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THE MACON WEEKLY TELEGRAPH.' TUajDAY JANUARY 19. lftfi.-TWELVE PAGES,
HYSTERIA OR RELIGION.
The llemarkable Epidemic Which lU|cd
la Non Salvador.
8sa Salvador, Bahama*,letter to London Timm.
A remarkable outbreak of religious hallu
cination occurred on this island this year.
About January last a report was out that a
young girl had Men visions and was under
aome influence not belonging to this world.
Her excitement soon communicated itself
to others, snd in tho course of a few weeks
some twenty young girls wero affected.
They then organized religions meetingsand
much excitement was caused.
I went once to see what took place at
these meetings. About fifty people sat
around in a room singing, clapping hands
and stamping their feet, keeping time to a few who have not heard of her three beauti-
kind of monotonic, chant, Ure girls who fnl aunts, known as tho American Graces,
„ visions were standing in the centre,
sometimes walking up and down. They
had a vacant kind of stare. Gradually the
singing quickened, until at last it became
fast and furious. Then the girls would
dance, shout and bark like dogs.
After twenty minutes of this they would
fall down with a shriek. Their struggles,
cries and foaming at the mouth were dread
ful to see, and in many cases it took four nr
five men to bold them still. After the fit
was over they would lie exhausted for about
one hour; tlicn, when they came to, tboy
gave vety detailed accounts of the visions
they hail seen. A great deal of these vis
ions was, of eonrse, nonsense, but one
thing was remarkable-they spoke of peo
ple doing things many miles nwny from the
place. Upon inquiry it was found in some
eoseB that what they bad seen corresponded
exactly with tho events.
One most remnrkable feature in this out
break wns that it was not confined to one
spot. Almort simultaneously in every set-
tfement on tho island (the island is forty-
five miles long and twelve broad in places)
similar outbreaks occurred. Girls living at
distances of five or tun miles from the scene
of tho ‘‘shouting meetings,” ns they were
called, would be seized. Iteing seized with
a kind of frenzy, they would run, as if by
inspiration, to the apot where tho rest were
assembled, no matter how far,
Up and down the island about -10l> or EDO
people were aeized, and it wns at first thought
it was a kind of epidemic of hysteria. In a
few cosea girm of highly respectable charac
ter were seized, snd although they did not
acem vicious, yet for weeks they would havo
fits daily, and such was their superhnmnn
strength that I have seen a young girl of
sixteen straggle out of the grasp of four
strong men. The outbreak lasted from
January to July, and at one time it was
feared that it would lead to serious conse-
3 unices, for all the people who gave cre-
ence to the visions neglected work nnd
abandoned themselves to holding meetings
day and night for singing, shouting, bark
ing and listening to accounts of tho visions
seen.
A DEAD MAN’S BLOOD.
Old
The Hemaraabte Verification of
Superstition.
Nsshvll e American.
A remarkable thing occurred last Wednes
day. On that morning, Adnms, who was
recently mnrdered was hauled home
on n wagon, three miles. His
extremities were frozen still, and
dnring the trip not a drop of blood flowed
from a single one of the nine ghastly wounds
upon his bead, face and throat. When he
was carried into his house the coroner ordered
his clothing taken off without being cut.
To do this with bis arms frozen in a semi
circular position required no little effort
Sometimes be was turned on one side, then
on the other, then in a sitting position, and
during all this time still no blood exuded.
When bis clothes were removed and he was
lying on bis back, no one touching him,
Wash fiimmona enmo np and asked
mission to come in and see him, which
request was granted by the acting coroner,
lie came in, bnt did not look upon the
corpse, but walked to the Are, took a aeat,
resting bis head on bis hands, and
did not speak to any one. Now
fur the strange part in the drama.
As soon as be came into the room the
wounds on Adams' face and neck com
mcnced to bleed profnscly, and this not
withstanding tho fact thut bo wns still fro
zen, and his arms standing up from hiH
body in a circular shape. This fact is
vouched for by T. A. Turner, county clerk;
John J, Lee, clerk and master, and acting
coroner; M. Tomlin, trustee; W. A. Eat bur
ly, jailer, and others of equal credibility,
who were present and saw it. Does the old
superstition bold good to the effect that if
the mnrderer come about or touches his vic
tim after death, the latter will bleed afresh?
That Simmons killed Adams there cun be
no donbt in the mind of any one who heard
the testimony before the coroner's jury.
That the circumstances of Adams' bleeding
occurred as stated, no bne can doubt who
knows tho men who saw and reported it.
Wbatof it?
BLOWING Ul* A MOUNTAIN.
Fifty Thousand Tons of Solid Itock bis
lodged by Dynamite.
A Pottsville, Pa., special says tho greatest
piece of blasting on tho Pennsylvania
Scfanylkill Valley road was successfully
accomplished to-day. Tho people of this
town hail felt some alarm in reference to it,
aa it was known that over a ton of dynamite
andJndsonpowderwereto bensed. Crowds
gathered on the river bank and hillsides op
posite the point to witness it, and u number
of photographers took views at the instant
of the explosion.
One of the most serious difficulties en
countered in the construction of the new
railroad was Capo Horn, a apnr of the
monntain a mile below town. It waa solid
rock, and the drilling ot twenty-two holes
into it to a depth of twenty-two fe<t each
has occupied many months. It was feared
thud the shock would be so great as to do
damage in town, and many nervous people
waited for its coming until long after it hail
passed without knowing that it was all
over.
The holes were all fired at once by elec
tricity and were touched off by contractor
Oaynor, who hod personally superintended
tho drilling and charging oi them. At 4:30
o'clock he poshed the lever, and in an in
stant the whole rocky mass rose several feet
and then fell back into place with a lond
rumbling noise, shaking the ground in the
xxeighbood, but neither heard nor felt in
town. Immediately following the first ex
plosion there was aqotber, which filled the
air with rocks, some weighing a quarter of
a ton. It is believed that the mass dis
lodged weight 60,000 tons. The explosion
was witnessed by thoussnds of people.
A Golden Circlet In the Rond.
Hartford Times.
Mrs. Henry Pardee, wife of the chief
clerk of the New Haven Havings Bank,
while bathing at flavin Rock aboro twenty
years ago lost a gold wedding ring. It con
tained her name npon the inside. A day or
two ago a gentleman Bring at tho shore,
while poking in the sand, nneartbed the
ring.
A bucket of Gold bast for a brink.
Virginia City (N«.) Chronicle.
Harrison Fox, of Beno, says that he once
saw a miner in a California camp give a
bucket of gold dust for a drink of whisky.
The supply of Uqnor hid ran ont two days
before, and that was the last drink in the
‘ * hole camp.
DEAD TO THE WORLD.
A Baltimore correspondent of the Phila
delphia Times gives an interesting sketch of
Miss Emily MacTavish, the lady who, after
many years' reign as one of the social at
tractions and beauties of Baltimore, has
withdrawn from the world and taken the fi
nal vows and veil as a nun. Her family
connections are of the most distinguished
character. Hhe is, on her father’s side,
the granddaughter of Charles Carroll, of
Carrollton, the signer of the Declaration of
Independence, and on her mother's side
the granddaughter of the once com
mander of tlie army of the United
Stales, General Winfield Scott There are
who were the Misses Caton, Charles Carroll's
;randdaughtcrs. These ladles, after flonr-
shing aa belles in Baltimore, went to Eng
land, where the Duke of Wellington pre
sented them to the Court of the Pnnce
Regent, npon whom their beauty mode a
great impression. They all became peer
esses. Mary, tho oldest, married the Mar
quis of Wellesley, the elder brother of the
Duke of Wellington; Elizabeth married
Baron Stafioril and Louisa became the
Duchess of Leeds.
Tho MacTavish family, whoso possessions
com« from the Carrolls, tho Calverts, and
the Catons, has given nearly, if not all, its
property to the Church. It is interesting
to know that the first House of the Good
Shepherd iu tho United States was estab
lished in Baltimore by Mra. Emily Moc-
Tavish, the mother of the young lady who,
after the UHual preliminary period, has
taken the black veil. Mra. MacTavish, who
died about twelve yeara ago, was a grand
daughter of the Lady Georgiannn, the
Duchess of Leeds. It was ahe who gave
tlie house and grounds to tho Sisters of
the Ocod Shepherd. The old mansion is
now a part of the modem institution,
and its broad front, wide porch, nnd an
gled wiuga look out upon the gnrden,
planted in tho last century by the dead
and gone beauties of the MacTavish fam
ily. Hanging on the walls of the reception
room is a life-size picture of a lovely woman
in the bloom of youth. Her abundant black
hair is combed and puffed at the sides, in
the style of forty years ago. Her dress is
cut low nnd the splendid neck nnd arms are
in full view. The picture is that of Marga
ret MacTavish, who hecamo the famous Mrs.
Howard, tho confidant and intimato friend
of Napoleon III, the only woman of whom
the Empress E genie wns ever
jealous. Margaret MacTavish went
with some of her family to England
about tho yenr 1850 and married a Captain
Howard, an officer in the British army nnd
a connection of the Cntholio branch of that
noble family, the Howards of Norfolk. She
was in Paris at tho timo of the coup d'etat
nnd attracted tho attention of Napoleon.
It is not known where or how she died, ex
cept that some mysterious, terrible fate
overtook her nnd tho picture (ijjoii the wall
in the only relic of her splendid and gnilty
life, Aa a measure of expiation Mrs. Mnc-
Tavisli has given the old home nnd all her
property to the church to establish a sister
hood and homes for erring and depraved
women, and ont of the mother house here
has grown tho one in Philadelphia.
Now another, and it is believed the last
of the family, has given her lifo to the
Church and hidden her bennty behind the
Visitation cloister walls. Her wealth and
high social position placed her in the front
rank of Baltimore soeicty. Stately in her
hearing as Tennyson’s Maud nnd calm in
her manner ns her grand-aunt, the Duchess
of Leeds, whom she resembles, Miss Mnc-
Tavish was possessed of that conscious rc-
poso and high-born grace seen so often in
Vandyck's portraits, representing os they
do the transmitted beauty and refinement
of n dozen generations. Those who wit
nessed tho ceremony of her tint entrance
into the nunnery will never forget its so
lemnity- When she came to tho altar clad
in white satin, like a bride, thero wero
many regrets for the loss to society of such
beauty and talents thnt were to bo offered
in vicarious atonement for the sins of an
ancestor. Henceforth the life of this grant
belle and bennty, now one of the Sisters of
tho Good Shepherd, will bo spent among
sinning and fallen women, trying to re
claim them to society nnd to the Church.
A WILD CHASE.
Washington Gazette.
On laat Friday thiee gentleman on horse
back—Messrs. J. IV. Sanders, Waldo Har
ris, nnd Hester Wingfield—happened to
meet beyond the lluff residence a negro
man who was perfectly wild with excite
ment. Ho could scotcely command his
tongue to tell the story of the sight he lind
seen. Tho unfeigned genuineness of tlio
darkey's terror easily excited the three gen
tlemen to tho highest pitch. This negro
bad met another negro driving a carriage at
breakneck sjieed towards Liucoln county,
ami in the carriage was tira most nwliil
sight the witness nnd ever aeen. Thero
was a dead white man all wrapped up iu a
sheet, bnt his face was partly showing, nnd
nnd there were great spots of blood on the
sheet; besides, when he met the carriage the
driver turned away out into the woods and
would not meet him in the road.
This was too mnch for the threo gentle
men, who would delight in nothing more
than iu bringing so foul a fiend to justice,
so, quickly putting spurs into their horse's
flunks they shot down the road liko the
Light Brigrade on the field of Bnlaklavn,
though not in such good order. The gen
tleman behind, putting whip nnd spnr to
his horse, yelled out: “Ride on, hoys, I'll
he with you." On they speed, past Dyson's,
past Shuhricks" and turned into the Relio-
both road about fifty yards apart The
people at these tw o houses ran out to as
certain what was tho matter, but Mr. San
ders, bringing up tlie rear, merely shook
his bend nnd whipped on. These people
were left to the conclusion that Waldo
Harris was trying to bout Hester Wingfield,
and Wilkes Sanders was trying to heat Waldo
in a ten mile race.
After a four-mile ran tlie negro and car
riage appeared in sight, but they were mov
ing at a lively rate of speed. This fact
would linvo removed all doubt ss to tlie
villainy about to ho run up with, if any
doubt had existed in the minds of these
gentlemen who were so bent on bringing n
criminal to justice. A lively sight chase
then ensued, the negro haring nearly a mile
the start. Finally out near the eight-mile
post he wasovertaken; and, 0, my country
men, what a hoax!
The negro said he was ‘ jes’ cn rayin' somo
of Mrs. Watkins' things down to her moth
er's in Lincoln conntv, and was in a hurry
to get thar' fore night.' Among them were
some sheets, red garments and such things.
Three disgusted mortals quickly turned
in the road, and came hack with the avowed
purpoM of ducking the negro who had
fooled them, though ever so innocent, in
Mr. Jack Dyson's fish pond. But they
could not find the negro, so they hound
each other to secrecy, bnt the story leaked
out, and is verily true.
—Pierre LorilUrd, of New York, who sold
his large Newport estate to Corneliua Van
derbilt, has taken the Cany villa, occupied
for many yeara Ira James Coatca, for the
coming season. Mr. Vanderbilt will build
a new house in the spring.
EARTHQUAKES.
All We Know About Them—Some Well
Ascertained Facts*
The only settled facts about earthquakes,
says a writer in the Popular Science
Monthly, are, that they are the result of
some shock imparted to the rocks ot a con
siderable dietance beneath the surface, and
that this -shock reaches the surface in a
series of concentric rings, all on the cir
cumference of each ring receiving the
shock at the same moment, even
though they may be hundreds of miles
apart. In other words, all points
at equal distances from tho centre of the
earthquake receive the shock at the same
moment. Although this is theoretically the
case, according to well known physical laws,
still, in practice, the facts are somewhat dif
ferent; for the shock is retarded or acceler
ated according as the rock opposes or favors
the passage of the wave. The severity of
the shock in a given place is dependent
upon a variety of causes. These are, 1.
The strength of the original shock; 2. The
distance from the earthquake centre; and 3.
The kind of rock on which one is standing,
loose gravels greatly diminishing the force
of the shock. The distinctiveness of earth
quakes depends rather npon the sudden
ness of application than the amoimt of mo
tion. In that at Rio Bomba, it is reported
for a fact that a man was hurled across a
stream a distance of a hundred feet, nnd
lauded on an elevation fifty feet higher
than his original position. It is an un
doubted fact that objects nro frequently
thrown great distcnces. In the Mississ
ippi Valley, during tlie earthquakes of
1811 to 1814, tho tops of trees wi re twihteil
mill entangled, and strong log cabins were
thrown to the ground. Rivers are some
times checked in their flow, and in psst
geological ages, some have been completely
turned from their courso bv earthquakes.
Prohibition Falls*
Indiana, I'a., Democrat
It in now six months since the hotels in
this place were denied license and we have
had some experience in prohibition. We
have come to tho conclusion that prohibi
tion does not prohibit. If it stopped the
sate of intoxicating liquors and prevented
men from getting drank we would he pre
pared to advocate it with all our might.
But tho experience in this place is that it
docs not. The law is violated every day,
and men who want to get drunk, and there
nro many of them, find no difficulty iu
f ’etting tho necessary intoxicants. Our
ittle community here is not different
from any other in the State, and wc know
whereof wo speak when we say that there
is more drankenness to-day than there
would be had we one or two high-licensed
hotels and certainly the quality of liqnor
sold wenld be of a better grade; for a man
who takes two drinks of the vile stuff ped
dled about our streets to-day is prepared to
go home and lick li s grandmother. We do
not wish to throw one straw in the way of
the good men and women who are striving
fur the salvation of their fellows fiom tho
fate of the drunkard; but we do think
that the best tiling, at this time, is a high
license law with strong restrictive provi
sions, That will bo open the way and edu
cate tho people that wo may in time huve
a prohibitory law that will really pro
hibit.
We know that many enthusiastic temper
ance p< ople will differ with us in our views
on this subject; but we can’t help it We
arc jnst as earnest in favor of temperance
as they, but we foil to see the remedy as
they do.
A BOY IN A PIPE.
A COLUMN OFTATCIIWORK.
pisnxcsios.
•Oh, my tors has cheeks ss red
As the rose!"
Bo the lover cries, milled.
For the Ides that his saint
Ever knew tbs use of pslnt
Never came into bis heed,
I suppose.
Hear him t
Has ho never chanced to note
How hie darling faintly blushed.
As with dainty band sue brushed
From the lapel of hla coat
Powdered chalk!
“And her form la Juat dir.ne!”
What a fool!
Come, fond youth, to me Incline,
And I'll whisper in thine ear
Softly, so that none can bear
Cotton-wool!
“Bnt her wealth of golden balr
Itlppling down!"
All save yon are well aware
That the hair within whose mesh
she has caught a lover fresh
Nightly hangs upon a chair
With he- sown.
See her flirting now, cloae pressed
la the wsltz.
Come, forget her! That la best.
Trust me. I. too. loved her once,
And I learned at last fond dunce,
That her heart’s !!ke all the rest—
It is falsot
A stars cat hit James Gregory, a lad of thirteen
years, in Loudon the other day, and aince then
Gregory has died ot rabies.
rails are made In Bnsshv. They are
longer than ordinary rails, and said to have a
great* r adhesiveness In contact with locumutlve
wheels.
IZ, the elder, ss the book of his widow,
tells us, used to make his coffee in a machine that
was dev rted (luring the day to the soakiug of all
sorts of creatures for skeletons.
Tuz New Orleans Picayune says: “A good bust
•ss man makes a good general. He will advertise,
t the enemy know where be Is, and make an
effort to be at tho head ot a column."
It Is noteworthy," says the Paris News, “that
In his Gottingen days Bismarck wagered twenty-
live bottles of champagne with an American that
Gerutauy would bo united tn twenty years."
(Penn.) mother broke up a boys' Sunday
card aud beer club by euteriug the place, breaking
pldor over her son's bead, demolishing the
furniture and ordering the lads to be gone.
In England and Wales, as one may learn from
the Financial Befor'n Almanac (British) for 18W1,
one-fourtli tho eutire country
Jimmy Murphy's Peculiar Experience
While Searching for a ball.
Now York World.
Little Jimmy Murphy, of Throop avenue,
had an experience on Friday which ho will
not soon forget. He nnd a number of com
panions wero engaged in throwing n bull
back nnd forth through along sewer-pipe
which laid uu Flushing'avenue, nenr Broad
way. After a time tlie ball in the passage
struck against n projection in the interior of
tho pipo nnd lodged itself beyond the reach
of tho boys. Thero being no sticks or other
means available for getting nt the hall, Jim
my volunteered to crawl into the pipe and
bring it ont. He entered tho opening nnd
secured the object desired, but when ho at
tempted to return, he found it nil exceed
ingly difficult thing to accomplish. He
yelled for help, and his mates ndded their
cries to his. Finally the attention of one
of tho contractora in charge of the sewer
work was secured. At his suggestion Jim
my alowly and pniufully hitched first one
shoulder nnd then tho other, all tlie time
bellowing nt tho top of bis voice, nnd movod
backward by degrees. At length his feet
came uear enough to the exit of tho i *_
for his companions to grasp him. Then,
with a long, strong, all-together pull, Jim
my was withdrawn fromhis confinement.
A Copper-KIvetetl Oatli.
A drink of water mnst he taken with the
oath administered to public officials in Bur
nish and Siam, the latter part of the toko
being ns follows; “I, the most puisnntand
glorious Lord of the celestial elephant anil
of many white elephants, lord of the heav
enly weapon, uml sovereign of the wbolo
world, declare that if yon M. or N. (Nga
Pyoo is the typical Burmese name) obey
uud follow my commands, yon will be free
from all the ninety-six diseases, and the
eight accidents, under the aid of the
five thousand nata (sp.rits) that gnard reli
gion, the nuts that guard the trees, the nata
guard the earth, tho oats that guard the
sku s, and nil kinds of nata; the nets that
gnard the hills; the nats that guard the five
greut rivers, the nats that guard the five
hundred little rivers, the Irrawaddy, the
1 Imiawaddy (the Salween) and the Dobtta-
waddy, all tho nata that guard the rivera;
and the nats that guanl the Pobppa Hill
(Shwoy-l’yin Nyee Nonng.) Bnt if you m-
iringe your outh, which yon have ratified
by drinking this water in which swords nnd
spears have been dipped, yon may die by
these weapons nnd be afflicted by all the
evils above mentioned."
•.TOO Not Call'll. For.
It seems strsr.ee that it it oeeessrry to persuade
men that you cau cure ttelr diseases by offerlns >
premium lo the mao who fails to receive heneflt.
Aud yet Dr. Heire undoubtedly cured thoitsaude of
cseee of obetinete catarrh with bis “Catarrh Item-
edy," who would never haveapplied to him, if It
had not been for his offer of the shove sum f
Incurable case. Who la the next bidder for ci
cash ?
It is siud that in the small town of Bris
tol, Rhode Island, for several years before
the war a young man named Cole was in
the habit of throwing every silver dollar
that came into his possession into a cistern
at the side of his honse. After coin get
scarce and at a high preminm lie took the
silver out and found that he had accumu
lated over fo.OUO which ho was able to sell
at a large premium. We would not recoin
mend that others do likewise, for a cistern
is not the safest place for making deposits,
bnt we would recommend that a good sav
ings Istnk -or dollar bank for instance—be
substituted.
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■A hew clay from tho pen of Davitl Belosco, an- I
thorof"M»y BIohkoiu,” will follow "Hcodman
IHiml," at Wnllack'M theatre. Mr. Uelasco ban been
engaged to tako charge of tlie department of stage
business and rehearsals in the New York School of
Acting.
□ A wise ballet will bo tbe next sensation at Vienna.
It baa been written by Huboniteic. and illuatratea
the bacchanalian revela of a number of winea let
loose from tho casks. Tho ballet eml* with a glori
fication of champagne, but which brand is being
advertised is not stated.
HPkikck Bismarck's idea of tbe freedom of debate
during his first period of parliamentary service
may be gathered from his suggestion that "half a
dozen drummers should be placed on the ministe
rial bench, and that all interpellations should be
answered with a roll of their drums.”
At Cannes the curbstone dealers struggle for pic
turesque effects. One of them, who had sunshades
and the like for sale, stood under a huge red um
brella twenty feet in diameter. Whenever he would
sell an umbrella be would hurl it at tbe buyer like
la javelin, regardless of tbe eyes of tbe lookers-on.
■OHK of tbe holiday books recently issued in Eng
land was printed in blue ink on green paj>er. This
done in accordance with tho advice of a Ger
man scientist, who says that the short-sightedness
of his countrymen is due in part to the German
characters, but mainly to tho violent contrast of
Usk and paper—black fted whu*,
□Mr. Apoi.ph Sutbo. of tunnel fame, proposes to
build a large aquarium at Nan Francisco, which will
be stocked with every variety of sea anemone and
shell fish. It is to be 120 feet in diameter, and will
occupy die little bay just north of tho Cliff House.
It is to t*e finished in three months, and promises
to become a rival attraction to tho aoa lions.
□one ol the most novel suits for divorce has just
been instituted iu tbs Circuit Court of Tippecauoo
1 county. Ind. John H. O. Kirchoff asks for a di
vorce from his lawful wifo on the ground of her
sleeping with her feet on the pillow, and as Kirch
off is opposed to this reversal of tbe order of thiugs.i
he has asked tho court to interfere.
The New York Tribune says: "The proposition of
the pugilist Mitchell tp fight Hulllvan for the bene
fit of cbaritablo institutions opens up a new field of
benevolent enterprise. We may presently see "sci
entific sparring” replace the raffle at church fairs
aud slugging for a knock-out” succeed the ani
tediluvan kissing games at Sunday-school picnics.
One of tbe best collections of birds and Insects |
[in America was that of Charles Buettner. a Ger
man, at Burlington. Iowa. There were in tho col
lection GO,UN) rare bugs, flies, worms and the like.
The fire fiend rolled all these, liko so many dainty
morsels, under his tongue of tlame ou Sunday
night, and now Naturalist Buettner is disconsolate.
■ Atouno woman at Bingen, on the Rhlue, suf
fering from a slight lnpammation of the throat, was I
killed through her own carelessness in not looking
at the directions for the use of the drug prescribed
for her. She swallowed a large dose of chlorate of
potassium which waa prescribed for garliug pur
poses aud died a few hums later, after terrible
[suffering.
1 Tbkbe is some prospect that cocaine, the valua
ble anaesthetic, will rot always be as costly a reme
dy, and, therefore, as inaccessible to the people in
general as heretofore. According to the Vienna
Medical Journal, cocaine hsa been successfully pro
cured, not from cocoa leaves, but iu a synthetic
way from chemicals by W. Merck, in Darmstadt. (
others.
I One of the carriers of the Lowell Morning Mail I
has a valuable assistant, as that paper relates, in
tlie shape of a dog, which for five years has taken
the natier from the carrior and delivered itm I
the lady of the bouse. If the dog is notH
lookout wbeu the boy reaches the honse a whistle
speedily brings him, snd he will not allow any one
to touch tbe paper until it ia placed in bia mis
tress’ hands.
Ten thousand there hundred and eighty-three!
marriage licenses were issued in Chicago during
the year just ended. The big Western town can
[afford to be proud of this, for New York’s record is
|ouly l,:kMJ larger. New York, however, can boos.*,
if she likes, of superiority in the number of blrth»
and deaths, the figures being: births. New York,
29,955; Chicago, Is, 137; deaths, New York. 3.1,720;
Chicago, 12,527. It should be borne tn mind that
tbe record of births in New York is much nearer
the true figure than in Chicago, where tho physi
cians trouble themselves llttlejto makeftheir reports,
as instructed by law.
A Chicaoo letter says some disappointment has
been expres«ed at the failure of the i>owerful elec
tric lights encircling the board of trade tower at a
(listance of 300 feet from the ground to )>crfortu
their function of lighting the street • below. The
closter of lights is pruliably the most powerful col
lection ever placed together, yet they east only a
slight radiance on the street*. They can lie seen at
a great distance, however, and fron* a purely artis
tic point of view combine to make one of the hand •
somest forms of ornamentation imaginable in re
vealing a portion of tbe tower at night and making
it to stand out against a dark sky.
The latest novelty in championship contests bat
been introduced by pancakegluttiiu*. Oliver Wood-
son, of Camden, N. J , having convinced bis neigh
bors that he could devour more pancakes at a sin-1
|gle meal than any other man, within the memory
Medical Men
YVIint Two Prominent Physicians
Say of a No toil Remedy.
Crawfordville, Ga., Democrat
B. B. B. is without donbt one of tho most
valuable and popular medicines known to
the medical science, and has relieved more
suffering humanity than any other medicine
Bince it come into'nse. It has never failed
in a single instance to produce the most
favorable results where it has been properly
used. Physicians everywhere recommend
it us doing all it is claimed to do. The fol
lowing certificates are from two prominent
physicians, who have done a large and suc
cessful practice for many years, and npon
whose judgment the public can safely
rely:
CuAMZop.Dvn.LZ, Ga., July 15, 1885.
Editor Democrat: For the past ten years
I have been suffering wiih rheumatism in
the muscles of my right shoulder anil neck.
Daring this time I have tried various reme
dies, both patent medicines and those pre
scribed by physicians. Last summer! com
menced using 11. B. B., nndcouM see an im
provement by the time I had taken one bot
tle. I have been taking it at intervals sine-
last summer, and can say it is the best medi
cine forrhenmntism I have ever tried. I take
pleasure in recommending it to the public.
J. W. Rhodes, A. M., M. D,
Cbawfoudvili.e, Ga., July 15, 1885.
Editor Democrat: About November of
last year I had what I supposed to he a
cauliflower excrescence on right side of
neck. I used local applications, which ef
fected no perceptible good. I commenced
the use of B. B. B. and took it regularly,
twelve bottles, and in dne time the sole
healed over, and I now consider it well. I
cheerfully recommend it as a fine topic and
alterative medicine.
S. J. Farmeb, M. D.
“Meal Bag- ou a Bean Pole.”
Elbebton, Ga., June 1, 1885.
My brother has a son that was afflicted
with rheumatism in one of his legs until
the knee was go badly contracted that he
could not touch the ground with his heel
anil hod scrofula. He took only two bottles
of B. B. B., and scrofula and rheumatism
are both gone.
Mrs. M. A. Elrod came to my honse the
past summer almost covered with car
buncles and boils. I got two bottles of B.
B. B., nnd before ahe had got through with
tho second bottle she wns entirely well.
She was also troubled with swollen feet nnd
ankles, and hail been for twenty years. All
gone—no trouble with swollen tect now.
I wns troubled with bleeding piles since
1858. I used one bottle nnd have felt noth
ing of tbe kind since taking the medicine.
Tho clothing that I wns wearing when I left
Atlanta fitted mo abont the same os n meal
sack would a bean pole. I have on tho
same clothing now, and they are a tight
fit.
Yon con do na you like with this; as for
me and my household, we think three B.’s
is fully orthodox, and will do to swear by.
Respectfully yours,
J. M. Barfield.
decl8fri£snnlm
Louisiana State Lottery Coi
"We do hereby certify that we supervise the ^
rangement* for all the Monthly and Quarterly
Drawings of the Louisiana State Lottery Company
and in person manage and and control the Draw!
ings themselves, and that the same are conducted
with honesty, fairness and in good faith toward all
parties, and we authorize the company to use this
certificate, with fac similes of our slgnaturee at
Cached in its advertisements.”
We, the undersigned Banks and Bankers, wlh
pay all Frizes drawn in The Louisiana State Lot-
terries which may be presented at our oounten.
J. II. OGLKSRT. President Louisiana National Bank.
u ff L'L'VVL'IiV 11 a*,,. I.lsnt Qiaia Vailntiol lluhL
Incorporated iu 1868 for 25 years by the Legial*.
ture for Educational and Charitable purposes—with
a capital of 11,000,000—to which a reaerve fund of
over $550,000 has since been added.
By an overwhelming popular vote Its franchise
was made a part of the present State constitution
.adopted December 2d. A. D.. 1879.
The only lottery ever voted on and indorsed by
the people of any State.
It never scales or postpones.
Its (iriinil Single Number Drawings take
place Monthly, and the Extraordinary Draw
ings regularly every three months instead of
Senii-Anniinlfy ns heretofore, beginning
March. is8».
A SPLENDID 01T0RTTMTY Tl> W IN J F0RTTNE.
SECOND Olt.VND DliAWINO CLASS D, IN THE
ACADEMY OF MUSIC. NEW ORLEANS, TUESDAY.
FEUKUARV MU 18SB--IKIth Monthly Drawing
CAPITAL PRIZE, $75,000.
100,000 Tickets at Five Dollars Each, Frac
tions in Fifths in Proportion.
LINT OF 1'III7.KK.
1 CAPITAL PRIZE .. $75,000
1 do do 25, UU)
1 • do do lo.uoo
2 PRIZES OF $6.000 1*2,000
5 do 2,000 10,(100
10 do 1,000 lu.000
20 do 600 10,000
100 do 200 20,000
300 do 100..! 30,000
500 do 50 25,000
1000 do 25 25,000
APPROXIMATION PRIZES.
9 Approximation Prizes of $750 6,760
1967 Prizes, amounting to $265,600
Applications for rates to clubs should be made
only to the office of the company in New Orleans.
For further information write clearly, giving full
address. POSTAL NOTES, Express Money Orders, or
New York Exchange in ordinary letter. Currency
by express (all sums of $6 and* upwards at our ex
pense), addressed
M. A. DAUPHIN.
New Orleans, La.
Or M. A. DAUPHIN.
Washington, D. C.
Make P, O. Money Orders Paya
ble anil address Registered Let
ters to
NEW ORLEANS NATIONAL BANK,
declfi wedsat&w New Orleans, La.
Manhood Restored
Will send KKKK, to hisfellow-suffsrera. Addrei
J. 1L UKKVKtt, 43 Chatham HU. Ntw York City.
One Henson's Capclne Plaster
is worth a dozen of any other kind. Between the
numerous varieties of porous plasters there la hut
one choice. Benson’s plaster is modern, scientific,
prompt in action, safe, pleasant to wear.cleanly.and
cures ailments in a few hours which no others are
able even to relieve. This fact is testified to by 6,000
physicians, pbsrmscists an ddruggisU, voluntarily,
and over their own written signatures. Imitations
of Benson’s plaster, uuder the names of "Capsiciu.”
‘■Capsicum, “Capncin," "Capciclne," etc., are
offered for sale. These are shameless. Purchasers
may protect themselves against imposition by ex
amining the artlclo tendered by the dealer. Ask
for Benson’s Plaster and see that the "Three Seals”
trademark la on the face cloth and the word "Cap-
cine” is groused in the middle of the plaster it
self.
Commissioners’ Rale.
GEORGIA. JONE8 COUNTY.-By virtue of an
order granted to the undersigned as commissioners
at the regular October term of Jones Huperior
Court, 1KH6, to sell certain lots or psrcels of land at
Uaddocs's Htation, in said couuty, and whereas, in
punuance of said order, said laud was duly adver
tised for sale on the first Tuesday In December,
lHJifl, when D. D. Bachelor bid off lot number 14 in
the plan of said Haddock Station property for the
sum of tbmo hunt* red and twenty five dollars; and
whereas, tbe said D. D. Bachelor haa failed to com*
ply with tho terms of sale, nr to nay said purchase
money, for which be bid off said lot, now, ny virtue
of tbe order aforesaid, we will sell said lot number
14. containing one-fourth of an acre, at Uaddock'e,
on the first Tuesday tn February next, at the risk of
the said D. D. Bachelor, between tbe regular hours
of sale, for cash.
JOHN T. KPEIOHT8.
Liver than any o»her can wv l>r Hanford's Liver Invlg-
orator Regulate* theltowvls, 1SirUI<*sths Blood, A«i*f*
fMHORNSraFLESH
Tlie Ureal Southern Kmnancw—4 Southern r lew of (As
War. iu rnmsrs and milts. Answers "4 Foote £r.
remr* and Tne/s Tom's Oahii».'• It contains /arts
(A it tint lie. its the South. S*-lls immensely. |\j Capt.
N. J. Floyd, a cousin o» Gun. .1. B. Hnyd. Bend for
arcuiars to HUtiiiAiil* BKU&. Atlakta. Oa.
will do well to send mo minute descriptions, to
gether with lowest prices, both for rash and on
time. Don’t write, unless yon are willing to soil at
reasonable figures, aa the buyers I have are not the
so-called "wealthy northern men.” It. H. KNAPP.
Real Estate Agent, Atlanta, Ga. jantfiw-lt.
*»*• H. H. f a** L
l_ th* DKjjiyy
cf "the oldest inbab'.tAnt,” offered a wiger of $600
that he would eat thirteen dozen pancakes, each
not less than five inches in diameter, at one sitting.
This has stirred up the jealousy of Michael De
laney, of Brooklyn, who assumes to be the biggest
eater among "Boss” McLaughlin's followers, aud
he offers a wager of $600 that he will, on any cold
morning, not only eat as many cakes as Woodson,
but will beat his record by a dozen larger pancakes.
He wants only five days’ notice.
Is the beat electric lamps the little homeshoe is
made of bamboo, and this material has proved its
superiority to its rival, paper, in several ways.
The l>arut»oo comes from Japan iu bundles of slips
a foot in length. Japanese bamboo is of finer qual
ity than the Chinese. It is first split up into little
square strips. Girls round these off by running
them through dies until they look like little broom
straws. The*# are put in crucible* with gmphite
and submitted to a white heat for several hours.
This carbonizes them thoroughly. The filaments
are not all of exactly tho same »lze when taken out
of the crucibles, and if used in that state would
prenent vary lug resistances to the current, and the
lampa would not be even and economical in their
;ing. To make them uniform thejr are put one
by one into a glass jar, from which
* air can be
the products of petroleum, can be admitted,
current of electricity Is run through the horseshoe
filament, snd it absorbs carbon from the gas until
'* operator sees that its resistance has been re
ed to'
dm/e<
i the regulation amount.
Itocklen's Amins Halve.
The beet salve In the world for Cuts, BraJees
Berea. Dicers. Sal* Rheum, Fever Sores. Tetter
Chapped Hands. Chilblains, Corns, and all Skis
Eruptions, and positively cure# Hies, or no pay re
quired. It Is guaranteed to give perfect satisfaction,
nr money refunded. Price 23 cents per box. For
•It by Lamar; Rankin k Lamar,
J. W. RICE Sr CO.
In making their weekly annonneement, would call special attention to several drives for
tbe ensuing week.
UNDERWEAR! UNDERWEAR!
In all styles, sizes and grades. An excellent assortment, which we are selling at bottom
prices to close out If we can't get cost for them, will take less.
BLANKETS ! BLANKETS
Were never in greater demnnd, anil a better stock was never offered to the pnblic than I
wbat wc ore now offering, and those in need of them would do well to call and examine|
our stock.
CLOAKS S CLOAKS !
In Newmarkets, Viseites, Dolmans and Bassian Circulars, away down bo ow cost
Now is tbe time to bay.
Embroideries. Embroideries,
Hamburg*, Everlasting Trimming, Fstent
burgs and a full line of Trimmings, that will be sol
and Insertings, Matched H» r -
I*.
SCRIM FOR CURTAINS.
In Cream nnd Colored—something new for window curtains, from 12)c. per yard
We are still slaughtering all classes of Dry Ooods, snd a better opportunity $> e*
first-class goods so cheap will not be offered again soon.
J. W. RICE & CO