pain ho was suffering. The negro was about seventy-five years of ago anl hat’ been employed nt the mill for the post two years. One of tbe peculiarities about tho screw which killed Richards is that when the levers aro unfastened to begin packing ,a bale of cotton they moke tho revolutions with lightning rapidity before other power Is applied to press tho bale of cotton. mere mention. Mr. Robert Reid, of Stewart county, is said to have made $10,000 during tho past seven ye$rw by farming. Tho hand* nt work on the Americus Preston and Lumpkin railroad knocked off on Christmas day to enjoy the holidays. The track is completed to within n mile and n halt of the depot, and work will be ro- snnicd on Wednesday. There is some talk of agitating the stock law again in this county. Tho lost election went for fence by a largo majority. A JACKSON FAILURE. The Largest Assignment ever Recorded In Hutts County. Jackson, December 31.— On Tuesday tho deed of assignment of Bailey A Ezell, gen eral merchants an cotton buyers of Flo- villa, a small town five miles south of here, on the East Tennessee Mad, was Rigned in the county clerk’s office by the assignee, M. V. McKibben, Esq., a well known attorney of this town. The liabilities are $211,354,- 93; assets about $17,508. This one of tbe largest assignments ever recorded in Butts county. The announcement of the failure caused considerable of a flutter and much speculation. It has been but a li*tle over a year since this same firm hod their C lace of business destroyed by fire. But y pluck and vim Bailey A Ezell rose Phu nix-like from tbo rains of their place of bus*no38 only new to meet with a greater back-set. It is claimed, however, that tho firm may resume business. It is possib e, but hardly probable. THE CArSE OP THE FAILURE was occasioned by the steady decline of cot ton. At the oiwning of the cotton season market, Bailey A Ezell at once began buy ing on an extensive scale— at least extensive for their finances and Flovilla as a market and 09 a town. Home six hundred bales of cotton .were purchased and consigned to Maddox, Rucker A Co., bankers and ware housemen of Atlanta. This house is tho greatest loser, Bailey A Ezell owing it $90,- 316.60. Whether or not Maddox, Rucker A Co. furnished Bailey A Ezell with money with which to purchase cotton is not known, but as the cotton is in tho possession o Maddox, Rucker A Co., it is quit" probable tuey have a lien on it. There are no pre ferred creditors. It is further stated that oa the first ot the year several notes for quite large amounts, given by Bailey A Ezell to various parties for good*, would fall due. It waa this fact together with the depressed prico of cotton thut caused the firm to an ticipate the crash. A receiver Has beon put in charge of the store at Flovilla, and the goods, of which there is qpite a stock, will be disposed of to tbo best advantage. Tho assignee is responsible and honest, and tho creditors at a distance will secure fair treat ment. Among tho creditors are the following merchants of Macon: W. R. Singleton A Co., $221.90; Chcss-Carlfy Co., $14.72 Lamar, Rankin A Lamar, $15.30; 8. T. Cole man A Co., $120.90; Campbell Tindall A Co., $78.14; Rogers, Adams A Co., $168.16; Rogers A Winn, $14.95; Johnson A Lane, $124.57, S. Waxelbaum A Son, $852.61. A Gnod Showing for Ty-Tj*. Tr-Tr, January 2.—Below I will give yon some figures concerning our town tor the E ast year. The figures are given me by Ion. John Morrow, mayor of our town and an there are widespread bad reports of this place, 1 hope that it may tend in some measure to refute tho charges and show up our town in its truo light for good order as well as good government. Number of in habitants 700, amount bf taxable property $90,000, amount of incrchandiae $2o,000, number of cases before tbe mayor in 1885 forty, amountjof fines collected $85. By comparing the above figures with . tho average town, I think Ty-Ty will show as well as any town in the State of the same population. EASTMAN ECHOES. Organisation of the Oeorgla line Manufac< turers Association, «t«% Eastman. January 3.—The Georgia Pioe Manu faeturers Association held their annual mmlntf h'-re to-day and elected Hr. W. F. Letts preuldent. Mr. Frank Smith, secruUry, and Mr. John Colville, agent The asaorUtiou promises to be one ot the furemoat institutions in this section, and is torn- posed of flrstclaas business men. Wo wUh it sue- Bev. John W. Harks, of Macon, will preach here on the fourth Sunday In each tnuuth. New Vear*a day wa* duly observed. Tho custom of cAllinjf and rt ceivinjf waa indulged In by several, and Uan day and night waa pleasantly passed. Dodge countv takes rank with other prohibition counties In the State. The licensee In Eastman will esplre about the 10th of next May. Two of the dealers, whose iiceuaea expired, went out of busi ness on the first. There is a general diapoaiUon to acquiesce in the popular majority. Our municipal election will take place on the upc- ond Mouday. We hear of no ticket. Perhaps it is as well to continue our present worthy mayor, Hon. W. p. Kastman, with a new board of aldermen. Mr. Kastman has administered the affairs of the town in sn acceptable manner and will fill the office with dignity and ability What Killed Kritory A. Ntorrs. Chicago llcimld. “Thorn goes a young man who won’t live long,” Raid a Madison street barkeeper, as a bright, stulwnrt chap walked away from the counter. “What’i tho mutter wish him? Oh, nothing, but he's drinking benedictine. A man U always a goner if he startg on that. It is a glorious drink, you know, and goes to the Head and makes a man feel like n lit tle angel on earth, aud all that, but it kills him all the same. It fascinates him and makes him its slave, you see. lie can’t stop and he keeps on drinking more aud mnro and pretty noon he goes all to pieces. Nobody but brain-workers banker after it and it is sure death to them. Did you know that it was benedictine that killed Emory Storm? Well, it was. A year ago lost spring Emory had braced up and quit drinki ig altogether and stuck to it like a man and was working like a good fellow, when he fell ill and his doctor pre scribed benedictine as a cordial and tonic. That settled it. The seductive stuff took hold of Htorra’ brain aud made him iu slave, just m the doctor might have known it would. He had quit drinking w hisky and wine, hot he wasn’t strong enough to Uirow away this sednetire liqueur. Why, I re been told that a few weeks before hie death he wm in tbe habit of drinking f * ur or five quart bottles a week aud often one in a day. And hia friends tell me that he wm never so witty and brilliant m when he had had about half a bottle.” Dv^NurtwTtecetvrd. Dyyocrlsy Is Um com ptiSMet vice pays to vtrtoa. Imitation is tfrs compliment failure pays to soo- FACTS FOR THE FARMERS. L'HKFUL HINTS TO HAVK ABOUT THK HOUSH. Itrrpln, ttir Cmr, Clritn -Hr.lurlnff Kv|>rn- iw, l>y C.ri'fii 1 llrffdlnff—\ tutcli of Note, thut will b. Found Quito llundy. (iront enro should ho taken in bodiling in winter time, ulut iu oleauing the utnhleu. ■Unless oxtru p;iiun uro taken fonl-ouielhng .table, will lie tho re,ult; consequently the milk will be more or less affected. 1 am well HHtiatleil thut tilthy habit, of milking uro the chief e ‘.uses of ho much poor bat ter being ir.mio iu winter and in opting. 1 mu well aware Unit butter mode in winter lneku flavor and color, bnt with proper care it can be mule sweet and clean. Very much depend, upon the food the cow, cat;' in order to liuvo color, corn meal witlibeuna aud ground oata fed Uborully, and a little oil meal added, ia about a» near perfect rutiouu aa cun bo given tn winter, with plenty of good, bright timothy hay and a mixture of clover. It ia quite a common Might to aee in thia part of tho country cowa in winter time with their hipa loaded down with manure, their bag, ditto, alaa their baclu covered with hay need nnd duet. The bru,h and card arc never ,een in the caw .tallies; to them the cowa are total Mtmnger,. Now, tliia ia all wrong. Aa a rule the cow, are well fed; Home havo bank barn,, bnt there ia a want of era in groom ing nnd handling. It pays to card and brutili the cow, daily. They look better and are better, and certainly the milking can bo done rnoro cleanly. Itr.lnrlnf Kxpenac, by Careful llreedlng The value of nur Improved breed, of atock does not depend upon aize, early ma turity, or tlie production of meat, miik, butter or wool, nut rather upon the capaci ty of the animala for producing the large,! amount at tin leant expenue. Nor 1* It to bo denied that an improved animal will eat as much na a mongrel. In fact, the beat farmura are thoao who teed largely and de sire animala that will eat all that may bo given them. In doing no, however, they aro aware that while tho improved breeds demands plentiful supply of food, they also have greater capacity for digesting nnd assimilating the food un coraparxd with those not so well bred. On the farm all olaaien of animala are regarded us no many machine, for practical work, nnd tho larger tho quantity of food conaumed, provided it ia being converted into high-priced pro ducts that are readily aaleablu, the greater the profit. Uutil tho termer nndernt ulus that his profita will bo alow unions he takca advant age of Ume lie will keep hia animala at a loan. Our heal breeder, have learnod to calculate (hat a steer or a barrow should gain a certain amount every day, and often the acute, are brought iuto requiaiticn in in order tc satisfy in that respect, but they do not expect such result, from inforior stock. They bane their estimate, upon tbe kind and quality of the food, the age ot the animal anu tho condition* of management. They are aware that the Shorthorn, Here ford and Scotch polled cattle are capable of making a certain gain of beef doily under favorable conditions, and that economy i* heat practiced by their use, while the skill ful dairymen, who aim to secure the largest yield* of milk, u*e the Holstein* and Ayr shire, having no u*e for those animal* that havu a tendenoy to convert their food into beef. It 1* the knowledge of the character istic* and merit* of tbeNoparate breed* that enable* tho really akillful former to take otlvantogca which are not monopoliied, bnt within the province of all. The auppoaitlon that only "fancy" for mer, avail thomielvea of the improved breed, i, a mistaken one. There i, noth ing "fancy" about it It ia a matter of business in oil its details, aa not only 1* the farmer enabled to increase production with fewer anim*U but the velue of the quurten, tho labor and food are footora. It 1* true tlmt with aome breed, it require, n large amount of capital for farmed, of moderate mean, to invest in improved stock; bat for tunately for them thero i, alwaya a largo surplus of males through the agency of wbluh bui a limited amount of capital and a abort period i, required for improvement, fin iuv.stmeot in a thoroughbred undo la money that soon bring* it* return, and when farmer, begin to keep strict accounts, taking into consideration tlui fact that the beat animal is the flout economical, they will reullze that, while the host conducted farms may not prove profitable when no atteufou is given tho breed used, bat little more outlay is required for improved ani mals, while the result* will be more eatis- bictory. Tbe rule to apply ia to grade up every season. The flrxt effort will be half- breeils, then three-quarter,, next aoven- eighls, and thus continuing until tho pro portion of thoroughbred blood i* very large, with u corresponding dimunition of that of tho ualive. It ia the ouly safe method for reducing expenses, aa tho profits will be C ter aa tlie improvement ia forwarded. t the farmers liuve not fully realized such fact may ho shown by an inspection of the thousands of inferior hnimal, that ureannuully scut to the markets of our large cities. Farm Notes. Ono great waste of tbe farm rcanlta from misapplied energy—labor applied ut tbe wrong time, in tho wrong place; weeds hoed up in the field alter they have attained u height of two inches, when they ought to have been destroyed immediately after ger mination. Awl tho great point in this statement is, it is easier to avoid the wsato than it iajto practice it. Emerick Bell, of Mansfield, Ohio, report, a cow that gave birth to aeven calve, in twenty-three months first triplet, anil twice twins. The triplet, were two year, old September 1; weight, No. 1, lUiji) pounds; No. fi, 11120 pounds; No. it, 1200 pounds. Twin,, one year old—No. 1, 075 pounds; No. 2, 020 pounds; last twins, tour eek* old; weight of cow, 1I<H> pounds. During tbe peach season the editor of the tiaugutnek Commercial wm shewn a twig of a peach tree a quarter of on inch thick, not over eighteen inches long, upon which he say, there were sixteen peaches of good size- none smaller than u hen's egg—and all un a space of ten aud a half inches. The pesche, wen of the Smock variety, and hung to the limb like a cluster of grape*. At the rate of incrcau which ha, been going on for the post few year*, Java will soon produce aa much augur aa Cuba. The sugar planter, of Java appear to be making money in apiU of the low price, now obtaining, and claim that it ia a mot, profitable crop than coffac There are only about 1(M sugar mill, in Java, bat luited to tha cultivation of Urn ia practically unlimited. . that the experi- farrn near Anaheim, Two ahipmenta , of tbe d to be Where the insect enemy known aa scale attacks plain, the cheapest remedy some times is to throw the letter ewny and start anew. Beale can, however, lie removed by considerable trouble, and the only way is to mb it off with a smooth stick, then wash tlie plant, with diluted carbolic acid, after wbicli rinse with clear tepid water, bnt a constant watchfulueaa will be required to destroy this peat if once it gain, scenes to a plant. Mr. Osgood Perry, of Norway, Me., ia reported in the Liwiston Journal oa hav. ing a colony of bee, forty-two year, old, which mean, that the bee, now occupy ing the hire aro lineal descendants of those which nccnpM it at the beginning of this long period, for it is well under stood by most bee-keeper, that worker heea live but a few week,, months at moat, and that a colony ia being constant ly renewed by young stock. In experimenting with Paris green for the codling moth at tho New York Agricul tural Experiment Station, every alternate truo in the row wo* sprayed with Puri, green anil water, while tho other tree, received na treatment. The fruit upon the trees sprayed was mach fairer, and a much smaller proportion was wormy than on tho trees which were not sprayed lle- peatoil experiment, prove that the spraying of urebard trees with Paris green is both beneficial and practicable. . Perhaps it is not generally known that barley, (like tho plno tree) grows all over tbe world. It is grown alike in Arabia and Norway, and it will vegitite and grow at a lower temperataro than any other email grain. It never blight, or rnata,. and will make something on almost tny kind ot land and under any circumstances, though good, rich, dry soil auite it best. It is Uno feed for horses and mules, and when cut before it is fully ripe the straw ia equal w the best Northern hay. A writer m the American Cultivator tolls how he pro arved spp'es and krpt them fresh and good for eighteen or twenty months. Itu take, the apple, ripe and fresh from the trees, in the fall of the year, but late in the season, and, coven them with dry, fine coal ashes, to a depth of fourteen to eightcon inches. He has ap ples that have passed twe winters thus preserved, out of doors, exposod to rain and frost, and yet the fruit came out fresh and fair. He thinks other articles may be kept in the a line manner. In an ad l eai before tho Massachusetts Horrid ltural Society, Colonel H. W. Wil son sold that white clover and blue grass were undoubtedly the finest plants for lawns, from the lieauty and thicknew of the turf which they make and their dolic- ions fragrance when mown. They aro fond of calcareous soils, and a free use of lime should lie mnde while preparing tho lawn, 2(M bushel, not being too much wheu the plot is trenched or Hubsollcd. At least two bushels of plaster sbonld bo used ns an annual top dressing. C. M. Covey declares tho new "Comet" pear U simply nu old variety, the French Jargonelle, long ago condemned aa worth less. It is n bountiful pear, so for os size and coloring go, hut only passable in qual ity when gathered aud eaten at jnst tho right moment. So»reely had that iu ment strived before it was cither dr; aa mca! or rotten oa tank. It has as many alia eias a pickpocket, I o ng called Itul Mux ltd, Boliasime d'Etu, Fusee d,Ete, Bummer Beauty, French Jargom.Uo, etc. It is beau tiful lint not valiuhle. Squash and melon seeds which have been grown In oontignity aro never trust worthy. AU the gourd tribe are so close ly related os' to interhreod with great fa cility, and the aoeds, which are really tho fruit, become mixed and impure. Melons grown from seed tha, adulterated have a coarse and disagreeable flavor and are wholly worthiest. Aa tha mixing is duo to tbe effect ot insects, which carry tho pollen from one plant to another, tho •ceil should be gathered only from plants which are grown in the centre of a field. ir patch. W. F. Brown aaya in the Indiana Farmer, it ia a common pnotice to throw the ma nure from tho stable out of a window and allow it to occumlste in a heap against tho barn, where it rote the building and often contaminates tba air of the stable. Flush manure should never bo left in a conical heap, Probably the beat way to manage it is to unread it evenly in an adjoining abed in which stock is kept loose to tramp it. If, however, it is pntoat of doors it should always be wheeled away from the building aud mixed with tbe cow manure and waste from the straw stacks. » Don't hawk, hawk, blow.aptt, and dUunal svsiy bo-ljr with your offensive breath, bnt na Dr. Bngea Csurrb Hewed* and end Ik Faying fur Her I're-i-nt, 8k raid Qlybe. Last Wednesday night a well-dressed lady sat on cn empty beer keg that had been rolled np against a smldl brick building on Rice street. The people that passed along tbe sidewalk looked curiously at her, but she spoke no word, nnd they passed on. A dozen small boys gathered In a groapnud m ale guesses on what she was doing and IV she waa there. UUe seemed somewhat embarrassed at the looks of the people, but she Bat there all tha same for two hours by tbo watch. She bail naked her husband for a silk dress for Christmas. He at first re filled, but finally agreed to give it to her if she would sit in the above place two hoars. Nbe did it, and the husband invested in the necessary dry goods like a little man. i.. •juirmwm 23 YEARS IN USE. Tha Greatest Kcdkal Trinrr.?h of the Age! SYMPTOMS OF A TORPID LIVER. Izosaol appetite. Dowels costive* Fain In the head, with « dull sensation In tho haek tart. Fain under tho shoulder- blade, Fullness after eating, with n dis- Inr liuntinn to exertion of budr ortnlnd, IrrltnMIitrof temper, Low spirits, with n fcrlin:;of l«:i\Iik; neglected some duty, Wamrtneae, DIzzIneM, Fluttering nt tho Heart. Dots before the eyes, Hendarbe ewer the right eye, llestlrsmness, with fitful dreams, Ilishly colored Lriue, and CONSTIPATION. Ttrrrs PILLS are e*r*< ; Jlv adapted to snob esse*, ono dose effect* eucli a change of feel i n ? r-•» to nsto n! - i 11 tio suffere r. . They Increase Cbe Appetlte.aoii case* the body to 'take on » iHb.tb m 1 r aM$fMMd,aitdbf their T<> nil- Art inn • n lillfs wM SnRSAPAfllLU itonovatai the body, run h**olttij flesh, the* sjhtorn with pure I4oo?oivl haul mu I liaahoed. ehk, haetaf £*edtn raim mrTM j | remedy, see sisenMI a simple mmi of ■■ i Iouwl ettlsh aowin—drmiKto htataOemmMm 4 | am. AdAmaJ. B. BXSVSA ASAstkaos■k.B,#