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12 THE MACON WEEKLY TELEGRAPH: TUESDAY, JANUARY 12, 1886.-TWELVE PAGES. Hymn to a FI amber. cool, no calm, to bright. owner of earth and sky! [ fear it’a going to freeze to-night— It's In yoor eye. And pipea for water, gaa and a team I know will boat . Oieat man! Home fourteen daya ago My aink pipe sprang seek: You came auu looked and found It to,— And in a week. Yen aent two men to look again,— They caine ard aaw and went. And came again, and stopped, and then They atopped the vent. Your bl»l therefor, great man. la here. By special post it came. And I resign wbato'er waa mine To pay the aame. Dow could the world move on ita way Of your great graap bereft ? We know, however cold the day, You're never left. OVER THE STATE. Two barrooms iu Elbert in will close to day. Over 500 acres will be planted in water melons in Clay coanty this year. J. A Polbill, drnpgist, of Waynesboro, baa sold oat bis stock of goods there and will re-open at Millen. Bartow Superior Court convenes Mon day with cases on tho docket sufficient to keep it busy for several weeks. Marshall Westbrook, of Albany, says his city has been remarkably free from gam bling for more than five years. The W. I). Chipley, which sank in the Chattahoochee last Saturday night, had cleared over $3,000 this season. The number of whisky licenses in Koine is reduced from sixteen in 1884 and four teen in 1885 to twelve at present Mrs. E. Smith, dealing in general mer chandise. < f Waynesboro, has sold out to C. E. Smith and retired from business. 8. C. Lawrence, of the law firm of Ma thews A Lawrence, of Millen, has been ap pointed solicitor of Effiughnm county court. The editor of the Dalton Citizen received on the 1st a package from Texas containing a pair of jack rabbit earn with the curd “Happy New ’Ear.” Sheriff Mathis has closed up Mr. Phillip Cohen, of Home, on the foreclosure of a mortgage for $2,000. llis total liabilities are said to be $6,000. At Elberfcm. l**t Sunday, a negro train baud fell Kttween the ran while the train waa running. With remarkable luck be Jumped out between the front and rear wheels of the car and waa uninjured. Thirty-aeven liquor-dealers have registered with the ordinary and paid their ilcenae tax of #50 each to the tax-collector for the privilege, so fsr as the Htate snd county are concerned, of selling Uquor in D.' gberty county. Thursday night the barn of Mr John Terhnne, who lives on the Etowah river, about eleven miles up the Rome railroad, was burned with 1,000 bush- els of com and some pit vender. A lot of goats were also burned. Loss $1,000. Liquor license for the ensuing year has been placed by the town cocncil of Washington at $900. for selling by the drink, and #150. for selling by the quart Two bar-rooms have taken out licenses and three qr Art houses. During the holidays the Minor House, at Monte zuma narrowly escaped a serious conflagration. A lamp tut lied oviT is a clssct under the step • and re? everything on Are. By prompt attention it was extinguished without doing much damage. Tbad Pace, a six-year-old negro boy, of Albany, had a misunderstanding with a shot-gun shell or cartridge Tbumday morning, and was badly burned about the face and head. It seems that the shell was charg'd with powder, but bad no abot in it. Mr. Wm. V. Moore, of Wilkes county, is some what remarkable as a man. Though 72 years old, he still lives within a stone's throw of where he wsa born; has never been over fifty miles from home, and never rode on a railroad train. He never mar ried. and has accumulated jflpit-tty good fortune by •bieown labors*- He is yei-hala and.heaity.. The other night, Mr. Robert Miller, of Baldwin oounty, heard his dogs howling and bis goats and sheep came running to the house fr jra the pasture greatly alarmed. He couldn’t tell what was the matter then, but the next morning lie found a bal loon in his sheep pasture, near his house. The balloon had been seut up on New Year's night. In Lincoln county a Cow days ago a negro living on Mr. Dan Bale's place happened to a very seri ous accident. While out bunting and after secur ing his game be was holding it up for his dog to Jump at, with the muzzle of the gun resting under bis left arm. Tue dog in som* way struck the hammer and caused it to discharge, the load pass ing through the shoulder joint, breaking the bone. EXPLAINS HIS ABSENCE. An Kditor Gives his Reason for Keeping Out of Town. Rome explanation is necessary as to why msined hid out in the cl«l fields during the Christ mas holidays, At an early hour on the morning of tbe 2ftth Thomas Patrick sent word that Esquire Haniuel Cbafln, the oldest Bailiff perhaps iu tbo world, was on his way to Covington with bis old thread-bare, sore-back, run-down-in-tbe-beel yarn about having "killed a squirrel, going to cook half Saturday morning tbe mercury stood at 14 above zero in Warrenton. and Sunday morning it fell to 12. At Palmetto yesterday tbe mercury stood 2 degrees above zero with a light snow fall. Iu Forsyth yesterday morning the mer cury was 2 degrees above zero. Chickens, hogs and cows were found frozen stiff anil ddead. In Barnesville yesterday the mercury stood at zero. It was the coldest day in the memonr of the oldest inhabitant. At Thomasville the thermometor has registered 18 j degrees in succession. The weather makes the northern visitors there feel very much at home. THK BUZZABD AT LUMPKIN. Ltmpkin, Os , January 11.—Tbe blizzard struck us with full force' on Friday night last, and by Saturday morning the mercury had dropped 16 degrees above zero. All day Haturduy the winds from the northwest were laden with the icy touch of the Rocky Mountains and the effect was a total sus pension of all out-door labor. By Sunday morning the mercury hod dropped to 10 de grees, and while tho winds were not so strong, the cold was more intense than it was the day before. Everything was stiff- 'ftozAn ih the offlfce of'the Ih depend out, and the publication of onr sprightly little weekly was delayed until to-day. Your correspondent has innuired as to tbe condition of the oat crop ana the general verdict * H that yonng oats in this section are killed and that replanting will have to be resorted to. This will be quite a Lordship upon our farmers, as a large area of oats have been planted in Stewart coanty since November. Hough on Hats In Coffee, Jackson, January 10.—In the case of cor oner’s inquest on the body of Charles Mays, at Indian Springs, a chemical analysis of the viscera was(made by Dr. B. G. Bryans, of Jackson, also by John M. McCandless, ot Atlanta, nnd traces of arsenic are found by each of these experts. Ginsey, the wife of NEAR TO ZERO. Yesterday the Coldest Day Known In Macon In Fifty Years. “The oddest weather we've bed in fifty yen.” That in what the oldest inhabitant said, jester day morning, when he got out of bed and touched On Sunday, the weather moderated somewhat but by midnight the north wind, sweeping over tbe ■now and ice in higher latitude* caused the tempera ture to fall until by 8 o'clock yesterday morning the mercury in the thermometer* reached a point not far removed from xero. Thermometer*, like watche*. vary. Some regis tered :» degree* above zero at 8 o'clock, j e«tard*y morning, other* registered 5 degrees, and one regis tered 10 degree*. It is. perhaps, safe to My that 5 degree* above zero are the correct figure*. north wind continued to blow, and those whose business compelled them to be out early suffered but The day waa perfectly clear; but the little effect in contending against the wind. The weather moderated but little by noon, and la-t night it waa fully aa cold a* it wa* early in the morning. Throughout the day business wa* almost at a aland still. People would not leave their homes t tell, and those who were in their store* to *el were, therefore, without customers. Unless abs<i lately compelled to be out, people kept off of the ■tn-c-U. The coal and wood dealer* reaped rich harvest*, while the plumbers danced in glee a* the request* to mend broken water pipes poured in upon them from every part of the city. THE POO* WKHE SOT VoUOOTTEN. BY THE WAY. A baseball pl» ; ye Mayor Price began early to make provision to furnish them with wood. He worked all day, aeeking out case* of destitution, and promptly sup plying tbe sufferers. He bought twenty-five cords of wood, which was distributed a* rapidly a* pos sible. The city carts were busy all day in the During the day. Mayor Price received the follow lng telegram Charles, administered to Charlie a small quantity of Rough on Rata by patting it in his coffee. Ho the prospects are that Butts will have a second-class hanging. Hanry Morrison, a negro, wentouthunt- ing in Elbert coanty u few days ago. In jumping over agullyhisguu wus discharged, killing him instuntly. The manganese excitement continues. A. P. Silva is working fifty hands and will aoon increase the force threefold, at his mines near Cartersvillo. Philip Cohen, a retail dry goods and cloth ing dealer of Rome, was dosed tip by the sheriff Wednesday by tbe foreclosure of a mortgage for $‘J,9uO. Tho liabilities are about $6,000. Mrs. Beatrice H. Pope, a daughter of the late Judge E. Y. Hill, of LaGrango, has been pron oted from the $V>00 grade to class one—$1,000—in the First And tor's office of the United States Treasury. While Mr. Dozier Brown waa walking in the woods near his house in Hart county, he found a mulatto child covered tip with leaves with a chunk of wood across its breast* No clue to its parents. The Perry Manufacturing Company re- feutned operations Monday, with an addition of six to the working force. One hundred dozen curry-combs were shipped Tuesday to one purchaser at Louisville, Ky. In Savannah, Thursday night, a negro woman left at St. Joseph’s? Infirmary a bun dle, nnd then skipped ont by the back way. Tbe bundle contained a white infant two months' old with a lot of fine clothing. The ElbertonGazette publishes’this morn ing: “If the man who sold us five dozen Totten eggs just before Christums day, don't come iu make them good, we will teach him what thO penalty is for cheating and swindling." The State Agricultural “convention will meet at Columbus, February Dili. A meet ing of the local society will be held Satur day to nrrauge for the occasion. The city council has appropriated $50 for tho rent of a hall for tbe meeting. Eastman had plenty of anow yesterday. Nine firms will sell whisky In Dawson this year, ft. A. Heath ha* taken chary* of the hotel at War- twnton. Covington has received 15,000 bale* of cotton this seajon. The Methodist church at Jackson has 154 name* on ita rolls. Mr. Alex. Morris, of Greenesboro, waa bitten, on Wednesday, by a mad dog. Terrell county school commissioner paid out over $3,500 to teachers for 1883. Thirty-eight suit* have been filed for the March term of Floyd superior court Dr. M. R. Hall baa sold his steam flour and grist mill* in Warrenton to J. 0. Gallagher. An election for mayor and elx councUmen, of Covington, will come off on January is, A negro boy waa stabbed in the shoulder by a cel >red girl, iu Covington, B.turday night The citizen* of Je*up are organizing a stock com- l*auy to establish an Iron and brass foundry. The Preebytertona of llaines* U>e are preparing to build a parsonage. Work commence* at once. Hon. Wm. PiU Eastman has been chi* ted superin tmduut of the Union Sunday-school, at Eastman. Another steamer baa been purrhased to take the place of the wrecked Chipley on the Chattahoochee river. An election on the local option quevtlon will moat certainly come off In Newton county before very long. The election for mayor and aldermen of n*«- klnsville for auother year will take place on Wed nesday next. It 1* announced that another large party of ex cur- elotilsU from Ohio and Western States will visit Georgia in February. Thirty-five yonng men who have been engaged daring the business season are uow out of employ ment in Hawkinsvillc. Deed carp in abundance have been found In many of the streams in Hart county, washed out of Ihe ponds Sunday night Gainesville I* to have a steam fire rngine and a better water supply. The council committee negotiating for a steamer. Mr*. T. H. Rutherford, of Douglasville, the other day caught on fire and was very badly burned. So waa her husband in extinguishing the flame*. At a meting of the director* of the Central rail- Tua^at Savannah a few day* ago, the aum of #250 hours to relate this story, giving details and spitting every two minutes, require* live hour* more. Nearly every mao in Newton county haa felt the weight of bis four-inch auger, in the shape of tliis squirrel yarn, and when it liecomes known that be has remodelled it snd propose* a "relating tour,” everybody hide* out and leaves tbe .Hqnlre all the room he could desire. Such wa* the cane last week, and we lit out with about forty others. One man, Edward McJunklu, failed to get off in time and so Mr. Cbafln bad a regular-picnic. He talked Mack out of bis place of bu*inena into lived In Newton and Jasper, related bin ex|>orience with tbo ntock law, told bow long be had been bailiff to the grand jury, and commenced anew on tbe "squirrel breakfast." Mack grntned and grunted, foamed at tbo mouth, and like historic. Job, cursed tbe day he waa born. The 'Squire look ed happy indeed, joy was pictured on his pleasant face, as arm in arm bn journeyed with poor Mack from placo to placo, talking, continually talking, as he went Mack ttually got *u opportunity to get away while the 'Squire was in the act of taking a chew of tobacco, and if ever a man run for bis life McJunktn must have been lu»t man, for he says two hours more such boriug would have put him Into sausage meat. Ho get* red in the face when he hcar« tbe name of Cbaliu, sleeps in hi* boots and overcoat and keep* a Texas pony tied to the knob of his backdoor, ever bearing in mind the undis puted fact that "self-preservation is the first law of A Negro Frozen to Death* Wasbkktoh, OK., January 9.—Joei Haii, a negro living a few miles from Camak, wa* found dead near Macedonia church to-day about 12 o'clock. He is supposed to have been under the Influence of whisky, and froze to death. Two Degree* He low Xero. Adaiostim-e, January 9.—It is intensely cold here, with a strong wind from the north. Yesterday morning tbe thermometer registered two degrees below zero. Streams sic frozen over hard onough for wagons to cross. All trains on the Western and Atlantic are two to four hours out of time. Cuthbert's City Officers. CrrHBERT, January 9.—Onr municipal election for mayor and councilman resulted in J:c election of Hainuel K. Free mail for mayor, J. W. Healy, George McDonald, J. \V. Stanford, 8. II. Gamble pd H. Tobias as councilmen. There being no on- waauonated to Montezuma steamboat company. A letter from Allentown My* It 1* probable that the Macon and Dublin railroad will suspend bust- neea for three months, because of the cold wcether. The Governor offers one hundred dollar* reward for Dockie Uaieon, who killed JeaaSjfcBitb. hi* sweetheart. In Macon Christmas. prof. II. W. Key, of Cuthbert received a check for 1100 this week from CoL Y. L. G. Harris, of Athens, to be added to the repair fond of Andrew Female College, Mr. W. E. H. Searcy, who ha* been stenographer of the Flint circuit for nine and a half years, baa - I w m devote himself en- r..L«n,4 it.«> iMliiOBUd ttrilj to find mining. The merchant* of Hbertom have agreed "not to open an seroun*. with any one, without any excep. Mon. or sell any good* on time to any one before the lit day of February.” Dr. M. Cook, the gentleman living at Fairtmrn who was so seriously iscalded and tojuradta the the 17-mile tank oe the Oeorgia Pacific Eastman** Municipal Election. Kaktmvn. January 9.—Venr little interest i* man ifested in the municipal election which takes placo to-inorruw, Monday, 11th Instant. There is but oue pronounced candidate for Mayor, Mr. U. J. Sapp. Another ticket was suggested but the gentlemen named did not sigoif> their intention of running. Tbe late prohibition election absorbed everything political, and so th's proves to be an off year iu municipal affairs. rulaahr* Officer*. Hawkimmyillm, January 9.—U the meeting last niqhtof flee company Pulavk I No. J, the following officer* were elected: U. K. Vavlo**, foreman; W. A. Jelka, first assistant foreman; R. G. Jaudan. second aaslstant foreman; U. J. Taylor, treasurer; E. N. Jelka. secretary; J. N. Reynold*, engineer; C. Smith, assistant engineer; W. W. Leman, fitstnlnemr-- “ C. McPhatl, second pipeman; J. L. Wilder, pipeman; Willie Homiucra, fourth plpeman, third Another Failin'* In Jackson. Jackson, January 10.—J. J. Thornton, of Jackson, lias failed. Liabilities small. Think assets sufficient to cover indebted ness. Short and Sweet. The Macon Teleobapb's editorial page fairly eparkles with wit every day. It la certainly very charming resiling. Resides this the TeikoiuI'H is a idee* of typographical perfection.—Washington Gazette. THE NEW YEAR FASHIONS. The Velvet Hage—Nor,' Corsages— Illack Bashes—Homespun Again. Duchesne lace is made in full Jabots. Beaded collar* show Byzantine effects. Doucle cloth has stripe* of plush or moire. Visiting and home dresses have demi-trains. Evening anil dinner dresses have long trains. Materials with woven border* for Dimming favorites. Shirred collarettes of ribbon in color to the dress. Plush beaded with garnet ornaments is used fur millinery purposes. The iialest colors prevail for ball dresses. White b worn contrasting ts tho favorite for these airy creatlSus. Fine jet is much employed in millinery, made up iu wings, leaves, aigrettes or spikes. In spite of predictions to the contrary, corduroy is popular for walking suits, Plush i" *Hs leading fabric for all toilettes; lli in evening dresses are trimmed with it. Yellow continues In favor, and some times is too lavishly used on walking costumes to be in g«.od taste. Chain-gold purses, with agold initial or diatnoud monogram, are the latest Parisian faucy. An EngU <h fancy is to wear theater bonnets and muffs of black crape over bright colored silk. Tabllcra of tulle, lace or gauze, richly embroider ed with beads, are worn with all robes of cere mony. Curly Astrakhan or krimmer will be superseded by the soft wavy astrakhan. Thu galloons showing less curl. Tho new striped brocades h-vvo water lilies and leaves and dcliuat© feru designs on grounds shut or Marlatan, crepe and tulle evening dresses have finely pinked edge* instead of hems, sUhnugh many have satin nbbou run through hems of flounces. Tulle ball dresses have two plain skirts of tulle over a silk petticoat; over these is a draped skirt of tulle studdied with pearls, or chenille or ruu with threads of stiver or gold. Square shawls of knitted silk lace edged with fringe, in all tbe evening colors, are novelties. They are light and may be used as fichu* covering the head. Folds of white or colored crapo have superseded ruchings for the neck. Sometimes the folua arc en riched by large pearls which always match the crape In If a lady has an old paletot, nothing Is easier than to turu it into a jacket; and if it chances to be too uarrow, a stylish plastron is set in of astrakhan or other fur, velvet or plusb. very rich evetting dross is of white satin duchesse and brocade. The bodice and train are or tiie brocade and tbe side panel* of superbly em broidered tulle with pearl pendants. The long fichu is of crepe embroidered with pearls. Military pompon*, stiff and high, of herons* feathers, or else in a thick cluster shaped like shariug- brush, trim tbe rigbt ride of tbe new high toques of cloth, or of velvet, or of astrakhan fur. Black braid crosses the front, and is iu loops leftside. A bonnet fur reception wear haa the crown of pearl embroidered velvet and a high brim of puffed strings are ot ribbon. A bonnet of Labrador-blue velvet haa a smooth crown and tbs prim is edged with beads of gold and steeL The trimming consists of a bow of satin rib bon. of the same color aa the velvet, and the feath- -* a lighter tint. Doubtless the present fashion offers new things, but novelty is not tbe characterization; this render* A Hero In Illack. The most heroic deed we have witnessed f. many years, was that of George Armstead, colored, who threw himself iu front of a runaway bona, and at the risk of his own life, perhaps saved the life of a white lady and her babv. The runaway took place en the public square, and many were the congratu lations tendered George for his brave act A small purse was made up for him by those who witnessed the exciting scene.—Covington Enterprise. A Kind Word Duly Appreciated. Columbia Sentinel. In an editorial on the opening of the now year the Macon TKtr.oHvrn makes a gratifying statement rel.itivo to the paper's prosperity. Allow us. Bro. Tkleotuph, to congratulate yon upon your success, and may you live many years to give tho peo ple, as yon are now doing, a clean {taper ami one of the most readable, os well ns re liable in the State. Jekyl Island. • The Brunswick paper have not stated that Jekvl Island, near that city, hud been purchased by Mr. William K. Vanderbilt, son of the la».o two hundred millionaire, though mention has been made of a recent visit by bim to that. Island. A special to the New York Herald of yesterday state*, however, that it is understood the sale has been, or soon will be, consummated. and is one ot the most beautiful islands on the Georgia coast. It is nine mile* long and about two wide, and iU whole length forms one of the most beautiful beaches of tho Atlantic coast Mr. Vanderbilt is much pleased with it. Andrew Carnegie, the millionaire iron king of Pennvylvaott.Jpiow owns Jthe ex treme end of Cumberland .Ireland, adjoin ing Jekyl. and has apent $250,000 in improv ing it Ilia kouso alone cost $130,000. Savannah Tiroes. f**!ilon*<l polonaise readily forming a separate lumiurn corsage sod aa overakiit draped in one of tue styles, g Red, blue or brown homespun costume* showing double disgonal hues are made tip with wide pleat* of b!a k watered ailh on (be lelt side, low front draperies and sintiqbt full block breadths. The basque has a soft vest of black watered silk, and tbe jerkei has cuffs and collar t-f astrakhan far. Opera c'oaka of white, fawn, gold, gray or red plunti. or else rich brocades or sea* let cloths, are made to cuter U.c W£*:er from bead to loot and open up to the back to permit tbe train to escape, or else they aru mantle that ara ve*-y long in front and qutto short behind, leaving the whole hack of the wit it t uncovered. Fur, feath era and beaded naments are ti’e trimmings for these. The newest fans are tbe "Princess Beatrice. They are painted gauze with silk appliques, and 1 mg loop fastened with bow and ends. Many new corsages are very short, not reaching to the waist llue, with* baoquo undc.ccath either square, rounded or cutaway. Nothing is easier than to transform an old waist to suit this fashion, or to make such a oue of a scaut pattern of stuff. The collar, rever* and cuff* may also be made of a different material from the dreae—velvet, plusb, astrakhan, or plain of brocaded silk. Black watered ribbon sashes are also much used with dark wool dresses, black bring considered now the moat stylish color for trf mmiug dresses of any color or any fabric, from wool to velvet. Red velvet dresses have black watered sashes on the left side, and tbe bodices are rnnimed with jet passe- menierie. Red plush -"maks with jet ornament* autl black fox or featier board era arc very stylish. If any one has not sufficient stuff for a whole •roldered tulle, according to the purpose for which the drees I* designed. Every scrap oi stuff can thus be utilized; the time is gone by when a conjg* Atlanta, Oa.. January 11, 1SS5.—To Mayor H. B. Price. Macon, Ga.:—It Is extremely cold here and must be so iu Macon also. Please buy tweuty-dve dollars worth of wood for me and have it distrib uted among the poor. Send bill to my office. “A. O. Bacc Mayor Price at once replied as follows: Macon, Ga., January 11. WM —To Hon. A. O. Bacon, Atlanta. Ga Your telegram is received, and your requej* in being complied with. To-night, the poor will TrSSTyou around the hearthstone* upon which your contribution will have kindled fire*. • s. U. Price." Mr. Sam Welchselbaum also opened his heart and purse and gave Minor Price twenty-five dollars to be used for the relief of the poor. Others also contributed, among them Mr. Charles Hcrbat, who early carried a contribution to the city hall. Uow many went to the relief of the poor in secret is, of course, unknown, but they wore numerous, because not many were left without warm fires at the close of the day. Tho mem tiers of the Macon bar, aided by the citi zens generally, started a subscription list, which reached large proportions before night. It will be open to-day, auu those who desire to subscribe should see Mayor Price. Alderman F. 8. Johnson, for the city, furnished wood to tbe poor during the day, and will continue to do so to tho deserving, to-day. Those who wish to contribute wood or other arti cle* for the relief of the jioor to-day should setid their contributions to Mayor Price, at tho city hall. It would ho well, also, for those who know ot cases of destitution to report thorn at the same place. INCIDENTS or TUE DAT. 3Tbe river waa an object of much interest to those who cared to brave the cold to visit it. All day long immense pieces of Hvow-covered ice floated slowly down. At one time an ice jam formed just above the city bridge, presenting an uuusual and beauti ful spectacle. Nine cart loads of ice were taken from around the water trough in the enclosure in rear of the city hall. In was piled up iu the middle ot First street, forming quite a little mountain. A skating party, headed by Mr. Charles Herbert, went aero** the nver to AuuniHiit’ai brick yard and hid acme fine sport. No broken limbs, but a ber of bruises resulted. When Mr. L. Merkel started out in tfie i ing on his rouuds with hi* delivery, wrapped a piece of cloth around a hot brick and placed it in the wagon to keep bis fee t warm. Tho heat from the brick iynited tho cloth, and Mr. Merkel had a lively tirno getting rid of tho fire. Quite a number of fowls were frozen to death Among the number waa a fin-* game rooster be longing to Lieutenant Wood, of tliu p- dice force. From Saturday st 12:30 o’clock until yesterday morning at 9:30 o'clock, nobody was confined in the city prison. It was also empty last night. The trains on all the railroads were more or It delayed. As far as known, no serious accidents occurred, The indication* point to a continuation of the t tri mocold. Tho wind hvl pot (hanged its course st 1 o'clock, this morning, and evinced no signs of doing so. GHOST IN A BANJO. Station House Keeper G. L. Henry Has an Unpleasant Experience. William Brown, a very black negro, stole a banjo from another negro. William lirown fell into the hand* of tho police, Monday afternoon, and that night he slept iu a cell in the city prison. a top of the The stolen banjo spent the night iron sale in the station house. Station House Keeper G. L. Ilenry went on duty at 12 o'clock. About l o'clock, he, Lieutenaut Wood, and the bat)Jo. were the sole animated objects that occupied the station house. Henry and Wood p mpauyingtho movement by a rnuri mg. twongl”H ■ Wood dropped their papers and gazed a be banjo,” remarked Wood, i not," replied Henry. * are too tight; Ml loosen them.’ rom bis chair, picked up tbe banjo, ihe suing* uutil they were apparently sound other than a dull thump, tea after. Wood started on his rounds ow many policemen he could catch r posts. id up a paper and began to read, y immersed in reading an account of <ed man ran away with and married oman up in Kentucky, Henry was startled by hearing tbe lianjo sing out: anty, twunty!" out of his chair and bent his eyes iiment suggestive of negroes, sweet ST* * edge of the safe. While he was wondering what was tbe matter, the banjo suddenly humped itself, sprang a few iuchea Into the air, and fell upno the safe, giving vent to Philharmonic coucert all by itself. "Twiug-tuuky-ting, twang-tinky-tung, twungty, twangty. twlngtj!" *' t widened until they resembled full «: !« tu ar at at Ids he did. and then resumed his seat sin the story of the one-legged cdproman. rotes profound quiet reigned in the th a furtive glance at the haujo, and lated himself upon having silenced it another iustant the haunted musi cal machine moved, violently back aud forth, while the strings vibrated with frightful rapidity aud squealed: ••Bunk—thunk—a—lanky—ty—bunk—lnnk!" Henry threw down bis paper, rushed to tbe door, dashed out upou the pavement, and did not return uutil daylight apiieared. The banjo was too much for bim. A musical expert said yesterday, after hearing the story, that the curious actions of the banjo were cauM-d by the beat of the room. Uia explanation, however, did not satisfy Ilenry. A Cold Hath. On Saturday, Messrs. Jack Marita and John C. Van Hyckel were in a buggy near 1^-ary. They had , drumming tour, aud were returning to take the train for h> Arrive! at a creek, they found Ice In the water upoa b.*h sides. Tbe horse refused to euter the ford. As an inducement to the animal to proceed, ccedcl In reaching tbe middle of the creek. There the horse balked. No amount of whipping or |«r- ■ Mas ion could indue.* him to proceed. Finally, Mr. Martin told Mr. Van Byckel that he would go back a mile or two to a farm house, hire a saddle horw. and come back and try to lead the stubborn Harper’s Bazar says that low velvet waists am the caprice of the sutson. perhaps because velvet is the most becoming of all fabrics, aud a low velvet body may be worn with various skirts. A red vel vet waist may have a pink tulle or scarlet tulle The Cold Snap. In Kfart* y„t«nUjr morning at 6 o'clock the thermometer marked S degrees above zero. Once before in the history c< tho town waa tho aamo point reached—Decern- «f «■» bersa 1880. Famem think the oaU are j Utlaad akin, or one of either white or black lace. velvet bodice may be used with blue tulle skirts, or blue watered silk or satin. Black velvet waUti are worn with black lace over red or over white or pink satin or with an entire skirt of watered silk, or above all else, with black tulle that has metallic or pearl beads. Sudden Changes or Weather Are produdtlve of throat (diseases, cooghs, colds, etc. Thar* to no store effectual :*l*f In these dto- mmn to he found than la the tme of Brown’s Imochmi Tsvemm. Ttavi 2Z XSM. horse. When he got back, he rode into the creek aud caught the bridle of the balky horse. He pulled one way aud the balky home pulled the Death the cold water. The bath came near causing him to freeze. How the two gentlemen finally settled their dif ferences with the balky horse to not known. An End to Hone Scraping. Edward Shepherd, of Harrisburg, I1L. aaja: “Having received so much benefit from Electric Bittei*, 1 feel U my duty to let suffering humanity know it. Have had a running on my leg for eight jremni; my doctors told me I would have to have the Raaktw A Lamar's. . elected to the Legislature is said to have been very successful In catching tLe eye of the 8peaker.—Boston Commercial Bulletin. We don't remember to have seen "Misfit Teeth, Suitable for Holiday Gifts.” advertised this season; but we didn’t scan the advertising columns of our contemporaries very closely.—Norristown Herald. The Mikado of Japan never wears a garment that has been washed. This probably accounts for the appearance of the Mikado costumes in some of the traveling companies, that bavo recently visited Troy.—Troy Telegram. An Iowa man haa discovered a remedy for rheu matism, consisting of maple sugar dissolved in apple brandy. In less than a week after he mad* the discovery the whole neighborhood was limping around with rheumatism,—Peck’s 8un. New York newspaper* announced a few days ago, when the temperature was fifteen degrees below the freezing point, that Jay Gould bad "left th* zrreet " That showed his good sense. It wa* too cold about that time to stay on the street.—Nu*rt>- ttwn Herald. The hero in a new novel is an artist who strangles himself with the long locks of golden halrwhlchhis lady has cut off and left In his studio before she committed suicide. This must be a pretty satisfac tory novel, provided both suicides take placo In the first chapter, and the other characters die of broketi hearts in the second. If the hero had got a single hair of the long locks in bis throat while eating bash at bis buardinq-hov.se, he would have bceu more deserving of sympathy.—Norristown Herald. Fun for tile Family. Jack—"Grandma, have you good teeth?" Orandma—^"No, dear; unfortunately, I have not" Jack—"Then I'll give you my walnuta to keep till back."—Boston Beacon. First dude—“You look wather pale, Cholly. m« boy.” Second dude— 1 "Yaas, I feel wathaw offish. Got vacciuated yestawday." F. D.—"Ah! Did it 8. P.—"No. I took ether, ye know.”—Boa- hurt?’ ton Courier. Johnny laboriously lugged a pail into the parlor, where tho family was aiueratileJ, snd asked hi* ma ternal grandmother to kick it. "Why should I kick it, Johnny?” grandmother inquired in amazement. "Just to amuse papa.” said Johnny. "He said he would give $10 any time to see you kick the buck et"—New York Ledger. •Hello! John. Do you go to Sunday-school?' —bed an Oakland gentleman, aa he met a Chinaman one Sunday morning. "Me go allee time Sunday- school.” "Do you like it?” "Alice same vou. Me got good teacher; me washee for he, stealoo skirt stealee stockings; she no sabee. Sunday-school ■tealce; sabee!”—Stockton Mavorick. "Will you please give me some dinner, ma'am?” begged a tramp. "1 guess so,” was tho reply. "Will you have some soup?” "I'm not particular," •aid the tramp. "There was a time," he went on, mournfully, "when I wouldn’t think of settin’ down to diuoer without soup; but things is differ ent now. You can shirt me on roast beef or pie, or even an ontry. for all I care." "Do you think this roso suits my complexion?" ■aid one dude to auother, in a flourist'H store the other day. "It la a bit trying 'cause it is pink, you know, and it don’t exactly suit me." "Well,” said tho other, "I generally weab wed woses myself, but lam such a decided bwuuetts that that color is just fit. Van Dudeu always waars white, but that is becaui>o Mins Cashbox, his fiancee, gave him a white cwyHanthenmiu once, and she likes them, but then he in such a splendid dwenned HOME MADE FRENCH BREAD. Every Ilou<u-keeper Her Own IlaKer by Following m Few Kany Rules. Town Topics. Wash perfectly clean half a pound ot potatoes, id then steam them without removing the skins. tboroughlr with a half pint of flour. and the Ma*h the half a pint of tepid water and half an ounce of salt. When well mixed, put away in a place where tho temperature is 78 degrees of Fahrenheit for one hour Then add and mix with It half a pint of good yeast and put away in the same place for nine hours. It may require somewhat longer than nine hours, or a little less, but it may l»o known in this way: the compound will, after awhile, gradu ally and slowly foam for some time and then begin U begins to fall, mix a little tepid to fall; water with it and strain through away potato skins and eyes; mix what is strained ith two pound* of flour aud sufficient tepid water crajks on the top, which will occur in about hour. Then put six pounds of flour on tho |>astc- board aud make a hole in the centre; place in this a little tepid water and cracked dough ; salt to taste; knead the whole woll with water enough to make an ordinary dough. To knead it well Vt ia necessa ry to raise tho dough, or part of it, aud then throw it back with force ou tho Mate-board. Tho To shape loves of French bread, divide the dough. mj soon as kneaded, In as many parts as you want loaves; then knead each part, ono after the other, so s« to form a sort of ball: then, by rolling and pulling it. give it an elongated, sausage-dike shajx*. A pound loaf can be made one and a naif feet long ■’’ - four inches; it will, ,of courso, be nar rower and have more crust. Klinrtentnf the Route North. Charleiton News snd Courier. Th© work of building the railroad between Wil son, on tho Wilmingtou and Weldon railroad, aud Faycttnvillo, which wss commenced some time ago, la lielng carried on with great energy, and in Mid to fairway to completion. 1 his is a part of bo in tit* new road by means of*which It is propoasd to shorten the route North by way of thtAU^atic Coait Line. At present this liuo has a large loop in it between Florence and Wilson for tbe purpo«e of passing through Wilmlugton.butthe now rosd.when it is built from Wilson to Fa>ctteville, and thence to Florence, will make the line almost straight snd although leaving Wilmington ont in th* cold, will shorten the distroce between Charleston and Rich mond by about seventy miles. A PATCHWORK COLUMN, X have just half-a-dozen clocks, With faces round and bright And every day it puzzles me . To know which one to right The cuckoo coo* at nine o'clock. Another says half-past I know not which is right or wrong. Or which to slow or fast My bed-room time-piece says I have An hour in bed to dwell. The cook looks at the kitchen clock. And ring* the breakfast bell. The study clock at half-pest twelve Sends me to bed elate, And in a fleeting hour or two Another clock strikes eight By that which says I've ample time I ml** the train and swear; The one that make* mo jump and run Proves 1 have time to spare. I some times rise and dress in baste. Because it's striking ten; When, finding it’s but seven, X Oo back to bed again. The clock by which I'm never fooled Is stauding in the hall, O, hundred-dollar Gallic clock. That never goes at all. X'd rather see you standing there Beside the oaken door. Telling me all the hit-sued time 'Tla twenty-five of four. O clocks, you're never uniform, And always seem to mo Perplexing more than doctors, wbsn The doctors disagree. During tho year just closed 2,906 person died in Pliiledolphia of consumption, 1,485 of pneumonia. A man in Wilmington, N. C., bus just fi& ished tbo tusk of eating thirty quail*« thirty days. He called for more. Tiik society paper business is great! overdone in London, and some of th* pnblications barely pay expenses. Boston constructed more buildings durst 1885 than in any vear since that follows the great lire. The total value of thes* $8,000,000. Tiie treasurer of- the Grant fund at Sait Louis says that he has sent 7,000 drcal _ into the State asking for subscriptions, i: has not received a single cent in reply. Tiik citizens of Rending, Pa., are sendir up an indignant protest against large a bills. They can’t understand how it is tia “when the price of gas w lower the bill* higher.” The New Orleans Daily States declan that the tilth which has for years saturate the li net ruined and unsewered streets of ti. city “is a menace not to the city alone, t to all the country." Tiik Cincinnati Timos-Star declares tl Thomas Keene's attack of partial panlyc is due to excessive smoking, that being only dissipation. He is seldom withe-ut cigar for hve minutes. Tue attorney-general of Minnesota 1. decided that, for the purpose of foriuii cemetery associations, women are pernotf unless the opposition should contend th they are ungels, and hence do not re.pu burial. The success of the Millais exhibition, : London, has led to arrangements for a hie ilar exhibition of the pictures of Holms Hunt nnd it is probable that this kind ( displays will continue while they rum: popular. IIkiie is something new in the way of P ertinents for tho thousand nnd one* yo-B hilndelphiitUH who delight iu umateur u. croscopy: On a slip of gluts pnt a drop c liquid auric chloride or argentic nitrut with half n grain of metallic zinc in the ric chloride, and copper in the silver, growth of exquisite'gold and silver fer: will grow beforo the eye. High life In Philadelphia, a* portrayed l an item: “As she passes out the dJor . her long opora clock and tlecccddined sli; per covers, James, the footman, brings h on a tiny silver salver her bouquet and ti lumps of sugar dipped in white rose c ogne. These latter she munches in here rinse to make her eyes largo and bright, f. belladonna is dangerous. A firm at Biel, in Hwitzerland, baa : ccntly put upon the market a carnage cloc which winds itself during the twenty-fo: ho irs' driving for twelve days. It is sir: lar in construction to Breguet's perpetu movement watch. Breguct made one f Napoleon I., which was inherited byt young Princo Napoleon, and at his ilex: fell into the hands of the Zulus. The £• press Eugenie has finally succeeded in r covering this priceless memento of her dt^ son. Accident on the East Tennessee. A collision between two freight trains occurred, yesterday morning, on the Brunswick division of the bud Tennessee, Virginia snd Georgia railroad at West I*ke. Freight train No. 22, north bound, had orders to ret freight train No. 23 st West Lake. When the former reached that place, the engineer saw a train standing on the side track, and supposing it to be No. 23, did not stop. Just north of West while rounding s curve. No. 23 wu seen approach ing. It was too Is to ‘o prevent sn accident, and the two trains collided. Both were running st a low rate of spsed. so that ihe damage wu slight. The pilot* or both engines were broken off;'and the front wheels of one of the engines were derailed. An empty fist car wss also derailed. Nobody wm hurt. From all accounts, the collision gross carelessne s. The Southern Seed Company Comes to the front this morning with a bright, at tractive advertisement, which commends itself to all interested in the successful cultivation of tbe fl*dd and garden. One thing to be remembered in this connection is that the Southern Seed Company sells only seed that are fresh,aud that are adapted to Southern climate, Houtnern soil and noutuern crop*. Xn tnelr advertisement this" morning they make a special offer on oats Their stock of other seeds ta also complete, and offer e|*cial advantage r advertisement The Bartlett Memorial. Yesterday morning at II o'clock, the committee to prepare resolutions expressing th* esteem for Judge G._ T. Bartlett entertained by the meiuhere of tne Macon bar, met court house. The resolutions afterconsuiUUon. it wu decided that os tne JuH«* bail been discharged, and only the bar being pres ent it would be beet to delay the reeding tnat the public mignt be in atisndance. In con*©queoce, the memorial exercises were postponed until the . * *1** °* *** e A P r *l term of the Superior Court. It will bath* first order of tha day after organize- Take Cara of the Children. For children, Brandreth's Pill* are simply inval uable. One or two ptlto taken every night for ten days will cure them of acariet fever, diphtheria, whooping cough, colds, diarehira or local pains. Brandreth's Pills are purely vegetable—contain no mercury, mineral or dangerous drug. They ra- trfe quire no care in dieter exposure, ■ rfectly two at night for a week, taken ech will cure tbe worst case of dy spep*ia, rheums- .. ■ llvtr complaint Resigned for Lack of Inllaanca. Harper’s Bazar. Gentleman—"How are ibingsprogroaMinq in tbe church. Uncle Rahtas—floarshfng?” Uncle Rtstns—"I hain't prenchin’ tla no mo.’ air,” Gentleman—“Why, wbat'a tbe troubler Uncle Rastmns—‘ ‘Hit’s all owin’ ter de drouth, seh." Gentleman “Tbe drouth?" Uncle Rostns -“Yea, sah. Yo' sees, I prayed fo’ rain fo' Sunday* in con- cesshtin, «an, and da didn't no rain come, an* so de membahs obtle congregaahua aaked to my remgnaahnn on de groon'a of diaincability.” _ DZNTX8TBY—DR. 8. B. BARFIELD. Ho. SO* Mtdbsny Street, Macon. Georiit, Otak-n ta.re.keip.re. AcconDixa to tbe Detroit Free Press, k atrolinan in that city pnlled tbe bell o.'N patrolman in that city pnlled t bouse ut 10 o’clock the other evening said to tbe lady who came to tbe do< “Madam, a utan, whose actions are very st| picious, has iust entered the yard by alley gate. Wouldn’t it be well for me search the premises?" “Ob, no, sir,” si sweetly replied. “That suspicions person I my husband. When he comes home holj be enters at tbe front door. When he tight be enten at tbe back gate. Yon ad never raise an alarm over him." A specialist in throat troubles was t to treat a Boston Lidy, who manifested i much interest in his surgical instrument that be explained their uses to ber. laryngoscope, said he, “is fitted with * mirrors and au electric light; tbe interior! your throat will be seen by me as clearly j the exterior; you wonlil be surprised r know how far down we CAn see with an strumeut of this kind.” The operation »»vr the lady appeared somewhat agitatr “Poor girl,” said her sister, who was pru ent: “It must have been very painfQj “Oh, no, not that, not that,” whispered t Boston lady; “but just as he fixed his f strumeut in place I remembered that 11 a hole in my stocking.” The Greatest Medical Triumph of the J SYMPTOMS OF A TORPID LIVER* Loss of appetite, Ilovvels costive, 1'aiol Che bead, with a dull sensation In t* back part. Fain tinder tbe eboaMer blade, Fullness after eating, withe Inclination ta exertion of body or Irritability of temper. 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